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Yet Another Wood-engraved Feathursday

CINDY KOOPMAN

This 10 x 8 in (20.4 x 20.32 cm) wood engraving entitled Grasshopper (because, after all, there are some grasshoppers in it) by Minnesota artist Cindy Koopman is very reminiscent of our daily experience here in Special Collections. Every day, sometimes three or four times a day, the green roof outside our windows gets visited by a gang of 3-7 crows that investigate the undergrowth, jump and flutter about, toss random objects into the air, and on occasion actually take a slide down the solar panels on the roof just for fun! They are endlessly fascinating, and every day when they arrive all work stops in Special Collections and the entire staff line up along the windows to watch crows be crows for five minutes or so. It's just a part of our workday, but also one of its highlights.

Cindy Koopman is a Minnesota artist with an MFA in printmaking, and is a faculty member at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN. This print was selected for inclusion in the Fourth Triennial Exhibition 2020-2022 of the American wood engravers society, the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN), and the image is from the catalog for that traveling show.

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#Feathursday #Women's History Month #wood engravings #wood engravers #women wood engravers #Cindy Koopman #Grasshoppers #Crows #American Crow #Wood Engravers' Network #WEN #WEN Fourth Triennial Exhibition #exhibitions #exhibition catalogs #uwm special collections #birds #birbs!

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the 1688 Tonson edition of Milton's Paradise Lost

feat. the original donor wall- the subscriber page

engravings by Robert White and Michael Burghers

#book history #uwm special collections #paradise lost #john milton

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Review of Filmmaker Simon Liu

Written by: Courtney Peterson

Last weekend I went to the opening night of M.U.F.F. (Milwaukee Underground Film Festival) organized by the UWM film department. They had two parts to the festival, one being a collection of films by different filmmakers and the second part was for a special guest artist who shared a collection of their work. On opening night their special guest was Simon Liu.

Simon Liu is a film artist who creates work of abstract documentaries, experimental diaries, and multichannel video installations. Watching his work was a kaleidoscopic experience. Filled with overlapping flashes of color. A collision of moments in time and overlays of emotions. The whole piece was a Quadruple 16mm projection performance which ended up being one of my favorite parts of his piece. I love watching the filmmaker frantically take color filters in and out and switch frames as the projector is running making every performance a little different and unique. 

It’s hard for me to view and discuss this artist analytically because while experiencing Simon Liu’s work I felt as if I was absorbed into the film rather than separated from it enough to analyze it. It felt like a memory as well as a dream, how our brains make a collision of images from experiences and all we remember are our feelings and brief fleeting imagery of what was happening. Millions of fluttering memories and feelings and associations of what was real and what my mind create. 

I also enjoyed the juxtaposition of his second film, Devils Peak, and how even though nothing about the film style changed, there was a slight shift to create a harsher tone. There were abrupt cuts and it became a little twisted and jagged. Blending well with the theme of a frantic city full of bustling people and noises. I also appreciated his description in the pamphlet about Devil's Peak displaying Hong Kong and its capitalist futurism and the past ghostly whispers, between gestures of resistance and the forces of suppression. It allowed me to understand more of how he was feeling than what he was experiencing. This creation to evoke emotion rather than giving me a visual story while still giving me a story of the suppression of people and the capitalist actions happening, was mind-blowing. I was given the colors, flashing images, and sound to feel something in a completely abstract way. I felt as if I was an alien being shown what it means to feel something. It was so fascinating and euphoric and a complete out-of-body experience.

[alongthewithywindle]

In 1610, Thomas Milles, champion of exhausting exhaustive titles, wrote The Catalog of Honor; or, Tresvry of Trve Nobility, Pecvliar and Proper to the Isle of Great Britaine, or, Tresury of true nobility : peculiar and proper to the isle of Great Britaine : that is to say, a collection historicall of all the free monarches aswell kinges of England as Scotland (nowe vnited togither) with the princes of Walles, dukes, marquisses and erles, their wiues, children, alliances, families, descentes & achievementes of honor : wherunto is properly prefixed, a speciall treatise of that kind of nobility which soverayne grace and fauor, and contryes customes, haue made meerly politicall and peculiarly ciuill (neuer so distinctly handled before) / translated out of Latyne into English. It was published by William Jaggard, a printer and bookseller in London between 1594 and 1623. He published many religious commentaries, books on British heraldry, essays, and histories. Jaggard printed eight other of Milles’ works.

