Portrait by Remo Frangiosa

Philly-Bob’s Free-for-All 2020 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, or (3) utilized under the Fair Use provision of copyright law. Also, occasional prose observations on politics and life. Click on a pic to enlarge. May take several clicks to get full-size.

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Link1: archive.org/details/signal-nr.-19-1-din-octombrie-1942-ed.-rom.
Link2: www.circopedia.org/Circus_Sarrasani

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Link1: archive.org/details/1944-Iowa-Seahawks-vs-Iowa-State-College-Basketball-Program-kan99peacock
Link2: ia601400.us.archive.org/29/items/1948-Kansas-vs-Colorado-NCAA-Basketball-Program-PHOG-ALLEN-FROSTY-COX-rolingriver/0.jpg

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Link1:  archive.org/details/mkultra-2020

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Link1: archive.org/details/effD_om-magazine-sep-1977-0m-magazine-new-delhi
Link2: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Link3: archive.org/details/per084859_1923_00129/per084859_1923_

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Link1: archive.org/details/forgotten-fantasy-v-01n-01-1970-10-edit

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Link1: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%86iro_Truhelka

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Link1: archive.org/details/tetoviranje_katolika_u_bih-ciro_truhelka
Link2: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_tattooing_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina

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Link1: archive.org/details/kamasutra-idiots-guide

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Link1: archive.org/details/railroad-stories-v-16n-03-1935-02.-munsey-c-2c-ufikus-dpp

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Link: archive.org/details/Cyrenaica

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Link: archive.org/details/cstalpartiistalp1687stal

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Link1: archive.org/details/Monograms
Link2: www.dafont.com/search.php?q=hyper+block
Link3: lettersiro.com

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IMAGE: Animal skin binder and illustrated pages from the 1600 "Majmū'ah," a collection of Hadīth (records of Muhammad's sayings) and Qur'ānic verses, ṭalismans, etc. (Link1)

MUSIC: Excerpt from 2020 organ composition "L'erbario di Emily Dickinson" by Carlotta Ferrari (Link2)

NOTE: Ferrari's text links to the scrapbook "Emily Dickinson's Herbarium, 1839-1846" (Link3)

Link1: archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_majmu-ah_MS_ISL0166-20215
Link2: imslp.org/wiki/L%27erbario_di_Emily_Dickinson_(Ferrari,_Carlotta)#IMSLP663507
Link3: iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:4184689$3ii

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Link1: archive.org/details/Monograms

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Link1: archive.org/details/the-american-society-of-mechanical-engineers-pdf-a
Link2: archive.org/details/TPZ24

Political note:

"We need to have songs specifically telling Texas to fuck off for all of our sports teams. This specific lawsuit brings the level from sports hatred to fascists-tried-to-disenfranchise-the-whole-state and we beat them levels. We've finally reached a level of rivalry that European towns that went to war with each other 500 years ago have."

Texas v Pennsylvania was dismissed a couple hours ago. On grounds of standing. But when the Sierra Club or anyone else has "no standing" it does not mean there is no pollution or no legal violation. Here it just means Texas can't complain about it.
Standing is a bad way to win, even if it is a win. State legislatures can still act directly.
Watch out what you celebrate because when and if a state legislature acts to strip their Electoral College electors of their voting rights in favor of someone else, if states don't have standing to complain (and states get "special solicitude" on standing questions), then very likely NOBODY CAN COMPLAIN.
But to be clear: In the remaining PA cases or any other case that quickly comes up for review, an opinion setting us back a century could still come out. People ought to care VERY DEEPLY but likely won't because they are so relieved SCOTUS didn't directly decide the presidency AGAIN.
And such an opinion can still change the Presidency INDIRECTLY as follows:
The opinion can still function as an engraved invitation and a roadmap to state legislative action. It wouldn't directly decide the election like enjoining the Electoral College in 4 states, the 3 or more state legislatures would decide the election. Just tell the states they are all powerful and nothing can stop them.
We are not out of the woods until Biden is sworn in January 20.
What went away is that it won't be over in the next couple days.
And if we get past December 14 then it gets harder but not by any means impossible.
(Imagine a hypothetical confession of a massive hack from a Dominion employee signed by the CEO and approved by the Dominion Board of Directors. Do we think state legislatures or courts are absolutely powerless to correct things if in fact it were real fraud? I personally hope not. NOTE THAT I DIDN"T SAY WHO THE HACK BENEFITED OR IN WHAT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. Does that help make the point more clear? Imagine Kerry in 2004 finding the smoking gun on Christmas Day or Trump finding a smoking gun on Christmas Day).
I am only repeating what I've been saying all along, it ain't over til it's over.
And ironically if they come out with an opinion AFTER January 20 the legal revolution setting us back a century will likely be greeted with a yawn from a tranquillized populace so very happy that Biden got safely in. While you have your eye on the magician's hand the real trick happens and your pocket is picked.

