#John's crucifix can be used as brick

[shu-bullshit]

Some smol priests.

I absolutely can not get over John and Damien's size difference.

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Sunday 25 August 1839

3 ½

10 ¾

fine morning A-‘s neck poorly – off from Stockholm at 5 ½ in little carriage and 2 horses – no forbud – at Rottebro [Rotebro] (single house) at 7 13/.. – terrible boulder stone pavé in Stockholm and terrible and many deeo channels there – good road nice drive – about ¾ of the way very pretty wooded lake – Rottebro [Rotebro] one story red smeared wood house – not good to sleep at – sun now at 7 ½ am it peeped out about 7 – very fine morning – off in 13 minutes – good road – nice drive – nice good country for Sweden – peeps now and then of wood pretty lake (right) Maista [Märsta] single farm house not good to sleep at – A – very cold – very good road – forest with moss green rocks as in Norway but no large old trees – there open country – less encumbered with rock and boulder than in the other parts of Sweden that we have seen – better farming? and better crops? corn in stook and to cut – peas drying on poles reared in a circle and meeting at top like a Lapland hut – hops  very fine morning – Alisk [Alsike] single house – better than the 2 last – perhaps one might sleep here? Hamlets and villages and farms thinly scattered today – wondered at their being so thinly scattered close to the capital – the country here seems better peopled than just out of the gates of Stockholm –

Snow-ploughs lying at the roadside here as everywhere

From Alisk [Alsike] to Upsāla [Uppsala] very pretty drive – excellent road – open country – at 11 40/.. good wood bridge over broadish stream and then fine vist view thro’ forest by and by sun to terminate in the huge brick chateau built on a hill qui domine the 2 steepled cathedral and the city – arrived at 12 20/.. – Hotel de la poste – ordered dinner at 2 – changed our dress – out at 1 40/.. – to the cathedral – large

August Sunday 25 handsome (clean) whitewashed church – a large crucifix over the altar – beneath the pedestal of the crucifix a cross over which hung a serpent – the altar in decoration like a Roman catholic altar  the congregation was assembled at 2 and the organ played and the people sang psalms till 2 20/.. the preacher began the epistle at 2 20/.. and we staid 10 minutes longer – his manner perfectly quiet, but he spoke clearly and impressionably – home at 2 40/.. dinner at 2 ¾ in 35 minutes – then I dozed on the sofa till near 4 – up so early – and driving all the way (A- and I in front – John Winter our new courier and the peasant behind) and having nothing to eat but a little gingerbread with A- between 10 and 11 as we sat in the carriage at Alisk [Alsike] (from 10 27/.. to 11 10/.. one of the horses being shod in the meantime) i.e. little to eat from 4pm. yesterday to 2 ¾ today, made me feel sleepy – out at 4 to the botanic garden – our courier did not even know Linnaeus by name – but he native of Hamburg was courier to prince Oscar 3 years – then set up at Stockholm as loueur de voitures – failed recently and now gets his living as well as he can  - was with Captain Wilbraham of the 7th regiment a fortnight ago for 4 days – went to Dannemora – not time for Falun – off to St. Petersburg – Captain W- asked if ladies descended at Danemora [Dannemora] – no! none but English ladies and several of these had been down! – a civil intelligent garçon gardener shewed us the Serres and orangery and garden ground immediately around them – the building called orangery handsome – but no orange trees to be seen there or near there (a few in the serres the man said) the tubs outside filled with our common and Portugal laurels – ivy in pots outside – will no[t] do well out of doors! yet common sorts of palmiers seemed healthy in the orangery larger and healthier than what we saw in the serres – a thing very common hereabouts and forming a low hedge at the botanic garden is Spiraea calcifolia [salicifolia], flower like sweet dock

no fire in the hot houses

SH:7/ML/TR/13/0008

August Sunday 25 Spruce firs planted at 2 foots, hedgewise – and others cut into cones or looked better as obelisks or a paral of 2 rows of them just below the chateau (in the part of the botanic garden between the museum and chateau) – these spruces looked just as well as if they had been yews and might be got up in ½ the time – the museum Thunbergs’ collection a poor concern – birds etc. ill stuffed and not in the best preservation – the specimens (an infinity of serpents) in spirits locked up in dark cupboards – many duplicates and bad arrangement – the statue of Linnaeus sitting – book in his hand – contemplating his favourite flower (Linnaea borealis)  not a chef-d’oeuvre, but interesting -  

