Here's another vintage pierrot postcard. Sent to me by my wonderful friend Valerie in Barcelona. Thanks, Valerie. You are the best! It's so beautiful and perfect - with the mandolin and the moon.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
A Look at Picasso in the Met (Charlie Rose)
His portrait of Gertrude Stein was the 1st work by Picasso to enter the Met's collection in 1946.
Gary Tinterow speaks with Charlie Rose about the Picasso show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Here's the link-
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Strange Sources of Music- Giant Ukulele 1926
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Miss Una Fleming from L.A. with her five-foot ukulele is featured on page 55 of the March 1926 issue of Popular Science Magazine. The photo is surreal - the giant ukulele dwarfs the player. Hawaiian coconut ukuleles are also featured (bottom right) as well as a jazzy clown one-man band (bottom left).
1926 was the peak year of the American ukulele boom. I wonder how many other magazines published articles on ukes that year? C.F. Martin produced 10,870 ukes in 1925 and a whopping 14,101 ukes in 1926. Production dropped off in 1927 to less than half of that. (1943,1949 and 1950 were also fairly large production years.) It's a trendy little instrument, falling in and out of favor.
The ukulele is back in favor again in 2010.
(Thanks, Ted Dawson for sending me the article.)
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Sunset Magazine Cover, Year 1900
This is my favorite Sunset Magazine Cover. So beautiful! It is from the year 1900. The magazine was first published in 1898.
Friday, July 16, 2010
The Bee-Keepers 1568 by Pieter Bruegel The Elder
The Bee-Keepers 1568 by Pieter Bruegel, Berlin (click to enlarge)
This surreal image is for Mark Frauenfelder who writes about backyard beekeeping in his new book "Made By Hand". Yesterday, I bought a huge book of drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Ludwig Munz, Phaidon Publishers, 1961). It is absolutely fascinating.
This is one of the drawings.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Josef Frank on Google
Josef Frank, an Austrian/Swedish architect, engineer and textile designer was born today. Google is celebrating and I am applauding. Here's a
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