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Link1: archive.org/details/the-american-society-of-mechanical-engineers-pdf-a

 
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VIDEO1: Forest scene from "Fairytale like in Albania" on Twitter 'EarthBeauty17' feed (Link1)
VIDEO2: "A rare Blue Morpho butterfly" from Twitter 'Physics and Astronomy1' feed (Link2)
VIDEO (Background): Machine shaping metal part from Instagram feed of Stamoly Precision (Link3)
MUSIC: Excerpt from "Your leaving without saying goodbye breaks my heart". 2020 piano composition by Shuwen Zhang (Link4)

Link1: twitter.com/EarthBeauty17/status/1334551936670949377
Link2: twitter.com/PhysicsAndAstr1/status/1327446224396558336
Link3: www.instagram.com/p/CHJTgobpxCz/ 
Link4: imslp.org/wiki/Your_Silent_Leave_Breaks_My_Heart_(Zhang,_Shuwen)#IMSLP662755

Political note:

The Texas v Pennsylvania et al case seeks, among other things, to enjoin the 4 state defendants from voting in the electoral college on 12/14. The Supreme Court today ordered all 4 states to respond by Thursday at 3pm.
The docket says:
Response to the motion for leave to file a bill of complaint and to the motion for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order or, alternatively, for stay and administrative stay requested, due Thursday, December 10, by 3 pm.
The errors claimed by Texas are the same thing as all the Pennsylvania cases and is where I've been saying they are all going for weeks now. Namely "Defendant States violated the Electors Clause by modifying their legislatures’ election laws through non-legislative action. See p. 26.. And State and local administrator’s systemic failure to follow State election law qualifies is an unlawful amendment of State law. See p. 30 of Injunction request.
The official request for relief is:
" To enjoin the States of Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (collectively, the “Defendant States”) and all of their agents, officers, presidential electors, and others acting in concert from taking action to certify presidential electors or to have such electors take any official action—including without limitation participating in the electoral college or voting for a presidential candidate—until further order of this Court, and to preliminarily enjoin and to stay such actions pending the final resolution of this action on the merits."
Funny how the mainstream media doesn't talk about this but would rather lull you to sleep with a single dismissal instead. Enjoining the electoral college and SCOTUS ordering a response from 4 states seems like big news to me!
States are jumping on Board to support. Hopefully Democratic lawyers will come to their senses and start responding.

SOURCES:

Link1: archive.org/details/Prog-1075

Political note:

The comments below note with significant surprise the sheer scale of widespread belief that the election was stolen. One poll suggests that includes up to 30% of Democratic voters. In a system that repeatedly claims to be based on "public confidence" in results, how can any analysis suggesting we don't have a serious problem be taken seriously itself?
No action by the Supreme Court is needed to precipitate a full fledged crisis but it would almost definitely do so it it happens. The form that I expect it will take in the next couple weeks is an opinion that basically says "don't look to SCOTUS to solve this, take it up with the party that has the constitutional duty to act in presidential elections - the state legislatures. When performing this federal function they are not bound by their state Supreme courts or state constitutions." See PA Republican Party v Boockvar for early warnings of this view.
All 3 PA cases at SCOTUS claim the above as their Issue Presented for review.
Currently legislatures such as PA are operating under the belief they are constitutionally obligated to stay out of elections. At least 4 justices are already committed to the opposite view prior to Amy Coney Barrett coming on board. Roberts doesn't want to get involved but this approach is a way for him not to get involved but still vindicate the core mission of the Supreme Court to say what the Constitution requires. That's 6-3.
The only reason the safe harbor date was so significant in Bush v. Gore was because the state legislature wanted it to be significant and the Bush v Gore ruling itself ended all controversies before that date. Here the controversy will not end before the safe harbor date so Congress is free to question those votes and more importantly the state legislatures will be free to say the safe harbor is something they do NOT intend to take advantage of any longer because they recognize their state is in dispute.
When performing a federal function like ratifying a constitutional amendment or doing a presidential election, a state legislature acts independently of its state supreme court or executive branches and even the state constitution in order to uphold the federal constitution. Thus the opinion the court has written is important and has signaled is coming in various ways will empower legislatures to act if they so choose to.
Right now legislatures are saying they feel it is their duty to stay out of it. I believe they are about to find out from the Court, or simply be persuaded by their own side, that a different view needs to be taken. At that point, hesitation turns into party line votes, and even being required to be out of session by state law until January is just as irrelevant as their state constitution.