2 or 3 specimens of Gigantic Elk – caught near here 6 or 7 years ago as I understood – but one of John’s (Winter) friends shot one last winter about 1 ½ mile from here – salted it the meat a delicacy – some left – we are to tasted it – this animal in all the forests here – the horns covered with a sort of down – as also the horns of the rein-deer. can buy here the salted tongues and hams of rein deer

Fringa, several [species] of, found in the isle of Gothland sur le bord de la mer – curious sort of ruff round its neck do not recollect having seen this bird anywhere before

Platalea pygmaea caught here pigmy spoonbill said to be the only specimen of the kind to be found in any museum –

August Sunday 25 Tetrao generic name of moor game

common barn-door fowl classed Phasianus gallus.

Heron, genus ardea.

from the musée sauntered to the chateau – the governor resides in one part – prisoners before their trail are confined in another part – many rooms unfurnished – the 3 or 4 towers (at one each corner) look well – but the modern parts – one front with a pediment are terrible – fine commanding situation – the views from it have excused us the trouble of going to the top of the cathedral – old Upsāla [Uppsala] full in view from the chateau – nothing worth seeing says our courier when at mora – merely a few stone with no inscriptions at all – then walked down thro’ the town to the Steamer that plies daily between Stockholm and here in 5 hours – deck passage 2 dollars rigs. – salon double that John thinks – nice vessel enough – deck covered with awning as usual - Upsāla [Uppsala] a nice town – the most livable we have seen – not so low and water girt as the towns in Sweden in general in which one fancies one could not breathe for damp and fog – the castle cathedral university buildings library etc. on high ground – fine fresh air, and agreeable – our Inn comfortable – the first house just below the new library and nicely situated – a drop or 2 of rain between 4 and 5 and afterwards but held off till we came in at 7 ½ - then a shower – till then very fine day – no supper – no wish for anything since dinner excellent veal cutlets (carbonnade) and preserved gooseberries and fried morsels of potato – then soup – then fritters – such is the order here – all good – had just written so far (inked all over accounts and all) now at 10 pm at which hour F60 ½°

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Sunday 25 August 1839

[Ann braves a painful neck, and the cold, to be driven by Anne to Uppsala, where they visit the largest cathedral in all of Scandinavia. Anne is for once impressed with a sermon, although it probably helps that it’s in a language she doesn’t understand. Tantalisingly, their guide had just recently been employed by a traveller in Persia and the Caucasus. There are no oranges in the orangery and the museum could be better, but all in all it’s rather nice and livable here, plus the food is good. And oh, mines will be visited in the next few days! Do ladies do that? Only if English.]

