Various Urban Textures. All My Own Photos From Around Our Little Irish City.

Happy to see some quality rework of the Mouse that isn't a slasher.

Mousetrapped Weekend Filler #1: The Winkler Street Orphans, Summer 1915

Sorry, weekends are when I recover and work on comics for the next week, but I will try to post production art.

As long those slippery cobblestones and a cold drizzle don’t ruin your mood, a stroll through the oldest Swiss town can definitely have some charm. Even though not exactly the first name springing into mind, you’ll recognize in Chur the swissness of its old town alleys, bland stone walls marked with cryptic heraldry, imposing seriousness, stability and frigid dampness. As you sulk along hoping the perseverant drip won’t find a way through your seams, suddenly an old painted house bemuses you with an arguably out of place liveliness… or is its energy just out of its time? Were the Swiss different in those days?

Nevemind that thought, time for a pint in some dry place, not far from the growing waters of the Rhine. The local Viamala golden lager is following the traditional brewing around here - bready and smooth with a discrete vein of hops. Yup, the Stadtbier Chur does good stuff and true to the tradition.

As seen in York earlier this summer.  

More mood board musings. It's one part dark academia, one part something else.

Tuscany

Now this is wisdom. I mean, the source title says it all.

“Fairy tales — the proper kind, those original Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen tales I recall from my Eastern European childhood, unsanitized by censorship and unsweetened by American retellings — affirm what children intuitively know to be true but are gradually taught to forget, then to dread: that the terrible and the terrific spring from the same source, and that what grants life its beauty and magic is not the absence of terror and tumult but the grace and elegance with which we navigate the gauntlet.”

— Maria Popova, “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear” (via soracities)

Yale

Alexander Calder, Mucca (La Vache), 1971 - from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy

I'm definitely into this look. And guys, if you're not following @dutchvintage, you should!