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[adamrufftattoo]

Ben’s front piece coming along nicely - some torso jam sandwiched between some insatiable hot bread by @xamthespaniard - thank you! - #frontpiece #patchworktattoo #eagletattoo #leopardtattoo #dragontattoo #londontattoo #bristoltattoo #bristoltattooartist (at Berwick Street, Soho) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoNgWuhLUzo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tattoopedrosilva]

Dois projetos disponíveis para tatuar. Estamos fazendo um black friday de fechamentos no @motirostudio .Se algum te interessou, entre em contato. . #tattoo #tatuagem #frontpiece #tatuagemmasculina #tatuagemtradicional #tattoo #blackfriday #blacktattooart #blacktattoos #tatuaggio #tatuagem #tatuagempretoecinza #fechamentotattoo #blumenautatuagem https://www.instagram.com/p/ClMqb3_p3p7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[deepwoodtattoo]

What’s the name of the toenail disease this front piece has on their six toes? Thanks @kazisvet_ for coming and getting this 💕 #tattoo #frontpiece #ignoranttattoo #monster #monstertattoo #toenails #satan #linearttattoo (på/i Deepwood tattoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjQhvajsbrk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Between the teaser trailer and the How It Began, we got nice shots of all these figures at the front of the GM screen frontpiece. The figures are clearly invoking religious weight, and the screen overall takes a lot of elements from the Catholic-esque feeling of the Bulbian Church (note: censer at left and chalice at right).

So, naturally, I've gotta make some guesses for inspirations here.

First, we've got Moses coming down from Mount Sinai with the Commandments, with clear inspiration from Gustave Doré down to draping.

The pecan appears to be Mary under her title of Rosa Mystica, the Mystic Rose. (The statue at right has a hood, the angle just obscures it.) It's a bit of a niche pull, but the roses at the lapels is distinctive.

Easy one. Our favorite sexy male saint, Sebastian.

The crown, sword, object in hand, and (barely visible at the lower left) brick tower identifies the leafy green figure as Barbara, patron of artillery persons, military engineers, armorers, and those who work with explosives! (She's sometimes depicted with a cannon.)

I was previously uncertain who this figure was until I noticed the difficult-to-see tower, but Barbara was actually my first guess; I should've stuck with it, but I got really antsy after I struggled to find the specific statue. If you're curious who I originally put forward as possibilities, which included Barbara, you can check out the old version of this post before I updated it with the correct identification.

Now, I have no idea why these particular image touchstones (or possible ones in the last case), or even if there IS a reason, but maybe the series itself will shed some light on that one.

[kleioscanvas]

A Bireme and two Phalanxes clashing, two frontpieces commissioned by Martin Heldson

[fullscoreshenanigans]

do you know where to find all the tpn official arts outside of the manga? I also want to know where to find the artbook content so I was wondering

I'll have to open this up to @1000sunnygo but my understanding is Art Book World is *the* quintessential collection of TPN art outside of Demizu's character birthday drawings and other pieces on twitter created post-2020 (I have a little incomplete collection of them in my Posuka Demizu tag, with these being my personal favorites of the trio).

Highly recommend purchasing if you have the means and access, not only for the art but also the insightful interviews.

All the art is sourced and divided into sections based on the source.

(Volume 13 frontpiece rough. 🥺 And the volume 14 cover rough is very cool.)

If you're looking for the original raw covers of WSJ featuring TPN, here's a link to them on WSJ's wiki.

If you mean the promotional anime art that typically is put on clear files and turned into acrylic stands, as far as I know no one has ever compiled them all together in one single-page gallery for browsing outside of online shops selling them. (My small tag of it is here.)

On tumblr there's @just-like-playing-tag's compilation lamenting how TPN Committee can't be bothered to understand Emma's character and preferences because marketing that she's a girl takes precedence.

Offsite, the closest you'll probably get is TPN wiki's collaboration page listing, though as I've mentioned before don't confuse tlieilt_625p's art with official promo art. I still have no idea why their stuff is in the wiki gallery pages; it just serves to confuse more people.

