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Typography Tuesday

De Vinne Ornamented Types

We return once again to Types of the De Vinne Press, published in New York by the De Vinne Press in 1907, this time to highlight some of the ornamented types offered by the press. It's wise to heed the warning that the incorrect use of ornamented type can sometimes be

An example of bad taste in superfluous ornamentation Printed work spoiled by needless ornamentation Fantastical ornament is disliked Simplicity most important.

You've been warned.

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New Exhibit: The Art of Organizing in Latinx Milwaukee

UWM Archives is celebrating Latine Heritage Month with a new pop-up exhibit: “The Art of Organizing in Latinx Milwaukee.”

Featuring posters, photos, illustrations, and more, the exhibit highlights the range and dynamism of Latinx organizing in Milwaukee since the 1960s. Drawing especially on posters from the important local immigrant and workers’ rights organization Voces de la Frontera, the exhibit explores how Latinx organizers have developed a distinctive visual culture of protest as a key mode of expression for the movement’s politics and vision. A selection of historic film footage drawn from the WTMJ News Archive also dramatizes how the contemporary work of Voces organizers sits within a longer tradition of Latinx organizing.

Pictured here are three selections from the Voces de la Frontera Records (UWM Mss 356) featured in the exhibit, including poster prints by Favianna Rodriguez and John Fleissner, and a photograph captioned “Mother, Child, Labor Law.” We’ll continue to feature highlights from the exhibit as we move through the month.

Stop by the UWM Archives exhibit space to learn more, and be sure to check out related exhibits in @uwmspeccoll and AGSL, too! All three divisions of UWM Distinctive Collections will be participating in Doors Open tomorrow, Saturday, September 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Voces de la Frontera records, UWM Mss 356, oversize folder 1; Accession 2023-043, oversize folder 1; UWM Mss 356, Box 1, Folder 48.

- Eli

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the 1688 Tonson edition of Milton's Paradise Lost

feat. the original donor wall- the subscriber page

engravings by Robert White and Michael Burghers

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I had listened to Marc Maron's WTF podcast episode with Michael Mann back when it originally debuted, but my brain failed to latch on to the part where he mentions having been physically present in Paris for the May-June 1968 student uprisings. Presumably he was shooting footage of them. And what a shift in atmosphere that must have been, coming from UWM in the early/mid-sixties:

From "Germans, Journals and Jews/Madison, Men, Marxism and Mosse: A Tale of Jewish-Leftist Identity Confusion in America," by Paul Breines, New German Critique, No. 20, Special Issue 2: Germans and Jews (Spring - Summer, 1980). Compare with:

From Sarah Himmerschlag’s The Figural Jew: Politics & Identity in Postwar French Thought, The University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Review of Filmmaker Simon Liu

Written by: Courtney Peterson

Last weekend I went to the opening night of M.U.F.F. (Milwaukee Underground Film Festival) organized by the UWM film department. They had two parts to the festival, one being a collection of films by different filmmakers and the second part was for a special guest artist who shared a collection of their work. On opening night their special guest was Simon Liu.

Simon Liu is a film artist who creates work of abstract documentaries, experimental diaries, and multichannel video installations. Watching his work was a kaleidoscopic experience. Filled with overlapping flashes of color. A collision of moments in time and overlays of emotions. The whole piece was a Quadruple 16mm projection performance which ended up being one of my favorite parts of his piece. I love watching the filmmaker frantically take color filters in and out and switch frames as the projector is running making every performance a little different and unique. 

It’s hard for me to view and discuss this artist analytically because while experiencing Simon Liu’s work I felt as if I was absorbed into the film rather than separated from it enough to analyze it. It felt like a memory as well as a dream, how our brains make a collision of images from experiences and all we remember are our feelings and brief fleeting imagery of what was happening. Millions of fluttering memories and feelings and associations of what was real and what my mind create. 

