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Friday, December 28, 2007

Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Taschen Books

I'm back! This beautiful image is from a delightful book that I received for Xmas. (Thanks, Raliegh!) The book is called "Cabinet of Natural Curiosities" published by Taschen Books. It's a hefty book of 446 copperplates in color. The illustrations, originally published between 1764 and 1765, are of Albertus Seba's collection of natural specimens. Albertus was an apothecary living in Amsterdam. He was born in 1665 and died in 1736, but before he died he commissioned illustrators to document his collection and the results are nothing short of amazing. Each page of this book is a well-designed, surrealist's dream. Each combines scientific details of nature with the honesty of folk art. I love it. Here's a link to the book:

Taschen

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P.S. I'm working on my regular website right now, so don't be alarmed if pages are missing. It's temporary.

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Sunday, December 23, 2007

1967 Dug Up

Above is just a small detail from a cartoon published in The Realist in May 1967 called The Disney Memorial Orgy copyright Paul Krassner, Art by Wally Wood

Curious (mature and not easily offended) viewers should go here to read more:

Mardecortesbaja

and follow the link to the rest of the image. Oh my!

What is that piece of coal doing in your stocking?

Thanks, Lloyd

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Saturday, December 22, 2007

Art Show Photos - Los Angeles

Crehore exposed at a cafe in downtown L.A.

Crehore- incognito in downtown L.A.

Crehore and composer friend Erling Wold from S.F. at the GREEN Show, Robert Berman Gallery.

My "Deja Vu Waltz" painting is in the background.

Amy Crehore with a dear friend at the GREEN Show, Robert Berman Gallery

I'm finally getting around to posting a few photos from last month's GREEN show in Santa Monica, CA.
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New Drawing by Crehore

I think this must be how I feel. An awkward, comical balancing act. Tomorrow I will be working on a new website for my art...it may take a few days. Hopefully, it will be an improvement over the one I have now. There is an imaginary mandolin in the new drawing. Maybe I need 8 tuners...to tune up 8 different things.

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Friday, December 21, 2007

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project

"From the first recordings made on tinfoil in 1877 to the last produced on celluloid in 1929, cylinders spanned a half-century of technological development in sound recording. As documents of American cultural history and musical style, cylinders serve as an audible witness to the sounds and songs through which typical audiences first encountered the recorded human voice." Read about the beginnings of recorded sound and listen to it as well:

Cylinders Library

(University of California, Santa Barbara)

Thanks STWALLSKULL for the link!

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