Palladio's Teatro Olimpico

The beautiful 16th century set was designed to be a Utopian Roman city.

Homer's Earth

"The Homeric conception of the world represented as a flat, circular disc of land surrounded by a continuous ocean-stream remained a popular notion in the Greek world even after many philosophers and scientists had accepted the theory of the sphericity of the earth enunciated by the Pythagoreans and subjected to theoretical proof by Aristotle. In this interpretation the world is like a plateau on the top of a mountain; inside this, close to the surface of the earth, lies the House of Hades, the realm of Death, and beneath it Tartarus, the realm of Eternal Darkness. The plateau of the earth is surrounded by Oceanus, the world river, and from its periphery rises the fixed dome of the sky. The sun, the moon, and the stars rise from the waters at the edge of the dome, move in an arc above the earth, and then sink once again into the sea to complete their course beneath the Oceanus. The atmosphere above the mountain of the earth is thick with clouds and mist, but higher up is the clear Æther with its starry ceiling." http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/AncientWebPages/105mono.html

Apoplexy-Working with the Nutmeg-Grater

The drawings of incurable lunatic James Tilly Matthews. I may take up craziness, people seem to find it endearing.

I do rather want an actual nutmeg grater. Not any old nutmeg grater though, A George III silver nutmeg grater.


To the day when I own such an object!

Inventory Art

I followed a link and found this on the website for a gallery in London called
The Approach. I think the creators go by the name of Inventory. I like it and that's all there is to it really.

Type for Change

As well as storming my dissertation, I'm setting myself a few creative tasks over the holiday period, the results of which I will post up here!

I plan to submit to Type for Change, a submissions based thesis addressing typography as an instrument for social change. In fact, I am more likely to do this than the ISTD brief, as the latter isn't something I can knock out in a fortnight!

ISTD Student Assessment Projects

I was thinking that I could tackle one of these briefs before my FMP gets under way. In particular the '10 Things You Should Know About...(Gardening/Science)' interests me. It could be a good way to weave my appetite for knowledge with my area of study. The deadline is in March.

http://www.istd.org.uk/flash_content/index.htm

Map of Language

I have hitherto not seen a map this exciting. It was made in 1741, but I found it just now on this brilliant and erudite blog: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com

Justine Smith

What a great concept. We are made of money.




http://www.justinesmith.net/

GM Solutions

Another Horizons gem, tackling the controversial issue that is genetically modified food. I was duly reminded that we have in fact being modifying what we eat throughout the ages, in the process of selective propagation. At about 18 minutes into the programme, the presenter digs up the original carrot, which is hardly something you would want to put on your plate. When I consider that the carefully bred vegetables we eat would not survive in nature if we did not tend them, it becomes more difficult to define what is 'natural' and what is not.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fsxq6

Time and Space

A while back I blogged about Einstein's speculation on the nature of time, and I've just come across this explanatory episode of Horizon. Among other things, it is revelatory thought to me that I see the objects around me as they were in the past, albeit nanoseconds. I suppose one could work out the exact time based on the fact that light takes eight minutes to travel from the sun, which is 150 million kilometres away. Following on from this line on thought, if by photographing space, we are capturing galaxies as they were billions of years ago, is it possible, with a deep enough field, to photograph the very inception of the universe? Best part of the programme? Meeting the 'Director of Time'. Cool.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fyl5z/Horizon_Do_You_Know_What_Time_It_Is/

If time is only really a forth dimension of space, why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as something different? And why cannot we move in time as we move about in the other dimensions of space?

You know how, on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and similarly they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four, if they could master the perspective of the thing.

HG Wells, The Time Machine

The presenter of the Horizons episode was Dr. Brian Cox, who is part of the group of scientists who developed the Hadron Collider. Here he is explaining it in simple words for numpties like myself.

Mincemeat

Look what I made look what I made look what I made! My new favourite smell!

Roger Deakin

I will be hinting liberally about these books over the coming month. Britain travelled and described through the eyes and words of a wanderer.