For example, the TPN x Princess Cafe collaboration:

Their style is insanely close to the official art on a quick glance, but the heads and limb lengths and widths are a bit off.

My favorite promo collaboration art is probably with Megane Flower glasses (cute comic focusing on it by @kewstiny) just because I'm always a sucker for characters who normally don't wear glasses wearing glasses and vice versa, but also for reasons addressed here.

We are ignoring that Gilda, Sonya, and Vincent would have been more fitting for this promo because they aren't as recognizable for marketing. 😔🙏 Fucking crying over Emma either gluing or duct taping the frames to her face or just like...holding them for the shot vkldlf

Honorable shoutout to this collab though

Whippin' this out on a date like "relax, babe, I got this"

[the-gershomite]

The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #17 February 1977

frontpiece art by John Buscema

[wyrmfedgrave]

Pics: Inspiring HPL.

1. Irvin S. Cobb - American writer, editor, humorist & columnist hailing from Paducah, Kentucky¹.

He was the highest paid staff reporter on the NY World newspaper².

Irvin would write 60+ books & around 300 short stories.

Some of which were adapted into silent movies. And, 2 of his later tales were actually filmed, by the famed John Ford³, during the 1930s!

2. Cobb's "dark side" (horror works) of the otherwise lighthearted comedian & the story in question.

3 & 4. Comedic frontpieces(?) for books by Cobb. The 2nd even boasts an Abraham Lincoln quote!

5. Cover to Cobb's collection of other authors's short horror tales.

6. Inside art from Fishhead's ending...

1913 Addendum -

Intro: Irvin Cobb's infamous short story "Fishhead" is set in the back- wood bayous of the vast Reelfoot Lake⁴.

Plot: The tale concerns the murder of a local outcast freak by "poor whites."

With its surprise Jaws⁵-like ending, this gruesome work reminds readers of an issue of EC comics⁶!

Criticism: Lovecraft lauded Cobb for, "... Carrying on our (own) spectral tradition is the gifted... humorist, I.S. Cobb, whose works... contain some finely (made) weird (tales)."

Of the plot, Howard stated that, "Fish- head" (is) an early achievement, ... banefully effective in its portrayal of (an) unnatural... hybrid idiot & the strange fish of an isolated lake."

Lovecraft further opined, "It is (my firm) belief... that... few short stories of equal merit have been published anywhere (else)..."

Legacy: Cobb's "Fishhead" is seen as a major influence on Lovecraft's own "Shadow Over Innsmouth."

Robert M. Price⁷ noted that, "What (Howard) found revolting was the idea of interracial marriage (&) of different ethnicities mating, (thus) 'polluting' the (white? human?) gene pool."

Fishhead is supposedly "the son of a Negro father & a halfbreed Indian mother." It's never mentioned what her other half was from...

This is the same premise behind HPL's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."

Except that Lovecraft calls them Deep Ones & has a whole city that's been 'turned'...

More when we get to this story...

Notes:

1. Paducah, as 1 out of 9 U.S. Creative Cities, is a haven for thinkers, artists & creators!

Architectural Digest recognizes this city's historic district as 1 of the most beautiful main streets in America.

There are 20 downtown blocks listed in the National Register of Historic Places!

Weird Shit: Paducah's nickname is "The Atomic City."

This was because it was once the U.S.'s only uranium plant, making atomic bombs for our Defense Department...

2. The NY World newspaper began (in 1860) as a leading voice for the US Democratic Party.

But, once under Joseph Pulitzer, it became a pioneer in "yellow journalism."

Catching readers's attention with sensational (sex, sport & scandal) news stories.

This raised their circulation past the 1 million mark!!

Best known for being among the 1st to publish daily comic strips.

They actually created "Hogan's Alley", "Everyday Movies", "Little Mary Mix- up" & "Joe Jinks!"

Merged with The NY Telegram in 1931.

Revived - online - in 2011 by Columbia U. But, hasn't had any new content since 2016...

