Friedrich Roeingh, the editor of the regional Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung picked up on my research and published this article in yesterday’s weekend edition. (DeepL.com translation below) No more kicking the…
This is the story of 4 significant sculptures by a significant living artist flanking the entrance to the world’s leading printing museum. The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. It’s…
The Burgundermarkt on the Gutenbergplatz is a bi-annual and much anticipated event where small producers from Mainz’s twin town of Dijon set up their stands and sell everything from fresh…
Advertising pillar outside the Gutenberg Museum
Four images made it through to the final: 17 August 5 July (I seriously thought that I’d win a photo competition with tis one, but they chose something that was…
The 2 Johnnies jointly celebrating #2000, Johnny G being marginally more famous than the undersigned. Whatever.
This morning, I did my Good Samurai act in saving Cynthia, Judy and Carol (all originally from New Jersey, but now spread between there, Baltimore and Texas) from a fate…
is worth a….no, better not go there….. Seraphic avian feeding at the Gutenberg Museum
A cherub (or is it a seraph…?) serenading from a safe height at the Gutenberg Museum
The aerial walkway linking Rainer Schell‘s 1961 museum with the 2000 extension
Someone throw him a lifejacket! Failing that, this is his imminent (not a happy one, I might add…) future: Hypoosmolar water affects the surface tension of alveolar surfactant, causing an…
…loutish behaviour and enormous quantities of rubbish. For some people, at least. Namely those who risk blindness by drinking this stuff…
Medical students in the making at the Gutenberg Museum’s print shop.
Translation as (pdf) here ….in the summer (if you can call it that…) of the Year MMXI that the renowned bird scribess Cibus Mercator of the Moguntiae Genera Papyrus did…
School class on the market and at the Gutenberg museum Clipboards loaded with questions and tasks, one of which is to replicate Carolingia text (below) with a quill (top). Verbal…
Good selection at the Johannisnacht market. (I spy with my little eye one for 50 Grad….)
Aqueductoral detail on one of the 9 carved stone cubes spelling out Johannes’ name on their horizontal surface one of the vertical planes in front of the Gutenberg Museum. (Why…
Historical stuff, this…. “Typesetting and Design” Typesetting machine knowledge” “The serigraph manual” In 30 years, we (you, actually, I’ll have fallen off the perch by then…) will stumble over…
Rampant cubism on display in one of the City of Science installations.
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. I’ve now updated the information…
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. I’ve now updated the…
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. Google has kindly misplaced posts…
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. I’ve now (2017) updated…
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. I’ve now (2017) updated the…
The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – initially a 12 part series attempting to unravel the mystery of the bronze gates of the Gutenberg Museum. I’ve now updated (2017) the…
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