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The Wiki site for a new (2009) textbook that combines the Bauhaus Basic Course with the Adobe Creative Suite. Written by Xtine Burroughs and Michael Mandiberg.

From Wikipedia: "Tipu's Tiger (a.k.a. Tippoo's Tiger) is an automaton, representing a tiger savaging a European soldier, or employee of the British East India Company. It is currently on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu%27s_Tiger

I wonder if he's looked at a lot of Hogarth? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Lane I like the way the architecture is so oppressive in his work - almost like a cemetery. Do you know if he works from models? I'm asking because there is a strong sense of posing in the fight scenes - which turns them into more of an aesthetic experience as opposed to a visceral experience.

An unconventional - and very old print titled Werewolf by Lucas Cranach. There is no full moon, no fangs, no howling - just a yard littered with bodies and body parts and a horrific depiction of a small child being carried away in the mouth of a madman whose only indication of wolf-ness is what may or may not be long ears coming out of his hair.

This is a depiction of Jean Grenier, a famous french werewolf.

If he was French, he was undoubtedly a good chef as well as a werewolf.

Images of each page from the Voynich Manuscript - an anonymously written, indecipherable book from the 15th or 16th century.