In the video below, CGP Grey explores the good, the bad, and the ugly methods for boarding airliners. Generally airlines board passengers using the slow back-to-front method even though other boarding systems would be faster. I have long surrendered to the whims of each air carrier and dutifully waited in line without so much as a whine of complaint. Still, it’s nice to imagine a better way.
H/t to Drew Lerman
H/t to TBTP follower Milly R. for sending me a link to this mindblowing animation of Bosch’s painting Le Jardin des Delices, which was created by Eve Ramboz for an eponymous show last year.
Devoted fans have been anxiously waiting for New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to reopen. The museum closed in summer for a four-month $450 million renovation project, and will finally unveil its makeover to the museum-going public today.
The museum now has 30-percent more space with an additional wing, allowing for another 1,000 artworks to be on display. MoMA’s lobby has been opened up, with its museum store being relocated to a lower level and expanded.
During the four month closure, every artwork was taken down to wholly reorganize the museum’s collection. MoMA’s galleries will no longer be defined by individual genres. Instead, they have brought everything together under one circuit, marrying photography, architecture, design, film, painting, new media and sculpture under the same roof.
On a personal note, I have been a huge MoMA fan all of my life. For a few years, I even had a paid family membership—until it got too expensive to justify. When I was in high school, it was one of my favorite places to hang out when I skipped school. So, I look forward to these big renovation projects to discover the changes and improvements.
Those of you who visit TBTP on a regular basis know of my life-long affection for Lewis Carroll’s classic book. I have had many different editions since I was a child, but I have long found Ralph Steadman’s drawings for Alice to be both radical and a refreshing change from the many conventional Alice illustrations that preceded it. If you haven’t seen this brilliant take on the book before, I hope that you will appreciate just how clever it is.
This is one of the first non-Tenniel illustrated Alices issued when British copyright expired in 1907. Pictured in a white pinafore decorated with pale pink roses and grey tights, Rackham’s Alice appears both thinner and taller than Tenniel’s heroine. Muted colors, especially the browns, lend an eerie aspect to Rackham’s drawings of the Wonderland characters and landscape. But if I could have any edition other than a Tenniel illustrated first, it would be this Rackham.
This is a surprisingly nice copy of Pomponii Melae De Situ Orbis Libri III, by Abraham Gronovius. Printed in 1722, the book is about ancient geography and includes some wonderful illustrations and fold out maps to help you learn all about things in the ancient world.
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