Abecedarian : posts tagged castle in the air

Found 111 posts tagged ‘castle in the air’

Restoring the Lost Sense – August 30, 2018

From Kladderadatsch, 1928.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #moon #dreaming #sleepwalking #rooftop #wishing #castle in the air #sleepwalker

Restoring the Lost Sense – August 13, 2018

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From The Judge, 1921.

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Restoring the Lost Sense – May 30, 2018

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From The Judge, 1912.

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#vintage illustration #new york #pipe dream #castle in the air #skyscraper #vision of the future

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 12, 2018

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From English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1918.

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Restoring the Lost Sense – March 5, 2018

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Opportunity always goes topless and is incurably exhibitionistic. That's the origin of "windows of opportunity." The caption to this piece reads, "To opportunity's topless towers." From Everybody's Magazine, 1920.

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Yearbook Weirdness – November 22, 2017

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From The Comet yearbook (Vanderbilt, 1887). See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #incense #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #castle in the air

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 17, 2017

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"It was no optical illusion, no phantasy." From The Golden Lake by Carlton Dawe, 1891.

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What's In a Name – June 5, 2017

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The heir to castles in the air is one John Putkins, census-taker, as revealed in Putkins, Heir to Castles in the Air, A Comic Drama in One Act by William R. Emerson, 1871.

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Strange Dreams – October 29, 2016

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A daydream of Death taking out heroes and damsels, scholars and businessmen and schoolboys, as king and clergy look on. From Once a Week, 1865.

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#vintage illustration #death #daydream #illustration #pipe dream #castle in the air

Restoring the Lost Sense – August 8, 2016

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From More Tales from the Arabian Nights by Edward William Lane and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1915.

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#vintage illustration #crescent moon #starry night #moonlight #night #arabian nights #in the clouds #illustration #castle in the air

Forgotten Wisdom – November 8, 2010

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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle.

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#ireland #castle in the air #grass is greener