I also enjoyed the juxtaposition of his second film, Devils Peak, and how even though nothing about the film style changed, there was a slight shift to create a harsher tone. There were abrupt cuts and it became a little twisted and jagged. Blending well with the theme of a frantic city full of bustling people and noises. I also appreciated his description in the pamphlet about Devil's Peak displaying Hong Kong and its capitalist futurism and the past ghostly whispers, between gestures of resistance and the forces of suppression. It allowed me to understand more of how he was feeling than what he was experiencing. This creation to evoke emotion rather than giving me a visual story while still giving me a story of the suppression of people and the capitalist actions happening, was mind-blowing. I was given the colors, flashing images, and sound to feel something in a completely abstract way. I felt as if I was an alien being shown what it means to feel something. It was so fascinating and euphoric and a complete out-of-body experience.

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doppelbangin replied to your post “who is gonna help me decide with manuscript/incunable...”

gimme the DEETS :O

i wish i had SOME vague idea of what i want definitively, but i am sooo indecisive and i love medieval books so so so much lmao. and the possibilities are endless!! fun headings! funky colophons! illustrated initials! illuminated initials! decorative marginalia! dress me up like an incunable i love it all! lmaooo

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What happened with Vlad in this AU? Since he seems to still be on talking terms with the Fentons

"patrick bateman if he were into grimoire satanism" is the best way to put it but i'm so glad i can blab ab this at length

So I imagine that the UWM trio began spectrology via psychical research, but Jack and Maddie turn to more accepted science in grad school while Vlad veers downstream into witchcraft. Vlad stays friends* with them but hares off to do his own thing, aka business school and shady shit.

(*Vlad and Maddie date briefly in undergrad. They break up mutually, but Vlad's attitude sours once Maddie started dating Jack, and "shady shit" includes esoteric attempts to separate them. Vlad's view of Maddie is an incredibly dissonant one: he resents her for being better suited to Jack than to him, but convinces himself that that would change if Jack were out of the picture.)

Their friendship never ends after college, but as most college friendships do they drift apart. Vlad is Jack's best man and agrees to be Danny's godfather, but he's relegated to "special occasion" status for the family. Jack and Maddie also assume that Vlad gives up on witchcraft after college, but really he devotes more time to it, calling on malevolent forces for personal gain.

Of course, all luck comes with a price, and naturally the price on Vlad's head is his soul. However, as Vlad's resentment towards Jack turns to action, the devil on his side demands more and more. Vlad moves to Amity Park, becomes mayor, and earns the approval of Amity Park's upper class, at the expense of his humanity. He starts having to consume human life to replenish his own, which is where the vampire motif comes in. He has his heart sitting in his fireplace because as long as it beats, he can live, and the demon can covet it as interest (see this piece⬇️).

The demon (who can be interpreted as Plasmius if that's your thing) delights in Vlad's misery and has no intention of giving him what he truly wants. It serves as a deus ex machina occasionally, but mostly serves to remind Vlad that the more he tries to take, the more he has to give.

Spoilers for Portrait of a Bedsheet, but I imagine that the culmination of Vlad's arc is that he actually does get Maddie and Danny on his side, very briefly, in a way that superficially satisfies his mental image of it – but it costs him the last shred of his humanity. His relationship to the Fentons (especially to Maddie) is ruined in the fallout, but I'm still mulling over the specifics of how it happens.

The Patrick Bateman reference at the beginning applies to his demeanor overall: obsessively superficial, disingenuous, insecure, callous, and self-obsessed at the expense of everyone and everything around him. He's the type of out-of-touch that can justify murder to an eyewitness, because he'll never have to face a real consequence for it so why bother acting ashamed? Everyone is a tool to him – including/especially Danny, who Vlad still sees as both the only person who could understand him and a bonus conquest by proxy of Maddie.

tl;dr: he's an even bigger jerk than in canon in proportion to a higher rating, but he's also more pathetic so it all balances out. :-)

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Space toilet, Radishes, and a Spacewalk in Virtual Reality

A rocket is launching to the International Space Station next week, carrying tons of science and supplies to the orbiting laboratory. It’s Northrop Grumman’s 14th (NG-14) commercial resupply cargo mission, and includes plant research, a new space toilet, and a special virtual reality camera designed to immerse you in a spacewalk. Let’s take a closer look at what’s on board, and how you can ask some of the scientists anything.