Milles, a customs official, bailiff, and intelligence agent, was born in 1550(?) in Ashford, Kent, England. An avid advocate of mercantilism and free trade, Milles authored at least twelve printed titles between 1599 and 1617. Many were concerned with influencing economic policy, critiquing Catholocism, and documenting royal lineages.

Milles seems to have been concerned with accurately documenting the histories and lineage of Great Britain’s “True Nobility” in The Catalog of Honor, perhaps in response to a century with multiple royal lineage disputes, rife with political and religious upheaval. The 16th century saw the rise and fall of Mary I, Elizabeth I selling much of her holdings to finance foreign and domestic wars, the failure of the Tudor government system, and the 1690s depression.  In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died without an heir and was succeeded by James IV of Scotland, her closest living relative (and son of Mary, Queen of Scots).

The Catalog of Honor documents the titles and lineage of nobility, complete with engravings of their sigils. The first portion is a translation of Robert Glover’s Nobilitas politica vel civilis, with a title page engraving by Renold Elstracke.  The widespread concern with accurate lineage is evidenced in the multiple copies where Charles Bount’s illegitimate son Mountjoy Blount. He was later recognized and bestowed with the title of Baron and Earl a year later. In UWM’s copy, a paragraph referencing Mountjoy was cut out and later restored in manuscript.

A later book by Ralph Brooke, A catalogue and succession of the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and viscounts of this realme of England…discouering, and reforming many errors committed, by men of other profession, and lately published in print; to the great wronging of the nobility, and preiudice of his Maiesties officers of armes, who are onely appointed and sworne to deale faithfully in these causes., was written in part to correct errors made by Milles in The Catalog of Honor.

[uwmarchives]

Pride Month: GPU News

“Recipes With Love” and “The Gay Gourmet” were regular features in the GPU News in the 1970s.  The GPU News was a monthly news and literary magazine published by the Gay Peoples Union from 1971-1976 and later by Liberation Publications from 1976-1981.  During the 1970s, the Gay Peoples Union was an incredibly important LGBTQ organization in Milwaukee who’s activism focused on education and legal reform. On top of their monthly publication of the GPU News, they also produced Gay Perspective, the first regularly scheduled scripted LGBT radio program in the nation. The GPU also established Milwaukee’s first gay and lesbian community center. 

These and other recipes can all be found in the GPU News in UWM Special Collections.

-Lizzie, Archives Graduate Intern

**Next week, June 26-28, will be Pop-Up Days at the Golda Meir Library. The UWM Archives along with the Special Collection Department @uwmspeccoll will be featuring a wide variety of materials to celebrate Pride Month. Don’t miss out!!! Pop-Up Days will be on hiatus for the rest of the summer but will be back in September.**

#UWM Archives #Gay Peoples Union #GPU News #Recipes With Love #Gay Gourmet #Milwaukee LGBTQ #publications #uwm special collections #recipes #LGBTQ+ #pride month #pop-up days #pop up exhibit #1970s #milwaukee

[gayleontologists]

doppelbangin replied to your post “who is gonna help me decide with manuscript/incunable...”

gimme the DEETS :O

i wish i had SOME vague idea of what i want definitively, but i am sooo indecisive and i love medieval books so so so much lmao. and the possibilities are endless!! fun headings! funky colophons! illustrated initials! illuminated initials! decorative marginalia! dress me up like an incunable i love it all! lmaooo

#doppelbangin #replies #all photos from incunabula at uwm special collections lol

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Michigan State football, basketball gamers to acquire $500 month-to-month stipend in new NIL deal

© Mike Mulholland Michigan State running back Connor Heyward (eleven) and teammates have a good time after getting better a Michigan all through their massive Ten football online game at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, on Saturday, October 31, 2020. Michigan State won the video game, 27-24. Mat Ishbia is already funding a new football follow constructing on Michigan State’s campus. Now, he’ll be placing some money without delay into the pockets of Spartans’ soccer and basketball gamers. Ishbia and his company, United Wholesale loan, should be presenting $500 stipends to all soccer and basketball gamers at Michigan State for the 2021-22 faculty yr, according to a Wednesday morning announcement from the company. so one can total $6,000 apiece over the route of the subsequent 12 months for 133 Spartans players on both teams for a complete dedication of essentially $800,000. The arrangement is allowed beneath NCAA rules after the affiliation started allowing gamers to income off of their identify, photograph and likeness starting in July. “The Spartan household sticks collectively, and that’s what makes MSU athletics so special,” Ishbia mentioned in a statement. “every player contributes to the team in a positive way and we’re excited to assist aid them, whereas also assisting show patrons about the merits of unbiased mortgage brokers.” Ishbia became a stroll-on participant on Michigan State’s 2000 country wide title group. He grew to become a billionaire past this 12 months when UWM, of which Ishbia is President and CEO, went public. His company changed into already deeply involved in Michigan State athletics, employing a number of former Michigan State basketball gamers and inviting former Spartans players to speak at its company pursuits. His $32 million donation to Michigan State athletics prior this 12 months, the largest single cash donation from someone within the faculty’s heritage, is separate from the NIL deal announced this week. That donation is funding a variety to the school’s Skandalaris football center, plus helping former athletes with employment put up-graduation. The deal is the 2nd within the ultimate week involving a gaggle of Spartans athletes. Jolly Pumpkin Café & Brewery in East Lansing introduced on Thursday that it's sponsoring the Michigan State offensive line and lengthy snappers via an NIL deal. 먹튀검증

