A remarkable Burgonet covered in fantastic designs belonging to Archduke Ferdinand II, attributed to Giovanni B. Serabaglio, Italy, Milan, ca. 1560, housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
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Even though this is only a single scene, I’d watch an entire movie done in this style. A more futuristic thriller version of Julius Caesar. (On a shallow note, those are some fantastic clear glasses.)
The last drawing of the year. Just sneaking under the wire. The uniform is of an American Naval Captain from The War of 1812. I saw some reenactors dressed as such and fell in love with the style. Especially with the chapeau de bras, which my kid refers to as the, “taco hat.” When he first said I was taken back. But, yeah, now I can’t unsee it. I wonder why they got rid of these hats. History side of tumblr, could you inform me?
On a side note, man, oh, man, did I end up with a pencil smeared hand with this drawing. That’s one of the bad things about being a lefty. Your hand is always dirty from smudged art supplies. If any fellow lefties have a way of getting around this, drop me a line. I am all ears!
I HATE HOW AMERICANS WRITE DATES I HATE IT MORE THAN THEIR MEASURING SYSTEM
Imagine you’ve lived normally you’re whole life with a YYYY/MM/DD or a DD/MM/YYYY system and then someone tries to set an appointment with you based on a MM/DD/YYYY schedule and you miss it by 9 months because their schedule makes no sense and they’re the only ones worldwide who are following this nonsense
Look, we do it so we can make jokes, okay?
The Star Wars pun only works with, “May the 4th,” and not, “the 4th of May.”
20/4 doesn’t work for our marijuana smoking friends. But 4/20? Oh, yeah, they are lighting it up.
And Pi Day! 3.14. It only works that way. Not with 14.3.
Find us some jokes that work with the other way of writing dates and we’ll vote on whether to switch or not. But I am telling you, it’s going to be hard to beat the Star Wars joke.
