Actor James Mason's Cat Drawings

Lou told me recently that he took a boat with his mom to Capri, Italy when he was young. The amazing actor James Mason of Lolita fame happened to be on the boat as well. How cool! Unfortunately, Lou got seasick and was throwing up most of the trip. Anyway, Lou's story prompted me to look up James Mason on wikipedia.

I found out that James Mason was a cat-lover and wrote a book with his wife Pamela in 1949 called The Cats In Our Lives. The wonderful thing is that he illustrated the book as well. His ink drawings are superb and perfectly capture the personalities of his pet cats in a few strokes. More illustrations can be found on Silents and Talkies blog.

 

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Mondo Bizzarro International at Studioventuno

I'm in a show in Salerno, Italy Sept 16-Oct 27, 2012

sponsored by Mondo Bizzarro Gallery of Rome (they have a selection of my prints).

For photos of the show at Studioventuno and more
INFO 

Click on poster above to enlarge for names of artists in the show with me.

 

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Gerda and her husband Lili

Painting by Gerda of her husband.

Read the intriguing story of art deco painter/illustrator Gerda Wegener and her husband Einar Wegener (a.k.a.Lili Elbe) who was also an accomplished painter (he did landscapes). They married young and moved from Copenhagen to Paris in 1912. He used to pose for his wife's paintings- dressed as a woman (above). A little later, he was one of the first people to have sex re-assignment surgery (his autobiography was published in the 1950's-book shown above). Coilhouse has the story along with some examples of Gerda's whimsically erotic illustrations. The ending is a sad one, unfortunately. LINK

 A movie called "The Danish Girl" is being made with Nicole Kidman as Lili.

Girl on a Swing (Banksy Animated)

Thanks madebyabvh tumblr. I could look at this animated Banksy all day.

(follow link for more)

Photo of the Day

okay…, a photo by leslie m k on Flickr.

Cats love to jump on beds.This cat looks a lot like mine. Now why didn't I think of this? :)
(by leslie m k flickr acct., thank you)

My 3rd Essay for Boing Boing! by Amy Crehore

 I wrote an essay about Seth's wonderful picture-novella

 It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken

for the Boing Boing's series on Great Graphic Novels.

LINK 

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My other two essays for boingboing are about Joseph Cornell(Utopia Parkway) and Ghost World (the movie): LINK

Photo of the Day

This seems familiar to me somehow. link