 
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VIDEO: Speech from Twitter feed "Goodable" (Link1) showing New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's passionate statement on her December 2020 motion to declare Climate Change a global emergency.
MUSIC: Beginning and ending flourishes from 2013 composition "Arae Flaviae" (Link2) for trumpets and trombones by Martin Heinrichs

Link1: twitter.com/Goodable/status/1334951849816834048
Link2: imslp.org/wiki/Arae_Flaviae_(Heinrichs,_Martin)#IMSLP662455

"Originally Justice Alito asked for the state of PA to respond in Kelly v. Commonwealth by 4 PM December 9, the day after the safe harbor date. Some Democrats breathed a sigh of relief and said Alito was slow walking the Kelly v. Commonwealth case. And that Trump was all but dead. These Dems ignored the arguments available that make the safe harbor date much more innocuous.
"But anyway, Justice Alito just accelerated that deadline and the brief is now due 9 am on Tuesday December 8, the safe harbor date. The key question is why?
"Democrats still thinking erroneously that the safe harbor date is a real hard deadline will still rationalize that there won't be enough time for 3 states to act on December 8 even if there is a same day decision.
"But Alito wouldn't accelerate the date on his own motion unless he was thinking of the timing of his own actions. So, to me this indicates that there will be a decision by Alito or the whole court and they are concerned about the timing of it for reasons not really known to us. December 14 is a date that makes a difference but it is not dead even if the Electoral College votes as planned.
"As we have long said in the EI movement, it is more about who counts the votes (Congress) than who votes (the electoral college) - at least if there are issues this is true."
See https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docket/docketfiles/html/public\20a98.html.

 
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VIDEO (Foreground): "Leaf Cutter Ant" from Twitter feed 'The Science Nature Academy' (Link1)
VIDEO (Background): "How Plants Move in a 24-Hour Period" from Twitter feed  'How Things Work' (Link2)
IMAGE: Leafcutter Ant image from Orkin exterminators webpage (Link3) 
MUSIC: Excerpt from song "Bloodmoon" on album 'Both on Both' by Anihma & Doc.AtmosfearCrush (Link4)

Link1: twitter.com/thescicademy/status/1331558734879883264
Link2: twitter.com/ThingsWork/status/1329170230531092481
Link3: cdn.orkin.com/images/ants/leaf-cutting-ant_1500x1188.jpg
Link4: archive.org/details/enrmp469_anihma___doc_atmosfearcrush_-_both_on_both

 
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IMAGE1: A Yahoo News photo (Link1) of a Houston doctor cradling the head of a distraught elderly COVID patient on Thanksgiving, 2020.
IMAGE2 (Background): A photo (Link2) of an interesting engineering project, a ship-scrapping job that used a large chain to cut apart a 600-foot cargo ship into smaller pieces. The photo is doubled and reversed.
MUSIC: 2020 Remix of "Travels in the North" (Link3) by Psychadelik Pedestrian (Link4). The artist says he "add[ed] deep sub bass and glitchy trap style beats to bring [the earlier version] up to date."

Link1: news.yahoo.com/pictured-doctor-hugged-distraught-elderly-165815979.html
Link2: jalopnik.com/a-chain-just-cut-through-a-capsized-cargo-ship-filled-w-1845784581
Link3: archive.org/details/tou357
Link4: www.toucanmusic.com/artists/psychadelik-pedestrian/

A True Story
One day there was a wedding. Jesus went. His Mother went. And so did some of His Apostles.
At the wedding there wasn’t enough wine. The Blessed Virgin was sorry for the bride and bridegroom. She knew they would feel bad because they did not have enough wine to go round.
So what did the Blessed Virgin do? She just said to Jesus, “They have no wine.”
It wasn’t time for Jesus to begin working miracles. But the Blessed Virgin knew that He would do what she wanted Him to do. So she went to the servants and said, “Do whatever Jesus tells you.”
Then Jesus looked at six large empty jars. Turning to the servants He said, “Fill the jars with water.”
The servants remembered what the Blessed Virgin had said. They did what Jesus told them. They filled the jars with water. What do you think happened? Jesus changed the water in those jars into very good wine.
Jesus Is God
My, how surprised everyone was! How could Jesus do that? Do you know? He could do that because He is God.
Try to remember how Jesus changed that water into wine. Jesus will keep on doing more and more wonderful things. The time will come when He will change wine into His precious blood. The time will come when He will even give Himself to us in Holy Communion.