[up at] 3 1/2

[to bed at] 10 3/4

fine morning Ann’s neck poorly off from Stockholm at 5 1/2 in little carriage and 2 horses – no forbud – at Rottebro (single house) at 7 13/” – terrible boulder stone pave in Stockholm and terrible and many deep channels there – good road nice drive – about 3/4 of the way very pretty wooded lake – Rottebro one story red smeared wood house – not good to sleep at – sun now at 7 1/2  a.m. it peeped out about 7 – very fine morning – off in 13 minutes – good road – nice drive – nice good country for Sweden – peeps now and then of pretty wooded lake (right) Maista single farm house not good to sleep at –  Ann very cold – very good road – forest with mossgrown rocks as in Norway but no large old trees – then open country – less encumbered with rock and boulder than in the other parts of Sweden that we have seen – better farming? and better crops? corn in stook and to cut – peas drying on poles reared in a circle and meeting at top like a Lapland hut – hops. very fine morning – Alisk single house – better than the 2 last –  perhaps one might sleep here? Hamlets and villages and farms thinly scattered today – wondered at their being so thinly scattered close to the capital – the country here seems better peopled than just out of the gates of Stockholm – Snow-ploughs lying at the road side here as everywhere From Alisk to Upsāla very pretty drive – excellent road – open country – at 11 40/” good wood bridge over broadish stream and then fine vista view thro’ forest by and by seen to terminate in the huge brick chateau built on a hill qui domine the 2 steepled cathedral and the city – arrived at 12 20/” – Hotel de la poste – ordered dinner at 2 – changed our dress – out at 1 40/” – to the cathedral – large handsome, clean, whitewashed church – a large crucifix over the altar – beneath the pedestal of the crucifix a cross over which hung a serpent – the altar in decoration like a Roman Catholic altar the congregation was assembled at 2 and the organ played and the people sang psalms till 2 20/”  the preacher began the Epistle at 2 20/” and we staid 10 minutes longer – his manner perfectly quiet, but he spoke clearly and impressively – home at 2 40/” dinner at 2 3/4 in 35 minutes –  then I dozed on the sofa till near 4 – up so early – and driving all the way, (Ann and I in front – John Winter our new courier and the peasant behind) and having nothing to eat but a little gingerbread with Ann between 10 and 11 as we sat in the carriage at Alisk (from 10 27/” to 11 10/” one of the horses being shod in the meantime) i.e. little to eat from 4 p.m. yesterday to 2 3/4 today, made me feel sleepy – out at 4 to the botanic garden – our courier did not know Linnaeus by name – but he native of Hamburg was courier to prince Oscar 3 years – then set up at Stockholm as correur de voitures – failed recently and now gets his living as well as he can – was with Captain Wilbraham of the 7th regiment a fortnight ago for 4 days –  went to Dannemora – not time for Falun – off to Saint Petersburg –  Captain Wilbraham asked if ladies descended at Danemora – no! none but English ladies and several of those had been down! – a civil intelligent garçon gardener shewed us the Serres and orangery and garden ground immediately around them – the building called orangery handsome but no orange trees to be seen there or near there, a few in the serres the man said and the tubs outside filled with our common and Portugal laurels – ivy in pots outside – will no do well out of doors! yet common sorts of palmiers seemed healthy in the orangery larger and healthier than what we saw in the serres – a thing very common hereabouts and forming a low hedge at the botanic garden is Spiraea calcifolia, flowerlike sweet stock 

Spruce firs planted at 2 foots, hedgewise –  and others cut into cones or looked better as obelisks or a parcel of 2 rows of them just below the chateau (in the part of the botanic garden between the museum and chateau) – these spruces looked just as well as if they had been yews and might be got up in 1/2  the time – the museum Thunberg’s collection a poor concern – birds etc. ill stuffed and not in the best preservation – the specimens (an infinity of supports) in spirits locked up in dark cupboards – many duplicates and bad arrangement – the statue of Linneaus sitting – book in his hand – contemplating his favourite flower, Linnaea borealis, not a chef-d’oeuvre, but interesting –  2 or 3 specimens of gigantic elk – caught near here 6 or 7 years ago as I understood – but one of John’s (Winter) friends shot one last winter about 1 1/2 mile from here – salted it – the meat a delicacy – some left –  we are to taste it – this animal in all the forests here – the horns covered with a sort of down – as  also the horns of the rein-deer. Can buy here the salted tongues and hams of rein deer – Fringa, several species of, found in the isle of Gothland sur le bord de la mer – curious sort of ruff round its neck do not recollect having seen this bird anywhere before –  Platalea pygmaea     caught near here      pigmy spoonbill said to be the only specimen of the kind to be found in any museum –  Tetrao generic name of moor game common barn-door fowl classed Phasianus gallus. Heron, genus ardea. from the musée sauntered to the chateau – the governor resides in one part – prisoners before the trial are confined in another part – many rooms unfurnished – the 3 or 4 towers (one at each corner) look well – but the modern parts – one front with a pediment, are terrible –  fine commanding situation – the views from it have excused us the trouble of going to the top of the cathedral – Old Upsāla full in view from the chateau – nothing worth seeing says our courier John at Mora – merely a few stones with no inscriptions at all – then walked down thro’ the town to the Steamer that plies daily between Stockholm and here in 5 hours – deck passengers 2 dollars rigs – salon double that John thinks –  nice vessel enough – deck covered with awning as usual –  Upsāla a nice town – the most livable we have seen – not so low and water girt as the towns in Sweden in general in which one fancies one could not breathe for damp and fog – the castle cathedral university buildings library etc. on high ground – fine fresh air, and agreeable –  our Inn comfortable – the first house just below the new library and nicely situated – a drop or 2 of rain about between 4 and 5 and afterwards but held off till we came in at 7 1/2 – then a shower – till then very fine day –  no supper – no wish for anything since dinner excellent veal cutlets, carbonnade, and preserved gooseberries and fried morsel of potato – then Soup – then fritters – such is the order here –  all good – had just written so far (inked all over accounts and all) now at 10 p.m. at which hour Fahrenheit 60 1/2º –

