Marbles

19th century marbled paper from the Decorative Paper Collection at the University of Washington.

Hoops

Check out a post I did for Teenage blog here.

A clip of Shaq playing in the McDonald's High School All-American game in 1989.

I remember watching the game with my brother and being amazed by that play.

"Based on a groundbreaking book by the punk author Jon Savage, Teenage is an unconventional historical film about the invention of teenagers."

Arbol de la Vida

Ceramics from Metepec, Mexico

"After the Spanish conquest, friars destroyed articles, including ceramics, that depicted the old gods, and replaced them with images of saints and other Christian iconography. The depiction of a “tree of life” in paintings and other mediums was introduced as a way to evangelize Biblical stories to the native population."

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Modoc Basketry Hats

1. Stereoview of four Modoc women - Eadweard Muybridge, 1872

2. Detail showing three of the women wearing tule basketry hats

3. Illustration from "The Material Culture of the Klamath Lake and Modoc Indians of Northeastern California and Southern Oregon" by S.A. Barrett, 1910. Bottom row shows women's hats.

4. Modoc and Klamath hats at the Maryhill Museum. photo by Mary Harrsch

Man with Dog, Man with Bicycle

Top: Sigmund Freud with his dog, Jofi

Bottom: Emperor Joshua Norton photographed by Eadweard Muybridge

Regarding Some Rubens

Recently visited the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota Florida.

Spent some time looking at these XXL paintings by Rubens.

Also impressed with the circus model built by Howard Tibbals.

Willem van de Poll

Portraits of an Irish Traveller family

Willem van de Poll (Dutch, 1895-1970)

From a trip to Ireland in 1946

found here: National Archive of the Netherlands

inspired by a Nothing Is New twitter post