September 02, 2010

"His Divine Grace"

hdg (0).jpgI have no idea what this hogwash is supposed to mean, but these are some truly stunning, stunningly bizarre paintings. No idea who the artist is, unfortunately.


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August 31, 2010

Unknown Artist - Childcraft

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August 25, 2010

Beelzebub's Grocery List

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August 24, 2010

James Agee - Three Fragments

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I am an Angel

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August 23, 2010

One Block to Disneyland

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August 21, 2010

Hey God!

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August 17, 2010

Warning Sign

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August 11, 2010

War Effort, Hurrah!

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August 10, 2010

Rotifer Group

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August 08, 2010

My New Living Room

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August 04, 2010

Seafood Mousse

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August 03, 2010

Human Skin

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August 02, 2010

Rapture

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August 01, 2010

EEEEEEEK

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July 31, 2010

Bloody Castle

tingler.jpg The Tingler, directed by William Castle, 1959

16 Colors

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July 29, 2010

Velvet Mite

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July 28, 2010

Essentials of Drafting

essentials_of_drafting (0).jpgDrafting manual, unknown date.


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July 27, 2010

Who's Your Tailor, Baby?

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July 25, 2010

Jesus Generation!

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July 21, 2010

Franklin McMahon

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July 20, 2010

Ken Riley

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July 19, 2010

Reach for Power

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July 18, 2010

Candy Cigarettes

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July 17, 2010

Laces & Stitches

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July 13, 2010

DP

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July 12, 2010

Factory Model

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July 11, 2010

Butter Sunrise

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July 09, 2010

The Future In Color

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July 08, 2010

Color Crystal

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July 07, 2010

Computer Somethings

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July 05, 2010

Jack Davis Misc.

jd_misc (0).jpgVarious Jack Davis illustrations. This first one was the cover to Sidetracked Home Executives, written by Pam Young and Peggy Jones, 1981.


jd_misc (1).jpgThe remainder of these are from a couple golf magazines of the mid-1970s. Cartoonists and golf: an eternal WTF for me. I mean, I like miniature golf, Putt-Putt or whatever, but geez.


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July 03, 2010

Interplanetary Ephemera

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July 02, 2010

Bubblegum Pop

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June 29, 2010

Zee TP

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June 28, 2010

Cubix Cozy

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June 25, 2010

All About Using Chain Saws

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June 23, 2010

Hunger On / Hunger Off

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June 22, 2010

Better Rayon

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Movie Review: Zizek!

mr_zizek.jpgNever has a human being lived who was more full of shit than ZIZEK. 1/10

June 21, 2010

John Wayne - Shootist, Smoothest

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June 20, 2010

George Price - "Let's Go for Broke"

gp_lgfb (0).jpg1962 illustrations by the great George Price (more here) for Mary Lasswell's Let's Go for Broke. The smaller spots seem to merely be isolated and slightly altered bits of the larger cover piece.


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June 19, 2010

The Force

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June 18, 2010

Excellent Traction

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June 17, 2010

Subconscious Mi... Eh, What?

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June 15, 2010

Cartoon Crybabies #7

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June 14, 2010

Parboiling

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June 13, 2010

Seahorse Boards

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June 12, 2010

Nostrils What?

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June 11, 2010

Robots and Their Functions

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June 10, 2010

Bold Kohler Bellbottoms

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June 09, 2010

Yummy Flanks

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June 08, 2010

Computer Camp Ads in "Sunset" Mag

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June 07, 2010

HAHA Accidents

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June 06, 2010

Vapona

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June 05, 2010

Octopus

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June 04, 2010

Fuck Yeah, Bud

fyb.jpgHilarious ad by Mark Martin that appeared in an older Comics Journal, parodying that mag's then-recent, flabbergasting and mind-boggling interview with Todd McFarlane, still one of the best they ever published.

June 03, 2010

Chester Gould - A Conscientious Worker

cgcw.jpgThe great Chester Gould, true square and creator of Dick Tracy, perhaps the most genuinely strange comic strip embraced by the unstrange masses. Pictures like this, of mid-century cartoonists ensconced in their wainscoted, tiled studios, windows open to birch trees, shirtsleeves rolled up, pipe at hand, probably did more to encourage my cartooning aspirations than the actual cartoons they created. Too bad it was all gone before I was even born.

