Fun at the Maker Faire/Felt Club Event in Los Angeles

Mark Frauenfelder, Jenny Ryan, Ruth Waytz, Kate Flannery, Coop

Look at this happy bunch of people. A bunch of comedians really. (I also met Johnny Ryan and Mark's lovely wife, Carla Sinclair- not shown in photo.) I took this photo at the Maker Faire/Felt Club event at Los Angeles County College last month. I spent a day hanging out there during my trip to L.A. for the GREEN Show. It was a day well spent. Lots of activities going on and hand-crafted items to buy. And did I mention happy people? If Boingboing isn't enough, Mark and Carla are also the editors of Make and Craft magazines. Bubbly Jenny Ryan is founder of the L.A. Felt Club and she is also the wife of amazing cartoonist Johnny Ryan. Talented and sparkly Ruth Waytz is Coop's wife and muse, among other things. Kate Flannery plays Meredith Palmer on the NBC show, The Office. Some people just know how to have fun and encourage others while they are at it.

Felt Club

Maker Faire

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Vintage New Year Postcards

Internet Weekly

always finds the best stuff!

This time it's an archive of wonderful vintage New Year's postcards.

New York Public Library Digital Archive.

Happy New Year!! (Thanks, Internet Weekly)

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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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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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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

Balancing Act (Blues Gal)- Drawing copyright 2007 Amy 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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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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