SOURCES:

Link1: archive.org/details/our_little_messenger_14_26_25_march_1949

Link1: news.yahoo.com/pictured-doctor-hugged-distraught-elderly-165815979.html
Link2: https://jalopnik.com/a-chain-just-cut-through-a-capsized-cargo-ship-filled-w-1845784581

Sources:
Link1: archive.org/details/s192212020092a000/per084859_1922_00092
Link2: Another issue of Brazilian movie magazine, link not available.
Link3:  archive.org/details/the_priscilla_crochet_book_centerpieces_and_doilies_1915

 
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IMAGE: Decorative design on cover of James Morton's 1897 novel "Polson's Probation"  (Link1)

MUSIC: 2020 composition "Overture to The Break" (Link2) for violin,
viola, cello, double bass by Jamie Tait, dedicated to Katherena Vermette,
Canadian author of 2016 novel "The Break" (Link3) 

Link1: archive.org/details/P002353
Link2: imslp.org/wiki/_(Tait,_Jamie)#IMSLP658764
Link3: www.katherenavermette.com/the-break

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Link1: archive.org/details/N018184

 
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IMAGE: Self-produced photo by "Camgirl" Keri_Berry_420, showing her
leaning back naked in bright sun, published on Reddit (Link1). Her
bespectacled face is in lower right corner, her knees and legs in upper
left. (Link2).  The 39-year-old mother of one has 21,000 followers at an
online porn site (Link3). 

MUSIC: Excerpt from Movement 4 of 2019 "Violin Sonata No. 2" (Link4)
by Italian-born, San Francisco-based composer and mathematician
Davide Verotta (Link5), performed in 2020 by German violinist Monika
Gruber (Link6). 

Link1: www.reddit.com/user/keriberry_420/
Link2: i.imgur.com/v5jhcwB.jpg
Link3: www.manyvids.com/Profile/486227/Keri-Berry
Link4: imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata_No.2_(Verotta,_Davide)#IMSLP660008
Link5: davideverotta.com/
Link6: sfcmc.org/about/faculty/gruber-gibbons-monika/

 
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IMAGE: Photo of Egyptian street protest against English occupation, undated, from 2000 book "Significant Moments In The History Of Egyptian Women Volume 1" (Link1)

MUSIC: Excerpt from song "Atomico Flacido Lucido" (Link2; trans: 'Atomic Flaccid Lucid') from 2007 album by Colombian group 'Salsa Rosaa' (trans: Pink Sauce)

FRAME: Style transfers applied to original image in Dreamscope (Link3); I have a $10/month subscription for unlimited images.

Link1: archive.org/details/significant-moments-in-the-history-of-egyptian-women-volume-1
Link2: archive.org/details/salsarosaa3
Link3:  dreamscopeapp.com/

Sources:

Link1: archive.org/details/art-and-beauty-02/Art%20and%20Beauty%2001

"The Hot July Sun was beginning to dry up the hills of southern Indiana. The country side resounded with the clatter of reapers cutting down the ripe wheat. Clover fields and the tall grass in the meadows were waiting to be made into hay. The farmers worked hard, for there was no telling how long this wonderful harvesting weather would last. Every man was doing his utmost except one.

"This one was a youth of seventeen, a fine, strapping lad. He sat in the orchard under a shady pear tree. His eyes were full of dreams and upon his handsome features lay a faint smile of contentment. Suddenly his carelessly roving glance spied a pale blue sun-bonnet down toward the creek fence. The bonnet partly hid a small, sweet face— a face like a budding flower."

Sources:

Link1: archive.org/details/barred_from_paradise_40

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Link1: archive.org/details/soldier-of-fortune-mar-1986-ocr-opt

Most of us know that the 'happy ending' of the election process is something involving a poorly-designed 'Electoral College' and various dispute resolution procedures, but we figure (a) no sore-loser candidate would ever go through the full range of legal gymastics and (b) the majority Democratic Party controls enough institutions that it can win such a fight.

But Trump seems entirely willing to go through the full dispute resolution/challenge routine and -- this is new, to me, at least -- the rules say that for dispute resolutions sent to the House, votes are counted one vote per state and not one vote per person. That means the Republicans would control the House.

If Trump can get state legislatures to refuse to certify votes, enough to lower Biden's electoral college numbers below 270, then the issue goes to House, Senate, and Supreme Court -- all currently controlled by Republicans. Trump already tried to get my home county in Michigan (Wayne County) to refuse to certify the results. Rocky road ahead...

Days until January 20 inauguration of winning candidate: 63.

Sources:

TBA

November 18, 2020

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MISC: AUTOGRAPHED HAND SILHOUETTES/PORTRAITS (Still)

TBA

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TBA

November 17, 2020

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MISC: NURSE WITH POLIO PATIENT (Still)

An "iron lung nurse," Patricia Westland from California, tends to one of her juvenile patients, in the cover story of a 1955 issue of "This Week" magazine. (Link1) The photographer was Don Ornitz, son of one of the "Hollywood Ten" investigated by McCarthy's House Unamerican Activities Committee.

