the writing university {extras}

erikkwakkel: The Chained Library of Zutphen I took these...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:55:10 -0400

The Chained Library of Zutphen

I took these pictures during a visit to the 16th-century chained library of Zutphen, in the east of the Netherlands. It is one of three such libraries still in existence in Europe. Nothing much has changed here for 550 years.

Here is more information (in English) on the chained library in Zutphen. Also check out this recent blog on medieval chained libraries (and Zutphen’s), written by one of the researchers in my project.

New Acquisition: 1878 La divina commedia di Dante with the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:43:00 -0400

New Acquisition: 1878 La divina commedia di Dante with the smallest movable type ever cast, a 2pt font called “flies’ eyes.” Tiny is the only word to describe this 58mm volume. In fact, Anne Bromer’s book claims the compositor and the corrector injured their eyesight! Test your own eyesight by stopping by to see it.

from uispeccoll

“Nobody with a Good Car Needs to be Justified!” -...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:07:46 -0400

“Nobody with a Good Car Needs to be Justified!” - Wise Blood (1979) film based on novel by Flannery O’Connor

Iowa City in bloom: from monkfishjowls: This scene reminded me...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:45:21 -0400

Iowa City in bloom:

from monkfishjowls:

This scene reminded me of Singapore.

Iowa City in bloom from icantstoptakingphotos

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:44:12 -0400

Iowa City in bloom

from icantstoptakingphotos

The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), a movie based on John Irvings...

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:39:33 -0400

The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), a movie based on John Irvings novel (1981) by the same title.

life, friends, is boring

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:45:00 -0400

life, friends, is boring

CHRIS DOMBROWSKI & ERICA BERNHEIM live at Prairie Lights,...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:43:50 -0400

CHRIS DOMBROWSKI & ERICA BERNHEIM live at Prairie Lights, 7pm tonight

this is the university of iowa MFA playwrights in a...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:34:41 -0400

this is the university of iowa MFA playwrights in a nutshell.

shamlet

So I’m working from existing maps to create a new Iowa City...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:25:18 -0400

So I’m working from existing maps to create a new Iowa City that remained the state capitol and became a larger, denser city of about 150,000. Coralville is absorbed, and becomes the home of the University, while North Liberty stays a suburb of Iowa City/bedroom community for Cedar Rapids. University Heights residents still claim that they live in a separate town, but they don’t, and nobody believes them. I-80 and 218/27 are replaced by high-speed rail lines, one running from St. Paul to St. Louis, the other from Chicago to Omaha.

This is a first draft, so there are still some things I want to change. It needs another east-west road that will get you across the river (which can be a problem sometimes), and areas still need filling in. The usual town planning issues.

Oh, and that empty chunk of land west of town, by the creek? It’s a self-governed principality run entirely by rabbits.

Updates to follow, assuming the real Iowa City doesn’t get washed away.

postersforrobots

Photo: the little section of the iowa river that runs through...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:31:04 -0400

Photo:

the little section of the iowa river that runs through campus can be quite beautiful.

Photos: What do you call a medieval manuscript that isn’t...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:10:24 -0400

Photos:

What do you call a medieval manuscript that isn’t medieval?

Also, what is that creature that is smoking a pipe? Any ideas?

Antiphonarium. Vel. (1720), 55 ff. (63 x 46 cm.). Written for a Spanish convent. Modern vellum binding (De Ricci 10)

Have I done too many manuscript posts? I just really love them. Totally biased. I’ll get you some historic photographs next week for balance :)

Photos: Neil DeGrasse Tyson lectures to a packed audience at the...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:25:18 -0400

about three hours into what was supposed to be a forty five minute lecture-he never lost enthusiasm.

live tweeting something he had said previously-when read back he said "Damn, that was good!"

Attempting to perform a wrestling move that he hopes someone will one day perfect. He calls it "The Double Tidal Lock"

Photos: Neil DeGrasse Tyson lectures to a packed audience at the IMU, April 15, 2013, Iowa City.

It’s perfectly normal to find something like this in the...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:33:24 -0400

It’s perfectly normal to find something like this in the English-Philosophy building :) #UIowa #englishmajor #college (at University of Iowa)

Poet Robert Frost and Paul Engle, director of the Iowa...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:33:26 -0400

Poet Robert Frost and Paul Engle, director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop from 1941-1965, meeting with workshop students circa 1959. Engle helped establish Iowa City’s literary rep by hosting a string of luminaries like Frost.

“This has been my home in Iowa City. I finished Loteria...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:16:28 -0400

“This has been my home in Iowa City. I finished Loteria in this room, sold it, then started another novel called Giselle. Now it’s time to go.”

— marioalbertozambrano

Sunset off College Street in Iowa City. Love my town. from...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:09:03 -0400

Sunset off College Street in Iowa City. Love my town.

from adorableblackgiant

great photos from adorableblackgiant: Downtown Iowa City.

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:24:23 -0400

great photos from adorableblackgiant:

Downtown Iowa City.

Almost spring in Iowa City

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:18:52 -0400

Almost spring in Iowa City

era-vulgaris22: Walkin through dreary Iowa City this morning...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:10:21 -0400

era-vulgaris22:

Walkin through dreary Iowa City this morning and listening to Head in the Ceiling Fan by Title Fight is beautifully depressing. I’m feelin super poetic this mornin… #iowacity #titlefight #spring #sundaymorning