This is my art summary for 2023.

I made a lot more pieces than I did last year, and I gained some new tools to work with near the end.

I get dinner. I work on my 2d project for a couple hours. I draw characters. More 2D project

Decorative Sunday: Bookplates Edition

Ex Libris by Carl S. Junge collects notable bookplates from the career of Chicago-area artist Carl S. Junge. In his introduction to the volume, Chicago advertising executive and bookplate collector Leroy T. Goble argues that the bookplate is far more than a simple mark of ownership but has artistic value of its own, they are “expressions of fine art calling for the joint interests and attention of artist, engraver, and printer.”  Published in New York by H.L. Lindquist in 1935 in a limited edition of 500 copies signed by the artist. Junge’s bookplates had been collected once before in the 1916 publication Book Plates: A Collection of Original Book Plate Designs in an edition of 200 by Champlin Press of Columbus, Ohio. We hold both publications here in Special Collections.

Goble praises Junge as an eminent bookplate designer, wedding the personality and needs of the person (or institution) for which he is designing with an adept artistic sensibility and drawing on a range of styles. Indeed, Junge received five awards from the International Book Plate Association and his plates are held by such esteemed museums as the The Metropolitan Museum of New York and the British Museum. The stately bookplate of Woodrow Wilson, the appropriately juvenile plate of Leroy Goble’s son (Francis) Cleon, and the art deco inspired plate for artist O. Adreas Garson all exemplify the way Junge adapted his design aesthetic to best represent his client. My favorite is the plate for Lewis Clifford Fiske, with its scowling swordsman pointing insistently at the bookplate-within-a-bookplate (reading: “Fiske His Book”). It visually evokes the old tradition of placing a curse upon book thieves or careless borrowers, as if to say ”This is MY book. Return it, or face my sword!!”

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-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Assistant

George R.R. Martin has endowed a chair at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism – his alma mater. He was at Northwestern in late February for the investiture of Prof. Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan as the inaugural holder of the George R.R. Martin Chair in Storytelling.

He wrote at Not a Blog...

I attended Medill back in what they now like to call “the turbulent 60s”  (and no kidding, they were pretty turbulent), and departed with a couple of degrees, BSJ ’70, MSJ ’71.  I did not get back often  in the half-century that followed, alas. Life got in the way, as it has a habit of doing. But I always looked back fondly on my years in Evanston, and the courses and teachers that helped shape me as a writer. I had been writing long before I arrived in Illinois, of course. Monster stories for other kids in the projects in grade school (got a nickle each for them, enough for a Milky Way, and if I sold two I could buy a comic book) and amateur superhero stories for comic fanzines when I got to high school (Powerman, Dr. Weird, the White Raider, and Garizan the Mechanical Warrior), but it was during my years at Northwestern that I began to submit to professional magazines. It was while I was in Evanston that I got my first professional rejection slip (from AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN REVIEW, for “The Fortress,” a story I wrote for a history class at Northwestern) and made my first professional sale (from GALAXY, for “The Hero,” a story I wrote for a creative writing class at Northwestern). So it seemed only fitting for me to “pay forward” to Medill for all I learned there, by endowing a chair in storytelling. The investiture was my first opportunity to meet Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, who was chosen over thirty other highly qualified applicants to be the first “GRRM Professor.”  It seemed only fitting that I give her an actual chair, as well, as the title… so I did.

If you're a student at Medill, take a peek inside Prof. Tan's office to see the miniature Iron Throne which GRRM presented her.

Cheryl has written both fiction and non-fiction. She has been a news and fashion reporter for the Wall Street Journal, InStyle, the Baltimore Sun, and other major news outlets.  Her books include the bestselling novel SARONG PARTY GIRLS, set in her native Singapore. She will teach both undergraduate and graduate students, organize panels and conferences, and conduct an intensive writing workshop every summer,  to help professional journalists cross over into creative writing.

The Medill-Lewis Company was a manufacturer of women's undergarments and lingerie based in Cleveland, Ohio, in the early 20th century. The company was founded by Lulu Medill Patterson and her husband, George W. Lewis, in 1901.

The Medill-Lewis Company was known for its high-quality corsets, brassieres, and other undergarments, which were designed to provide support and shaping while still being comfortable to wear. The company's products were sold through mail order catalogs and in retail stores across the country, and were popular among women of all classes.

In addition to its undergarments, the Medill-Lewis Company also produced a line of women's clothing, including dresses and suits. The company was known for its attention to detail and high-quality craftsmanship, and its products were well-regarded by fashion-conscious women of the time.