June 02, 2010

Native African Tribes

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June 01, 2010

Pinball Pix

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May 31, 2010

Disco Pix

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May 30, 2010

Comic Realities in "Newsweek"

comic_realities_in_newsweek (0).jpgNovember 23, 1970


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May 29, 2010

Magic Golf Balls

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May 28, 2010

La La La

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May 27, 2010

Kangaroo Rat

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May 26, 2010

Japanese Idyll

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May 25, 2010

Strange Phenomena

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Pop-Art Hand

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May 24, 2010

Charles Schulz in "Family Circle"

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May 23, 2010

Francis Chase

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May 22, 2010

I Know This Guy

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May 21, 2010

Movie Review: "L'Avventura"

mr_l'avventura.jpgThe title of this film is a LIE! A big fat stinking LIE! There's no "adventure" in this movie, it's just a bunch of stuck-ups lost on an island and looking bored in bed. Not cool, not exciting. L'Avvoid, at all costs. 10/10

Plumbo

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May 20, 2010

Eames "Do-Nothing" Machine

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May 19, 2010

Greatest "Radio Shack" in the World

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May 18, 2010

Yeah, I Bet So, Dr. Humbert

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Movie Review: "Lola"

mr_lola.jpgSirk-on-acid melodrama at which Fassbinder so excelled. Startlingly vivid color photography. It's a movie, it was made on film, with actors and a story. I like it. I'm writing about it right now. Where am I. 8/10

May 17, 2010

Art Young in "Heavenly Discourse"

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May 16, 2010

Unidentified Images

unident_images (0).jpgA couple more examples of my poor record keeping... I have no indication of who created these illustrations or where they came from, though I'm gonna guess a Readers Digest Condensed Books collection, possibly 1960 - 1980.


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May 15, 2010

Hogarth's "Tarzan"

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May 14, 2010

Mental Illness

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May 13, 2010

Garsh

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May 12, 2010

Ed Fitzgerald - Ears, Eyes, Mouths, Noses

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May 11, 2010

"Sometimes I Feel Like a Blob"

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May 10, 2010

From a Book About Numbers

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May 09, 2010

Facial Angles

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May 08, 2010

Erectile Galaxy

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May 07, 2010

Jack Sidebotham

htgayf (0).jpgFrom a book called How to Give Away Your Faith by Paul E. Little with cartoons by Jack Sidebotham. 1966.


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May 06, 2010

Movie Review: "Ugetsu"

mr_ugetsu.jpgExquisitely photographed ghost story/moral parable. A bit simplistic or even didactic, but the truths of greed, vanity and short-sightedness never go out of style. And the expected results - losses for all the characters - are nonetheless very affecting. 9/10

May 05, 2010

Each Category

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May 04, 2010

Apparently This Is All the Rage

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May 03, 2010

Giorgio de Gaspari

gdg (0).jpgExceptionally impressive illustrations by Giorgio de Gaspari from a Readers Digest Condensed Books collection. Didn't record the publication date... mid 70s? Not sure.


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May 02, 2010

Chest Hair

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April 30, 2010

Beeline

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April 29, 2010

Ed Gurney in "Outdoor Life"

eg_ol (0).jpgA few illos by Ed Gurney from Outdoor Life magazine, mid 70s. More here.


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April 28, 2010

Sailor Beware

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April 27, 2010

Black Pimp

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April 26, 2010

Forms of Bandages

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April 23, 2010

Beauty Mask

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April 22, 2010

Helmut K. Wimmer - "Life Beyond the Earth"

hkw_lbe (0).jpgA few scientific illustrations by Helmut K. Wimmer from 1969's Life Beyond the Earth.


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April 21, 2010

Movie Review: "La Cienaga"

mr_lacienaga.jpgMartel is one of the better female directors working today - her body of work is obviously smaller than someone like Claire Denis, but her style and approach is no less distinct. This film in particular captures the humid atmosphere of South American middle class (?) decay palpably well. Hints of Wertmuller, Pasolini, et al. 8/10

Elaine Johnston - "Childcraft"

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April 20, 2010

Bionic Pubic Hair

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April 19, 2010

Zip

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April 17, 2010

John M. Bolt, Jr. in "Childcraft"

jmbjr (0).jpgSome lovely and charming illustrations here from John M. Bolt, Jr. taken from an old Childcraft encyclopedia. I'm afraid I didn't record the date of publication, but I'm guessing it would have been some time from the late 1950s into the early 1970s, from the looks of the drawing.