3. John Ford was an American movie director who won Oscars for "The Informer", "The Grapes of Wrath", "How Green Was My Valley" & "The Quiet Man."

The best of his many Westerns are "The Searchers", "Stagecoach" & "My Darling Clementine."

4. Reelfoot Lake is a real lake best known for its shallowness - about 5½ feet on average.

It's located in western Tennessee &, strangely enough, no swimming is allowed there...

The lake is named after an 1800's Chickasaw warrior with a deformed leg...

Reelfoot Bayou, with its cypress trees, flows out of the lake to join the Obion River - which runs straight to the Mississippi.

5. "Jaws" is, of course, director Steven Spielberg's 1st international master- piece.

And it doesn't need any hype, from me, for you to see it again!

97% on Rotten Tomatoes!!

Enough said...

Make it so!

6. E.C. Comics was an American publisher specializing in horror, crime, dark fantasy & sci-fi comicbooks.

William Gaines printed mature tales of war, adventure, satire, etc...

Noted for its stories high quality, shock endings & progressive social awareness.

Among the themes that EC creators touched upon are: racial equality, anti- war sentiments, nuclear disarmament & even early environmentalism!

Sadly, official censorship forced EC to focus on its "Mad" magazine - which became it's greatest success!!

EC has just been revived, by Oni Press, on this past February of 2024!!

Good times guaranteed...

7. R.M. Price is an American biblical scholar, author & an authority on H.P. Lovecraft.

His works include: "Deconstructing Jesus", "The Reason Driven Life", "The New Lovecraftian Circle", "World War Cthulhu", "The Disciples of Cthulhu", "Arkham Detective Agency", "The Da Vinci Fraud", "The Apartheid State in Crisis" & more great stuff!!

Price was the editor of the greatly lamented Crypt of Cthulhu, Midnight Shambler & Eldritch Tales fanzines.

He even edited a whole series of Mythos anthologies for Chaosium.

Today, Price is editor of The Journal of Higher Criticism!

Busy little tentacle, ain't he...

[k00296662]

Artist Research - Aubrey Beardsley

I had a chat with Sylvia, who pointed me in the direction of some illustrators regarding my idea of making a sort of storybook, and Aubrey Beardsley was one of them.

Beardsley was an illustrator, born in 1872 and died in 1898, who created many drawings and was an outstanding figure in the Aestheticism art movement. Beardsley had six years of creative output, which can be divided into several periods of work. Beardsley's works were inspired by the style of Art Nouveau and the designs of Japanese woodcuts, as well as the incredible details of the Rococo period.

Withered Spring(c.1891), Siegfried(c.1893)

How the Four Queens Found Launcelot Sleeping(c.1892-4), Dreams(For Lucian's True History, c.1894)

The Mysterious Rose Garden(For The Yellow Book Volume IV, 1895), Frontpiece (For The Story of Venus and Tannhauser, c.1894-5)

The Dream(1896), Cover of Catalogue of Rare Books(1896)

[bloodgulchblog]

Halo Cookbook post...

Here's the thing, Halo blog, it would be incredibly easy to dunk on the Official Halo Cookbook. We've all been doing it since it was announced. I certainly have. But here's the other thing, Halo blog: It's October 31st, everything is cold and miserable and wet, and... I don't know.

I just don't feel much like dunking.

The Halo Cookbook, unlike most of what I've been looking at lately, was put together by a single, identifiable author instead of a group. Here's an interview about it. Tl;dr: She loves finding mentions of food in video games, it's genuinely pretty endearing to me. Most of the mentions of food we get in Halo are in background details of a few restaurants, and offhand mentions (usually of things people miss) so there's not much to work with here, and that explains how kind of weird this is as a food book.

(That link also has some of the interior art, which is nice but the kindle format does it no favors.)

The recipes are grouped based on places where its in-universe writer, Arturo, encountered them. The Vending Machines section in particular is pretty funny, but also.... yeah, we're talking about food seen in Halo background details here. So, sure.