Anne’s marginal notes:

off from Stockholm to the mines.

Upsala

only English ladies see Dannemora

no fire in the hot houses

Ivy a greenhouse plant here

Spiraea calcifolia

Spruces cut in shapes, yew-wise

gigantic elk.

Fringa Platalea

Swedish towns low and water-girt

WYAS Catalogue:  SH:7/ML/TR/13/0007    SH:7/ML/TR/13/0008

View of Uppsala, by Elias Martin:

Uppsala Botanical Garden (around 1770):

View of Uppsala Castle and Cathedral, by C.A. von Scheele (1797-1873):

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1839 August Sunday 25

Got up 3 ½   Went to bed 10 ¾

Fine morning Adney’s neck poorly

Off from Stockholm at 5 ½ in little carriage and 2 horses – no forbud – at Rottebro (single house) at 7 13/.. – terrible boulder stone pave in Stockholm and terrible and many deep channels there – good road nice drive – about ¾ of the way very pretty wooded lake – Rottebro one story red smeared wood house – not good to sleep at – sun now at 7 ½  a.m. it peeped out about 7 – very fine morning – off in 13 minutes – good road – nice drive – nice good country for Sweden – peeps now and then of pretty wooded lake (right) Maista single farm house not good to sleep at –  Adney very cold – very good road – forest with mossgrown rocks as in Norway but no large old trees – then open country – less encumbered with rock and boulder than in the other parts of Sweden that we have seen – better farming? and better crops? corn in stook and to cut – peas drying on poles reared in a circle and meeting at top like a Lapland hut – hops.

Very fine morning – Alisk single house – better than the 2 last –  perhaps one might sleep here? Hamlets and villages and farms thinly scattered today – wondered at their being so thinly scattered close to the capital – the country here seems better peopled than just out of the gates of Stockholm –

Snow-ploughs lying at the road side here as everywhere

From Alisk to Upsāla very pretty drive – excellent road – open country – at 11 40/.. good wood bridge over broadish stream and then fine vista view thro’ forest by and by seen to terminate in the huge brick chateau built on a hill qui domine the 2 steepled cathedral and the city –

Arrived at 12 20/.. – Hotel de la poste – ordered dinner at 2 – changed our dress – out at 1 40/.. – to the cathedral – large handsome (clean) whitewashed church – a large crucifix over the altar – beneath the pedestal of the crucifix a cross over which hung a serpent – the altar in decoration like a Roman Catholic altar the congregation was assembled at 2 and the organ played and the people sang psalms till 2 20/..  the preacher began the Epistle at 2 20/.. and we staid 10 minutes longer – his manner perfectly quiet, but he spoke clearly and impressively –

