#unpublished materials

[fashionbooksmilano]

Wild Things are Happening

The Art of Maurice Sendak

Edited by Jonathan Weinberg  With an analysis by Thomas Crow

Columbus Museum of Art, DelMonico Books D.A.P., New York 2022, 247 pages, ISBN  978-1636810522

euro 56,00

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The most comprehensive survey of the work of Maurice Sendak, the most celebrated picture book artist of all time—with previously unpublished archival materials

Published in conjunction with the eponymous Sendak retrospective touring museums in the United States and Europe in 2022–24, Wild Things Are Happening emphasizes Maurice Sendak’s relationship to the history of art and the influences of his art collecting on his images. It features previously unpublished sketches, storyboards and paintings that emphasize Sendak’s creative processes. Bringing together a broad diversity of perspectives on the award-winning artist, the book includes an extended essay by the renowned art historian Thomas Crow that traces the genesis and cultural contexts of Sendak’s most famous book, Where the Wild Things Are. It also includes interviews and appreciations by many of Sendak’s key collaborators, including Carroll Ballard, Michael Di Capua, John Dugdale, Spike Jonze, Twyla Tharp and Arthur Yorinks. Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland. A largely self-taught artist, Sendak wrote and illustrated over 150 books during his 60-year career, including Kenny’s Window, Very Far Away, The Sign on Rosie’s Door, Nutshell Library (consisting of Chicken Soup with Rice, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny and Pierre), Higglety Pigglety Pop!, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There. He collaborated with such celebrated authors as Meindert DeJong, Tony Kushner, Randall Jarrell, Ruth Krauss, Else Holmelund Minarik and Isaac Bashevis Singer, and he illustrated classics by the Brothers Grimm, Melville and Tolstoy.

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11/02/23

[ttsunoda]

i'm actually really curious about how much unfinished/unpublished stuff creators have. how many words of unfinished stories are just there on writers' google docs. how many unrealized sketches are on artists' devices. how many abandoned projects are just forgotten. how much art have we missed out on because we neither have the time to create nor to consume it?

[laurapetrie]

OONA & SALINGER, frederic beigbeder

Oona loved hearing from Jerry; she loved his letters. They were seductive, delicious, enchanting letters. - LEILA HADLEY LUCE He wrote Oona letters ten pages long while he was overseas in the army. Sort of love-letter essays, very tender, tenderer than God. - CAROL MARCUS

[rwpohl]

[5eraphim]

there's no way in hell scout isnt gooner. just look at him

i love how mean this is to scout for no reason. and i also love how i could see this message coming from someone who hates scout just as easilly as it could've been from a scout enjoyer.

i think he looks like that bc hes a precum baby and he sorta came out of the womb all wonky. both his parents are MADDENINGLY beautiful, something went screwy along the way which lead to his fidgety swaggerless disposition and "gooner stare"

[touteytout]

uploaded a """"brush"""" to csp assets only to realize HOURS later that i forgot to include the actual brush and just uploaded the alphas...... rip to the 300 people who downloaded it hope you have fun with your images of grass

[tommybowefuneralattendee]

I keep reading “dog tired in puppy love” and ALL the Spommy on repeat. Your writing captures so many emotions simultaneously, sweet and funny and everything that makes your gut clench when falling in love - I’m obsessed. Truly phenomenal. 💕

that's so nice of you to say! these next few fics on my slate are in much the same niche as my currently published works, so you can look forward to those as well!

[prokopetz]

i was reading through the rulebook in detail and for some reason i feel the need to ask this even if it's unlikely: were any traits in Eat God inspired by the Midnight Crew or is it just an effect of them having coinciding inspirations for comedic material

I didn't have the Midnight Crew in mind when I was writing up any particular part of Eat God's character creation rules, no. The Facets are literally the core archetypes of classic three-man comedy acts like the Three Stooges, the Rebellious Arts are sight gags from Looney Tunes and Scooby-Doo cartoons with mystical technobabble attached, and the Traits are a combination of common features of goblin-type creatures from traditional tabletop RPGs, shameless cribbing from an unpublished game called Among the Beautiful Creatures (whose author I'd love to credit by name, but their habitual failure to sign their own work means I don't know what it is!), and recycled material from one of my own earlier projects called Three Raccoon in a Trenchcoat.

