So, just wanted to share that early modern pop-up astronomy books were a thing and they are absolutely glorious.
Here's a close-up of the little dragon-serpent guy, because he is especially magnificent.
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Thanks to the amazing work of our Baker Conservation Fellow, Katarina Stiller, this 1961 edition of Snow White by paper engineer Vojtěch Kubašta, is now fully functional.
https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/990175525140106381
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"May you find the answer that you seek. It is here, I promise you . . ."
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The Dwelling of Polygon Sephiroth (4)
-- Log Cabin --
Polyroth: Is this book your prototype room???
Bider: Wait a minute~
Polyroth: It cost too much to build such a room in a metropolis.
Bider: You are quite considerate.
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I would like to own all of the pop up books from Evil. They are amazing and I hope that they aren't cgi. I would cry.
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Get Those Books Moving : Part 4
Summer 2023 Cathleen A. Baker Fellow Katarina Stiller worked on treatments for pop-up books from the William A. Gosling Pop-up and Movable Books Collection --- part of our Children's Literature Collection.
Here are Schneewittchen (1961) and Rotkäppchen (1960) --- both illustrated by Vojtěch Kubašta and published by Carlsen Verlag GMBH --- before and after treatment!
After treatment! Schneewittchen (1961)
After treatment! Rotkäppchen (1960)
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I’ve talked about this before but imagine what it’s like for someone in a country/place where eliot is Top Most Wanted and then your tech guy finds a breakout star baseball player on their visual scanner that looks EXACTLY like spencer. but…there’s no way that’s him, right???
and then the next year it happens again but this time it’s some one hit wonder country singer kenneth crane that has like 78 tween-run fangirl blogs dedicated to him. you see a grainy video of him being chased by a horde of screaming teenage girls and ??? no way Eliot Last Thing You’ll Ever See Spencer is a country singer star just. signing pictures of his face right…?
a few months later your intern shows you footage of an eliot lookalike who is in san lorenzo talking about how there is dog fighting in the presidential palace and you just. sigh. because of course. a scant few days later the political geography of the country changes drastically and damien moreau is imprisoned. …interesting
and then a year of silence goes by. he still shows up as blips on the radar but he must have a good hacker working for him because his tracks on the internet are expertly erased.
every time you ask through interagency channels some random interpol guy talks in (condescending?) riddles at you and it also somehow feels like he’s threatening you
and then your friend who recently got into foreign hockey teams sends you a dropyourgloves video of someone called jacques the bear. you immediately get a headache (and watch some more videos because even you can admit this guy is a good hockey player)
and you know he’s a Bad Guy but it’s been admittedly a bit entertaining seeing what claim to fame he will come upon next. and his most recent actions over the few years make you wonder.
a few months later your phone pings because multiple heads of state evacuated from DC. the reason? eliot spencer was in town. you hear two days later a bioterrorist was taken down by… the report was redacted. your hacker tells you spencer and two teammates were behind the successful operation. which, huh.
not even a full year later it is released that spencer is dead and… you don’t know how to feel.
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bam i put a bunch of your IZ stickers in our little free library (hiding behind the books so zim jumpscares you when you take something) and there's this kid who just hovers and tries to copy them into her sketchbook when she gets dropped off at the park and my HEART oml. I had to tell u, it's just real precious.
do you have any idea how absolutely heartful this is. this is precious indeed. I'm gonna be thinking about this all day
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