The iconic painting of the dodo bird above, by Roelandt Savery circa 1626, will hang in the UK Natural History Museum starting January 21st, 2011, as part of the permanent… [read full post]
The famous dodo painting and its modern translation
The Blog of the LCSNA
Author: James Welsch
-Blogger for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
-Editor at www.itwaslost.org (O it was lost for ever! and we found it not) an art & music weblog.
Naughty Alice Perfume
From the Scented Salamander: British designer Vivienne Westwood is paying homage to Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland this fall with a new perfume called Naughty Alice which will debut in late September 2010…. [read full post]
Lewis Carroll Apps for Android
Publish This, LLC, has a new app for the Android Market (Android is the operating system Google developed for non-iPhone smartphones) with the zingy title “Lewis Carroll Collection Books” ($0.99.)… [read full post]
Sergey Tyukanov’s ornate “Alice in Wonderland”
London’s Saatchi Gallery has images online from Russian-American artist Sergey Tyukanov. His fabulous “Alice in Wonderland” is pictured above. At his website, we find the Sergey Tyukanov Museum of Art; stroll… [read full post]
Cryptozoologist Dr Karl Shuker on the Cheshire Cat
Cryptozoology, according to the Wikipedia, “refers to the search for animals which are considered to be legendary or otherwise nonexistent by the field of biology. ” Dr Karl Shuker, according… [read full post]
Blog claims to have Lewis Carroll reading the Jabberwocky
While not impossible (Dodgson didn’t die till after the advent of sound recording), I was skeptical when this blog 22 Words claimed to have a recording of “Lewis Carroll reading… [read full post]
The Henry Altemus Company’s Alices
The Henry Altemus Company published editions of AAIW and TTLG at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Centuries. A website called www.henryaltemus.com has recently added a… [read full post]
Possibly Lousy Documentary on the Market
This has been out for a year, but it’s the first time it came across our desk. The LCSNA member who forwarded it to us suspected that it was “execrable.”… [read full post]
CNN Linguist cringes at 2010’s portmanteaus
Linguist Robert Beard (the author of The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English, which I’ve heard is a bit prejudiced against the Anglo-Saxon) complains in CNN’s 2010 Year in Review… [read full post]
Occupational Hazard
Congratulations to Rebecca Shawyer, an artist from Cable Bay, New Zealand, for winning the People’s Choice Award at the 2010 Portage Ceramic Awards. Linda Laird reports in the The Northern… [read full post]