My current 'kitchen table laptop' desktop wallpaper (courtesy Vladstudio), which I'd assumed for months was imaginary.....but I was so wrong! Check out what you can find growing on the island of Socotra here at Dark Roasted Blend 
Europa Film Treasures is a vintage film archive and well worth a click. The above screengrab is from 'Butterflies' (there's a link to watch the film at the bottom of the page) Currently there's 50+ short films to view, with documentation and teaching materials in the pipeline
.....just back from a long weekend in Paris (where apparently it was t-shirt weather....hang on, t-shirts, what are they?) They can relive the experience (of Paris, not the weather) at Paris en images....just a small collection of 25,000 pictures!
I thought I'd start posting an occasional image of some local stone beasts I've come across recently. This snarling delight lives on Neville Hall (home of The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Westgate Rd, Newcastle....next door to the Lit and Phil)....he's rather splendid, don't you think?
Someone asked me to plaster a picture of a local beauty spot with mock graffiti today (don't ask!)....and not being that way artistically inclined I had to find something to aid the design process. Luckily I came across Graffiti Creator a while ago. Now it doesn't have a 'save' option, only 'print', but there's 2 workarounds if you want to use your tag as an image...
My sort of book! A scan of the whole thing can be found here at The Alphabet of Illustrators
High resolution scans of this wonderful (literally) Winsor McCay comic strip from the early years of the 20th Century....there's no less than 376 of them at The Comic Strip Library
I remember telling Sarah about this collection of scans from The King Novelty Co "Curio Catalog No 81" at I'm Learning To Share ages ago, but I don't think I posted about it.....time to put that right!
Sort of how I feel.....but definitely not how I look, I've just cleaned out the fridge (so you'll just have to mentally superimpose primeval green splashes from the cucumber melt-down on that grecian gown!) John William Godward gallery at the GalleryofArt.us
I went to the Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle) a couple of weeks ago to see a couple of temporary exhibitions. Included in "Love" (ended yesterday, 13th July) is Isabella and the Pot of Basil by Holman Hunt which is part of the Laing's permanent collection....she's off on-tour until later in the year, glad I caught her before she went! Actually, it's not so much Isabella, more the embroidered orange cloth underneath the pot that makes me want to reach out and touch. Bon voyage!
....an electronic swatchbook from the PowerHouse Museum . Hundreds of designs from the 1800s to the 1920s. Public domain with high-res image downloads available.