(There is one small Midnight Crew reference in the example playset in the forthcoming 0.4 revision, though, which I'm sure most of this blog's readership will spot instantly.)

[anotherplacemag]

The Alec Gill Hessle Road photo archive

A photobook, which documents Hull’s lost working-class fishing community, has exceeded its Kickstarter target. 

The Alec Gill Hessle Road photo archive, by editor Iranzu Baker and designer Fran Méndez, celebrates the work of photographer Alec Gill, who documented the changing landscape of Hull's Hessle Road fishing community throughout the 1970s and 1980s.  

Alec Gill took his first photograph of the Hessle Road area in 1971. Drawing up a boundary map, and sticking to it conscientiously, he manages to warmly capture, and tell the relatively unknown story of, a working-class community during the decline of its fishing trade, and a period of mass housing demolition.

The Kickstarter, set up to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Alec’s Hessle photography project, was launched to raise funds to produce a book - and has now exceeded its target by over £5,000.

Editor Iranzu Baker and designer Fran Méndez were given access to Alec’s complete archive, including over 6,000 black-and-white photographs, taken on his Rolleicord twin-lens reflex camera.

The book contains several unpublished images, which were scanned for the first time, and over 200 images are presented alongside archival material, such as Alec’s camera and notebooks, setting the work in its historical context. 

Celebrating and honouring Alec’s dedication to, and portrayal of, Hull's fishing culture and the people of Hessle Road, the book not only shines a light on a particular period of Hull’s history but documents the decline of a key part of the UK’s fishing trade. 

The Alec Gill Hessle Road photo archive has additionally won, and been shortlisted for, a number of design awards - including AIGA 50 Books 50 Covers, European Design Awards, Laus Awards, and the British Book Design and Production Awards.

Website & book - highly recommend picking up a copy of this fantastic new title while it's available!

All images © Alec Gill

[vintagerpg]

OK, this is Expedition to the Ruins of Castle Greyhawk (2007), a late-in-3.5E campaign book. It is a return of sorts — in 1990, TSR released WGR1: Greyhawk Ruins, which was an earnest attempt at creating a published version that matched the vibe Gygax’s ur-dungeon. That remains a somewhat obscure supplement, but forms the basic foundation of this campaign.

There is a fair amount of material on the city of Greyhawk and some important world lore before getting to the ruins themselves. The upper works are the remains of three towers — Zagig’s, Magic and War — each with voluminous, interconnected subterranean regions. These are vast, and not fully detailed. Rather, the book employs a system of encounter spaces and connections that creates an illusion of endless detail without the slog (or the page count). It feels super usable, with all the information for a given encounter (attributes, maps, tactics) all laid out on one or two pages.

I don’t know how I feel about it, though. It feels very very 3.5, for better and worse. Even allowing for that, this all feels somewhat disappointing, if only because it is trying to reconstruct a thing that never truly existed. The original, likely lost or unpublishable Greyhawk dungeon wasn’t a sensible place to explore, with a cohesive plot or anything like that. It was irrational, built on the fly literally to test new mechanics during the development of the game. It had a bowling alley for giants, and a portal to King Kong’s Skull Island. This book is, weird to say, too cool to be Castle Greyhawk. Or, at least, the Castle Greyhawk I am interested in reading about.

I don’t find the art direction very helpful. Michael Komarck’s cover has baldy Mordenkainen pondering his orb, in which a not-nearly-ruined-enough castle appears. Its the most distinct piece of art in the book, the rest of which is done by a gang of artists whose names I don’t recognize; it’s all workmanlike and adheres closely to the 3E art direction.

I dunno, this is fine, probably.

[talonabraxas]

“Most energy moves through space in a spiral form—a ubiquitous motif in the macrocosmic and microscopic architecture of the universe. Beginning with galactic nebulae—the cosmic birth-cradle of all matter—energy flows in coiled or circular or vortex-like patterns.