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Is Keyboard Certainly one of several Most difficult Equipment To find?

If you're in search of free piano training, your search is over. Exercise: To track in, have a good time savoring the F” note once or twice then perform coupled on the defeat through the song. The piano can be quite a wonderful and in addition very adaptable instrument - there's a complete world of amazing audio within to discover. A keyboard chord is an accumulation of numerous remarks enjoyed together too. From 3-25-20, MACSA will proceed to on-line instruction only. That means that you'll will need to find out a lot of type of special finger approaches to get your 5 fingers to consider out an seven be aware series fluidly. That's sort of just how I check out the on the web training,” he discussed in my opinion. Figure out audio idea from your favorite music. You want a keyboard keyboard before you decide to to learn how to enjoy keyboard. Here’s a quick look on advantages of PianoForAll Also provides appeared at a number of opera shows because of the UWM speech pupils, and also numerous speech faculty recitals correct at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Tunes. With 1000 music and piano guides to select from, the flowkey catalogue offers many distinct varied songs styles like Put Reaches, Movie & Tv set, Xbox Game Music, Traditional as well as a lot more.

PianoForAll Course Even if this characteristic is without a doubt entertaining to demonstrate great outcomes with, probably the most beneficial and effective useful resource although in the Zebra Keys website are definitely the collection of trainer” tools which can guideline keyboard students with specific areas of knowing songs. To create piano skills, you should initially develop a knowledge of the keyboard computer keyboard and also with your very own fingers as well as the way in that they can fit along with transfer forward the secrets. Piano Instruction New york city delivers a particular hr, 45 and 30 minute piano sessions. Play by ears even though you have never learned a musical device prior to. I recognize a number of individuals assist it with outcomes for understanding person songs, nonetheless i simply think it is counterproductive for my own much more hypothesis-oriented goals. Acquiring a keyboard coach to coach a person to get aspect within the keyboard, you will probably spend in between $40 as well as $60 on every course. Music lessons also foster a student's individual, social, plus scholastic development. In addition, all elementary college students should attend Children's Chorus (provided at no extra charge) to formulate musicality and hearing training. The several effects boost your seem level plus high quality in accordance with the variety of notices you desire. Consider it first enjoying palms independently then test slowly fingers with each other. Written music for superb classics and beginner's tunes may be located in the iphone app for that customers to have a attempt.

#piano #music #songs #audio #tunes #new music #popular music #song #tracks #beats #sound #movies #musical #audio tracks #sounds #pop music #rock music #entertainment #sound clips #guitar #singing #piano training

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Zines from UWM Special Collections Pt. 3

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Zines and artist books at the UWM Library Special Collection

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The Most Expensive Toilet in the World

The most expensive toilet in the world is the International Space Station Toilet,  It’s only to be expected that the price on this space toilet is also out of this world. At $19 million, this is the most expensive toilet ever made in the history of toilets. It was built by Russia for the space station in 2008, and it features the most extras for that special kind of bathroom activity. This toilet has leg braces to keep astronauts in the proper position while using the toilet. It has special fans that suck in every single waste deposited into it into a septic tank. In addition, this is the only toilet ever created that has an advanced filter capable of extracting water from waste and purifying it for drinking. It’s the ultimate recycling machine.

