Round Up

Dear petticoat rustlers! This post is simply a round up of some of the things that have recently piqued my interest from around the Internet... presented in no particular order.

1. Hemingway look-alike competition, held every year in Florida. {Photos by Henry Hargreaves} Original photo of Hemingway (pictured upper left) by Yousef Karsh.

             

         

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2. How would one resuscitate drowning victims in the 18th century? Why, tobacco enema, of course. This also explains the expression "Don't blow smoke up my arse." 

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3. Zoomable, digitized version of the manuscript for "Sebastiana del Castillo," one of the very few ballads about a female bandit from the 17th century Latin American imagination, available on the University of Cambridge library website. {Sebastiana's story is a bloody one-- she requests permission to marry her lover and is denied by her parents and brothers, who then lock her up and keep her captive for one year to prevent her from running off with the lover. But after a year, she frees herself, kills her parents and her brothers, and tries to run away with the lover. But the lover proves to be too whiney, so she murders him too. She brings all of her victims' heads to town to tell her story, whence she is condemned to death.}

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4. This incredibly nostalgic, slow motion glance into the American past, through the eye of a brightly flashing camera at a child's birthday celebration...

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5. Read about how the National Carousel Organization is documenting and archiving the evolution of carousels and their art, especially those produced during the carousel's heyday (1890s-1920s). {Originally, carousels were a way for women to flash a little ankle and men to kindle a little love. Many of the artists who carved and painted the animals saw horses, dogs, deer, and such on a daily basis. Therefore, their great familiarity of the animals' anatomy allowed them to create life-like versions out of wood for the carousels.}

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6. Horsemen from Spain...

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7. The power to turn your art into dust...

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8. Norwegian artist, Ida Frosk, recreates famous paintings... on toast.  

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What are you reading about these days on the ole Internet??

Until next time, fair petticoat rustlers-- keep rustling!