*A strange cousin of luxury multitools, maybe.

*It’s not art, but it’s Italian and how could we not blog it on ARTMAKER. https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article/37/4/044122/3345324/Phase-behavior-of-Cacio-e-Pepe-sauce?ref=404media.co Pasta alla Cacio e pepe” is a traditional Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino cheese, and pepper. Despite its simple ingredient list, achieving the perfect texture and creaminess of the sauce can be challenging. In this study, we systematically […]

This inventor of historical fiction was an “antiquary” well before he became a novelist. In this personal narrative by Scott’s disciple Washington Irving, one can see that Scott regards antiques as historically-reversed “diegetic prototypes.” Scott intuits that these mute objects have a narrative. They were what they were, and are what they are, for historical […]

*It’s not for everybody, but it’s the kind of art-history you’d want to read off the website here. https://liseuse.harmattan.fr/9782336465340

That’s quite a weird little tool bag. The most interesting thing about it is that it’s designed for Laura Kampf’s long-established personal habit of scroUunging street junk for Makertaimnent purposes. Also, she made a hundred of them and they sold out instantly at a price-point of USD $160, so it’s nice to see this German […]

*This YouTube influencer is trying to pastiche the difference between histocial costume-play and high-tech prepper survivalism. *I don’t know if it “works,” but it’s interesting video preppertainment with a remarkable and distinctive look, so to that extent it would probably work for him. https://youtu.be/fmUignz2R6o?si=Y55ACz7sVdFAnQzH

*Includes a pocket-sized “planter’s knife” made in Sheffield, which Scott bought for himself in that city of steel-works, and carried around the extensive fields of Abbotsford, in order to work on pruning his trees. *Scott was a very serious land-developer and he often remarked that “his oaks would outlast his laurels.” Since Scott’s poetic laurels […]