Sources:

Link1: archive.org/details/this-week-magazine-1955-09-25/mode/

November 16, 2020

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SCHOLARLY NOTE ON ELECTION PROCEDURES
As I've mentioned previously, I monitor discussions in the Election Integrity Google Group. One of the people in that dialogue that I most respect is a Washington state lawyer whose heart is with democracy and against dictatorship. But he knows the grim, unjust details of the law. This lawyer warns that despite Biden's five-million vote advantage in the popular vote, the election is still up in the air. He explains in this excerpt from a November 14 post, heavily edited by me:

"The pundits are missing a point that election lawyers usually don't: there is a strong legal argument that state legislatures can override election results and the Supreme Court would likely uphold that. . .

"Do not believe anyone who says it is 'unlikely' that Republicans will seek votes in state legislatures or in the Supreme Court that seek to replace certified election results with political votes...

"Anytime Congress wants, it can decline to count the votes of certain states in the electoral college, drop all candidates below 270 and then the House picks the President and the Senate the VP under the 12th amendment. Congress can hijack the Presidency but there is nothing whatsoever illegal in them doing so, it would only violate norms and values some (but not all) hold dear....

"Yet mainstream media continues to anesthetize people by saying these scenarios are 'unlikely.' Or that Trump lawsuits 'present no evidence' or at least no evidence 'sufficient to change the result of the election....

"So, January is when the President is really official and the power is in Congress and the Supreme Court. Not voters. Not even the electoral college per se. It is all power politics....

"But with the House majority being Democratic the question of accepting or rejecting the electoral college electors from given states is about the only place out of about five pathways to the Presidency that Democrats have decent chances. At every other point in the process the field is tilted in favor of Republicans, such as the following:

"(1) Six of nine Justices are originalists that love the Founders... The original Constitution didn't foresee that either Senators or the President would be elected by the People. We amended the Constitution for direct election of Senators but the Presidential procedure has never changed. It has always been the case that elections only matter if state legislatures say they do.

"(2). Because the 12th Amendment requires one state one vote instead of one person one vote for the Presidency, Republicans are guaranteed to win in the House if Biden drops below 270 for any combination of reasons ranging from election results to decertifications, court injunctions, faithless electors or states deciding to override the will of their voters via state legislatures.

"(3) And 16 blue jurisdictions have enacted into their state laws that they can do anything they please with their electors NO MATTER WHAT THEIR STATES VOTERS HAVE SAID. See National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. As of July 2020, the National Popular Vote Compact has been enacted into law in 16 jurisdictions possessing 196 electoral votes, including 4 small[er] states (DE, HI, RI, VT), 8 medium-sized states (CO, CT, MD, MA, NJ, NM, OR, WA), 3 big states (CA, IL, NY), and DC. These laws are on the books b[u]t don’t take effect until 270 electors are on board."

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MISC: LIFE BEFORE SOCIAL DISTANCING (Still)

I am starting to monitor the digital image collection of the National institute of Health's Library of Medicine. Here is an image from a 1918 album kept by a nurse at Meek Island, an Ontario military hospital for recuperating veterans of World War I, with the caption "Part of the audience at the swimming races" (Link1). The intention is dreamy nostalgia.

Sources:

Link1: collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101767372-img

November 15, 2020

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MISC: NEWSPAPER FOLD-OUT FOR WAGNER'S RING CYCLE (Still)

The Germans sure do love their Wagnerian ring cycle (Die Nibellungen). Here is a set of advertisements -- a fold-out covering three pages -- for a production of the opera in 1924, directed by Fritz Lang. I never really understood the story, derived from German folklore; my mind usually wanders after the beautiful water nymphs seduce the treasure away from somebody. The ads are from a 1924 edition of the German movie magazine, "Die Kinematograph" (Link1).

Link1: archive.org/details/kinematograph-1924-01

November 15, 2020

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MISC: BOLLYWOOD STARLET BEHIND ALPHABET (Still)

Again, not sure I have the energy to list all bibliographic data on elements in this piece. Just naming them: (1) cover photo of a history of Indian cinema, (2) some kind of brain cell (red), (3) an old English alphabet (yellow), and (4) some oil cans from a hardware catalog (blue).

TBA

November 15, 2020

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MISC: THREE HARES (Still)

Not sure I have the energy to list all bibliographic data on elements in this piece. Just naming them: (1) three-rabbit symbol of Trinity from window of German cathedral; (2) a page of Mayan heiroglyphs; (3) a chart from a math textbook. Had fun working on this composition until late at night.

TBA

November 14, 2020

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MISC: ADVENTURER'S MISHAP (Still)

A traveler through the board-game kingdom of Mirkwood is trapped in the web of a giant spider, in this ink drawing by a modern illustrator Liz Danforth. The picture appears in the game book (instruction manual) for the game "Middle Earth Quest # 03 Rescue In Mirkwood." (Link1).