Home at 2 40/.. dinner at 2 ¾ in 35 minutes –  then I dozed on the sofa till near 4 – up so early – and driving all the way, (Adney and I in front – John Winter our new courier and the peasant behind) and having nothing to eat but a little gingerbread with Adney between 10 and 11 as we sat in the carriage at Alisk (from 10 27/.. to 11 10/.. one of the horses being shod in the meantime) i.e. little to eat from 4 p.m. yesterday to 2 ¾ today, made me feel sleepy –

Out at 4 to the botanic garden – our courier did not know Linnaeus by name – but he native of Hamburg was courier to prince Oscar 3 years – then set up at Stockholm as correur de voitures – failed recently and now gets his living as well as he can – was with Captain Wilbraham of the 7th  regiment a fortnight ago for 4 days –  went to Dannemora – not time for Falun – off to Saint Petersburg –  Captain Wilbraham asked if ladies descended at Danemora – no! none but English ladies and several of those had been down! – a civil intelligent garçon gardener shewed us the serres and orangery and garden ground immediately around them – the building called orangery handsome but no orange trees to be seen there or near there, a few in the serres the man said and the tubs outside filled with our common and Portugal laurels – ivy in pots outside – will no do well out of doors! yet common sorts of palmiers seemed healthy in the orangery larger and healthier than what we saw in the serres – a thing very common hereabouts and forming a low hedge at the botanic garden is Spiraea calcifolia, flowerlike sweetstock 

Spruce firs planted at 2 foots, hedgewise – and others cut into cones or looked better as obelisks or a parcel of 2 rows of them just below the chateau (in the part of the botanic garden between the museum and chateau) – these spruces looked just as well as if they had been yews and might be got up in ½  the time – the museum Thunberg’s collection a poor concern – birds etc. ill stuffed and not in the best preservation – the specimens (an infinity of supports) in spirits locked up in dark cupboards – many duplicates and bad arrangement – the statue of Linneaus sitting – book in his hand – contemplating his favourite flower, Linnaea borealis, not a chef-d’oeuvre, but interesting –  2 or 3 specimens of gigantic elk – caught near here 6 or 7 years ago as I understood – but one of John’s (Winter) friends shot one last winter about 1 ½ mile from here – salted it – the meat a delicacy – some left –  we are to taste it – this animal in all the forests here – the horns covered with a sort of down – as  also the horns of the rein-deer. Can buy here the salted tongues and hams of rein deer – 

Tringa, several species of, found in the isle of Gothland sur le bord de la mer – curious sort of ruff round its neck do not recollect having seen this bird anywhere before –  

Platalea pygmaea caught near here pigmy spoonbill said to be the only specimen of the kind to be found in any museum –  

Tetrao generic name of moor game common barn-door fowl classed Phasianus gallus.

Heron, genus ardea.

From the musée sauntered to the chateau – the governor resides in one part – prisoners before the trial are confined in another part – many rooms unfurnished – the 3 or 4 towers (one at each corner) look well – but the modern parts – one front with a pediment, are terrible –  fine commanding situation – the views from it have excused us the trouble of going to the top of the cathedral – Old Upsāla full in view from the chateau – nothing worth seeing says our courier John at Mora – merely a few stones with no inscriptions at all – then walked down thro’ the town to the steamer that plies daily between Stockholm and here in 5 hours – deck passengers 2 dollars rigs – salon double that John thinks –  nice vessel enough – deck covered with awning as usual –  

Upsāla a nice town – the most livable we have seen – not so low and water girt as the towns in Sweden in general in which one fancies one could not breathe for damp and fog – the castle cathedral university buildings library etc. on high ground – fine fresh air, and agreeable –  our Inn comfortable – the first house just below the new library and nicely situated – a drop or 2 of rain about between 4 and 5 and afterwards but held off till we came in at 7 ½ – then a shower – till then very fine day –  no supper – no wish for anything since dinner excellent veal cutlets, carbonnade, and preserved gooseberries and fried morsels of potato – then soup – then fritters – such is the order here –  all good – had just written so far (inked all over accounts and all) now at 10 p.m. at which hour F 60 ½ º –

In margin:     off from Stockholm to the mines.