A nice tributary article to the swimmer and writer here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/jul/15/scienceandnature.features

Brideshead Left Well Alone

"Who wouldn't want fleetingly to evoke a decadent, glamorous era through their dress?"

In this week's Guardian I came across anarticle on the failures of the columnist to emulate the foppish stylings of Sebastian Flyte.



Maybe as a nation it would serve us well to give up our upper class aspirations, but is a little romance for bygone days so very destructive? Besides, this book seemed to me to be little about glamour and all about religion.

Jazz for Dinner

Some sounds from the London Jazz Festival, including the mighty good Mighty Jeddo...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fr8h4/Jazz_on_3_Highlights_of_BBC_Introducing_at_the_London_Jazz_Festival_2008/

I'm also listening to Mr Scruff...



Note to self regarding career possibilities: Raise orchard of historically common but now rare fruit trees. Hone pie making skills. Open speciality pie shoppe for the people. Get my more creative friends to make it look cool. Host live jazz/ improvisational pie-making sessions. Call it The Medlar Club.

Prawn Flavoured Beef

Funny radio spoof about food additives, made in the eighties and starring Stephen Fry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007jmm8/Delve_Special_Series_2_Food_for_Thought/

Christianity and Islam

More TV links! Even if you have a hard time taking Boris 'Granny Butter' Johnson seriously, this programme about the age-old clash of civilisations sounds undeniably interesting. Very topical too. The relationship beset with conflict was established in the era following the fall of the Roman Empire, which is where Boris begins the programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fy48j/After_Rome_Holy_War_and_Conquest_Episode_1/

Soap Nuts

I've just started using these as a 'natural' alternative to detergents, on the basis that without hours of research and a degree in chemistry, I just don't know what most commercial products contain. I like to know for what I'm giving up my money. Soap nuts are also really cheap, compostable and don't come in a burdensome plastic bottle.

The 'nut' itself is actually the shell of a drupe fruit that grow on the sapindus shrub in tropical and warm temperate climates. I think I'm right in saying that the word saponification, which is the conversion of fat or oil into soap, has it's derivation in this botanical name. When the sticky shell is exposed to water it surprisingly produces a unscented lather, which works to lift dirt. Just place them in a cotton bag inside the drum and add a couple of drops of essential oil to the conditioner drawer for fragrance. Although I haven't yet tried to wash anything particularly soiled with the help of soap nuts, I doubt I'll be reverting to the usual dubious powders and liquids. You lose supermarket.



Recently I've been anxious that I may be falling victim to the trend of green marketing, but I am adamant that I make my purchasing decisions based on my own personal set of standards, they may or may not coincide with those advocated by environmentalists. One must take a dialectical approach to all situations.

Paying the Piper

This is an inventively named Radio 4 broadcast ruminating on the effects on capitalism caused by the mighty credit crunch. Which is a pandemic of late capitalism. As you might expect, there is more than a mention of Marx.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fm5s4/b00fm5l6/Analysis_Paying_The_Piper/

Given that capitalism is a linear system and we live on a finite planet*, how could Francis Fukuyama have seriously suggested that capitalism is the final form of society? I can only assume that he saw it not as a sustained form, but as a vehicle for the extinction of the human race. Does human history conclude with the end of human struggle (a Hegelian position) or the end of humans?

*I borrowed this nice and simple reduction from Annie Leonard, in the much viewed Story of Stuff.

Einstein and Eddington

An entertaining period drama chronicling the acceptance into the scientific world of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Previously, I didn't realise quite how much opposition Einstein faced; his untimely German nationality and a strong resistance from obstinate proponents of Newton's theory of gravity both served to deny him success. Neither did I realise that he was such a ladies' man!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ft62c/b00ft61z/Einstein_and_Eddington/

Eddington was the English astronomer who risked the ignominious accusation of treachery to advocate Einstein's ideas. Here's a photograph of the real E and E, embroiled in a heated discussion about what they had for breakfast.



Einstein's theorisation on time being different for everyone makes my head spin. The limits to my intelligence prevent me from comprehending the curves in space, and how they my make my minute differ from yours.

Buy Nothing Day

It thrills me to think ponder would happen to the economy if everybody did this. Stop being a well-behaved consumer for a day!



