#Catalogs and collections

[monkeyssalad-blog]

n262_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: A companion to Mr. Bullock's London Museum and Pantherion [London] :Printed for the proprietor,1812. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28995358

[christopher067]

hiii :) so i teased this on twitter back in feb. and forgot to mention it here, buuuuut i've been working on some in-game jewelry that you could display, buy, and sell to make a little jewelry store !! ☺️

i was super inspired by Madlen's shoe store set and wanted to try my hand at it annnd i've made some progress!! this is def going to take a while to finish buuut i'm really excited about it !! 💖

[timothyslucy]

i'm sorry, but there have been too many innuendos hinting that lucy already has, or will have a little bradford bun in her oven by the end of the season, and if you're not on board that's totally fine, but where are my real homies at who want to discuss this possibility with me??? show of hands????? ���‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

[garadinervi]

The Eyes of Tel al-Zaatar (عيون تل الزعتر), The Art Collection of Yvette and Mazen Qubti, The Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah, 1999 [The ‏Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center Collection, The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive, The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit]

«Issued in Arabic and English by the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, a brochure about the exhibition "The Eyes of Tel al-Zaatar", which is a special collection of Yvette and Mazen Qubti, and it was decided to open it in Gaza on 20 April 1999 in the Arts and Crafts Village under the auspices of Nabil Shaath, the Minister of Planning and International Relations at the time, on 15 May at the Khalil Sakakini Center in Ramallah under the auspices of Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Minister of Culture at the time, and in June it will be at the al-Wasti Art Center in Jerusalem, and the brochure included pictures of the works of some artists such as Nabil Anani, Kamal Balata, Kamel al-Mghanni, Vladimir Tamari, Suleiman Mansour, Samir Srouji, Rana Bshara, Taysir Sharaf, and Taysir Barakat, Yvette Bshara, Osama Saeed and Asad Ezzi.»

Exhibitions Openings: Gaza – Arts and Handicraft Village, Municipality of Gaza, April 20, 1999; Ramallah – The Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, May 15, 1999; Jerusalem – Al-Wasiti Art Center

Graphic Design: Nahawand Printing: Modern Arab Press, Jerusalem

[nostalgicore]

1994 Hollywood Legends Dorothy from Wizard of Oz

[manic-sapphic]

look the thing is i'm dumb ok? the album in my phone i saved this to is literally labeled dumblr.

no way in hell do you hate this as much as i hate myself for making it ok?

[wishmemellon]

In a modern au I’ve done absolutely nothing with I’ve given Apollo pet rats and mice.

They love them dearly and carry them around in their shirt pocket.

[fragrantblossoms]

Matsuda. Automne Hiver 1988 - Design by Yukio Kobayashi, Photographs by Nadir

[thegikitiki]

Food, Fashion, Function!

Pyrex Ware Catalog Page, 1969

[yetitakinginventory]

Okay, putting this to rest.

Jack Frost Mezco Plush

While the other 2 Mezco dolls stay up for months at a time at $15-$20 there are a few sellers who see the lack of Jack Frost dolls up for sale to price him outrageously high.

(Keep in mind a good custom plush can go for as low as $100)

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Feral Friday! 

This week we’re taking a look at Taschen: Oliver Payne & Nick Relph. This beautifully designed exhibition catalog was printed by Busch Druck Medien Verlag (Bielefeld, Deutschlan) and published by Kerber Verlag in New York in 2004. It accompanied the exhibition Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, which was presented by the National Museum of Art (Oslo) and the Musee d'Art Moderne (Paris) the same year. Designed by graphic designer and artist Halvor Bodin, the text was authored by Payne & Relph in collaboration with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Andrea Kroknes (Senior Curator of the National Museum), and Sune Nordgren (director of the National Museum at the time).  

Oliver Payne & Nick Relph are a British artist duo who internationally exhibited film, video, & installation works from 1999 until 2009. Their practice grappled with themes of cultural identity, subcultures (such as skater, gaming, and DIY cultures), and corporate imperialism. This publication is particularly interesting within the context of our collection because it juxtaposes the design language of Fine Press movement forerunners like the Kelmscott Press with the lo-fi aesthetics of early internet & DIY culture and advertising, bringing the principles of the Arts & Crafts movement into critical conversation with the aesthetic and cultural landscape of our time.