A new way to “boldly go” in space  

A new space toilet is heading to the space station. It’s smaller than the current toilets aboard the station, and includes a 3D printed titanium cover for its dual fan separator. These are just some of the upgrades that make it better suited for our deep space exploration missions. Engineers also gathered feedback from astronauts and set out to design more comfortable attachments that would make “boldly going” in space a more enjoyable experience. The toilet is being tested on the space station, and will also be used on a future Artemis mission. The new design will allow us to increase how much water we recover for use, because yep … yesterday’s coffee becomes tomorrow’s drinking water. See below for an opportunity to speak with the folks who made the new space toilet happen.  

Space plants are rad(ish)!  

Astronauts traveling to the Moon and Mars will need to grow food to supplement their diets. The latest in plant studies aboard the space station hopes to pack a crunch in that research. We’ll be growing radishes in a special plant chamber, and learning how light, water, atmosphere, and soil conditions affect the bulbous vegetables. Radishes are nutritious, grow quickly (roughly four weeks from sowing to harvest), and are genetically similar to Arabidopsis, a plant frequently studied in microgravity. What we learn could help optimize growth of the plants in space as well as provide an assessment of their nutrition and taste. See below for an opportunity to ask anything of the scientist and engineer behind this new crop.  

Immerse yourself in a spacewalk  

If going to space is on your bucket list, you might be closer than you think to checking that box. Felix & Paul Studios is creating an immersive 360 virtual reality film of a spacewalk that will put you right next to the astronauts as they go about their work on the outside of the space station … at 17,500 miles per hour. The new camera, specially designed to withstand the incredibly harsh environment of space, will be mounted on the station’s robotic arm so it can be maneuvered around the outside of the space station. Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël are the co-founders of the immersive entertainment studio, and have been producing a film aboard the space station – from Earth – for more than a year already. See below for a chance to ask them anything about what filming in space takes.  

You can join in the NG-14 Reddit Ask Me Anything on Friday, Sept. 25 to ask anything of these folks and their projects. Here’s the schedule:  

Space toilet (a.k.a the Universal Waste Management System): Melissa McKinley with NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems and Jim Fuller of Collins Aerospace, and program manager for UWMS at 12 p.m. EDT at https://www.reddit.com/r/space.

Radishes in space (a.k.a. Plant Habitat-02): Dr. Karl Hasenstein is the scientist behind the Plant Habitat-02, and Dave Reed knows the ins and outs of the Advanced Plant Habitat of the space station. Their Reddit AMA begins at 3 p.m. EDT at https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening.

Virtual reality spacewalk camera: Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël co-founders and creative directors of Felix & Paul Studios will be taking questions at 5 p.m. EDT on https://www.reddit.com/r/filmmakers.

These are just a few of the payloads launching aboard the NG-14 Cygnus cargo vehicle to the space station next week. Read about the cancer research, and new commercial products also heading to space and watch the video above to learn more. Launch is targeted for Tuesday, Sept. 29, with a five-minute launch window opening at approximately 10:26 p.m. EDT. Live coverage begins on NASA TV at 10 p.m. EDT.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.

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new fall course: "Histories of Anti-Capitalism"!

new fall course: “Histories of Anti-Capitalism”!

I’ve got a great schedule lined up for Fall: a special version of my Tolkien course partnering with UWM and linking up with the Haggerty’s “Art of the Manuscript” exhibit, and a grad special topics course called “Histories of Anti-Capitalism.” Here’s a course description — suggestions very welcome! Other English Fall course descriptions are trickling in here… Course Title: Histories of…

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It’s Feral Friday! 

