Fun Friday Resources

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This an ultimate STEAL FROM THE BEST post. Years ago, back before the Interwebs, if you wanted to STEAL ideas from past fashions or architecture or design — let’s say Rome as an example — you either had to go to Rome and draw/photograph your source or find a book on the topic.

I owned Dolmetsch’s Historic Styles of Ornament, used it a lot in research, and now you can have it too, as a downloadable PDF. Print out your page and collage it, or do it all electronically like we fellow kids do all the time now.

Another fabulous resources is Speitz’s Styles of Ornament, also available from the Internet Archive as a downloadable file.

If those have whetted your appetite, then go check out UPenn’s online books catalog, a wide-ranging bibliography of online/downloadable books.

Use these resources for your Captivity-related doldrums in this assignment:

  • download one of the resources

  • print out three pages, either three that appeal to you or three random ones: use Google’s random number generator with the top limit being the number of pages in the book.

  • cut those suckers up

  • shove them around on a piece of paper or cardboard

  • glue them, tape them, paint them, color them, write on them, subvert them, glorify them

  • make a mess

  • make an ugly mess

  • make a mess so ugly that no one can accuse you of failing to Make a perfect Thing

  • put it on your refrigerator

  • burn it

  • make it a postcard and mail it to me*

There, that should keep you busy over the weekend.

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