The first thing I ever read by William Morris was a quotation (quote?) in a themed address book my parents have owned ever since I can remember. Have nothing in your house that you consider to be neither beautiful or useful. I like to use this to gauge whether or not to buy something.

http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

Gentleman's Relish

Classic British Workwear

Old Town Clothing

Fleet Foxes Live Set

They were on the Bob Harris show the Saturday past. They make beautiful music with a hints of Gregorian chanting and the Beach Boys.



Click here for a pop-out window. The set is about an hour in.

Wonky Fruit & Veg

Earlier this month the EU repealed rules which require fruit and vegetables sold in our shops and markets to be of uniform size and shape. It this the end to decades of silly bureaucracy? Does this also mean that produce will be harder to package and therefore sold loose? This bodes well.



This BBC article has the list of fruit and veg. I'd be interested to access the actual EU regulations online.

Medlar Tree

Along with the quince tree, in fact to a greater degree, the medlar is one of those elusive, romantic fruit bearers, once quite common but now so obscure that finding one would be quite a task. The fruit which it produces is most unusual in that it requires to be blet before it can be eaten, meaning that it's at its sweet sticky best when on the verge of being a putrid pulp. As if that weren't enough to dissuade the potential picker, the thing quite plainly resembles a cat's bottom. Needless to say I covet this greatly, and will certainly be planting one in my garden. When I get a garden that is.



Shakespeare dots his work with mentions of the medlar...

Now will he sit under a medlar tree,
And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit
As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.
O Romeo, that she were, O that she were
An open-arse and thou a pop'rin pear!

Cameron Carpenter

What an astounding organist!

Screenwipe

Charlie Brooker is back! In the first episode he discusses television in the current economic climate, with special mention to Dickensian dicking machines and infuriating little piss-weasels.

Deborah Bowness

...designs wonderful scenery wallpapers. My favourite is the fake bookshelf.

Patti Smith

...is a woman I look up to.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

'Dream of Life' was one of my favourite festival films.

Matt Saunders

Bloody marvellous new animation from my chum.


A conversation from Matt Saunders on Vimeo.

Christopher Kane Mini Dresses

Something medieval about these.

Ecofeminism

Is it time for a global matriarchy? Elements of eco-feminism fascinate me (particularly the notion of women's bodies as an exploitable resource), but the discriminatory power implied is surely a danger to prospects of gender equality.

"Historically [man, woman and nature] have been unequally valorized. In particular, the interests of male dominated societies have been served by managing women's bodies as a 'natural resource.' That meant positioning the female sex 'somewhere between' men and nature in the order of things." Ariel Salleh, Austrian sociologist and eco-feminist.

LIFF: Flow, Mermaid

Flow, a film about the growing problems with the global water supply. One reason put forward by the World Development Movement to care about water shortages in developing countries is that of concern for the welfare of women. For many women in places like Africa, it is incumbent upon them to fetch water for the family's daily needs. This prevents them from being in education or work. If you care about women's rights, water deprivation is a key issue!

Russian film Mermaid, by director Anna Melikian. A wonderful kind of beautiful.

LIFF: Winstanley, Chomsky and Co

Both such worthwhile viewings.

Winstanley In the 1600's, after the English civil war, there came about bands of people who aspired to live in rural egalitarianism, what we might recognise as socialism. These were common people, sowing common land, led by dissident protestant Gerrard Winstanley. It may have been unsuccessful at the time, but leaves a legacy, however little known, to inspire generations. I say we celebrate the diggers and their ideas...

...that we may work in righteousness, and lay the foundation of making the earth a common treasury for all, both rich and poor.



Chomsky & Co served to introduce me properly to the man who is, as the New York Times put it, arguably the greatest living intellectual. It turns out, as I had expected, that Noam Chomsky talks a lot of sense. One of the most galvanising sentiments, and I think it was put forward by Normand Baillargeon, was the notion that even if we as individuals are unsettled by what understand of the world, we are unlikely to do anything about it, because we are all sat in front of our television sets, in our own homes, alone. Without opportunity for discussion with our fellow man, our thoughts of unrest remain nebulous, unvocalised and perhaps even quashed by our own introvert selves. I propose, and I use a phrase of Chomsky's own coining, that we maintain intellectual self-defence, but only be careful not to allow our cynical mistrust to cost us valuable alliances.