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April 16, 2010

Dream Components

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April 14, 2010

Several Stitches

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April 13, 2010

Ambergris

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April 12, 2010

Adventures of Reading Cartoons

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April 11, 2010

Fins & Finnegans

I just wanted to make quick mention here of two similar projects currently engaged in by a couple of my friends. Please consider visiting their respective sites and take some time to admire their efforts. Both of these gentlemen have been graciously encouraging of my own work; I'm equally impressed with the quality of theirs and humbled by their dedication to such large undertakings.

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See his work at: One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick

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Stephen Crowe has recently begun to unpuzzle the language and meanings of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, reassembling each page as a sort of illuminated manuscript. He combines traditional drawing with excellent use of vector graphics and photoshop skills, resulting in carefully composed and beautifully textured pages.

See his work at Wake in Progress

April 10, 2010

Color Checker

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April 07, 2010

Food-O-Mat

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April 06, 2010

Everything In This Picture Is Right

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April 05, 2010

Flaccid Chamber

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April 04, 2010

Selling Cigarettes

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March 31, 2010

Movie Review: "Possession"

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March 30, 2010

Solemnly Swearing

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March 29, 2010

Fig. 1

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March 25, 2010

Gador Bela - "Ideges Emberek"

gbie (0).jpgHere's a curiosity I came across in the free stacks today at the library. Unfortunately I don't know what language this book is in - an attempt to google the name and title resulted in a computer crash, so FUCK YOU whatever country this came from, AMERICA RULES. I can tell at least that it was published in 1962, probably in some Communist Hellhole, pfft.


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March 24, 2010

Speed, Service, Comfort

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March 22, 2010

Bear Co.

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March 21, 2010

Movie Review: "The Descent"

mr_the_descent.jpgExecrably misogynistic exploitation masquerading as "feminist empowerment" -- a reprehensible, dishonest failure in its every aspect: nonsensical, unnecessary editing, the substitution of "attitude" for character, a resort to the supernatural at the expense of believability, etc. etc. etc. 0/10

March 20, 2010

Catastrophic Wave

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March 17, 2010

Raised With a Flick

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March 15, 2010

Stars Seem to Twinkle

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March 11, 2010

Frans van Lamsweerde

frans_van_lamsweerde.jpgLovely illustration by Frans van Lamsweerde from an old Ideals magazine (though, not being familiar with that publication's modus operandi, he may have created it for other purposes or it may have been published elsewhere first -- no idea).

March 07, 2010

Margaret Bloy Graham's "The Plant Sitter"

mbg_ps (0).jpgSeveral pages here from the husband & wife team of Margaret Bloy Graham and Gene Zion's delightful The Plant Sitter, from 1959. I love Graham's drawings and wonder why she isn't more well-known today; I could find hardly any biographical info about her online. I also especially like her book Dear Garbage Man. At any rate, this one seems to be out-of-print and going for ridiculous prices, so if you like these images and want more, check your local library.


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March 06, 2010

Cartoon Crybabies #6

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March 04, 2010

Rhythms of Mental Life

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March 01, 2010

Battery

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February 28, 2010

Crystallography

cryst_ (0).jpgSeveral beautiful images from a crystallography book... I'm afraid I didn't record the actual title or date of publication or artist info (if anyone knows, please say so).


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February 26, 2010

"Adventure in Forgotten Valley"

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February 25, 2010

Bassoon

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February 24, 2010

Babylon

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February 23, 2010

Movie Review: "The Double Life of Veronique"

mr_double_life_of.jpgI suppose the notion that you have a perfect twin somewhere in the world is just as frightening as it is reassuring... and then, which is worse: meeting or not meeting that person? Is your soul yours, theirs... or does it belong to no one? Superior in every aspect to its insipid half-copy, Amelie... Kieslowski's best film, IMHO. 9/10

February 22, 2010

B-70

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February 19, 2010

1948

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February 18, 2010

Moon Maid

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February 17, 2010

"Breakfast Club"

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February 16, 2010

HAHA, It's Funny Because It's...

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February 15, 2010

Awwwwww!

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February 12, 2010

Astrian

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February 11, 2010

Angler Fishes

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February 10, 2010

A Good Hair Day

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February 09, 2010

What's Up, Bitches!

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February 08, 2010

Variation No. 7

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February 04, 2010

Odor Germs

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February 02, 2010

Hello Sucker!

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