In their early video work Driftwood (a "psycho-geographical tour of London"), Payne & Relph call to 'smash the symbols of the Empire in the name of nothing but the heart's longing for grace.' They demonstrate this ethos by gaming information and cataloging systems through their choice of the title Taschen, the moniker of one of the most ubiquitous and celebrated publishers of art books, thereby hacking their way into in a realm where artists working in new media and experimental art were rarely represented.

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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[spookygibberish]

@july-19th-club HI I just thought I'd respond to these EXTREMELY flattering tags because they were the push I needed to finally get around to listening to the Xenogenesis series. I've been meaning to check out Octavia Butler for a really long time, and after finishing those books I'm actually mad at myself for not getting around to it sooner, because like, holy shit.

Looking at the books I've enjoyed the most out of all the titles I've listened to in the last year, to picking out commonalities and trends, I came up with:

Explorations of speculative societies and cultures

Xenofiction! Inhuman perspectives, inhuman thought processes; monsters, aliens, and animals as perspective characters

Alienation. Relfect the experience of living in a society which is strange to you, persisting, finding value and beauty in a world that is ugly, complicated, and hostile

Body horror, shape-shifting, transhumanism

Surreal imagery and situations

Often violent, often sexual, (frequently both at once...). strongly visceral

Unsurprising preference for sci-fi over fantasy (it's much more prone to high concept strangeness, though on a surface level I like the trappings of fantasy more)

A LOT OF THESE ARE DOWNERS but I noticed there aren't a lot of straightforwardly bleak endings, I guess I can't resist that uncertain glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel... barring what they say about oncoming trains

Given all that it turns out Xenogenesis was baisically laser targeted to appeal to me and I'm incredibly grateful for these tags for nudging me to nudge Butler to the front of my queue.

[savefrog]

Will never relate to people who get upset at game delays or the thought of there being less tv shows during a strike or a band not making enough music

HOW ARE YOU NOT CONSTANTLY OVWRWHRLMED BY THE VAST QUANTITIES OF MEDIA OUT THERE

How do you not have 3000 untouched games on steam. Youre caught up on every anime? ALL OF IT? ALL THE OBSCURE 80S OVAS??? GO WATCH SOME FRENCH FILMS!!! Go watch one of the trillions of youtube videos - you mean you havent seen 2527r8393.mp4 yet!?!?!? You have already listened to every song? You've heard every Finnish or Greek or Azerbaijani song ever made???? DOWNLOAD 8GB OF WEIRD WALKING SIMS AND VISUAL NOVELS OFF ITCH.IO!!!! GO TRAWL THROUGH ARCHIVE.ORG (IF ITS STILL AROUND)!!! DONT YOU ALSO HAVE 100 HALF-READ BOOKS AROUND!?!?!

If youre not hyperventalating at the thought youll never see every single cool thing in the world before you pass (like i constantly am) then you havent looked hard enough!!! What is it like to hear that a game you want to play has been delayed and NOT breathe a sigh of relief because you already have 5 unfinished games you started in the past year HOW!!!!!

[garadinervi]

Gordon Onslow Ford. Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, 1937-1975, Pyramid Galleries, Washington, D.C., 1975 [Art Book Viewer, Brooklyn, NY. © Gordon Onslow Ford]

Exhibition: October 21 – November 22, 1975

↗ Gordon Onslow Ford Collection and Archive (Lucid Art Foundation)

[nostalgicore]

Fisher-Price Favorites from the ’90s!

From the Family Vacation Camper to the Crocodile Keys Xylophone and Walk ‘n Waddle Ducks, this lineup brought endless fun. Mini birthday party set and Build ’n Go trucks rounded out the perfect playroom!

[archivlibrarianist]

I love this blog post, and how the author, Erin Blake, goes in to the way that catalog and documentation are such an important and vital part of provenance-- and how a text might have progressed over its life cycle.

It also links out to the Folgerpedia, a free resource where I anticipate eventually doing a research freefall at some later point.