I want to read some of Chomsky's politically focused books, but he has been such a prolific author I hardly know where to start! If any Chomsky fans are reading then do advise.

Human Evolutionary Future

Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time...evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge. Read the BBC report.

If this is true, and commonly accepted, what chance does the human race ever being an egalitarian one?

LIFF: Drifter, Out of Time

Two films which particularly spoke to me today:

Drifter. A transient life on the road provides room for insight. As do crazy people.

Out of Time. This film was ever so moving. Oh, how I mourn for that period of time before my own, when local shops dominated the marketplace. Death to the supermarkets!!!



I leant my scarf to a girl in the cinema today. It was a human moment, somehow breaking the illusion that all there exists in that blackened space is the other world on the screen.

The Credit Crunch

The BBC explains it all in a 5 part series. Watch just how the improvident suffer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f9s3y

Plastic Soup

"A rubbish dump twice the size of the United States has been discovered floating in the Pacific Ocean."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-512424/Rubbish-dump-floating-Pacific-Ocean-twice-size-America.html

This isn't what I got out of bed to hear :(

Plant More Trees Tshirt

I saw someone on the street wearing one of these t shirts and I rather like it. It is made by organic company Tippitappi. Only thing is that they American, and I think that it is rather unethical to have a t shirt travel 4,000 miles to get to me. Boo.

Third World Statistics

A talk by Professor Hans Rosling, on the TED website. I would like to see free data available for all!

The End of Poverty

Once again, reminding me of one of the first posts I ever made, Leeds International Film Festival is upon us, with a catalogue full of films I plan to go and see.

I made a start tonight, with a film from Oxfam: The End of Poverty? I went keeping in mind that perhaps the bias of the people behind the film would hinder its objectivity. However, I was pleased to say that I was presented with a greatly informed account of the events that have led up to the current, torrid global situation. I feel much less ignorant for it, and more able to speculate on the worsening future.


http://www.theendofpoverty.com/

Nurturing Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson, of who I know very little, talks inspiringly about the development of creativity within the confines of an education system. He closes by concluding that in order to succeed in stabilising our global environment, we need to develop a 'human ecology', one which would be adopted and taught to children from their inception in school. This would mean re-thinking the fundamental values that are instilled, moving away from the traditional preparatory training for employment and ultimate acquisition of wealth, and concentrating on enriching the mind.

The Ecological Credit Crunch

The Guardian comments on a recent WWF report, which predicts that we are consuming as if our planet were twice as large.

Rudolf Beaufay's Shop

Second-hand tweed for the sartorially discerning gentlemen in Hamburg.


http://www.rudolf-beaufays.de/

The British Country Look

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fbdcl/British_Style_Genius_By_Royal_Appointment_The_Country_Look/


My next sewing project...tartan trousers!!!


Alex James, rock star turned cheese farmer.


Luella Bartley

Allotment

I recently became a member of a communal allotment. It is currently barren, the fruits of our labour not yet even conceived, but come summer and there I will be able to spend many a pleasant evening with a trowel and some wine, beholding the glory of burgeoning self-sufficiency! As for potential set-backs, at this stage I'd rather not imagine them, for the sake of optimism.

The Atheist Bus

I'm not sure how I feel about this. After all, vehement disbelief takes just as much unfounded supposition as its counterpart view. However, the word 'probably' gives more of an agnostic feel to the campaign.

The Man Who Planted Trees

I remember watching this as a child!

Climate Chaos Café

Tonight was my visit to the Climate Chaos Café and I have come away not only, as my Grandfather used to say, having had equal sufficiency, but feeling incredibly inspired. The facilitator gave a fascinating talk under the title of 'Gardening for the Future', in which he (reminding me of one of a previous post of mine) alluded to the war-time effort to self-produce food, following with advice on how to garden in view of the warming climate. Then I paid two-fifty and was fed a three-course meal. My diary is also burgeoning with notes, dates and numbers. Hoorah.