SOURCE:
Link1: archive.org/details/middle-earth-quest-03-rescue-in-mirkwood

November 13, 2020

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MISC: ASTERISK/STAR IN LITHUANIAN FRAME (Still)

From the same source as yesterday's priestess, the 1926 "Rustic and popular art in Lithuania" (Link1). The cover had an intricate design, which I copied here. The book also had examples of Lithuanian textiles which I used. Inside the frame, I placed an Asterisk-like shape from Photoshop's menagerie of shapes.
Heavy use of style transfers on everything but the frame.

SOURCE:
 Link1: archive.org/details/Salvatori

November 12, 2020

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MISC: EVEN PRIESTESSES GET THE BLUES (Still)

From the 1926 "Rustic and popular art in Lithuania" (Link1), a bronze sculpture called "The Priestess" by Petrus Rimsa. The statue is not recorded in Google Images database of Rimsa's work. I love the detail of her garments, and I love the pained gesture of her arm.
Continuing to evolve style. Skipped style transfer step, removed frame and references. In this case, I wanted to maximize attention to this remarkable statue.

SOURCE:
 Link1: archive.org/details/Salvatori

November 11, 2020

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MISC: SCHOOL DANCE IMPROVISATION (Still)

Photograph of students in a dance class, from the 1978 "Éducation physique et hygiène: Programme-Cadre du cycle intermédiaire" (Link1: trans: 'Physical education and hygiene: Framework program of the intermediate cycle') by the Ontario Ministry of Education.
Stylistic changes: removed my winged trilobite logo and the inauguration countdown and increased the ratio of frame space to image space. Maybe by this time, weeks before I turn 76, I've developed a distinctive enough style that I don't need to "brand" work with signature and private references (e.g., I-70). I'll think about it.

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I monitor the Election Integrity Google Group, and one of the experienced posters there said this yesterday:
" Trump's strategy is not about actually overturning enough votes to win election legitimately. His own aides have acknowledged that is impossible. Rather it is fixed on delaying certification past the deadlines. The law favors delay and Team Trump knows it. His plan is to prevent certification of 270 Biden electoral votes by tying up several state processes in court past the state deadlines (the 'hard' one being 12/14, when the Electoral College votes on slates) and then either importuning friendly state legislatures (the GOP controls GA, WI, MI, PA, AZ) to send Trump slates to Congress, or simply throwing the election to the House, where the GOP has the majority of state delegations so Trump wins."
The post is from Jonathan Simon, author of "CODE RED: Computerized Elections and The War on American Democracy" and executive director of Election Defense Alliance from 2006-16.

SOURCE:

Link1: archive.org/details/ducationphysique00onta_4

November 11, 2020

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MISC: ABSTRACT ON ANTHOLOGY COVER (Still)

This picture appeared on the cover of a 1994 collection (Link1) of Spanish-language writings from El Salvador called "October is the Culprit."

SOURCE:

Link1:  archive.org/details/oeec-iiiclah

November 10, 2020

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MISC: ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN TAPESTRY (Still)

Post-election calm. No longer afraid of White Supremacists crowing about their respect for White (European) culture when they fly in the face of the rationalism, creativity, and cosmopolitan diversity that marked the height of European culture -- Bauhaus, not Brownshirts. Now I can delve into old European culture to my heart's content. Here is a depiction of a tapestry from approximately 1300 showing the chivalric romance of Tristan and Isolde, taken from an illustration in the 1938 book "Arthurian Legends in Medieval Art" (Link1). The tapestry is in a convent in Wienhausen, Germany.

SOURCE:

Link1: archive.org/details/arthurianlegends00loom

November 9, 2020

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MISC: POSTING RESULTS ON ELECTION BOARD (Still)

Since most of us spent long hours watching numbers on TV election count boards over the last five days, I present a tote board of a different time: from a 1931 issue of "Railroad Man's Magazine" (Link1), a photo of railroad clerk Marcella Harnett using Northern Pacific Railroad's peg-and-hole blackboard to keep track of equipment on some 6,000 miles of track.
The number she is lifting, 279, is the latest winning number of electoral votes to replace President Trump with former Vice President Joseph Biden -- and halt America's horrifying slide into one-man dictatorship. The other number, in the upper left, "I-73," means there are 73 days left until the new president is sworn in on January 20.
I exult in Biden's victory, in which Philadelphia played such an important role.

SOURCE:

Link1: archive.org/details/railroad-mans-magazine-v-05-n-02-1931-05

November 8, 2020

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15TH-CENTURY ADVANCED NAVIGATION TOOLS (0:30)

Will probably enter this into the Plastic Club's Boundaries show.
The thought process is this. When I was a freshman in college I loved to hang out at the University of Michigan's undergraduate library, browsing in the stack, from one subject to another, making wild mental connections. I remember one fellow-student, Elaine, who had the same habit of free-association thinking. One day, she spoke about it in class and was shut down by the professor, sniffing derisively at such odd connections -- in Elaine's case, between Irish mythology and Greek tragedy. With a seeming return to electoral sanity, perhaps I will use the absence of tyranny and the new media to explore some of those off-the-wall, serendipitous connections.

