Sarah C. Schaefer
@sarahcschaefer.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Mostly Tolkien.
Came across this ad for the Milwaukee School of Engineering in vol 1 issue 2 of Amazing Stories!
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July 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Came across this ad for the Milwaukee School of Engineering in vol 1 issue 2 of Amazing Stories!
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Very cool, Popular Mechanics, but why did you use an image of Bryn Celli Ddu in North Wales?
#popularmechanics
#popularmechanics
July 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Very cool, Popular Mechanics, but why did you use an image of Bryn Celli Ddu in North Wales?
#popularmechanics
#popularmechanics
Milein Cosman, who was initially approached to do illustrations for Farmer Giles of Ham. Both images from 1942-43; Eagle and Child on the right.
#tolkien
#tolkien
July 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Milein Cosman, who was initially approached to do illustrations for Farmer Giles of Ham. Both images from 1942-43; Eagle and Child on the right.
#tolkien
#tolkien
Double feature suggestion: "Meatloaf's World" --> Wayne's World and Spice World
July 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Double feature suggestion: "Meatloaf's World" --> Wayne's World and Spice World
Learned a few days ago that Ian Ballantine lived next to Todd Rudgren. My dad about lost his mind.
June 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Learned a few days ago that Ian Ballantine lived next to Todd Rudgren. My dad about lost his mind.
Unexpected/completely predictable search result following a conversation that started with “How funny would it be if we got a phrenological head for our house?”
May 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Unexpected/completely predictable search result following a conversation that started with “How funny would it be if we got a phrenological head for our house?”
When I thought of the "Jackson Prison," my mind typically went instead to the more centrally-located old prison site, with its picturesque, medievalizing brick facade. Still imposing, its defunct status made it an object of fascination, not anxiety, fear, or anger.
March 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
When I thought of the "Jackson Prison," my mind typically went instead to the more centrally-located old prison site, with its picturesque, medievalizing brick facade. Still imposing, its defunct status made it an object of fascination, not anxiety, fear, or anger.
It also brought me back to growing up in a town known for having what was once the largest walled prison in the world. I still use it as a way of identifying the location to other Michiganders, despite not having seen the site until well into high school.
March 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It also brought me back to growing up in a town known for having what was once the largest walled prison in the world. I still use it as a way of identifying the location to other Michiganders, despite not having seen the site until well into high school.
I've never been much of an annotator, but there are a few instances I remember thinking that it was especially important to do so. Discipline and Punish, purchased at my undergrad mentor's insistence, is one of them.
March 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I've never been much of an annotator, but there are a few instances I remember thinking that it was especially important to do so. Discipline and Punish, purchased at my undergrad mentor's insistence, is one of them.
It conjured up a lot of personal reflection that didn't end up in the piece. My first undergraduate research project, which solidified my art historical interests, examined Toulouse-Lautrec's poster for the serialized memoir of Abbé Faure, "At the Foot of the Scaffold."
March 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It conjured up a lot of personal reflection that didn't end up in the piece. My first undergraduate research project, which solidified my art historical interests, examined Toulouse-Lautrec's poster for the serialized memoir of Abbé Faure, "At the Foot of the Scaffold."
I love my friends
February 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I love my friends
Unreleased test footage of Gandalf vs. Durin’s Bane
February 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Unreleased test footage of Gandalf vs. Durin’s Bane
Brb gonna go barf for a few hours
February 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Brb gonna go barf for a few hours
Also, what a big time for Embeth Davidtz––Army of Darkness (1992) and Schindler's List (1993)!
January 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Also, what a big time for Embeth Davidtz––Army of Darkness (1992) and Schindler's List (1993)!
Sidebar: in my household, Bogus Journey is held up as equal to, if not surpassing Excellent Adventure, in quality.
January 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Sidebar: in my household, Bogus Journey is held up as equal to, if not surpassing Excellent Adventure, in quality.
A nod to Saint-Lazare (Autun) in Season of the Witch (2011)
January 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A nod to Saint-Lazare (Autun) in Season of the Witch (2011)
no way this is a real person
January 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
no way this is a real person
Grateful to Jeff Zalar and Tony Steinhoff for including me and for their commitment to bringing this excellent volume to fruition!
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December 14, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Grateful to Jeff Zalar and Tony Steinhoff for including me and for their commitment to bringing this excellent volume to fruition!
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@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
But from paid entry to no photography to basic physical accessibility, it’s pretty clear that this space is meant for a very limited set of audiences (and is in stark contrast with every other museum I’ve visited in Oxford).
December 1, 2024 at 3:13 PM
But from paid entry to no photography to basic physical accessibility, it’s pretty clear that this space is meant for a very limited set of audiences (and is in stark contrast with every other museum I’ve visited in Oxford).
From the Gallery stacks at the Bodleian’s Weston Library
November 28, 2024 at 12:02 AM
From the Gallery stacks at the Bodleian’s Weston Library
I’d never seen a Schaefer ad abroad before!
November 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM
I’d never seen a Schaefer ad abroad before!
About a week to go at the Bodleian and I'm already looking wistfully back on the first few days, which were entirely focused on sketching from Tolkien's drawings (I'm thinking of them as 'visual paraphrases'). Here's a few samples...
November 25, 2024 at 5:53 PM
About a week to go at the Bodleian and I'm already looking wistfully back on the first few days, which were entirely focused on sketching from Tolkien's drawings (I'm thinking of them as 'visual paraphrases'). Here's a few samples...