The Medill-Lewis Company continued to produce lingerie and clothing into the mid-20th century, but eventually went out of business as styles and preferences changed. However, the company's legacy lives on as an early pioneer in the development of women's undergarments and lingerie.

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"The people are gravely discontented and discouraged. The cost of the war is eating up the substance of the people and mortgaging the property and labor of unborn generations. The [midterm] elections will go badly against us, I fear, in consequence of the vast preponderance of Republicans in the army—held down by proslavery generals. And public discontent at the do nothing behavior of McClellan, whom you persist in keeping in command. Put Halleck in the field or Hooker or Burnsides—some man who desires to beat the rebels." Joseph Medill, Office of the Daily Tribune, letter to President Lincoln, Chicago, October 13, 1862, A Family and Nation Under Fire, p.18-9 KSU Press http://goo.gl/Z3z4Xs

Like. At the end of the day I want to do science as a job because If I Do Not Do Science I Will Actually Die. However I also like drawing and making little pictures and having them be science related. However it is also notably more difficult to draw for work than to just like…work for work. But also I like medical illustration and want to keep doing it. But also I really like just having a task based job and drawing for school definitely makes it harder to draw for fun. But I get to study both things I like rn. Do you see my predicament.

If you know a mid-career journalist (i.e. 5 years of experience) who is interested in branching out into creative writing, applications are being accepted at Northwestern University for the first ever George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop. The workshop takes place in mid July.

GRRM himself has a degree in journalism and worked in the field early in his career before going into creative writing. That's why he endowed this new program.

Perhaps some future graduate of this program will finish ASoIaF. 😎

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Dertlerim ıslak medil gibi bir tane çekiyorum 5 tane geliyor MaşAllah

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I think Holgado puked a bit of blood after his crash? And someone from the medil saw it and say it was for him to race?

Akıl hastanesinin bahçesinde sigara içiyordum.. Merakımdan sanırım, bir şekilde orada buldum kendimi. Kendi halinde, oldukça normal davranan, yüz çizgilerinden kırıklarında olduğunu düşündüğüm bir adamla göz göze geldik. Ben bir kaç kez kafamı çevirsem de o gözlerini hiç üzerimden çekmedi. Kıyafetlerinden anladığım kadarıyla misafirdir orada, hasta demeye dilim varmıyor şimdi.

Önce biraz çekindim, sonra cesaretimi toplayıp küçük adımlarla yaklaştım yanına.

"Sigara versene" dedi hemen.

Sigarayı uzatırken " neden buradasınız ?" diye sormuş bulundum . Sigarasını yaktı ve yine gözlerini dikti bana. Kırpmıyordu bile, ürkmedim desem yalan olur. " iyi günler" diyerek uzaklaşmaya karar verdim. Belki de yanlış bir soru sormuşumdur." Belki de canını sıkmışımdır ne bileyim, belki de adam deli işte." diye geçirdim içimden.

"Sen neden burada degilsin" diye bağırdı peşimden. Öyle bir bağırdı ki arkama bakmaya korktum. Cinnetle bağırır gibi...

Döndüm yüzümü olduğum yerde yaklaşmadan baktım yüzüne, bu sefer sesini daha da yükselterek bağırdı,

"sen neden burada değilsin? , onca sahtekarın, onca vicdansızın, onca ihanetin içinde kalmayı nasıl başarıyorsun? Çocukların vurulduğu, çiçeklerin koparıldığı, sevgilerin harcandığı, umudun tükendiği renksiz yapay bir dünya var dışarıda. Uyuşmadan uyum sağlayamadığım , gürültüsünden uyuyamadığım, kirli, kaba bir dünya var.. Çıkarları uğruna seni çakıyla son model arabayı çizer gibi çizecek insanlar var. Kanını emecek bir sürü vampir. Sana, kullanılıp bir kenara bir medil gibi köşeye atılmış gibi hissetirecek bir sürü insan var..

Sen neden burada değilsin?"

So Moulin Rouge is absolutely insane

There’s??? I feel like being a jukebox musical works to both it’s benefit and it’s detriment. On one hand it works really well for the show scenes- the bass/drum hitting your chest is really well. On the other hand using so many songs/ mediles takes away from the punch it wants to have. A lot of more serious songs or ones meant to move things along get a laugh when I don’t think they were intended. It also takes away from your big sad moments to then BANG DANCE NUMBER. BANG CONFETTI (though funny)

I don’t think it should necessarily have 100% original songs (though I would be curious what that’d look like) but I think it’s too jukebox for its own good? If that makes sense

*also it’s use of Roxanne by the police is fucking exceptional

Everyone in this cast blew it out of the park, they’re such great singers. Amazing comedy but also really hard hiring tragic actors as well? (Our Christian was stellar)