Molly Schwartzburg

I don’t know if we have this particular portable tool—I was intrigued by this article, though. Anything to make this process less time-intensive.

Pantograph, rather than projection, perhaps? Though they could have used a camera lucida, presumably.

I expect, too, that large maps were laid out using a pantograph to convert a small drawing to huge scale…?

In the 19th century it was more likely lithographed. Original drawing would be broken into pieces and transferred to litho stones.

There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

@podsaveamerica.crooked.com Could you guys do an episode asap about the upcoming April 5 protests? Here in MA, Srn. Markey has called for 100000 people to gather on Boston Common that day! Maybe you could interview him.

TIL that our government thinks the term “cultural heritage” is woke. Wtf

You need to get yourself on the news. Nobody needs to hear your outrage right now. We know already. Get arrested. DO SOMETHING as our representative. Our country is dying.

You are confirming my profound desire to have a laser in our expanded printing studio when we get it....!

A poster saying The Strike is Coming and sharing the generalstrikeus.com website to sign your strike card.

Another great poster from one of our coalition members ✊
#uspolitics #generalstrike

How did you make a long s??

Democracy Forward - We go to court for democracy Democracy depends on a government that works for all people. We fight vigorously in court against abuses of power and attempts to undermine a government that works for people who need it most.

Thank you to DemocracyForward.org for suing in DC court, resulting in a judge putting a hold on the funding freeze. In a moment when it feels like there's nothing I can do, I'm going to send them some money tonight.

Gefunnelintofölderautomatischestat!

Hello everyone! I joined this space last year but only now does it seem to be taking off. Here’s some beauty.

Ask your Representative to vote no on Amtrak cuts | High Speed Rail Alliance The House is voting on a bill that would dramatically cut funding for passenger rail. Please ask your Representative to vote no!

If you value Amtrak, let your Representative know. The House will vote this week on a bill (H.R. 4820) that will significantly slash funding for passenger rail, including a 92 percent reduction in funds to the Northeast Corridor (NEC), the busiest rail corridor in the Western Hemisphere.

Course registrations for the spring semester are over, and there is not a single seat left in all of my department.

A department that is squarely an arts & humanities department.

Students still want the humanities, and they still want to create.

"Colour lithographs, called chromolithographs or oleographs, were developed in the second half of the 19th century. Although popular, they were of generally poor quality." --Encyclopedia Brittanica online. This is some very outdated classist print connoisseurship baloney. OK, rant over.

Yes, a disaster waiting to happen...or already happening, probably.

Sounds like the level of accuracy I've gotten with Chatgpt 3.5.

Public humanities for the win! Allie Ward of @ologies.bsky.social is one of my fave listens and this brilliant interview with W. Scott Poole about monsters is more than worth a listen. This is how it is done, imo.

I took yesterday off in anticipation of deep misery (got the shots yesterday morning) and today is my WFH day. My arm hurts a bit, that's it. But I did spend all of yesterday horizontal on the couch with fluffy coffee drinks, back issues of the NYRB and LBR, and the cats because that's my reward.

That's for sure! Will I see you at the fair next week?

Happy 1st work-iversary to me! I've currently got a popular exhibition in the main gallery, a guest lecture next week with a waiting list (!), a fabulous new assistant curator starting in a month, and about three thousand emails in my inbox. Seems about right.😅

Behance (n.) 1. A website that pops up on my Pinterest feed and shows me the most marvelously designed books I've ever seen, none of which appear to actually exist in real life. 2. An internet torture device.

It's unsurprising but still astonishing that women who wrote and/or illustrated dozens of books are almost entirely invisible in basic research sources.

Going to bed late after a ridiculous Wikipedia research session. I blame @typepunchmatrix for their new catalog, which introduced me to illustrator Dora Wheeler (who has a page) and Mary D. Brine, who did not. Improvements welcome. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Do...

So interesting—as a Berkeley native I find I bristle at this! Moe’s is Berkeley, not UC Berkeley or Cal. 😊

Arsenic Preserved the Animals, but Killed the Museum A popular taxidermy exhibit in Sioux Falls, S.D., was closed after the toxin was discovered laced throughout the specimens. Many lament the loss of the “works of art.”

An object lesson for our current fascination with arsenic in book covers. But what is the lesson? Which is riskier: the arsenic or the hype? www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/s...

Last week I removed from the stacks andplaced on a cart a ream of blank handmade paper that had been "assessed" in 1976. Now I need to figure out what to do next!

This happens to me ALL THE TIME. Especially amazing items I purchased at my last job and now I don't have a copy to teach with 😭