Friday, August 05, 2011
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Performing "Trouble in Mind" in UK Train Station
Old Alexandra Road station, Manchester, England
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Photo of the Day- How to play two ukuleles at the same time
This guy figured out how to play two ukuleles at the same time. Charles Russell 1939, barbell instructor with his two ukes. Photo credit: NPR link
Ripley's Believe it or Not
Saturday, July 30, 2011
A Taste of Pompeii in NYC
Photos by Toni Dalton
Artist Julian Schnabel’s Palazzo Chupi in the west villiage (NYC) was painted “Pompeii red” when it was built. Here's what it looked like in 2007 (left) and here's what it looks like today. Perfetto! I love it. He has a painter's eye for this stuff, although some in the neighborhood don't like it. LINKFriday, July 29, 2011
Flying Underwear
Distinguished people with Anti-Gravity Underwear looking at art that is hanging high on the
walls of this salon-style art gallery.
And here we have Edison's Anti-Gravity Underwear for kids.
The London Punch makes fun of Edison in 1879 over at
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Talk About Comics at Whitney Museum
Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware and Gary Panter talked about early comics last week at the Whitney Museum. There is currently a Lyonel Feininger retrospective at the museum called "At the Edge of the World". “The Kin-der-Kids” and “Wee Willie Winkie’s World,” the comic strips that Lyonel Feininger debuted in 1906, formed the basis of many of his subsequent paintings!
Here's the audio from their panel discussion at the Whitney:
I am quite interested in the history of comics myself and I even published my own comic book in the early '80s. There were 5 issues of "Boys and Girls Grow Up", one per year. Last Gasp was our distributor. Scroll down to see a couple of the covers that I created:
I still have some copies of my comic books in mint condition. They were quite limited. Maybe I will have to do another give-away on this blog. Stay tuned.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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