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

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

First time seeing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Amazing sets and supposedly the first "plot twist" ending.

It's always interesting to read about the people involved in making Weimar era movies.

Some of them had to leave and some of them stayed.

stills from DVDBeaver

Santa Lucia

Did you observe St. Lucy's Day?
My parents used to belong to a church with a penchant for Scandinavian culture, and December 13th is the only saints day they recognized. I used to love the white robes and candle-wreath, but it was a girls-only affair so I never got to wear a pointy wizard hat. These days I'm more interested in the pre-christian origins of the celebration.

Photo credits:

Stockholm Club Lucia Fest, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Herman Larson, 1932 (from the Minnesota Digital Library)

Female students dressed for Bethel's Festival of Christmas in St. Lucia costumes, St. Paul, Minnesota
Kurt Christenson, 1980 (from the Minnesota Digital Library)

Luciafeier in einer schwedischen Kirche
Claudia Gründer, 2006 (from Wikimedia Commons)

Early Video Art - Beryl Korot

Short video from art21 blog features Beryl Korot talking about video, weaving, etc:

Another video about Radical Software, the magazine she edited in the early 1970's:

Radical Software archive is here