We are celebrating Women’s History Month this year with images that inform and empower, and often, when you learn the backstory, piss you off. On social media we will be using the hashtag #WHM18 on our posts so you can follow along. […]
The X Y Z of Legacy Tools
are for axes in graphic depictions as legacy tools. No, really, I am not cheating for the A to Z of Legacy in the A to Z Blogging Challenge. I could have written three different posts about each axis in a three dimensional graph or cubic structure, but it really makes more sense to discuss […]
Friday Find – Photo Watermark by Ifunia
I am returning to my old ways. Sounds scary no? Actually it just means a bit more organization for me and predictability for you. I used to do Wednesday App of the Week. But today is Thursday and this post will go live tomorrow. So Wednesday App of the Week is transforming into a Friday […]
Wordless Wednesday – Art Nouveau Graphics from 1917
Graphics from an Out of Copyright Source Sunday evening I was perusing the Internet Archive at Archive.org while watching the new Cosmos series on the National Geographic Channel. These are images I captured from a not in copyright work: Strong’s Book of Designs, 1917. I am sharing some of the general and seasonal images, that […]
Dragon Flies and Fairies for Wordless Wednesday
Scientific Illustration Wordless Wednesday was going to just be this page from an out of copyright journal article, Packard, A. S. The Dragon-Fly (August 1, 1867) The American Naturalist, Volume 1., which I thought was really cool. since I decided to switch to the Balance child theme for the Genesis framework for WordPress and thus […]
More Victorian-era "Eastern" Graphics
Yesterday I found some Japanese designs from 1860, today I’m sharing some 1890s illustrations that are definitely western interpretations of eastern subjects. These two graphics, that I have altered for my purposes, are from a book entitled Gospel of Buddha published in 1894 and reprinted in 1917. The lotus and ivy frame appeared on a […]