For anybody with a concern over global warming, this sort of thing is held every Wednesday at 6.45 at The Common Place. It is run by Stop Climate Change at Leeds Tidal.

SDC Breakthrough Project

"The Sustainable Development Commission is launching Breakthroughs for the 21st Century, an exciting new project for 2009 - and we’d like you to be a part of it. We want to bring together some of the best ideas that will truly put the UK on the path to becoming a sustainable society – one which is strong, healthy and just, and lives within environmental limits. We plan to showcase these ideas in a publication and at a high-level event next summer."

There is a questionnaire that can be filled in by those interested, with a space for ideas. I appreciate the chance to add my thoughts, and hope that this isn't just another exercise to create the illusion of power.

The Trauma of Geophysical Dislocation

Jefferson Medical College professor Salman Akhtar discusses "The Trauma of Geophysical Dislocation", proposing that psychoanalysts need to pay special attention to their immigrant patients. Akhtar suggests that the immigration experience creates disruptions to the waking screen that are too often ignored in therapy and that the objects and landscapes that are left behind have a more significant impact on the immigrant's psychological well being than has generally been recognized.

Listen.

Ernesto Neto

One of the leaders of the contemporary Brazilian art scene, Neto "works with abstract installations which often take up the entire exhibition space. His materials are gossamer-thin, light, stretchable fabrics in nylon or cotton. like fine membranes fixed to the ceiling by long, stretched threads his works hang down into the room and create shapes that are almost organic. sometimes they are filled with scented spices and hang in tear-shaped forms like gigantic mushrooms or huge stockings, sometimes he creates peculiar soft sculptures which the visitor is allowed to feel through small openings in the surface. He also creates spatial labyrinths which the visitor can enter and thereby experience the work and interact with it."





This inspires me to do something artistic with all of those laddered hold ups I have accumulated! Of course, mine would spill.

Global Economic Future

An article in the Economist, intriguingly alluding to W.B.Yeats' famous poem, 'The Second Coming'.

Burn After Reading

I went tonight to watch the latest Coen Brothers' flick, and came out wondering why I did. It's not as though it was a bad film, in fact it has had very favourable reviews. I just don't feel in any way edified by it. Perhaps the utterance of a couple of words I'm trying to include in my working vocabulary were of value, and of course the mere appearance of Clooney & Pitt is always welcome, but I drew no real rumination from the film, nor did it connect with any other issue that currently has a bearing on me. Is this to mean that every film I watch, or every book I read, needs to be contextually relevant, or that I simply wasn't 'into' that particular film? I think the latter to be the truth. After all, I frequently indulge in period dramas without a fig of obvious grander significance. So why this regret? I am most likely just pissed at having spent a fiver on a film I didn't much like; that could have been used more judiciously to buy a bottle of corner-shop-plonk!!

Good Men?

Some words from Kurt Vonnegut's 'Timequake':

"...Dillinger robbed only the rich and the strong...(he) wasn't a simpering, sly swindler. He was an athlete.

In the slavering search for subversive literature on the shelves of our public schools which will never stop, the two most subversive tales of all remain untouched, wholly unsuspected. One is the story of Robin Hood. As ill-educated as John Dillinger was, that was surely his inspiration: a reputable blueprint for what a real man might do with life.
...
And another, as disrespectful of established authority as the story of Robin Hood...is the life of Jesus Christ as describes in the New Testament."

Words of the Revolution

A little Byron, from 'Don Juan': "...revolution alone can save the earth from hell's pollution."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dw3p7/Words_and_Music_The_Ringing_Grooves_of_Change/

Medieval Economic Systems

"Community rather than individuality was at the heart of the medieval approach to things..." article affiliated with The Idler.

In light of this, my Utopia requires usury to be outlawed and guilds to be re-established. The first of which will be the Net Book Agreement. Amazon is cheap but you won't find a charmingly dishevelled bookseller lurking among a pile of mouldy George Elliots. On the plus side, nor will you find a dead badger.