 
SOURCES:

IMAGES: Foreground: Various navigational instruments from a 1483 French book "Grant Routtier et pilotage de la mer" (Link1; trans 'Great Route Finder and Piloting by Sea') by Pierre Garcie (1441-1520). Among the instruments was "the pole-man wheel" (shown in center).
Background; a view of the French town of Nantes on the River Loire.

MUSIC: Excerpt from #14 on DJ_Iterate's 2020 album "LoopJazz" (Link2). American composer Thomas Park creates songs on his computer in the language Python. He collects ambient instrumental sounds, and his code processes and mixes them together using randomness and looping. None was sequenced by him.

Link1: archive.org/details/pierre-garcie
Link2: archive.org/details/LoopJazz

November 7, 2020

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MISC: BE-MASKED, BE-STIRRED (Still)

Here I am in a "VOTERS DECIDE" t-shirt at a rally in Philadelphia's Independence Plaza called by Protect the Results to demand that every vote be counted. It was a beautiful Autumn day and the tension I have been feeling for days was not present -- although there were a lot of cops and military around. I stuck around for the speeches, but left before the marching -- from the Plaza to City Hall -- began.

SOURCE:
 
 Photo by Bob Moore

November 5, 2020

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MISC: TRAGEDY OF CIVIL WAR (Still)

Gilbert Gaul (1855-1919) was born and died in New Jersey but had family connections to Tennessee. In this 1907 picture (Link1), he portrays a very young Confederate recruit bidding goodbye to his family and his family's slaves. I ran across this picture in a confused thread labeled "Aryan Art" (Link2) on far-right proto-fascist website 8kun.net.
I pray that the current divisions in our country do not lead to a civil war, because if it does -- if Trump loses the election but refuses to leave office -- then I doubt I will survive the chaos, like I doubt the young recruit pictured above survived.
Note: Some sloppy work today in calculating the days until Inauguration. Sorry.

SOURCE:
 
Link1: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leaving_Home_by_William_Gilbert_Gaul.jpg
Link2: 8kun.top/pnd/res/125731.html

November 3, 2020

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EXPERIMENT WITH STYLE TRANSFER #2: ADVENTURE MAG (0:63)

TBA

 
SOURCES:

ILLUSTRATIONS for 1935 "Blue Book" pulp magazine 
(Link1) story ‘Swords of Mars’ by Edgar Rice
Burroughs. Cover by Ondek Zaula, Interior illustrations
by Robert Fink.

TRUMP DINGBATS: “Trump Regular” by Simon
Dunford (Link2)

MUSIC: Excerpt from “Conga Brava Suite” (Link3),
a 2019 free jazz improvisation by SANMI and Masato
Kimura.
Conga by Masato Kimura. All other instruments by SANMI, including: 
Yamaha Clarinet, Recorder, Indian Bamboo Recorder, Indonesian Sulin,
Russian Overtone Flute, Tibetan Bowls, Nepal Bells, Indian Bells,
Casio Electronic Piano, Vietnamese Shaker, Vietnamese Gong,
Chinese Gong, Chinese Hulusi, Unknown Laos Wind Instrument,
Korean Metal Cups, Russian Jew Harp, Ukrainian Jew Harp, Irish Harp,
Zimbabwe Mbira, Moroccan Horn, Moroccan Metal Castanet, Flypan, 
Steel Pot, Indonesian Toy Gamlan, Toy Slide Whistle, Angel Tuner, 
Czech Overtone Flute. 

Link1: archive.org/details/bluebookv060n03193501
Link2: www.dafont.com/trump.font
Link3: archive.org/details/mhrk225

November 2, 2020

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color="11489d"> DINGBAT SET IMPROV #14: TRUMPOLINA (Still)

"45x2?" = Does Donald Trump (45th president of the United States) win a second term, using Cyrillic "x"? Dingbats are from "Trumpolina" (Link1) font by talented type designer Vladimir Nikolic. Notation "I-79" means 79 days until Inauguration Day for new president.
Just finished "Disloyal: A Memoir," the tell-all book by Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer. He concludes: "There is a serious danger that Donald Trump will not leave office easily, and there is a real chance of not having a peaceful transition."

SOURCE: 

Link1: www.dafont.com/trumpolina.font

Link1:

November 2, 2020
EXPERIMENT WITH STYLE TRANSFER: ADVENTURE MAG (0:64)

When pulp magazines of the 30's and 40's were sold, they were sold at newsstands, so they competed for the most colorful covers. On the inside, though, for budgetary reasons, they stuck to relatively simple black-and-white charcoal or ink illustrations. Here what I've done, as an experiment in style transfer, I've taken the style of the glossy expensive cover and applied it, using style transfer technologies, to the images that are inside the magazine. This is a 1937 edition of "Adventure" magazine. So I hope this shows something that style transfers can do.

