This incredible review of The Mythmakers (review by Lev Grossman!) in the NYT has left me crying in a NYC Starbucks. nytimes.com/2024/09/27/books…

I would wear it

Radius, by Helen Frankenthaler, 1993

My new Wingfeather Premier poster for season 4 🐺 @wingfeathersaga

Ok, who did this?

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Even through the joy I feel the pain. That's all I know

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time! The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

Revisiting some old sketchbooks

The largest coffee pot in the world has made the journey from Visoko, Bosnia to St. Louis, MO. The pot serves 8,000 cups of coffee & will follow the Bosnian national team throughout their World Cup journey in North America.

Malcolm Guite on LOTR and The Ring: “Tolkien knows almost all the great quest stories, from Jason and the Argonauts onward, are quests to acquire a treasure — to acquire the Golden Fleece, to sail off to the Garden of the Hesperides and obtain the golden apples, or, like Prometheus, to bring fire down from the heavens. They’re all about getting something valuable, bringing it back, and achieving power in kingdom by acquiring the valuable. Then Tolkien comes along. What does he give us? He gives us an epic of letting go — of renunciation. Was there ever an age that needed that message? We are, as that old book said, consuming ourselves to death. The sickness of our soul is precisely a sickness of perpetual acquisition, of pouring things into a hole that will never be filled. And the way out of that is the way of renunciation. It’s the way of letting go.”

At …. @WashU

Truly saddened to read this. She was a pioneer in female graphic memoir. A huge inspiration to me and so many. 🙏🏽❤️

Let Mattias illustrate Narnia @HarperCollins

We have an opening for an Art Director, Visuals, on our Social Visuals team: job-boards.greenhouse.io/the…

Fable

This is the door said to have inspired Tolkien's Doors of Durin in The Lord of the Rings. The two trees standing on either side of it, at St Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-Wold, are believed to be the ones the Oxford professor placed at the entrance to the Mines of Moria.

Brilliant

Today is the feast of St. Philip Neri, Tolkien’s confirmation saint. Tolkien, like many Catholics, viewed "Philip" as one of his own names, and Holly Ordway has theorized the asymmetric foot in his monogram represents the bottom of a hidden “P” for his confirmation name, Philip.

I claim picture book rights

We must, then, avoid the “Babel syndrome,” namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance. This is the risk of dehumanization: building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means.