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March 11, 2010
Frans van Lamsweerde
 Lovely 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"
 Several 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.
March 06, 2010
Cartoon Crybabies #6
March 04, 2010
Rhythms of Mental Life
March 01, 2010
Battery
February 28, 2010
Crystallography
 Several 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).
February 26, 2010
Adventure in Forgotten Valley
February 25, 2010
Bassoon
February 24, 2010
Babylon
February 23, 2010
Movie Review: The Double Life of Veronique
 I 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
February 19, 2010
1948
February 18, 2010
Moon Maid
February 17, 2010
Breakfast Club
February 16, 2010
HAHA, It's Funny Because It's...
February 15, 2010
Awwwwww!
February 12, 2010
Astrian
February 11, 2010
Angler Fishes
February 10, 2010
A Good Hair Day
February 09, 2010
What's Up, Bitches!
February 08, 2010
Variation No. 7
February 04, 2010
Odor Germs
February 02, 2010
Hello Sucker!
February 01, 2010
Movie Review: Badlands
 Sheen's "Kit" is as much a "walking contradiction" as De Niro's later "Travis Bickle" would be, and both films are far funnier than they get credit for. 10/10
January 31, 2010
Shapes of Wings
January 29, 2010
Brando Prepares for the Role
January 28, 2010
"Star Wars" in National Geographic World
 A few pages from the June 1980 issue of National Geographic World magazine detailing some of the creative processes utilized in the making of The Empire Strikes Back. As a child I incessantly studied this and similar articles about the making of Star Wars, and credit this popularization of "how to" information with my own interest in the arts (for better or, more likely, for worse). At any rate, these images - as much as the films themselves - have been hung like wallpaper behind my eyes for the last 30 years.
Scribble This
January 27, 2010
Fuller Lips
January 26, 2010
Prehistoriduck
January 25, 2010
Sometimes Worshipped
January 22, 2010
Shut Up
January 21, 2010
Pink Clouds
January 20, 2010
His Yellow Hair
January 19, 2010
Blue-Eyed Rose-Colored Glasses
January 18, 2010
A Golden-Brown-Green Age
January 15, 2010
Green Coctails
January 14, 2010
Fear Destroys Confidence
January 13, 2010
"First Steps" by Mitchell Jamieson
January 12, 2010
Eames Ply
January 11, 2010
Catalytic Converter
January 08, 2010
Camera Arms
January 07, 2010
Air Flow
January 06, 2010
Absinthe Monk
January 05, 2010
9 Lives +1
January 04, 2010
3 Bears
January 03, 2010
Flaming Magritte
December 25, 2009
Krazy Karen Black
December 24, 2009
Authors (plural)
December 23, 2009
Cartoon Crybabies #5
December 22, 2009
Beer Making
 As you can see, it all comes down to BEER in the end
December 21, 2009
Best Picture EVER
December 20, 2009
Vandarian Incident
December 18, 2009
Sillie Willie
December 17, 2009
Bob Kuhn - Childcraft
December 16, 2009
Straight Hair for Boys and Girls
December 15, 2009
Gold, Silver & Bronze Balls
December 13, 2009
200 Colors
December 11, 2009
Movie Review: Stalker
 The best film ever made based on a videogame where nothing happens for three hours. 10/10
December 10, 2009
Alice Golden
 Charming, epic illustration by Alice Golden, appearing in the May 31, 1977 issue of Woman's Day.
December 09, 2009
60,000 ft
December 08, 2009
Cartoon Crybabies #4
December 07, 2009
Practical Descriptive Geometry
 From William Griswold Smith's Practical Descriptive Geometry, 1936.
December 04, 2009
Learning How Our Bodies Work
December 02, 2009
Marylin Hafner
 A couple images by Marylin Hafner, from Woman's Day magazine, 1967.
 These two drawings appeared in a 1966 issue of the same publication but I lost the credits, so I'm not sure who is responsible - though I think it looks, perhaps, like Hafner's work.
