Dyed Potato Starch Grains Produced This Color

Dancer wearing Egyptian-look costume with wings reaching to the floor
Originally uploaded by George Eastman House

"Auguste and Louis Lumière, inventors of the motion picture camera, also invented autochromes in 1904. The process used a screen of tiny potato starch grains dyed orange-red, green and violet. Dusted onto a glass plate, the dyed grains were covered with a layer of sensitive panchromatic silver bromide emulsion. As light entered the camera, it was filtered by the dyed grains before it reached the emulsion. While the exposure time was very long, the plate could be processed easily by a photographer familiar with standard darkroom procedures. The result was a unique, realistic, positive color image on glass that required no further printing." Check out Autochromes set on the George Eastman House flickr.
(Thanks, Mr. Powell)

Got A Ukulele?

Baz, a guy from UK, has got a ukulele blog called Got A Ukulele Blog . He wrote a nice little piece about my hand-painted fine art ukes (shown above lined up on the floor of gallery in L.A. ). Thanks, Baz. Gotta love those Brits.

The Art of Amy Crehore

Vintage Performer

f_frenchgirl
Originally uploaded by ricksoloway

Black is Beautiful

Some really nice clips of Josephine Baker on this mini-film.


This is for my pal, Ruth.

Martin, Bogan and Armstrong with Jethro Burns

A couple of videos on YouTube from University of Chicago Folk Festival in late 1970's. Produced by David Affelder.
(Thanks for the tip, Jad Fair)

Miss Alma's Tattoos

Miss Alma
Originally uploaded by josefnovak33

The emperor Franz Joseph I. devotee.
RPPC

Photo is copyrighted by
josefnovak33 flickr.

Chicks Hop on Vespas (1960s)