Twit Archive 23-30 November 2011

Above, Pin Tailed Duck by John James Audubon, from the University of Pittsburgh’s digital library, via here.

Below the fold, a few more old tweets.

Twit Archive 16-22 November 2011

Above, beer and duck hunting, from a collection of Sebewaing Brewing Company labels.

Below the fold, more intemperate misfiring tweets.

Twit Archive 1-15 November 2011

Above, John Dog sings Imperfect Strangers.

Below the fold, tweets on Iran, Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Gaza, Cuba, Afghanistan, and on comics, children’s books, film, and music.

Twit Archive 16-31 October 2011

Above, High Water on the Mississippi, 1868, a lithographic print by Frances F Palmer, from a collection of Currier and Ives prints at Steamboat Times.

More tweets of beauty and disaster below the fold.

Twit Archive 1-15 October 2011

Above, detail of De zeeslag bij Livorno, 14 maart 1653, a pen painting by Willem van de Velde I of the Battle of Livorno. The painting, in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, is over one metre high by over a metre and a half wide, and is entirely rendered in pen and ink lines too fine to see even in the high resolution view available on their website.

More art and war in the tweets below the fold.

Twit Archive 16-30 September 2011

Above, Turner’s The Shipwreck, from 1805, via the Google Art Project selection of paintings from Tate Britain.

Below, more art tweets, animation, comics, books and music tweets, Danish elections, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Afghanistan, Niger, and sewers in London and New York.

Twit Archive 1-15 September 2011

Above, a detail from a 1784 engraving, Departure of the Harpy or amphibious monster of Cadiz to be taken to the King and Royal Family of Spain. See the entire image at the Monster Brains blog.

More art and monsters and foreign affairs in the tweets below the fold.

Twit Archive 25-31 August 2011

Above, a frame of animation drawn by John Kricfalusi, from a post at Uncle Eddie’s Theory Corner succinctly titled John Kricfalusi: Genius! And the short piece of animation that Eddie shares there is indeed extraordinary.

More links from that time in the tweets below the fold, on Libya, Mali, Syria, Bahrain, Afghanistan, and a few more art links too.

Twit Archive 1-24 August 2011

Above, from Hans Fischerkoesen’s 1943 cartoon Scherzo: Verwitterte Melodie / Weather-Beaten Melody, produced in Nazi Germany. The image comes from the website of Animateka 2012, an animation festival held last month in Lubljana, Slovenia, and is either a production sketch or a piece of promotional artwork, rather than a still.

As linked to in a tweet below, you can see the short and find out more about Hans Fischerkoesen at Michael Sporn’s Splog.

Other tweets below the fold on the liberation of Tripoli, Libya. Also Syria, Afghanistan, and more film, music, and art.

Twit Archive 13-31 July 2011

Above, issue 56 of De Poezenkrant, a magazine by Piet Schreuders. It’s available to buy here, a bargain!

In its paper pages you’ll find a story also mentioned in a tweet below, Anne Billson’s study of the several stand-in cats appearing in Carol Reed’s The Third Man. The link in the tweet is broken as her Cats on Film blog has since moved, but here it is, Cat of the Day 078, or as it’s titled in the magazine, The Third Cat.

Below the fold, more tweets on films, books, music, comics and cartoons. And Libya, Iran, Gaza, Breivik.

Twit Archive 1-12 July 2011

Above, from the Calkin Family website, Harry Roy and his Band on the Alcantara, April 1938, with bass player Arthur Calkin on the right. Hear them play Mama Don’t Want No Rice an’ Peas or Coconut Oil.

Below the fold, tweets on phone hacking, Wikileaks, Libya, Syria, film, music, comics, and ships.

Twit Archive 22-30 June 2011

Below the fold, tweets mostly on Libya and Syria, with a little art and music also.

Above, a painting by Gao Huijun titled Huang Tingjian - Autumn,  from a set at But Does It Float.

Twit Archive 12-21 June 2011

Below the fold: tweets on Syria, Iran, Lybia, Afghanistan, Bahrain, and in the UK, Brian Haw and alternative medicine.

Also Danish silent comedians, Swedish cinema, and quite a bit of animation, including Otto Messmer, creator of Felix the Cat.

Above, Otto lends Felix a hand in Comicalamities, (1928) to the sound of The Real Tuesday Weld covering Abba’s The Day Before You Came.

Twit Archive 1-11 June 2011

Below the fold, tweets on Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and more. Also a little art.

Above, portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray. Read more about the painting at Pauline’s Pirates and Privateers, English Heritage, and at Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal.

Twit Archive 21-31 May 2011

Below the fold, old tweets on Libya, Bahrain, Egypt, Gaza. Also publishing, illustration, music and film.

Above, drawing by Louis Crucius (or Crusius), from the BibliOdyssey blog of book art.

Twit Archive 11-20 May 2011

Below the fold, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan tweets.

Also concrete ships, yesterday and today.

Louis Oppenheim’s First World War German propaganda posters, and typefaces.

Pre James Bond, WW1 U-boat salvage and repair ship SMS Vulkan.

Above, art by Frank R Paul, from Golden Age Comic Book Stories.

Twit Archive - 1-10 May 2011

Lots of Libya tweets, Syria, Yemen and Egypt tweets, death of Bin Laden tweets, and one Mickey Mouse tweet linking to a review of Race to Death Valley, volume one of the Fantagraphics reprints of Floyd Gottfredson’s wonderful 1930s newspaper strips.

Also:
Revisiting the Inquisition in Mallorca, a New York Times story on the 1691 burning of 37 Jews in Gomila Plaza, Palma.

Clips from Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s film Kaos, based on Luigi Pirandelo’s stories of Sicily, music by Nicola Piovani, here and here.

Weimar Art on Magritte’s période vache.

Nina Simone, Sinnerman, and The Wailers, Sinner Man.

Tweets below the fold.

Twit Archive - 10-30 April 2011

Lots more on Libya, plus a couple of links to the Weimar Art blog to posts Ride a Bike and With Love From Russia. The above image comes from that Russia post, a photo by Dmitry Debabov, The “Krasin” ice-breaker in the Arctic, 1936.

Tweets below the fold.

Twit Archive - 1-9 April 2011

Lots of Libya tweets, and one moon tweet. Above is a detail of a jolly Soviet moon illustration from 1965, one of hundreds of images in this Man in Space! Flickr set, tweeted by Tom Gauld.

Tweets below the fold.

Twit Archive - 21-31 March 2011

These tweets are from the start of NATO action in Libya, plus a few on Syria, Yemen, Egypt, and even a little art for relief. Above, an illustration by Czech animator and artist Jiri Trnka, from this 50 Watts post.

Tweets below the fold.