Dancing Around the Pole

Oops. These beauties got all tangled up. Maybe they need to practice again before May Day.

View some lovely vintage postcards of Maypole dancers here.

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One Very Talented Girl

I think I found this on flickr, but can't be sure.

Anyhow, it's a nice hokum image!

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A Memphis Jug Band Song by the Hokum Scorchers

Memphis Jug Band

National mandolin style one 1930
National plectrum style one 1928
"You May Go, but This Will Bring You Back", was originally done by the Memphis Jug Band in 1930. The Hokum Scorchers' version has Lou playing a vintage National mandolin. I am playing a National plectrum guitar. The actual instruments we used are shown in these photos. We recorded this song in 1995 for our Yanna's Donut tape.
Listen to "You May Go" here:

Hokum Scorchers

Also, my website has couple more tunes (scroll down):
MUSIC of The Hokum Scorchers Band
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Check out Dinosaurs and Robots

Eat Your Peas, Please!

You might say that she is too pretty to eat.

There is more where she came from:

Rico & Coco

Thanks for the link, Dinosaurs and Robots

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Vintage Vogue Covers

There is an exquisite collection of vintage Vogue Magazine covers on flickr. It makes me yearn for the days when fashion magazines had illustrated covers and spreads. They were not afraid of a little bit of stylized female nudity in print, right on the cover. I guess I'm just an art deco girl at heart. I love the designs of that era. (Thanks, Thombeau59)

Vintage Vogue

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Sour Harvest Blog

There's a nice post about my upcoming solo show at Thinkspace Gallery on their blog:

SOUR HARVEST .

You might want to subscribe to their newsletter. You can see a photo of the main gallery space in the lower righthand corner.

It's really nice- I stopped in there on my last trip to Los Angeles.

They are showing some wonderful artists, so be sure to check out their website, too.

I am really looking forward to my show which will take place Feb. 2009.

Thanks, Thinkspace!

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Eric Gill, Master Printmaker (1882-1940)

Venus Modestly Holding Spray/Cupid Playing Football with the World, 1929, Wood Engraving by Eric Gill
Clothes as Workshops, 1930, wood engraving by Eric Gill

The Purchaser, 1929, wood engraving by Eric Gill

Eric Gill, a British illustrator, printmaker, typographer and sculptor, did some of the most beautiful woodcuts and engravings of the art deco period. I could look at these all day. His imagination and his design-sense were both simply amazing. "Gill never strayed far from the religious roots which inform his work. Eroticism also forms an important part of it. Gill was not afraid to combine these two elements. Among his many and varied achievements are the numerous books he designed, both type and illustration, The Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels being among the greatest book productions between the Wars."

Many more of his prints are available to look at (and buy) on this website:
Eric Gill Prints

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