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Sidney Sime

Sidney Sime - They're little girls and boys!
[ via ECTOPLASMOSIS] – Sidney Sime is best known for illustrating Lord Dunsany’s work, and was much admired by H.P. Lovecraft; here are some great images of his artwork, mostly for Dunsany stories (note the Beardsley influence). The picture above is from an out of copyright book called Fancy Free, available online at archive.org thanks to Microsoft’s scanning project and the University of California libraries.

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Oddities

The Periodic Table of Awesoments

Aristole postulated that all good things were made of “win.” That was a pretty good guess, but he was drunk and probably also having an orgy. Modern day awesominers know there are actually 118 fundamental “awesoments” that compose all good things

[via LMG]

Bacon, Ninja, Batman…

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Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley, Of a Neophyte, and How the Black Art Was Revealed unto Him by the Fiend Asomuel, 1893.

Found at [Beautiful Century]

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Oddities

global Air Traffic animation

YouTube – airtraffic. explained here [via Paul McAuley].

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Blather

Bettie Page

Is it ironic or just sad that Bettie Page outlived Dave Stevens?