                      Upsala

                      only English ladies see Dannemora

                      no fire in the hot houses

                      Ivy a greenhouse plant here

                     Spiraea calcifolia

                      Spruces cut in shapes, yew-wise

                      gigantic elk.

                      Fringa Platalea

                      Swedish towns low and water-girt

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Hyperallergic: From Flash Tattoos to a Fotomat Shack, Looking Beyond Books at the LA Art Book Fair 2017

Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair 2017 (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)

LOS ANGELES — Printed Matter’s fifth annual LA Art Book Fair (LAABF) descended on the MOCA Geffen last weekend, bringing a staggering 300 publishers, galleries, artists, and booksellers to a consistently packed house of bibliophiles (15,000 people attended on Saturday alone). Among the photocopied zines, limited-edition monographs, and antiquarian offerings, some of the highlights weren’t books at all, but objects that expanded upon the idea of what books can provide: an affordable means to experience and collect art, democratizing it in the same way that the printing press democratized information almost 600 years ago.

Kembra Pfahler’s opening night performance for LAABF 2017

Opening night festivities were capped off by a riotous performance by artist, musician, filmmaker, and actress Kembra Pfahler. Clad in little more than red body paint, with blacked-out teeth and a tangled, oversized wig, Pfahler ripped through a rough, fierce, and often funny set of punk tunes, backed by musicians Gyda Gash and Neon Music and two lookalike backup dancer/singers. She held back nothing back, hurling into the audience with gleeful abandon a tambourine, “future feminist” shirts, her underwear, and finally a crucifix that had been inserted into her vagina by a band member. If you missed her set, her London gallery, Emalin, had some of her photo books for sale and had decorated its booth wall with her butt prints.

Emalin gallery’s booth, with works by Kembra Pfahler

Outside the fair building, Slow Culture gallery set up an actual Fotomat shack, sponsored by Kodak and Vans, which not only sold 35mm film but offered 24-hour developing as well. They assembled a rotating cast of photographers to man the booth, including Cheryl Dunn, Jim Goldberg, and Ed Templeton, who each had a $100 print for sale in editions of 20 during their shifts. On opening night, there was a steady stream of visitors dropping off rolls of film.

Slow Culture’s Fotomat shack

Inside the fair, one of the most impressive installations was a room showcasing Teen Angels, a magazine dedicated to Chicano/Cholo/lowrider culture that ran from 1981 to 2000. At the time, the artist behind the publication was unknown, but many assumed him to be Latino — until a fan, David de Baca, found and befriended him: a white San Bernardino man named David Holland. He died in 2015, but de Baca manages Holland’s archive and has put together a book of the magazine’s hand-drawn cover art. The LAABF installation featured a wide selection of covers as well as a re-creation of Holland’s studio. The display wasn’t just about selling copies, but about highlighting the power of publications to connect individuals and communities by reproducing and spreading images of a shared culture.

Covers of David Holland’s Teen Angels

Teen Angels studio

Teen Angels display

The aptly named poster press The Posters launched a collaborative edition at the fair, featuring an image by John Baldessari with all the color stripped out. Visitors could purchase the black-and white-poster as it was or make their own edition at a station filled with art supplies in the MOCA bookstore. Several well-known artists had completed their own versions, including Lucien Smith, Mickalene Thomas, and Henry Taylor. Each version is being photographed for a planned publication.

Cassi Gibson and Henry Taylor with Taylor’s enhanced Baldessari poster

The Thing Quarterly, a Bay Area–based publisher of art objects, was celebrating its 10th anniversary with a booth showcasing a decade of editions. The team works with artists and manufacturers to create objects that are accessible and affordable but still distinctive, often locally produced and handcrafted. The latest edition is a trap-and-release spider set featuring hand-blown glass by LA artist Amanda Ross-Ho.

The Thing Quarterly table

Another vendor offering handmade, thoughtfully designed objects was Bob Dornberger, the “objects workshop leader” at wHY Architecture. Dornberger’s micro-booth was filled with his idiosyncratic but impressively constructed items, like a brick brush with bristles or a diamond-cut stone that appears to have a bite taken out of it.