December 01, 2009
November 30, 2009
Greatest Yearbook Photo of All Time
November 29, 2009
Comic Technique
November 24, 2009
Euler's Spiral
November 22, 2009
Im Neuen Styling
November 19, 2009
The Red Unit
November 18, 2009
Alex Ebel - Childcraft
 Some amazingly rendered illustrations by Alex Ebel, from a mid-70s Childcraft Encyclopedia -- always a source of fine commercial artwork. This guy is good.
November 17, 2009
Steak & Gravy
November 16, 2009
Exploded Television
November 15, 2009
A Type of Daguerre
November 13, 2009
Primates
November 12, 2009
Reviving the Dead
November 11, 2009
Sense of the Heavens
November 10, 2009
Toy Soldiers
November 09, 2009
The Workings of the Human Body
November 05, 2009
Spots
November 04, 2009
Mysterious Photo
November 02, 2009
Square Head
November 01, 2009
Movie Review: Au Hasard Balthazar
 One day I hope to remake this with a talking chimpanzee in the Balthazar role. 10/10
October 30, 2009
Narwhal the Best Whale
October 29, 2009
Pigs & Bugs
October 28, 2009
Limbourg Bros.
 An illumination from Les Tres Riches Heures, painted by the Limbourg brothers in the 15th century. Scanned from a repro in Bible Review magazine, December 1998.
October 27, 2009
Industrial Still Life
October 26, 2009
Your Voice
October 22, 2009
Betty Fraser - Childcraft
 More here
October 21, 2009
Lion & Lamb
October 20, 2009
Flames Under an Alien Sun
October 18, 2009
B. Greenwald-R
October 14, 2009
Uintatherium
October 13, 2009
Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, 1966
October 11, 2009
Rusty Sullivan
October 10, 2009
Conchae
October 07, 2009
Swiss Screw
October 06, 2009
More Ginnie Hofmann
 From American Weekly Home Medical Guide and Family Health Record, 1958.
More here.
October 05, 2009
Entire Swiss Army
October 02, 2009
Raimondi's Carcass
October 01, 2009
Obese Dwarf
September 30, 2009
Oil Painting Chart
Movie Review: Lost Horizon
 Very flawed in many ways (questionable "cultural" attitudes, occasional lack of focus, etc.) but also very wonderful in as many ways, this is my favorite film about "utopia". And while every era has the dreams and nightmares it deserves, this couldn't have been made at a more opportune or interesting juncture: the end of the Great Depression and the cusp of WW2.
There are lots of interesting ideas and themes here as a result: is utopia an inclusive, collective ideal or a selfish retreat from an increasingly complicated world? is genuine growth and happiness possible in such a state when all your needs are met? are all members of a utopia equal, or should they be? don't all utopias fail? and so on.
Despite the beauty and hopefulness of much of the story, the film itself seems aware that something has passed -- there's a lingering sense of sadness at something lost, or about to be lost. If the utopia in this film is not real, only a reverie, is its loss any less disparaging? The notion of utopia is as important as the actuality of it, and isn't a world whose inhabitants can't imagine a better place as unfortunate as one whose inhabitants must resort to fantasy?
(For similar consideration, see Terrence Malick's grotesquely misunderstood The New World, which is not about specific historical characters as much as about the ideals we attribute to the creation of America -- ideals which are beautiful and noble but which may have never actually been allowed to flourish, not then, and certainly not now.) 8/10
September 29, 2009
Time Make Hulk ANGRY!
September 27, 2009
Holds Used in Wrestling
September 25, 2009
Denver Gillen
 A few images by Denver Gillen from an old Reader's Digest Condensed Book. For a lot of info on Gillen's life (and many more samples of his work) have a look here (and the following days' postings at that site as well).
 This one's from an ad in Fortune mag.
September 24, 2009
Inside and Outside of Me
September 22, 2009
Wo Sitzt Die Katze?
