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A Pigeon-fluencer Feathursday
This week’s post was inspired by a recent Guardian article on the rise of Pigeon-influencers on TikTok and their role in reviving the popularity of the oft-derided and underestimated birds.
Throughout history, pigeons have provided sustenance (“squab”), labor (in the form of the “pigeon post”), and companionship to human populations. Though these days we may typically associate the Rock Pigeon (Columba livia, otherwise known as the common pigeon) with other animals classified as “pests” in urban landscapes, they are in fact understood to be the world's oldest domesticated bird. Historical documentation of pigeons can be found in hieroglyphic texts and art dating back as far as ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. According to Colin Jerolmack, professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at NYU and author of The Global Pigeon, pigeons “have been in cities as long as we’ve had cities” and, prior to the technological innovation of the telegram, were “the most reliable messaging system in the world”. While “fancy” pigeons (like Frillbacks, English Magpies, Jacobin, and Archangel pigeons) were bred and kept as prized pets in the Victorian era, the North American Passenger Pigeon (or “wild pigeon”) was hunted to the point of extinction in the early 20th century.
To illustrate the complexity of our love-hate relationship with the birds we've selected a variety of illustrations and text from our collection and featured them alongside some images from outside sources.
The engravings in images #2 & #8 from The Illustrated Natural History: Birds (London: George Routledge & Sons) were created by the Brothers Dalziel, a wood engraving shop in Victorian London founded in 1839 and operated by George and Edward Dalziel. Image #1 from Birds of America; Fifty Selections (with commentaries by Roger Tory Peterson) (New York: Macmillan) is a reproduction of a hand-colored lithograph produced by the shop of J. T. Bowen of Philadelphia from a painting by naturalist and artist John James Audubon in the early 19th century.
--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern
Other image sources:
#3: Western Crowned Pigeon (Goura cristata) in TMII Birdpark - Western crowned pigeon - Wikipedia
#4: Keyla Rose with Tony, her pigeon, on a walk in New York. Photograph: Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian. August 23, 2024.
#5-6: from City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness Pigeons (poem) by Chicago-based Puerto Rican poet and community activist David Hernandez, DH+BH (image of tattoo) by Camilo Cumpian.
#7: Ceiling Fragment Depicting Pigeons in Flight | New Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) (ca. 1390–1352 B.C.)
#9: a Memorial to the extinct Passenger Pigeon at Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin (1947)
#10: from Nikola Tesla's Obsession with Pigeons, Electricity, and a Plan to Wirelessly Connect the World (nautil.us)
#pigeons#pigeonfluencers#feathursday#Rock Dove#special collections#engraving#wood engraving#lithograph#hand colored#tiktok#pigeontok#John James Audobon#City Creatures#David Hernandez#Camilo Cumpian#Colin Jerolmack#nikola tesla#Brothers Dalziel#George Routledge & Sons#The Illustrated Natural History: Birds#Birds of America
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April 19, 2024: Dear Proofreader, David Hernandez
Dear Proofreader David Hernandez You’re right. I meant “midst,” not “mist.” I don’t know what I was stinking, I mean thinking, soap speaks intimately to my skin every day. Most days. Depending if darkness has risen to my skull like smoke up a chimney floe. Flue. Then no stepping nude into the shower, no mist turning the bathroom mirror into frosted glass where my face would float coldly in the oval. Picture a caveman encased in ice. Good. I like how your mind works, how your eyes inside your mind works, and your actual eyes reading this, their icy precision, nothing slips by them. Even now I can feel you hovering silently above these lines, hawkish, Godlike, each period a lone figure kneeling in the snow. That’s too solemn. I would like to send search parties and rescue choppers to every period ever printed. I would like to apologize to my wife for not showering on Monday and Tuesday. I was stinking. I was simultaneously numb and needled with anxiety, in the midst of a depressive episode. Although “mist” would work too, metaphorically speaking, in the mist of, in the fog of, this gray haze that followed me relentlessly from room to room until every red bell inside my head was wrong. Rung.
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2023: The Socks, Jane Kenyon 2022: Ode to Friendship, Noor Hindi 2021: Heartbeats, Melvin Dixon 2020: Sunday Night, Raymond Carver 2019: Virginia Street, Jennifer Hayashida 2018: What Seems Like Joy, Kaveh Akbar 2017: Aunties, Kevin Young 2016: For the Union Dead, Robert Lowell 2015: The Cambridge Afternoon Was Gray, Alicia Ostriker 2014: Spirit of the Bat, Peggy Shumaker 2013: Thanks, W. S. Merwin 2012: Sweetness, Stephen Dunn 2011: I Remember, Anne Sexton 2010: Letter, Franz Wright 2009: 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven, Kenneth Patchen 2008: HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITY NO. 26, J.R. Quackenbush 2007: from Briggflatts, Basil Bunting 2006: The Chores, Frannie Lindsay 2005: Direct Address, Joan Larkin
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David Hernandez
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay
DOB: 31 May 1983
Ethnicity: Mexican
Nationality: American
Occupation: Singer, songwriter, reality star
#David Hernandez#lgbt#lgbt men#lgbtq#queerness#male#gay#1983#mexican#hispanic#poc#singer#songwriter#reality star
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"You know that shooting last week? / I will admit the number dead / was too low to startle me"
Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!
