Pt 2. Of Marxist playing card concepts. One of the previous Jameson faces and one of the Sylvia Winter faces here is off, but not really important for this stage.

Beginning concepts for Marxist playing cards.

Leaving for MLG. I kinda hate flying, now, so wish me luck. And see me if you’re there!

“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.” -Walter Benjamin, One-Way Street

RIP to this sticker. I only have five left and am saving them for sticker bundles. You had a good run.

W. Benjamin is actually quite funny. “Teaching Aid: Principles of the Weighty Tome, or How to Write Fat Books,” from One-Way Street.

It’s summer, so I have more time to print. 20% off the lot. allgrimprints.shop

Last week I posted about feeling down about the union. We just secured the first pay scale in my school’s history, and another first is I received these flowers from a colleague as a thanks for being on the BC. Chin uppers.

I had a really brutal bargaining session tonight and feel pretty defeated. Tell me anything good or some good song.

Jesus.

New Benjamin because I’m writing a chapter on this. allgrimprints.shop/products/ben...

Just saw this. We should be hearing from Alex and others soon.

Israel's ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shared this video showing Israeli forces abusing detained flotilla activists. Zeteo calls for the immediate release of all activists, humanitarians, and journalists abducted, including our contributor Alex Colston.

Our friend @recolston.bsky.social was kidnapped in international waters and is currently being held by Israel for the crime of bringing aid to people under genocide. He hasn’t posted in days since being intercepted, and the few videos we’ve seen coming out show abuse.

allgrimprints.shop/products/the... Finally got the Dürer in the shop. Send it to your wealthy friends.

@phil-kapitan.bsky.social with the classroom nat 20. Enjoy the monster print.

Final day for the giveaway. I’ll roll it tomorrow.

This was a weird one. I found a 1 3/4”x 40” piece of cork board and decided to carve it. It fought me, crumbled, and I have no idea how many prints I’ll get out of it before it falls apart. However, I enjoyed it. You don’t see many prints this size/shape.

My mom loves to bring up this card I made her when I was a wee child. “I love you with all my hart.” My mom is a white woman.

Three days left on the giveaway.

Now that I finished that large print, I don’t know what to do! And if one of you says, “your diss,” I’m blocking you.

Reminder that I’m giving one of these away. You’d better have a lot of free wall space.

125 hours later, I did it. Albrecht Dürer’s “Four Horsemen.”

Dürer print giveaway. Allgrimprints.shop

Many hours in the last two days. Close, but still so many small lines.

Taught it for the second time today and the class ACTUALLY cheered at the final lines.

I get to talk about this essay next week so I’m brazenly sharing it here modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

Parents and guardians: what was the first “classic” lit(loose) you read with a kiddo that they loved? What was it and what age?

Wow sale. Few more weeks.

Dürer progress. We cookin.

Spontaneous 20% off everything sale. allgrimprints.shop

I’m so honored!!!!! Buy one! Have your library order one!

I’m going to have some money to spend at Stanford U Press. Does anyone have a book or know some good ones? Plug yourself. Plug another.

Book Swap styling by @allgrim.bsky.social

Dürer? I hardly know her.

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Now Available allgrimprints.shop/products/the...

Recarve of Hans Holbein’s “The Escutcheon of Death,” 1538. Printed on Japanese mulberry paper, and also the first time I used my new glass baren (so smooth). 16’x22’

Printed another 50 of these. If you haven’t read the Trinity Formula, it’s better than “Value Price and Profit.” allgrimprints.shop/products/ill...

1 in 5 lebanese citizens displaced by israel

Next chunk down.

I don’t think they’re on here, but as someone (slowly) writing a diss on abstraction and lit, holy moly am I excited to read this.

Long.

A few more hours down.

A little more.

Carving day 1. About 3 hours.

Changing my diss to mimic the Arcades Project. Unfinished.

Taking a break from the large Dürer and pivoting to monster number two: Hans Holbein’s “The Escutcheon of Death”

I’m now having to explain why I don’t get the same international shipping agreements as large corporations.