Ftrain, by Paul Ford

Mar 7, 2016 · Article · Medium

Caricatures

Caricatures

Originally published at posts.postlight.com on March 3, 2016. Some nights I can’t sleep after a long day building digital platforms for large or growing organizations. A good insomniac activity is searching through texts, organized in reverse chronological order, on Archive.org. The search term needs to be a nice, visual word, like “ornament,” “illustrated,” or “caricature.”

Caricature is a very fruitful search and I return to it once or twice a year and always discover something new. For example there is 1813’s An historical sketch of the art of caricaturing : with graphic illustrations, which yielded the above illustration. Or, a bit further down, 1868’s: Geographical fun: being humourous outlines of various countries.

Or 1844’s The miniature painter’s manual:

And then this very weird book, 1911’s Club men of Columbus in caricature, with affectionately mocking portraits of the well-to-do professionals of Ohio:

There’s this tiny sketch of Einstein by Einstein, from 1946:

And, finally, from 1941’s The Art of Caricaturing:

G’night.

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Today’s JavaScript library: JavaScript Air — The live video broadcast podcast all about JavaScript and the Web platform. Today’s public data set: SMS Spam Collection in English. Today’s React component: react-with-di — A hacked prototype of React.js with DI. Today’s North Korean slogan: “Consider it as the revolutionary ethics and revolutionary party discipline to work and live in a simple, honest and upright manner!” Today’sCreative Commons media link: Unsplash — Library of high-resolution images. Today’s variety of religious experience: Isoko mythology(Nigeria). Today’s freely available programming book: Blender 3D: Noob to Pro.

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