Bob Dornberger with his mini-booth

Artist Edgar Bryan was back selling his object-like books, complementing his pizza book from 2015 with a silkscreened beer book that features actual pop-up six-pack holders. He said he promptly sold out after Hyperallergic posted a video of the piece on social media on opening night.

Edgar Bryan showcasing one of his object-like books

Gagosian Gallery, the international powerhouse usually associated with multimillion-dollar blue-chip artists like Damien Hirst, tried to fit in with its surroundings by focusing on intangible works of art. As at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair last fall, the gallery had commissioned flash tattoo designs from 12 contemporary artists, including Sterling Ruby, Kenneth Anger, and Henry Taylor. Unlike traditional flash designs, which come in unlimited editions, these came each in editions of six, “since museums need to be able to authenticate their acquisitions,” said Gagosian archivist and librarian Ben Lee Ritchie Handler as he showed off his fresh Analia Saban ink. By Saturday, all the appointments had been booked except for a few slots for Haas Brothers’ designs.

Gagosian Gallery’s

If you found the volume of publications, objects, and other offerings at the LAABF a bit daunting, the students at Dutch Design School Werkplaats Typografie understood — and had put together a project dealing directly with this dilemma. As part of a six-week residency at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, 18 students had set up a publishing house at the fair, where each hour they would print, bind, and release a new 20-page publication, complete with a champagne-drenched launch party. Inspired by the pressure of trying to keep up with the latest and hippest publications, “we wanted to push this feeling by going to the extreme,” said student Melina Wilson. “No one can catch us. We’re the newest, regardless of what the quality is.”

Werkplaats Typografie’s booth

Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair 2017 took place at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (152 N Central Avenue, Los Angeles) on February 24–26.

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Sunday 25 August 1839

3 ½

10 ¾

fine morning A-‘s neck poorly – off from Stockholm at 5 ½ in little carriage and 2 horses – no forbud – at Rottebro [Rotebro] (single house) at 7 13/.. – terrible boulder stone pavé in Stockholm and terrible and many deeo channels there – good road nice drive – about ¾ of the way very pretty wooded lake – Rottebro [Rotebro] one story red smeared wood house – not good to sleep at – sun now at 7 ½ am it peeped out about 7 – very fine morning – off in 13 minutes – good road – nice drive – nice good country for Sweden – peeps now and then of wood pretty lake (right) Maista [Märsta] single farm house not good to sleep at – A – very cold – very good road – forest with moss green rocks as in Norway but no large old trees – there open country – less encumbered with rock and boulder than in the other parts of Sweden that we have seen – better farming? and better crops? corn in stook and to cut – peas drying on poles reared in a circle and meeting at top like a Lapland hut – hops  very fine morning – Alisk [Alsike] single house – better than the 2 last – perhaps one might sleep here? Hamlets and villages and farms thinly scattered today – wondered at their being so thinly scattered close to the capital – the country here seems better peopled than just out of the gates of Stockholm –

Snow-ploughs lying at the roadside here as everywhere

From Alisk [Alsike] to Upsāla [Uppsala] very pretty drive – excellent road – open country – at 11 40/.. good wood bridge over broadish stream and then fine vist view thro’ forest by and by sun to terminate in the huge brick chateau built on a hill qui domine the 2 steepled cathedral and the city – arrived at 12 20/.. – Hotel de la poste – ordered dinner at 2 – changed our dress – out at 1 40/.. – to the cathedral – large

