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Author: cparker

  • The History of English

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    The History of English is a series of 10 very short animated segments, totaling about 10 minutes, from The Open University that chronicle the origins of the language, its growth and expansion into the bazillion word behemoth we know and love today. Narrated in a nicely cheeky tone, it’s amusing as well as informative. Word…

  • David Ligare

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    California painter David Ligare describes himself as a “Post-Modern, Neo-Classical American Artist” (I love that term, “Post-Modern”), and draws much of his inspiration from Classical Greek culture, rather than from the Renaissance based revival of those cultural influences. You can see that influence in his landscapes and figurative work. I’m particularly fascinated by his beautiful…

  • Reykjavík Center Map

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    The interactive Reykjavík Center Map, which at first glance might appear to be a Google Earth style map with computer modeled buildings in isometric perspective, is in fact a hand-illustrated image, apparently in pen and ink and watercolor. I can’t find specific credits for the art, but one of the team who worked on the…

  • BBC’s Your Paintings

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    As those of us who haunt museums are keenly aware, but the general public is probably not, most of the world’s artworks are not on view. Some, of course, are in private collections, visible to the public only if on loan to museums or in publications. A great percentage, however, is in museum storage. Another…

  • Joe Banana’s “The Rocketeer 20th Anniversary”

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    As someone who very much enjoyed Dave Stevens’ comic book The Rocketeer, and the Republic Pictures 1950’s Commando Cody serials, to which Steven’s character was a loving homage, I couldn’t help but like 3-D animator Joe Banana’s The Rocketeer 20th Anniversary, which is in turn a homage to Steven’s character and the underrated 1991 Disney…

  • Nina Johansson

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    Swedish artist, designer and teacher Nina Johansson subtitles her website “Because drawing is good for you”, and its pages are filled with the ripe, healthy fruit of that philosophy, lots of wonderful drawings, sketches and watercolors. Johansson seems to take as her favorite subject that most perfect of all drawing subjects — what’s in front…