B & W Photos - So Beautiful

Be-Bop en cave, Saint-Germain-des-Près 1951 - photo by Robert Doisneau (1912-1994)

I love this photo by Robert Doisneau. Femme Femme Femme is blogging some classic B&W photos. They also just blogged my Memphis Minnie painting along with some photos of her.
I basically majored in photography and film in college and I really love the drama of black and white images! Perhaps I will upload a Memphis Minnie song (by the Hokum Scorchers) to my website music player next Sunday. Meanwhile, it looks like my music page has recently gotten "stumbled upon" which is always a nice bonus.

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Dance Me to the End of Love

Still from music video, "Dance Me to the End of Love" song by Leonard Cohen

There are some beautiful black and white music videos of Leonard Cohen songs on YouTube. My favorite is this one,

"Dance Me to the End of Love".

Check it out. It's gorgeous and surreal.

The B& W videos for "Closing Time" and "First We Take Mahattan" are nice as well. I have mentioned this before, but I'll say it again - I listened to Leonard Cohen albums non-stop when I painted my "Little Pierrot" series paintings. So, thanks for helping me along, Mr. Cohen. He was just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (about time) and he recently got a mention on American Idol when Jason Castro did a heart-felt version of his incredible song "Hallelujah". Leonard Cohen will set out on a world tour in June, 2008.

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Vintage Easter Cards from Germany

These three embossed lithograph postcards with gold highlights were made by John Finkenrath of Berlin (P.F.B.) 1908. (Green Castle Museum Easter Exhibit - collection of Bonnie A. Shockey).

I like how they show surrealistic scenes of lambs pulling big eggs instead of the usual cliche (children with bunnies).

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Bad links, what can ya do?

Blab Show paintings 2006 by Amy Crehore

I noticed that a heck of a lot of old links going to pages on my website are not working. That's because my website host made us change to a new template program a few months ago. I have tried to go back into my blog archive and correct some of these links, but I know that a lot of external links from other blogs and such are dead now. Hopefully people will google my name and find my new website if they are interested enough. Maybe some of these blogs will correct their links.

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Gazette Du Bon Ton

La Gazette du Bon Ton was a leading French fashion magazine that was published from November 1912 to 1925 and founded by Lucien Vogel. There is an amazing digital archive of the pages from this magazine on a Japanese library website and it is guaranteed to fascinate illustrators and painters alike - featuring the artwork of :

Georges Barbier, Erté, Paul Iribe, Pierre Brissaud, and Georges Lepape

Gazette du Bon Ton

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One Cool Blog Leads to Another

Painting by Meredith Frampton - British Painter 1894-1984.

I found some of these images on a wonderful blog that specializes in art deco things from the 1920's and 1930's:

Art Deco

That blog lead me to another blog that has many beautifully illustrated vintage travel posters, cigarette advertisements and magazine covers:

Trouble in Paradise

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Howard and Barbara Armstrong's Art

Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong

"That was under the house where I lived. The cat thinks I'm disturbing his domain. There wasn't a cat in the neighborhood that liked me. I'd pull the hair out of a cat's tail to make a paint brush. I'd tie it to a goose quill with thread." -Howard Armstrong, drawing by Howard Armstrong
"I always made clothes and dolls, and it was nothing new. I was focused on dance and theater and never in my wildest imagination did I take what I was doing as an ‘art form.' And all of a sudden, the dolls that were sitting in my backyard appeared in the Museum of Fine Arts and they had a new term, ‘soft sculpture.'" -Barbara Ward Armstrong, Dolls by Barbara Ward Armstrong
"My goal is to use soft sculpture imagery to visually state our experiences, to expand the knowledge about ourselves and others from different racial backgrounds. My inspiration comes from living."- Barbara Ward Armstrong

There is so much more to this story, just follow the link.

Read all about Howard and Barbara Armstrong's amazing art and music at:

POV

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