Cartoon Crybabies #3
September 21, 2009
Separated Liver Cells
September 20, 2009
Assorted Fruit
September 18, 2009
September 17, 2009
Cats & Owls
September 16, 2009
Tom Hill
 Art by Tom Hill from a Readers Digest Condensed Book volume.
September 15, 2009
Creative Computing
September 14, 2009
Family Tree
September 12, 2009
If It Weren't for Gravity
September 11, 2009
Squids
September 10, 2009
Many Kinds of Disasters
September 09, 2009
Brownieland
September 08, 2009
Electrophorous
September 04, 2009
The Computer
September 03, 2009
Soda Ash
September 02, 2009
Modern Dramatic Masks
September 01, 2009
Almost Perfect Beauty
August 31, 2009
Nine Profiles
August 28, 2009
Uterine Sutures
August 27, 2009
Your Guess is as Good as Mine
August 26, 2009
And How She Did it!
August 25, 2009
Garten
August 24, 2009
Spot teh Errors
August 18, 2009
Mexicali
August 15, 2009
Betty Fraser Talks With God
 Nice line art from 1968. I believe I have more examples of her illustration work done for the Childcraft Encyclopedia series, which I will post eventually (here).
August 11, 2009
Biomorphs
August 10, 2009
Balloon
August 05, 2009
Humor
August 03, 2009
Larfing
August 02, 2009
Oh My
July 31, 2009
Grotesque Mask
July 29, 2009
Super Great Iron-Ons
July 27, 2009
Cigarette Burns
 Here's a collection of screen-caps where the reel change markers are visible. The fact that these are evident on the DVDs I was viewing means, I guess, that these particular discs were sourced from less than ideal materials (theatrical prints, etc.) rather than whatever they might use in more ideal situations, but I don't really know enough to say for sure. I do notice that most newer DVDs, or newer films on DVD, lack these artifacts; perhaps they've been digitally removed, or, if the film is shot and projected digitally, they simply don't exist at all?
 The example above is an actual cigarette burn through fabric - almost literally through the fabric of the screen, evoking Alice's looking glass - from David Lynch's Inland Empire.
The image to the left is from John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, one of the leanest action films ever made, a fantastic, harsh film, riddled with startling violence -- even the marker here seems portentious.
 This is Billy Wilder's The Apartment. I'm assuming that where the reel markers are an oval it means the film was shot anamorphically.
 These two are from Jimmy T. Murakami's Battle Beyond the Stars.
 Two pics from Vera Chytilova's psychedelic masterpiece Daisies. Interesting that here the markers are obviously hand drawn or scratched, perhaps a function of limited budget or technology?
 A couple from Toshio Matsumoto's amazing Funeral Parade of Roses. The image below is, again, like the Lynch image above, of a literal cigarette burn.
 These two are from Lesley Selander's Flight to Mars, a real celluloid turd. One frame has the traditional "mechanical" mark while the other has what appears to be a smear of grease pencil.
 Mike Nichols' The Graduate.
 Radley Metzger's The Image.
 Stanley Kubrick's Killer's Kiss.
 Engel and Orkin's Lovers and Lollipops. These are my favorite -- apocalyptic, terrifying.
 Monsieur Beaucaire, 1946.
 Otto "Mr. Freeze" Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm.
 Michael Almereyda's Nadja.
 Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes.
 Arch Hall, Jr. is The Sadist!
 Bob Hope's Son of Paleface.
 Jack Hill's Switchblade Sisters.
 Jaromil Jires' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. These are odd: One frame square, the next circle.
 Engel's Weddings and Babies.
 Where There's Life, 1947.
 Antonioni's Zabriskie Point. Fuck America!
 The Marx Brothers in Go West.
July 26, 2009
Silent Running
July 23, 2009
July 21, 2009
Sex Problem
 Illustration by Anke Van Dun from November 1977 Family Circle.
July 20, 2009
Nine Tomorrows
July 19, 2009
A Nun in the Closet
July 17, 2009
Sammy Safety Says
July 15, 2009
Dolphin Fresco at Knossos
July 14, 2009
Asteroids in Collision
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Lovely 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).