International Space Station Toilet

There are four basic parts in a space toilet: the liquid waste vacuum tube, the vacuum chamber, the waste storage drawers, and the solid waste collection bags. The liquid waste vacuum tube is a 2 to 3-foot (0.91 m) long rubber or plastic hose that is attached to the vacuum chamber and connected to a fan that provides suction. At the end of the tube there is a detachable urine receptacle, which come in different versions for male and female astronauts. The male urine receptacle is a plastic funnel two to three inches in width and about four inches deep. A male astronaut urinates directly into the funnel from a distance of two or three inches away. The female funnel is oval and is two inches by four inches wide at the rim. Near the funnel's rim are small holes or slits that allow air movement to prevent excessive suction. The vacuum chamber is a cylinder about 1-foot (0.30 m) deep and six inches wide with clips on the rim where waste collection bags may be attached and a fan that provides suction. Urine is pumped into and stored in waste storage drawers. Solid waste is stored in a detachable bag made of a special fabric that lets gas (but not liquid or solid) escape, a feature that allows the fan at the back of the vacuum chamber to pull the waste into the bag. When the astronaut is finished, he or she then twists the bag and places it in a waste storage drawer. Samples of urine and solid waste are frozen and taken to Earth for testing. 

Space toilet derivative work

A next-generation space toilet called the Universal Waste Management System (UWMS) is being developed by NASA for Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion MPCV) is a US-European spacecraft intended to carry a crew of four astronauts to destinations at or beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). Currently under development by NASA and the ESA for launch on the Space Launch System (SLS). It is planned to be quieter, lighter, more reliable, more hygienic and more compact than previous systems. A flight test article of the UWMS is planned to be delivered and tested on the ISS in 2018.

Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion MPCV)

#International Space Station Toilet #Space toilet derivative work #Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion MPCV)

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It’s Fine Press Friday! 

Today we’re taking a deep dive into Songs for Gaia, a slim edition of poetry by Gary Snyder (b. 1930). This understated, beautifully-crafted letterpress volume was printed in 1979 for Kah Tai Alliance at Copper Canyon in Port Townsend, WA, a fine press dedicated solely to poetry since its founding in 1972, and was handbound by poet and bookbinder Samuel Green. It features woodblock illustrations by poet and printmaker Michael Corr (b. 1940), who learned his craft while living in Kyoto from block printer and illustrator Takeji Asano (1900-1999). Asano was a notable figure in Japan’s Sōsaku-hanga woodblock printing movement. The book is quarter bound in cloth with a cover marbled in a finely executed combed feather pattern, a touch that lends a hint of psychedelia to its otherwise traditional aesthetics. It was released in a limited edition of 300 copies.   

Snyder, who is popularly known for his time amongst and spiritualist influence on the Beat poets and the counterculture of their generation (along with Kerouac’s portrayal of him as Japhy Ryder in the 1958 novel The Dharma Bums) spent 13 years in Japan (1956-1968) studying Zen Buddhism, forestry, and ecology. A scholar of Asian languages versed in cultural anthropology, he also studied calligraphy with accomplished calligrapher and seal carver Charles Leong during his time at Reed College. Snyder’s calligraphic signature graces the half-title page of this edition.  

This modest yet potent edition of Songs for Gaia is a fitting form for the work of a poet whom writer Bob Steuding once characterized as cultivating an “accessible” style and “a new kind of poetry that is direct, concrete, non-Romantic and ecological.” As Snyder wrote of his own work in A Controversy of Poets, “I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”  

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-Ana, Special Collections Graduate Fieldworker

#Fine Press Friday #fine press fridays #marbling #Gary Snyder #poetry #Copper Canyon Press #Songs for Gaia #Samuel Green #Michael Corr #woodblock illustration #woodblock #letterpress #fine press #feather pattern marbling #UWM Special Collections #handbound book #hand binding #Ana

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details from:

Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books. Translated by the most eminent hands. Adorned with sculptures. 

Samuel Garth, ed. 

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head, 1717. 

#uwm special collections #book history #uwm libraries

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It’s Pop-Up Days again in the Library!

For a few days near the end of each month the distinctive collections of the UW-Milwaukee Libraries; the American Geographical Society Library, Archives & Area Research Center, and Special Collections put out some materials for the public to experience.

In recognition of Earth Day, April 22, and Wisconsin’s Arbor Day, April 26, the UWM Archives and the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) are sharing items with the theme of Wisconsin nature conservation.

The Archives will have a variety of materials from the collections of citizens, organizations, and public officials who worked for nature conservancy in Wisconsin throughout the 20th century. There will be items from the papers of Wilhelmine La Budde, Henry Reuss, Pearl Pohl, Charles Broughton and more. The AGSL will be sharing maps depicting the resources of Wisconsin, including parks, soils, hydrography, geology, forestry, and more.

Be sure to make time visit the UWM Archives on the 2nd floor and the American Geographical Society Library on the 3rd floor east wing of the Golda Meir Libray April 24-26 to see some very unique materials!