The theme is repeated in the orbital dance of electrons around their atomic nucleus, and (as cited in Hindu scriptures of ancient origin) of planets and suns and stellar systems spinning through space around a grand center of the universe. Many galaxies are spiral-shaped; and countless other phenomena in nature—plants, animals, the winds and storms—similarly evidence the invisible whorls of energy underlying their shape and structure.” ― Paramahansa Yogananda

[houseoflibra]

Celebrating this treasure of a film's 10th anniversary and my own 5th anniversary of translating unpublished Saint Seiya materials to English! :)

Read online

[pikiseal]

full scan of TEO -もう一つの地球- 公式ワールドガイド (TEO -The Other Earth- Official World Guide) available here:

[rwpohl]

konkurs, miloš forman 1964

[phoenixyfriend]

About the poll - isn't Quinlan's age confirmed by Jan Duursema, the artist half of the team who created him? I literally only know this because I looked it up for post about masters and padawans the other day, so it may be totally off, but there's a thread cited by the wiki that confirms that Aayla and Quinlan are 9 years apart. This is the link to the archived thread here.

Yep, that confirms to the "same age" version, since Aayla is is seven years older than Anakin (in Legends, which I believe Duursema was working in), which means Quinlan is sixteen years older than Anakin, which puts him at the same age as Obi-Wan.

Although I will say that I consider comics Q&As among the lowest tiers of canon (top is movies, then shows, then GLucas interviews, then comics and novels, then cast&crew&authors interviews, and somewhere muddled about there in the last two is supplemental material like the guidebooks), so even the 9yr difference is to be taken with a grain of salt. It's part of why we think it might be present in different part of canon. A supplemental, unofficial, unpublished interview is fun, buuuuut it's not super influential on what is canon or fanon, you know?

[materialsscienceandengineering]

hi, do you have any resource recommendations for laypeople who want to grasp the most important essentials/fundamentals of material science? any help will be very appreciated!

Great question! Unfortunately, our definitions of 'laypeople' and 'fundamentals' may vary, so if this list doesn't have what you're looking for just let me know and I'll give it another shot.

Let's start with some... let's say 'unpublished/unofficial' resources. First - this blog. Not to toot my own horn, but I've got a good collection of original posts (try the tag MyMSEPost, or this year's newest variety 2024Daily) that I hope are fairly readable to the general public - and come with links and further reading resources for each topic. However, these posts are not comprehensive. I don't think I've ever talked about what is a crystal structure, for example. [Also, I've been doing this for, wow, almost 10 years now, so... that's a fair number of posts...] I also, one upon a time, made some MSE Masterpost posts, though those are probably pretty outdated by now and I can't guarantee the links all work.

Another resource is msestudent.com. They don't have an about page, but it seems to be a more official (i.e., non-Tumblr) blog about the fundamentals. That being said, while they do have a search system, they don't seem to have a table of contents. Both of these resources will help you learn some fundamentals, but they won't tell you what the fundamentals are if you don't already know them.

Other science Tumblr blogs have come and gone over the years, but @materiallugy seems to be currently posting, and @matmake was not too long ago. Both have separate websites with resources, though I'm not sure how comprehensive.

Now for undergraduate level resources that are comprehensive. These are introductory, but I suppose they might presuppose a high-school level education (basic chemistry and physics, probably):

Online classes, such as MIT OpenCourseware, or Coursera (two examples of many). Some of these kinds of resources are free, some aren't. MIT, in particular, isn't so much a class you take online as it is the resources (and sometimes videos) of their classes.

Textbooks. I used Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction (Callister and Rethwisch), which I think is pretty common and a well respected book. Obviously it costs money, but I think it's safe to say you could go back a couple editions and save some money.

Less comprehensive but still official is the University of Cambridge's Teaching and Learning Packages. Again, this won't tell you what are the fundamentals if you don't know already know. For example, there are 78 at the moment - I wouldn't say the additive manufacturing TLP is essential to MSE, but atomic scale structure of materials is.

Additional resources:

Specifically corrosion

Online, virtual, general chemistry textbook

Online, virtual, organic chemistry textbook

Someone else's compiled list of links and resources, which may be outdated

YouTube videos from a professor of MSE (side note: I have not watched these and cannot verify their accuracy or usefulness, but the guy does teach this stuff for a living...)

Hope this helps, and everyone feel free to chime in if you have any resources of your own you use!