Portrait by Remo Frangiosa

Philly-Bob’s Free-for-All 2025

One man's visual art, largely consisting of digital manipulations of images, taken from (1) my own photographs/videos, (2) downloaded from the Public Domain, (3) utilized under the Fair Use provision of copyright law or (4) uncopyrightable images produced by A.I. image generation. This page is designed old-style, for display on full-size computer, not on phones or tablets.

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TENDER MOMENTS IN WARTIME 1:30
 
My first video of the new year. I like to keep my hand in. The so-called French and Indian War effected settlers in my home state of Michigan. Park rangers can still discuss the behavior of various Indian tribes. It was all part of the Napoleonic War in Europe. The two girls in the clip do not come to a good end. SOURCES:

VIDEO: Clip from the 1920 silent movie "The Last of the Mohicans" (Link1) based on James Fenimore Cooper's novel of life on the American frontier during the French and Indian War.

MUSIC: Sonata Number 42 by Joseph Haydn from Arthur Loesser's 1967 record "Con Amore" (Link2) 

Link1: https://archive.org/details/PublicdomainTheLastoftheMohicans
Link2: https://archive.org/details/lp_con-amore_arthur-loesser-joseph-haydn-wolfgang-am

January 11, 2025

CONTINUING SAILING MOTIF & TOP POP SONG
   
Continuing yesterday's New Year/square-rigger motif, an overlay of two images:
  1. A painting of the tall ship "Pamir" by the Belgian maritime painter Yasmina (Link1).
  2. A publicity photo of the 2024 Miss Ukraine, portraying her as an "Angel of Light," the archangel Gabriel, protector of the Ukrainian city of Kiev (Link2).I am saddened that the new administration will probably cut support for Ukraine's long struggle against neighborhood bully Russia.

The originals:
   

SOURCES: 

Link1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamir_(ship)#/media/File:Yasmina.
Link2: https://editors.dexerto.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/13/Miss-

Incidentally, the top pop song of 2024 to my Motown-tuned ear is "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus, a catchy anthem of female independence (for the rich, young, and physically attractive):


[Verse 1]
We were good, we were gold
Kinda dream that can't be sold
We were right 'til we weren't
Built a home and watched it burn

[Pre-Chorus]
Mm, I didn't wanna leave you, I didn't wanna lie
Started to cry, but then remembered I

[Chorus]
I can buy myself flowers
Write my name in the sand
Talk to myself for hours
Say things you don't understand
I can take myself dancing
And I can hold my own hand
Yeah, I can love me better than you can

[Post-Chorus]
Can love me better, I can love me better, baby
Can love me better, I can love me better, baby

December 28, 2024

Annual Turnover: Rounding the Cape
   

Time to archive last year's page and start a new page for another year. This is a laborious, high-risk, unrewarding job, but the passage of years is the sole organizing principle of this would-be writer would-be artist's life.

Image is one of the last of the square-riggers, the four-masted German steel-hulled barque "Pamir", first launched in 1904. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. She sank in 1957 carrying a cargo of 3,780 tons of barley from Buenos Aires to Hamburg.

The font used is "History of Wawa" (Link1) by Indonesian type designer Syaf Rizal [Khurasan]. It does not refer to the Philadelphia convenience store of the same name.

SOURCES: 

Link1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1hgzw0w/the_pamir_was_a_fourmasted_sailing_vessel
Link2: https://www.dafont.com/history-of-wawa.font

December 24-26, 2024

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Masthead Portrait by Remo Frangiosa, 2015
12/26/2024