#earth day #arbor day #exhibits #archives #maps

[uwmarchives]

From the Underground: Ads from Milwaukee’s Kaleidoscope newspaper.

Published between 1967 and 1971, the Kaleidoscope was one of Milwaukee’s most prominent underground newspapers. With a radical leftist approach, the paper appealed to the city’s hippie subculture, for whom Brady Street was a major gathering place. Many Brady Street businesses ran ads in the “K-Scope,” including these from the Spring of 1971.

During the Kaleidoscope’s run, there was a loose national network of underground papers, and it was not uncommon for mail-order companies to advertise in far-off places. In this 1968 advert, a California company pitches a variety of products aimed at underground readers.

The Kaleidoscope ran regular reports from the “Underground Switchboard” on the quality of drugs - primarily marijuana and LSD - that were circulating in Milwaukee. The Switchboard gave warnings about LSD supplies that were known to be tainted or were causing bad trips and also alerted readers to undercover police officers who might be posing as dealers or users. This ad from 1971 encourages people struggling with opiates to reach out to the organization for help.

An all-night hang-out with cheap food and a prime location on Brady Street, the Ham n’ Egger Restaurant, a regular Kaleidoscope advertiser, often offered special discounts to readers, such as this one from the June 17, 1971 issue.

Bookstores were among the K-Scope’s most loyal advertisers, offering the latest in “subversive” literature and underground publications.

Waterbed ads were also popular in the underground press for a brief period after the creation of the modern waterbed in the late 1960s. Advertising for early waterbeds relied heavily on piquing curiosity about the sexual benefits of the product, so a connection with the sexually-liberated readers of underground papers seemed like a natural fit. This ad from April 1971 gets right to the point, using underground comic-style artwork.

The Kaleidoscope was a very gay-friendly publication at a time when the topic was still socially taboo. With regular articles and features on the gay community in Milwaukee, they also ran ads that catered to gay readers, including this order form for a “Male Dates” calendar from February 1970.

A complete run of Kaleidoscope was donated to our sibling department, Special Collections @uwmspeccoll in 2014 and is now digitized and available through the UWM Libraries Digital Collections.

#underground newspapers #Milwaukee #1960's #1970s #uwm special collections #digital collections #kaleidoscope #Matt #bookstores #drug culture #subculture #hippies #sexuality #brady street #pride month

[gayleontologists]

got tagged by @queenannadala 💕 thanks! time to talk about myself!!!

1. Nickname: em and mle

2. Gender: girl

3. Star sign: cancer

4. Height: 5′4″

5. Time: 11:11 hot damn lmao

6. Birthday: july 11 (my birthday being 7-11 is the only reason why ppl remember it usually lol)

7. Fave bands: my chemical romance, 2005-2009 panic at the disco, queen, simple plan, backstreet boys, florence and the machine

8. Fave solo artist: mika, hayley kiyoko, lorde, britney spears, elton john, cher

9. Song stuck in your head: lucky by britney spears

10. Last movie watched: uhhhh i think it was chernobyl diaries kdgadjflkd during a bad scary movie binge. it was worth it jesse mccartney was in it lmaoo

11. Last show watched: charmed

12. When did I create my blog: uh something like 2012 i think

13. What do I post: whatever floats my fancy. mostly media stuffs and history

14. Last thing I googled: uwm academic calendar (spring break plans babey)

15. Do you have any blogs: others? yeah i run fyeahjessicanatasha despite the fact i don’t read comics anymore lol

16. Do you get asks: sometimes but not often

17. Why did you choose your url: i time i watching jurassic park 3 in the middle of the night and i was like... what if.... alan and billy... gay??? and thus a star was born

18. Following blogs: 122

19. Followers: 1054

20. Fave colour: cranberry

21. Average hours of sleep: bout 5 or 6 probs

22. Piercings?: 2 on each earlobe and 1 on my right ear cartilage and left nostril. eventually more ear stuff will be joining.

23. Instruments: i played the clarinet in 5th grade band. since then? just me voice B)

24. What I’m wearing: giant blue tshirt with super mario on it that says “power up”

25. How many blankets do you sleep with: 1 comforter, 1-2 fleece throws, 1 afghan. 

26. Dream job: idk it’s not very specific locationally. but like, a university archives and special collections that has just a really rad collection and lets me do my own research in addition to my librarian/archivist responsibilities

27. Dream trip: soo many. i would love to do a tour that like mimics frankenstein (tho i don’t know if it’s go so far north lol). 

28. Fave food: i just love dumplings so much

29. Nationality: american 

30. Current fave song: good guys by mika

as for the tagging others... comb back to me later lol

#text #about me