You could fill a thimble with what I know about cooking (it's embarrassing honestly) so I cannot really provide much about the food itself, but I do know lore.

So, here's the lore.

Our man is Arturo, who used to work for a large fruit vending corporation. Since retiring, he has decided to write a cookbook collecting recipes he encountered in his travels.

It's pretty wild jumping out of that intro into our first section: World Cuisine (courtesy of Halo: Reach). That's kind of par of the course.

In-universe writing about a chain restaurant on a dead planet, there u have it, folks.

Even the Halo Cookbook recognizes that some of this is also kind of silly:

I'm just giving you guys the section frontpieces and anything I think is mildly interesting.

Solemnly removing my cap for the author trying to figure out how to fit these in:

Good news, we have ANIMAL LORE:

Okay, I'll include the photo of the Obligatory Gamer Fluid

More fast food AND animal lore

Moa, the other red meat

Halo knowledge public CONFIRMED!!!!!

Did you remember Enzo's from Halo 5? Me neither. Honestly I'm always so sad about how much background detail and work went into 5 for me to hate its plot so badly.

Halo knowledge public DOUBLE CONFIRMED!!!

Once again, everyone involved is aware this is silly

Infinite multiplayer makes an appearance:

We're back in vintage Halo town:

Alright, we're on the Infinity now.

Is this a thing? It's cute.

We have a reference to Lasky here, that's a Corbulo Academy flag:

Alright, congratulations, you made it through this with me.

Have a churro.

(If you ask nice and really want, I'll shoot you a pdf.)

[podcastdissertation]

frontpiece from Frankenstein (1831)

[ashleysingermfablog]

Wk 16, 18th of June, 2024 Research

Garden Logic: Quincunx

From the text: The Quincunx, mystically considered by Janet Barton...

Fancher Creek Catalog illustrations of Tree Rows

 I am, of reading old gardening books. While looking for some good pictures of roses, I ran across this odd word - Quincunx. Odd and old, not to mention hard to pronounce. Merriam Webster has a definition. Visually it is the five spot on a domino - four dots on the corner and one in the middle.  The origin is thus: "Latin quincunc-, quincunx, literally, five twelfths, from quinque five + uncia twelfth part". According to MW, first known use was 1485. Now I'm still thinking how does 5/12 relate to planting.

Jane Loudon, The Ladies' Companion to the Flower-Garden; "being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies with full directions for their culture", p. 269

Both the California Nursery and Fancher Creek Nursery talked about orchard planting and the Quincunx. Roeding's Fruit Growers Guide (1919) probably helped disseminate the information. Here's the full entry for Quincunx from "The ladies' companion to the flower-garden", 1858. From the pattern, you can see the 5 spots and the pattern is repeated. In this picture, the 4 trees are not in a square.

The mystery unfolds. Many very old books to very current books talk about Quincunx in planting. I will post them below. The meaning may have shifted over time. There is some difference in opinion whether the quincunx has its four dots in the shape of rectangle or square.

But I have finally "gotten" why someone decided we needed this word. We've all used a Quincunx system when we are trying to fit those last few cookie balls on the baking pan. We skootch the rows around and offset the rows, so there's enough cookie space. If we don't, we get some big co-joined odd-shaped cookies. Those of you who just ate the last two raw cookie dough balls, I understand completely. The trick is that the quincunx is based on the (if one believes the oldest work, equilateral) triangle which along with the diamond and hexagon are pretty amazing shapes, much more interesting sometimes than the square. Just ask a bee what shape is best for packing the most stuff in a space. And the handy thing about laying out the orchard in the quincunx system is that when you stand in the middle of the orchard you have three directions of rows.

"What is more beautiful than the quincunx, that, from whatever direction you regard it, presents straight lines?" (Garden of Cyrus)

Is the quincunx based on equilateral triangle? Or a square with a point in the center? Here's the frontpiece from The Garden of Cyrus (Sir Thomas Browne, 1658)

This looks like it is an equilateral triangle based diamond.

