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It’s Feral Friday! 

Sometimes getting feral simply entails pondering the familiar from an unconsidered perspective and finding fascination in the everyday. This week we’ve selected a work from our Book Arts Collection that does just that. Sarah Peters’ The Moon Has No Weather is a book that posits the earth’s natural satellite as its own archivist—a celestial body with no atmosphere whose physical history is preserved on its windless, waterless surface.  

Inspired by an installation of Peters’ work at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, The Moon Has No Weather was produced during her residency at the Women’s Studio Workshop and published as an artist’s book in 2013 in Rosendale, NY. The text was letterpress printed in Fox typeface (designed by Chad Kloepfer) on Magnani Arturo paper. The book also includes hand-marbled Hahnemühle Bugra, Thai Mulberry, and handmade abaca papers, as well as selected pages from scientific lab books and a 1984 Polish electronics manual.  

Wanna learn more about how this book was made? You can follow along with Peters’ production process here. Wanna learn more about the thought process behind it? Check out this 1885 text The Moon: considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite (also available for loan through the UWM library catalog).  

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Basic Information:

Name: Cassata Magnani (Brando) Name in Katakana: カサタ・マニャーニ (ブランドー) Name in Romaji: Kasāta Mānyāni (Burandō) Nicknames: [TBD] Stand: [TBD] Age: 15 Birthday: April 16, 1985 Zodiac Sign: Aries Chinese Zodiac: Ox Date of Death: N/A Gender: Female Height: 5’6” Weight: Unknown Blood Type: AB Nationally: Genetically British, but raised and identifies as Italian Hair Color: Dark Indigo Eye Color: Gold

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Personality:

Like her father in his earlier years, Cassata has a manipulative and violently domineering personality, repeatedly showing a lack of conscience and empathy. She displays a boundless ambition and a need for power. Cassata became involved in the mafia in her early teens, being taken in by La Squadra due to her advanced skill set and use of her stand. With this increase in mafioso status, Cassata’s ego would be boosted, resulting in her setting incredibly high standards for herself going forward. Using either manipulation, seduction, or plain violence, Cassata constantly seeks out to become more and more powerful. Like her brother, Giorno, the idea of overthrowing the Boss crosses her mind and becomes a secret goal of her’s. She is easily irritated when someone has the confidence to stand up to her, similarly to her father, and bottles up internal rage whenever this possibility crosses her mind. Like her father, Cassata will always attempt to manipulate those she interacts with, hoping to sway them to her side with the use of feigned veneer and gentleness. Her natural arrogance, however, often leads her to openly insult and belittle her enemies, notably disparaging their insignificant strength before her own Stand power. She will approach any and all obstacles and problems in a number of ways depending on the situation and her mood. Cassata is, essentially, a contrast to her brother, Giorno. While he displays traits that lean far closer to the Joestar ideals, Cassata leans closer to that of the Brando ideals. This sort of behavior from Cassata provides her father, Dio, an insight into his past behavior and serves as a way to further change his ways and personally attempt to get his daughter on a better path, as well. 

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Quote(s):

1). “Enough whining already, you worthless pig.” --When annoyed at enemies and underlings. 2). “I have no brother. I was an only child who grew up in the mafia, nothing more and nothing less. Do not judge, let alone hold me to, those closed-minded, goody two-shoes standards of your’s.” --Confronting her family upon meeting them for the first time. 3). “Wait, so you’re telling me that you both are vampires? Like, the undead, blood drinking childhood stories? …Well fuck, that would explain why I enjoy the smell of bloodshed, then…” --To her mother and father after joining Passione. 4). “...If you knew that Giorno was out there and put effort into looking for him, then why didn’t you bother looking for me?! To hell with the hospital losing the records, there had to be someone who knew where I had been placed, what family I had been given to!!” --Cassata confronts her mother about how she sought to find Giorno while she was left as an afterthought. 5). "Tch… I guess we think the same, then… Children shouldn’t be sold this trash, whereas an adult is free to throw their life away as they please." --Upon joining Giorno and the rest of Passione in their cause to overthrow the Boss. 6). "...You really were planning such a bullshit event, huh Padre? I guess… I really do lean closer to your side of the family, then… it sounds like something I’d have tried." --To Dio as the Heaven Plan is explained to the family.

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La Valle Cervo, una delle cinque valli della provincia di Biella, così stretta e apparentemente austera, conserva luoghi e tesori da riscoprire, come già in (...Leggi tutto) https://www.viaggiaescopri.it/?p=11598&utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=Tumblr&utm_campaign=Tumblr

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Thinking Aloud About Film: Overview of Il Cinema Ritrovato 2023

  I was unable to attend this year’s Ritrovato; a pity as the programming is often a preview of films that subsequently screen elsewhere and inevitably become highlights of the year. Luckily, Richard was there to report on what he saw he saw. In the podcast, we discuss the following sections of the festival:The Time Machine: 1923, where films from a century ago get highlighted; The Space Machine…

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some women w prominent eyebags/dark circles as a feature bc it’s so attractive

Anna Magnani

Tyra Banks

Sylvia Sidney

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Enrico Magnani compilation

Enrico Magnani compilation

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my name is Anna so I’ve been voting for all my fellow Anna’s on principle and I’m sad to see the last one go :( but a worthy heir to the throne of Hot Annas

anna this is a galaxy-brained voting strategy

shoutout to anna, anna, anna, anna, anna, anna, anna, and anna

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Ripped. Massive. Beard.

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Anna Magnani and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Venice, 1962

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Anna Magnani, March 7, 1908 – September 26, 1973.

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It's Fine Press Friday!

Today’s fine press book is an English translation of ancient Roman playwright Terence's romantic comedy of errors Andria, hand-printed in Verona in an edition of 170 copies by Giovanni Mardersteig (1892-1977) at his Officina Bodoni in 1971. The book uses Richard Bernard’s 1598 translation of the play from the Italian, with revisions and edits by Betty Radice.

In 1492, legendary German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) drew illustrations on wood blocks for a planned edition of Andria, but they were never cut. The blocks have been preserved, however, in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunstmuseum Basel. For this edition, those drawings were copied onto 25 new blocks and cut for the first time by noted German American artist and graphic designer Fritz Kredel (1900-1973).

The text was handset in Dante type, designed by Mardersteig, and printed on handmade Magnani paper, with the edition signed by Fritz Kredel. The edition maintains all the qualities Mardersteig established for his press when he founded it in 1922: "The book in its noblest kind should always be a work of art. And the instrument with which this end can be achieved most fully is the press.”

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– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Anna Magnani with playwright Tennessee Williams.

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Bonjour, bonne journée ☕️ 🌞

Anna Magnani dans sa villa de San Felice Circeo, près de Rome 🇮🇹 1955.

Photo © Paolo Di Paolo archives

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Anna Magnani par John Phillips, dans un restaurant après l'assassinat du Président Kennedy, novembre 1963.

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Enrico Magnani Nov 23

Enrico Magnani Nov 23