Detail from shrine coffin of Pa-debehu-Aset
Egyptian, Ptolemaic period (332 BCE – 30 BCE)

Georgia O’Keeffe, Jawbone and fungus, 1931, oil on canvas

I stared at this fucking painting in the gallery for a half an hour this afternoon, and I still couldn’t see the vagina. Do you have to cross your eyes like one of those “magic eye” drawings? I can’t figure this lady out. I guess I just don’t “get” art.

Blown glass bottle, Roman, circa 1st century CE

For that awesome artifact-digger-upper @bsheepies.

Recently I’ve been hand-making these little grid-paper notebooks, using my old comic books (reinforced with thin cardstock) as covers, and giving a few away to friends and such. They’re 3.5×5.5in and have 48 pages each, and are obviously one-of-a-kind.

So if I were to, say, make a large quantity of them and then sell them in packs of three, would there be any interest? And if so, would $12.00 for a 3-pack seem reasonable?

Awesome little “Coobie” paper cut-out model. Download the file and construct your own. Put him on your monitor and let him tell you lurid tales of miniature Gothic horror. Hours of fun!

(via Neatorama)

BibliOdyssey is displaying thirteen interesting engravings of late 16th century university life.

The trouble with the modern education system is that there is far too little attention paid to jousting and quarterstaff combat.

Agreed.  And I’m sure that somewhere in that set, you can see the varsity Footballe Teame giving a monster codpiece-wedgie to some poor freshman in tights.

(via Andre Torrez)

Manuscript 416 at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is an amazing 13th/14th century example of the Speculum theologie genre – illustrations and diagrams of moral and theological subjects used by medieval educators.  Beinecke’s online exhibit of the manuscript features translations and essays about each of the diagrams.

All of the diagrams are beautiful, but my favorite is the Tower of Wisdom.

Gothic illuminated sketchbook, from 1494.  Makes your Moleskine doodlings look rather simple, no?

(via BibliOdyssey)

Great local billboard campaign for the Little Theatres – an arthouse film complex in my city.  Wish the smaller images were clickable into larger versions.