August Sunday 25 handsome (clean) whitewashed church – a large crucifix over the altar – beneath the pedestal of the crucifix a cross over which hung a serpent – the altar in decoration like a Roman catholic altar  the congregation was assembled at 2 and the organ played and the people sang psalms till 2 20/.. the preacher began the epistle at 2 20/.. and we staid 10 minutes longer – his manner perfectly quiet, but he spoke clearly and impressionably – home at 2 40/.. dinner at 2 ¾ in 35 minutes – then I dozed on the sofa till near 4 – up so early – and driving all the way (A- and I in front – John Winter our new courier and the peasant behind) and having nothing to eat but a little gingerbread with A- between 10 and 11 as we sat in the carriage at Alisk [Alsike] (from 10 27/.. to 11 10/.. one of the horses being shod in the meantime) i.e. little to eat from 4pm. yesterday to 2 ¾ today, made me feel sleepy – out at 4 to the botanic garden – our courier did not even know Linnaeus by name – but he native of Hamburg was courier to prince Oscar 3 years – then set up at Stockholm as loueur de voitures – failed recently and now gets his living as well as he can  - was with Captain Wilbraham of the 7th regiment a fortnight ago for 4 days – went to Dannemora – not time for Falun – off to St. Petersburg – Captain W- asked if ladies descended at Danemora [Dannemora] – no! none but English ladies and several of these had been down! – a civil intelligent garçon gardener shewed us the Serres and orangery and garden ground immediately around them – the building called orangery handsome – but no orange trees to be seen there or near there (a few in the serres the man said) the tubs outside filled with our common and Portugal laurels – ivy in pots outside – will no[t] do well out of doors! yet common sorts of palmiers seemed healthy in the orangery larger and healthier than what we saw in the serres – a thing very common hereabouts and forming a low hedge at the botanic garden is Spiraea calcifolia [salicifolia], flower like sweet dock

no fire in the hot houses

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August Sunday 25 Spruce firs planted at 2 foots, hedgewise – and others cut into cones or looked better as obelisks or a paral of 2 rows of them just below the chateau (in the part of the botanic garden between the museum and chateau) – these spruces looked just as well as if they had been yews and might be got up in ½ the time – the museum Thunbergs’ collection a poor concern – birds etc. ill stuffed and not in the best preservation – the specimens (an infinity of serpents) in spirits locked up in dark cupboards – many duplicates and bad arrangement – the statue of Linnaeus sitting – book in his hand – contemplating his favourite flower (Linnaea borealis)  not a chef-d’oeuvre, but interesting -  

2 or 3 specimens of Gigantic Elk – caught near here 6 or 7 years ago as I understood – but one of John’s (Winter) friends shot one last winter about 1 ½ mile from here – salted it the meat a delicacy – some left – we are to tasted it – this animal in all the forests here – the horns covered with a sort of down – as also the horns of the rein-deer. can buy here the salted tongues and hams of rein deer

Fringa, several [species] of, found in the isle of Gothland sur le bord de la mer – curious sort of ruff round its neck do not recollect having seen this bird anywhere before

Platalea pygmaea caught here pigmy spoonbill said to be the only specimen of the kind to be found in any museum –

August Sunday 25 Tetrao generic name of moor game

common barn-door fowl classed Phasianus gallus.

Heron, genus ardea.

from the musée sauntered to the chateau – the governor resides in one part – prisoners before their trail are confined in another part – many rooms unfurnished – the 3 or 4 towers (at one each corner) look well – but the modern parts – one front with a pediment are terrible – fine commanding situation – the views from it have excused us the trouble of going to the top of the cathedral – old Upsāla [Uppsala] full in view from the chateau – nothing worth seeing says our courier when at mora – merely a few stone with no inscriptions at all – then walked down thro’ the town to the Steamer that plies daily between Stockholm and here in 5 hours – deck passage 2 dollars rigs. – salon double that John thinks – nice vessel enough – deck covered with awning as usual - Upsāla [Uppsala] a nice town – the most livable we have seen – not so low and water girt as the towns in Sweden in general in which one fancies one could not breathe for damp and fog – the castle cathedral university buildings library etc. on high ground – fine fresh air, and agreeable – our Inn comfortable – the first house just below the new library and nicely situated – a drop or 2 of rain between 4 and 5 and afterwards but held off till we came in at 7 ½ - then a shower – till then very fine day – no supper – no wish for anything since dinner excellent veal cutlets (carbonnade) and preserved gooseberries and fried morsels of potato – then soup – then fritters – such is the order here – all good – had just written so far (inked all over accounts and all) now at 10 pm at which hour F60 ½°