Natura Artis Magistra, or simply Artis, is Amsterdam’s city centre zoo. It was founded back in the 1830s, making it one of the oldest zoos in the world. As such, it’s has a fascinating history: it has many monumental buildings, including the plantearium and the aquarium, it was a haven for refugees during World War …
As readers of this blog should know all too well, palaeoart is a field where copying other people’s work is commonplace. This is especially true if a nonexpert artist has been commissioned to cook something up on the cheap. How many books have been reviewed here whose artwork can be traced back to the old …
DAY 2 – 20 october 2019 Day 2 of TetZooCon meant we needed to rise early again, but not unreasonably so. Did we mention how happy we are that the convention now starts at 10 instead of 9? By this time, it had become clear that Marc’s boiler had broken down, so we had to …
Hello everbody! Here’s a new face at LITC. I’ve been a reader and friend of the blog for a while. This year I came over from the Netherlands to attend my first ever TetZooCon, in the company of Marc and Natee. Between Marc and I, the suggestion came up that I should do the write-up …