"...the quincunxial lozenge, or net work plantation of the Ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically, considered" (The Works of Samuel Johnson, 1825)

The Elements of Forestry, Franklin Benjamin Hough, 1882. Discusses using "Quincunx Order" (p. 47) to get more trees in same space and to be able to cultivate in three directions.  See picture below.

'Quincunx Defined. - Webster defines the word quincunx as follows: "An arrangement or disposition of things by fives in a square, one being placed in the middle of the square; especially an arrangement as of trees, in squares, consisting of five trees, one at each corner and a fifth in the middle, this order being repeated indefinitely so as to form a regular group, with rows or ranks running in various directions.'

The quincunx was one of the bronze coins of the Romans, introduced 280 BC which is much earlier than 1485 mentioned by MW.  A quincunx was a fractional (5/12) coin of an as and sometimes denoted by 5 dots.

A New Universal Gazetteer, Or, Geographical Dictionary: Containing a Description of the Various Countries, Provinces, Cities, Towns Seas, Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, Capes, &c. in the Known World : with an Appendix, Containing an Account of the Monies, Weights, and Measures of Various Countries with Tables Illustrating the Population, Commerce, and Resources of the United States : Accompanied with an Atlas. See the table below with Roman measures.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, 1825. "To this treatise on Urn-burialwas added The Garden of Cyrus or the quincunxial lozenge, or net work plantation of the Ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically, considered. This discourse he begins with the Sacred Garden, in which the first man was placed; and deduces the practice of horticulture from the earliest accounts of antiquity to the time of the Persian Cyrus, the first man whom we actually know to have planted a quincunx; which, however, our author is inclined to believe of longer date, and not only discovers it in the description of the hanging gardens of Babylon, but seems willing to believe, and to persuade his reader, that it was practised by the feeders on vegetables before the flood."

The Garden of Cyrus. "What is more beautiful than the quincunx, that, from whatever direction you regard it, presents straight lines?" (University of Chicago)

My Reflection:

Rows and lines are used throughout the gardening world to give order to nature.

Here, the concept of the Quincunx allowed ancient and historical cultures to prevent trees from touching when growing an orchard or a forest for use. The parallel language of planting is important to consider as it may be a way to inform how I layout my installation of casts in the gallery space.

I was reading elsewhere however about the etiquette of planting and how 'wild' and random assortments of trees are better at conjuring luck with the spirits of the garden, who seem to detest overly ordered garden beds. It seems I have run into a conflict between some folklores and some others.

For my own garden, that consists of potted outdoor patio and staircase plants and a small plot that runs along the rented houses fence line, it is a more humble and randomised garden that I have grown.

Yet, I have the enjoyment and ability to venture to other garden-like spots, like the local park, the neighbours overhanging fruits trees, and other inner city domesticated nature spots to see and observe nature's organisation for inspiration for installation in the gallery.

It is clear from my fieldwork trips to many of Aucklands domesticated nature spots, that some spots are deeply organised and traditional, and other spots more random.

[deepwoodtattoo]

Some worms finished by a Haha fot. Hope you all have a good weekend, my life is just a sad worm, conjoined twins snail and frog toro #worms #fot #haha #ignoranttattoo #tattoo #frontpiece (på/i Deepwood tattoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjIgCCHMYo1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[imagek]

Photographic Print - Frontpiece Brownian Nonexpansively, Agency Hardest, Environment gradient, windy, blur, shaky, dotted and embossed multicolor background hovering over beautiful ground

Abstract designs challenge traditional notions of representation, inviting viewers to appreciate art in a more imaginative and non-literal manner. Abstract designs are artistic compositions that prioritize the use of shapes, lines, colors, and forms divorced from their representational or real-world references. Abstract art is a diverse and innovative artistic movement that prioritizes non-representational and non-figurative forms. Art allows you to explore and express their creativity beyond the constraints of depicting recognizable objects or scenes.

Frontpiece Brownian Nonexpansively, Photographic Print.

Order available in @Redbubble

[thegopnitsa]

[the-gershomite]

The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #21 -August 1977-

frontpiece art by Ernie Chan