1. Forgotten Victorian hobby: seaweed herbariums bound in scallop shells
Found one for sale here.
2. The surrealist set design of Charles Kaisin for Casino de Monte-Carlo, 2017
More of Kaisin’s surreal dinners & installations found here.
3. Costume portraits for Face the Music, a 1932 Broadway musical
Found on Instagram.
4. This 1962 British Pathé Film of the most Amazing Tree House
5. This wonderful Max Ernst Collage
Max Ernst’s Commonplaces (Editions Iolas, Paris, 1971). Found on 50 watts.
6. Van Gogh in Paris
The two years Van Gogh spent in Paris before departing for Arles were full of experimentation; he was able to view the Impressionists and Cézanne, but was propelled most by his fervour for ‘Japonaiseries’, his introduction to the works of Monticelli, and his acquaintance with Paul Signac. His palette became progressively brighter and more colourful, and towards the end of 1886, and through the spring of 1887, his brush came to life.
Found on Culture Darm.
7. Meryl Streep voices this surreal 1970s animated film based on Erik Erikson’s 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development
Watch a longer excerpt here or the full film here.
8. Extras on the set of Spartacus
Extras playing corpses on the set of Spartacus assigned with numbers so that Stanley Kubrick could address them individually and give them instructions.
Found here.
9. The Lost Art of Grocery Store Displays
Found on AssemblyMan.
10. This book that did Google Street View … in 1907
More than a century before Google Street View’s 2008 debut, one book anticipated the need for pictures with your directions… Gardner S. Chapin and Arthur Schumacher’s 1907 book Photo Auto Maps, which promises “Photographs of every turn,” … turn-by-turn driving familiar to anybody who’s used GPS…
The coolest thing about this Google Street View antecedent? The slider [above] shows that “photo auto maps” look a lot like what we use today.
See the full article found on Vox.
11. A new street artist to watch out for in Paris
12. English Word of the Day
Found via the Depths of Wikipedia.
13. French Vocab of the Day
Found on Instagram.