This week we’re taking a peek at Poetry Comics: from the Book of Hours by Bianca Stone. Published in 2016 in Warrensburg, Missouri by Pleiades Press, this 79-page collection of Stone’s work stretches the comic medium in a series of intimate and emotionally raw illustrations and panels. Poetry comics (a hybrid, experimental form of both mediums that can be seen in the work of artists such as Julie Delporte, Sommer Browning, and Anders Brekhus Nilsen among others) draw "from the syntax of comics, images, panels, speech balloons, and so on, in order to produce a literary or artistic experience akin to that of traditional poetry." As an unvarnished autobiographical comic with feminist undertones, it is in the lineage of artists like Aline Kominsky-Crumb. But Stone’s poetic approach, which informs her artistic style as well as her writing, injects an unruly tone of existential grappling that echos the illustrations and text of artists more akin to William Blake. 

Pleiades Press is based at the University of Central Missouri. Bianca Stone's work has been published in magazines like The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Nation. Her poetry collection What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Poetry. Her other books include The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018) and Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014). In 2012 she collaborated with Anne Carson to illustrate her translation of Antigonick.

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--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Native American Heritage Month at UWM Archives

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we offer this selection of materials from our collections that begin to illustrate Native American presence and power at UWM.

📸: Sandra Harris Tran tables for the Native American Student Movement (NASM) at UWM, circa 1980. The NASM has been a key vehicle for Native student organizing, support, and expression since the late 1960s. NASM is now known as the American Indian Student Association. Call Number: UWM Photographs Collection, UWM AC 6, Box 18.

📸: A Milwaukee Sentinel clipping pictures American Indian students organizing for a dedicated academic program outside Chapman Hall in 1971. Call Number: UWM University Communications & Media Relations Records, UWM AC 134, Box 2.

📸: The cover to a 1974 catalog shows the fruits of Native student organizing in the form of the UWM Native American Studies Program (now American Indian Studies). Call Number: UWM Office of the Chancellor Records, UWM AC 46, Box 54.

📸: The UWM Native American Studies Program announces the pilot of the Wisconsin Native American Languages Project (WNALP) in 1974. This announcement is from "Anishinaabe News: UW-Milwaukee American Indian News," a newsletter of the Native American Studies Program and NASM. Call Number: UWM Office of the Chancellor Records, UWM AC 46, Box 54.

📸: Margaret Richmond offers language instruction to a class of Native "youngsters" as a Menominee Language Resource Consultant for the WNALP in 1976. Call Number: UWM Photographs Collection, UWM AC 6, Box 18. The earlier Native American Studies Program WNALP announcement anticipates an appropriate caption: "We've a lot to learn from our elders!"

In cooperation with the Great Lakes Intertribal Council, UWM Archives stewards the Wisconsin Native American Languages Project Records, 1973-1976 (UWM Mss 20). With extensive instructional materials from the WNALP, the collection continues to serve as an important resource for the study and revitalization of Wisconsin's Native languages for citizens of Wisconsin's Ojibwe, Menominee, Oneida, Potawatomi, and Ho-Chunk nations.

- Eli

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details from:

Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books. Translated by the most eminent hands. Adorned with sculptures. 

Samuel Garth, ed. 

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head, 1717. 

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Who wants a FREE Tarot or Oracle card reading! ? Special $5 donation to NAMI you can get a single card reading sent through my business PAYPAL.me/WenonaGardner or directly to my NAMIWALKS fundraising Page at

Then after we reach $100 donations or 7 pm CST Sunday April 12 whichever comes first I will give out 3 FREE Celtic Cross readings of 10 cards to 3 lucky donors which is a value of $60.

I am a Captain for NAMIWALKS Team “Artist’s Way Circle ⭕️ Celebrating 20 years!” We are walking for Artist’s who died by suicide. RIP Hannah Stone of YouNow & RIP Steve Nemacheck Blackfoot Indian UWM artist Who died by suicide March 18, 2000 missed for 20 years!

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Zines from UWM Special Collections Pt. 3