#open polls#polls#poetry#poems#poetry polls#poets and writing#tumblr poetry#have you read this#we would never sleep#david hernandez#tw gun violence#tw mass shooting#gun violence#gun violence cw
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All-American (2016) by David Hernandez
In Episode 315, Rachel brings an all-american poem!
Rachel: David Hernandez said, “My poems are partially autobiographical. To put a percentage on it, 57.4%.”
Griffin: [laughs]
Rachel: “Honestly, it depends from poem to poem. Some are more informed by events in my life, while others are less so. Here’s the thing. When I’m writing a poem, that’s based on an experience from memory, I don’t feel beholden to the facts. That’s the job of journalists. I’m more concerned about conveying an emotional truth, with making art through language. If the poem’s telling me ‘Look, I know you had bananas this morning in your cereal, but blueberries is sonically more interesting’, I’m going with blueberries.” [giggles]
If you’d like to hear more, you can do so here: Popcorn Plausible Deniability, from 20:24 - 29:04
#poetry#rachel mcelroy#griffin mcelroy#poem#David Hernandez#poet#All-American#writing#words#literature#art#USA#identity#united states#sexuality#race#gender#religion#united states of america#america#politics#political art#autobiography#country#war#sexism#racism#homophobia#biphobia
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David Hernandez
#david hernandez#menswear#men fashion#mens style#style#mens fashion#men's fashion#men style#fashion#men's style#street style
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david hernandez, uncertain frontier
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What It Means to Observe, and to Know It
David Hernandez, Marie Howe, et al.: 'What It Means to Observe, and to Know It'
[Video: Peter Frampton’s instrumental cover of Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun,” recorded at a concert in Los Angeles last weekend. (Frampton was diagnosed several years ago with a muscular disease called inclusion body myositis, hence his performance in a chair throughout the concert.) Soundgarden’s original version of the song was released with a spectacularly surreal video which I thought of…
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#Jane Hirshfield#Charles Dickens#Ray Bradbury#Marie Howe#noticing#paying attention#Peter Frampton#David Hernandez#Black Hole Sun#Soundgarden
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Michael Sheen and David Tennant is the British equivalent of Oscar Isaac and Pedro Pascal.
That's a fact
Also at least three of them have being compared to a Muppet and they fit 4 mcu characters
(yes if you like moon knight and David Tennant just go and watch Jessica Jones, you won't be disappointed trust me!!) <3
#michael sheen#david tennant#good omens#oscar isaac#pedro pascal#michael sheen and david tennant#david tennant and michael sheen#oscar isaac and pedro pascal#oscar isaac hernandez estrada#triple frontier#staged#bromance#good omens text post#pedro pascal and oscar isaac#jessica jones#hollywood bromance#hollywood couple#moon knight#killgrave
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WE ARE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE x4!!! 🏆🇪🇦
#wallpaper#wallpapers#european football#football#eurocopa#euro 2024#europe#europa#championship#daniel carvajal#alvaro morata#dani olmo#mikel merino#mikel oyarzabal#nico williams#lamine yamal#rodrigo hernandez#fabian ruiz#pedri gonzalez#marc cucurella#unai simon#aymeric laporte#le normand#nacho fernandez#david raya#jesus navas#ferran torres#joselu mato#luis de la fuente#vivian
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No Country For Old Men (2007)
#2007#gif#film#movie#No Country For Old Men#Coen Brothers#Joel Coen#Ethan Coen#Angel H. Alvarado Jr.#David A. Gomez#Milton Hernandez#John Mancha#Norteno Band#Josh Brolin#Llewelyn Moss#Javier Bardem#Anton Chigurh#Tommy Lee Jones#Ed Tom Bell#Kelly Macdonald#Carla Jean Moss#Woody Harrelson#Carson Wells#Roger Deakins#Cormac McCarthy#Mexico#Texas
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CAPITANO²
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clingy baby 🦥
#kyky tem o melhor sorriso do mundo#nunca tinha notado antes mas lucas hernandez se parece um pouco com david beckham#kylian mbappe#lucas hernandez#psg#football#french nt#edf#mbappé
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Alex Hernandez, David Garcias voice actor speaking on David’s character:
I think Alex says things in this interview that a lot of TWDG players have failed to realize about David’s character, especially in this clip. Alex is a great dude and I also loved his work in Mafia III !
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(Here’s the interview link)
#twdg#twdg anf#twdg david#david garcia#twdg s3#david twdg#mafia 3#lincoln clay#alex hernandez#Youtube
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#shaperaverse#I LOVE YOU BALLAD OF LOST HOLLOW !!!#art tag#paul shapera#shaperaverse fanart#uncle raven#ballad of lost hollow#helen shaperaverse#han mi#hank hernandez#mary shaperaverse#lupe shaperaverse#shira shaperaverse#da floozy#i love you da floozy#lloyd allen#david adams
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