About five years ago I created a collection of full-page editorial cartoons from The Bulletin, harvested from #Trove. Through a process that might be politely described as ‘iterative’, I fiddled with an assortment of queries and methods until I had at least one cartoon from every issue published between 4 September 1886 and 17 September 1952 – 3,471 cartoons in total.

Last night, as I was tidying up a new release of the Trove periodicals repository in the #GLAMWorkbench, I had a thought – why not put all of the details of the cartoons in a little database and make it available using Datasette-Lite for easy exploration? So I did! https://updates.timsherratt.org/2024/03/19/a-new-way.html #histodons #digitalHumanities #GLAM @histodons #ozHist

Paris-based software engineer Etienne Jacob takes a creative approach to coding with his mesmerizing animations that fall at the intersection of art and math.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/01/etienne-jacob-gifs/

#math #gif #animation

Astounding vol. 63, no. 4 (June 1959)

You have to look at this one for a moment before you get it. There's a portal opened up in a US forest, which lets this puzzled dude see through to … Africa? He's going to walk through it and test out that “in the land of no buckets, the one-bucket man is king” theory.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v63n04_1959-06_EXciter-LennyS

#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration