The Lacemaker (Vermeer) The Lacemaker (Vermeer) The Lacemaker is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), completed around 1669–1670 and held in the Louvre, Paris. The work shows a young woman dressed in a yellow shawl, holding up a pair of bobbins in her left hand as she carefully places a pin in the pillow on which she is making her bobbin lace. At 24.5 cm x 21 cm (9.6 in x 8.3 in), the work is the smallest of Vermeer's paintings, but in many ways one of his most abstract and unusual. The canvas used was cut from the same
The Brown Jug Jug" features humorous content which mocks popular culture, fashion trends, politics, humorous illustrations, and events around the Brown University's campus. Twice a semester, the "Jug" releases about five hundred copies of a new issue. Each issue has a theme to which most of the material relates, such as “religion,” “the future,” “evil” and “inventions.” "The Jug" is about twenty-two pages in length and features mainly satirical articles in the style of McSweeney's, "The New Yorker" and "Harper's Magazine", though it also regularly includes lists, cartoons, monologues, dialogues, poetry, journal entries, letters, timelines, and other sorts of written comedy. There is