Brush up your Digital Library, Start Downloading Now!

     Today I decided to spend some good time alone, researching Krakatoa and other things. I even found some good list Wikipedia pages, which were made for people who love big numbers and learning about horrific events no one talks about. I learned a lot of stuff that I will not need for my next geohazards test but I'm okay with that because at least I'm not raging just bc my entire driveway is ice (it's the only way to leave my house). 

just a glimpse into my dark reality

    I am both a tech wizard and modernity-fearful. I hate hate hate AI, but I am always on my downloading, converting, and searching. In my geohazards class, I watch all these freshmen and sophomores breeze through the weekly 100-question hws by copying and pasting into chat GPT instead of my method of ctrl+f-ing the exact phrase I want to find in the textbook. I feel old and out-paced yet I haven't even graduated yet. I feel dirty when I use AI, it's not something I can use as a creative tool. 

    If you want to use the internet to really learn and make things, so many real people have made free sites to do whatever it is you're trying to do. My fav site for text art on this blog is this site, which I found randomly when I needed to make my neocities spiffier. 

    Ok, I'll stop evangelizing, it's really not like I am any more experienced than anyone else on here. When I was a kid, I was terrified of social media sites because I thought I'd get arrested bc I was too young. I instead went exploring, mainly reading webcomics and (as previously mentioned again and again) the Animal Crossing fandom wiki. I also loved making my own newspapers and games in Google Docs and Scratch. So I was often doing exactly what I do here. 

Pompadour in her robe

    Anyways, another major major major interest of mine is 1700s France. I love Marie Antoinette, I love the Sun King, I love a classic robe à la française!!! I've been on Jstor, looking at their image collections, specifically the Brooklyn Museum costume collection (I'm only halfway through!). I wish Jstor was more organized, the costume collection spans 1700 to the present (at least!) and has all sorts of different garments and cultures. When I was looking for fashion images in general, the site hinted that all the best Versailles-era dresses, française or anglaise, were hidden in this collection. 

Grace Dalrymple Elliott à l'anglaise

    With my patience, I have found some incredible things. The Brooklyn Museum (my local museum btw...) was the first museum I ever saw a fashion exhibit at. It was the Dior show which I think traveled around the fashion capitals or something like that. The collection includes a lot of stuff also seen at the Costume Institute, especially a lot of weird of Schiaparelli. They even had her roach buttons. 

    The highlight of my scrolling was the fashion dolls. If you get into fashion history, they always starts you in the time of Worth, when people sent designs around by dressing up dolls with miniature looks. They had some references to those French fashions I was looking for, but I could put that aside for the furs and coats these little wireframe dolls were wearing. 

    Here are a few of the dolls I HAD to save for later:

They are really each a little intricate piece of art. There's nothing like making a small version to make me go insane about it. See you guys tmr!

Sleep tight! From Krill