Picture Sundays: A Bunch of Nasturtiums in 3D
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The Return of Picture Sundays: A Wolf in Monk’s Clothing
...A false preacher and his flock. MS Douce 266, c. 1480-1500. Bodleian Library. Via Damien Kempf’s Twitter feed....
Picture Sundays: Memory Castle
An example of a memory palace or “method of loci.” From the description of this woodcut, which is in the collection of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford: The Tower of Wisdom is constructed of a basement supported by 4 buttresses, a first floor with 5 windows and a double door reached by a staircase of 7 steps, above which rises the keep of a castle constructed with 12 courses of 10 stones inscribed with the names of religious virtu...
Picture Sundays: Celebrity Toilet
...Thank you Anne Hars for carefully sifting through Craigslist late at night....
Picture Sundays: Signs
...While I appreciate the sentiment, I thought I’d take this moment to share one of a few truths I’m 100% certain of in this life: The people for whom signs are written never read signs....