(Sorry to steal your blog posts Christian, but I wouldn't if it were not for their sheer brilliance.)

People who Told the Truth

I watched muddy masterpiece The Libertine the other night, and I have to say that I rather like the 2nd Earl of Rochester. He was debauched, drunk and diseased, but he made no excuses. He was essentially true to himself. In a world where we lie almost continually, whether to protect or to pomp, a completely truthful person is rare. I first thought upon this after reading some Camus; The Outsider sees protagonist Mersault live his life without contrivance, but of course it was to be his downfall.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.



From Rochester's 'A Satire Against Mankind':

Were I (who to my cost already am
One of those strange, prodigious creatures, man)
A spirit free to choose, for my own share,
What case of flesh and blood I pleased to wear,
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear,
Or anything but that vain animal,
Who is so proud of being rational.

Charlie Brooker on the Invisible Apocalypse

"Time to grow our own vegetables and learn hand-to-hand combat with staves..." The man has insight.

Agrofuels

To find out why they are actually incredibly BAD, follow Biowatch Uk. I suppose to the uninformed they would appear as environmentally friendly alternative fuels, but the implications are convoluted. An acquaintance of mine is heading the protest tomorrow, unfortunately I have to be in uni, or else I would go. I think Direct Action is best action of all, especially with the promise of 'guerilla gardening'!!

Leeds Light Night

Despite being decried by my friends, and despite the fact that I could only scoff at the performance art, I think that Light Night is a positive thing. This video I found on the Met's website.

The Great Unfreeze

In association with Climate Chaos Leeds and coinciding with Leeds Light Night, I partook in this demonstration in the centre of Leeds. It is difficult to tell, from my perspective how effective it was, but it did draw attention.

Read the Yorkshire Post article and watch the video.

Oxford Bags

Antiquated men's fashion is so appealing to me.

America: A History and A Taxi Journey

The American Future: A History is a brilliant new series on the Beeb. The first episode covers the USA's impending resource crisis.

More colourfully, but just as interestingly, Stephen Fry takes a look at contemporary America, taking us all with him in his little black cab. Here is the first episode, where Mr Fry charms the East coast.

Apparently, he is also the charmee, of my mate Matt. I have been told by the latter that the former now follows on twitter! What a bugger of a sentence.

98 Months

It seems incongruous to place this entry next to a rather whimsical one about fashion, but then my interests are conflicting.

As of August this year, it was announced the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that after a period of one hundred months, the climate will be irreversibly tipped into a state we will not be able to rectify. This Andrew Simms article is a recommended account of the crisis we purportedly face. I find the comparisons between today and war-time recession especially interesting. Margaret Beckett also alluded to this in her discerning 2007 speech Climate Change: The Gathering Storm (watch). Perhaps it is once again time to Dig for Victory.

On a conspiratorial note, one paragraph of Simms reads "It tells us, for example, that only a government that was sleepwalking or in a chemically induced coma would countenance building a third runway at Heathrow, or a new generation of coal-fired power stations..." puts me in mind of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Timequake. Are we really all on autopilot? Sitting here now, idly blogging and drinking tea, makes me suspect that at least I am.

Finally a quote, from Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, who regards climate change as “an act of aggression by the rich against the poor”.

Samantha Pleet

"New York-based designer Samantha Pleet has been charming everyone with her sartorial alchemy since her debut collection in fall 2006..." Visit the Pleet Street Journal.

Ann Demeulemeester

I'm coveting the 08/09 collection from this Belgian fashion designer. I need a pair of boots for the winter, and would love to find some (moderately priced!) flat lace-ups for trudging about in. Ones like those Jane, Elizabeth or Tess might have worn! Everything in the shops is just so impractical and contrived.







Look too at her green upholstered shop! Designed by Korean firm of architects Mass Studies.

Gregory Crewdson

American photographer. Creates and photographs 'meta events'. Reminiscent of David Lynch.

Edmund Dulac

One of the greats of the American Golden Age of Illustration.

Band Tour by Bicycle!

This is their blog.