The Lacemaker (Vermeer) foreground. By rendering areas of the canvas as out-of-focus, Vermeer is able to suggest depth of field in a manner unusual of Dutch Baroque painting of the era. In "The Lacemaker", the artist presents in an abstract manner the various elements which compose the girl's face and body and the pattern of the material on which she is working. The girl's hands, the curls of her hair and the T-cross which form her eyes and nose are all described in an abstract manner unusual for the era in which Vermeer worked. In addition, the red and white of the lace
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