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Date da bere agli assetati

[anyzakki]

Luca Marinelli for Giorgio Armani 📸

[uwmspeccoll]

Happy New Year!

What better way to begin the New Year than with wood engravings of serene winter scenes by the New England wood engraver Thomas W. Nason (1889-1971). These images are from Here at Eagle Pond by the America poet, writer, and U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall (1928-2018), published in New York by Ticknor & Fields in 1990. Hall, along with his wife, poet and author Jane Kenyon (1947–1995), lived at Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire, a small town in Merrimack County, from 1975 until his death. This book is a meditation on life at Eagle Pond. When he moved there from Michigan, Hall, a New Englander himself, writes:

For me, it was coming home, and it was coming home to a place of language. . . . When I was twelve or thirteen, it was here that I began writing poetry. This farm provided the subject matter for the first poems I published, when I was sixteen. . . .

The evocative wood engravings of Thomas W. Nason were reproduced for this publication from the prints in the collection of the Boston Public Library. Our copy is another donation from our friend Jerry Buff.

We wish you a bright and wonderous New Year!

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[garadinervi]

From: Publius Ovidius Naso, (43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.), Metamorphosĕon libri XV, [manuscript written in a Bari variant of the Beneventan script], 1000-1200 [Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, Napoli. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

[history-of-fashion]

1664 Pieter Nason - Portrait of a burgomaster

(Tambov Regional Art Gallery)

[leggerezza-dell-essere]

Abbiate pazienza e sopportate; questa infelicità un giorno tornerà utile.

Publio Ovidio Nasone

[madmanwonder]

(Prompt, crossover crack ship)

Jason Todd/Red Hood x Natalia Romanova/Black Widow

Jatasha/Nason/Red Widow/Black Hood/

Jason Todd/Red Hood:

X

Natasha Romanova/Black Widow:

[sitting-on-me-bum]

The haunting black eyes of a northern gannet, a feature that is now common among the gannets on the Scottish island of Noss and in other locations thanks to the recent bird flu epidemic, stare out at the onlooker, in stark comparison to this individual’s mate

By Rebecca Nason

British Ecological Society photography competition

[tossawary]

I read "Star Wars Jedi: The Dark Side", which is the 5-part comic depicting Qui-Gon Jinn and Xanatos's breakup as a Master-Padawan pair, and the art was... fine? It wasn't good. Every time they drew the female Jedi Master Tahl in an overly sexualized pose like she didn't have any internal organs, I wanted to bite someone, but they did some kind of neat things with color / lighting sometimes? Eh. It was competent enough. It worked.

I didn't really like their composition or posing most of the time, because the camera kept swinging around 180 degrees a lot, trucking in and out, which made it hard to keep track of who was where sometimes. Especially when the character design wasn't... uh... great at differentiating between the characters sometimes? I didn't really like any of the character designs in this comic. They could have been way more distinct. It took me a "wait a fucking second" to realize that Qui-Gon was sparring against both Xanatos and Feemor at the start, because the boys looked so, SO similar, with mostly just a palette swap between them. The character faces could also shift a lot from page to page, issue to issue.

Given how Qui-Gon Jinn looks here, if you had taken this character design for Xanatos and told me it was supposed to be Obi-Wan Kenobi, I would have 100% believed you.

Which is disappointing? Xanatos looks way, WAY too much like Obi-Wan or Anakin for me. He's like a fusion. And this is a really boring character design compared to some of the other Jedi character designs in "The Clone Wars". It's also hilarious, because I was browsing some books and honestly thinking to myself just last night: "They have GOT to stop making skinny, white brunette girl protagonists in Star Wars, if only because I can't easily tell them all apart with the way they get drawn most of the time."

What I was ABSOLUTELY NOT expecting: Xanatos's dad looks like a buff Lex Luthor and Xanatos's sister, Nason, looks like SPACE OPERA PRINCESS BARBIE. It cracked me up a little. Look!

So, uh, look, I know that the Telosians characters in the background there are functionally wearing Jedi robes themselves in non-brown colors, but I think that's incredibly boring design again. So, I'm going to imagine that Nason's dressy outfit and hairstyle here is closer to what your average Telosian noble would wear. (Xanatos and Nason's hair colors here could both be natural, but maybe it's fashionable to dye it?) Now that Xanatos has left the Jedi, he's going to need a new fit! A new wardrobe! He can grow his hair out!

I presume that Xanatos is going to be wearing the villainous black robes later on in the "Jedi Apprentice" series, of course! It's classic like the little black dress! But I am nevertheless now not going to be able to shake the image of young Obi-Wan Kenobi being tormented by a Dark Jedi Xanatos, evil overlord of the Offworld Mining corporation, who looks and dresses like Space Opera Princess Barbie. Revenge can be achieved in hot pink.

[scoutingthetrooper]

the little ghost who was a quilt

[zegalba]

Lamp design by Carlo Nason (1969) crafted from Italian murano glass

[anyzakki]

Luca glasses 🩵

[yama-bato]

Midsummer

Thomas W. Nason

Haystacks

Thomas W. Nason

[garadinervi]

From: Publius Ovidius Naso, (43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.), Metamorphosĕon libri XV, [manuscript written in a Bari variant of the Beneventan script], 1000-1200 [Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, Napoli. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

[xoxomyah]

𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓁𝑜 𝓃𝒶𝓈𝑜𝓃,🌿 𝑔𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒹𝒶𝓃𝓉

[castral]

shot by damien krisl, featuring table lamp model LT 305 designed by carlo nason