 
SOURCES:

images: Cover art and inside black & white illustrations from 1937 issue of Chicago-based men’s pulp magazine “Adventure” (Link1). 
Cover by Hubert Rogers (Link2), inside illustrations by I.B. Hazelton (Link3).

MUSIC: Excerpt from 2020 organ composition “Greensleeves Tango” by Carlotta Ferrari (Link4).

STYLE TRANSFER: 2020 Video course taught by Bob Moore on using Style Transfers (Link5).

Link1: archive.org/details/adventure-v-097-n-05-1937-09
Link2: www.pulpartists.com/Rogers.html
Link3: www.pulpartists.com/Hazelton.html
Link4: imslp.org/wiki/Greensleeves_Tango_(Ferrari,_Carlotta);
Permlink: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/654967
Link5: youtu.be/YYSWzad0D5o

October 31, 2020

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DINGBAT SET IMPROV #13: ISOTOLO & MOVIES (Still)

TBA

SOURCE: 

TBA

October 29, 2020

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MISC: APPLYING A FACIAL MASQUE BEFORE BED (Still)

A woman puts on a "Tussy Creamy Masque" to her face, a picture from a 1949 issue of "Today's Woman" (Link1). The masque stays on for a few minutes and, the ad explains, "-- magic -- it splashes off with water... Then see your complexion fresh and glowing, ready for romance."
Underlying that image is a barely visible interfering pattern of concrete from the 1919 "A Treatise on Concrete Plain And Reinforced Materials, Construction, And Design Of Concrete And Reinforced Concrete" (Link2).

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/todays-woman-v-21-n-121-1949-11
Link2: archive.org/details/john-wiley-sons-inc.-pdf-a

October 29, 2020

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MISC: BEFORE & AFTER BEAUTY TREATMENTS (Still)

From a feature story on "Beauty and Depression" in a 1959 edition of "Cosmopolitan" magazine (Link1), an inmate of a California asylum waits her turn in the institution's beauty salon (left). Next to it, an inmate, after makeover, beams as she looks into a hand-mirror. According to Cosmo, the cure for depression is beauty products! The photo credits are to Robert J. Smith.

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/cosmopolitan-v-146-n-06-1959-06

October 27-28, 2020

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MISC: TREE OF EARTHLY LIFE & RIFF(Still)

Illustration from 1924 "Outlines of Historical Geology" by Charles Schuchert (Link1).
Caption reads: "Genealogical tree of animal life, showing only the main branches (phyla). The diagram suggests the common origin of all animals in succession, with constant progressive change from the lowest (Protozoa) to more specialized types, and culminating in mammals and birds. The branching of a tree is usually taken to symbolize this interrelationship."

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Also, a political comment using Zoologic dingbat font (Link2) by Daniel Zadorozny of Iconian Fonts, placed over style transfer result of above image turned sideways.

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/OutlinesOfHistoricalGeology/schuchert-c-introductory-1924-RTL019117
Link2: www.dafont.com/zoologic.font

October 28, 2020

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MISC: AUDREY DOES YOGA STRETCHES (Still)

Actress Audrey Hepburn does yoga exercises in her backyard, in a feature story in a 1959 edition of "Cosmopolitan" magazine (Link1).

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/cosmopolitan-v-146-n-06-1959-06

October 27, 2020

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MISC: SILK KNIT SWEATER COAT (Still)

An umbrella-holding model shows off a silk knit sweater coat in an advertisement for Monarch Knitting Company of Dunnville, Ontario, from a 1920 Canadian trade magazine, "Dry Goods Review" (Link1). The picture is set inside a decorative lace frame of birds from an ad for the Lace Goods Co. of Toronto in the same magazine. The message below explains my "I-XX" notation in recent work, in a Russian-derived font, Kremlin-Bolshevik (Link2): "87 days until we get a new president!" The use of Cyrillic-style font is a reference to the apparent involvement of Russia in the last election.

SOURCE: 

Link1:  archive.org/details/dgrstyle1920toro
Link2:  www.dafont.com/kremlin-bolshevik.font

October 25, 2020

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MISC: AUSTRALIAN MAP OF PALESTINE, 1919 (Still)

A two-page map from the superbly illustrated 1919 war memoir "Australia In Palestine" (Link1), recounting the battles in the Middle East when Australian cavalry and air forces fought against -- and defeated -- the Ottoman Empire (i.e., the Turks.) I present it with minimal alteration for the sake of History.

SOURCE: 

Link1:  archive.org/details/australia-in-palestine

October 25, 2020

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DINGBAT SET IMPROV #12: "G" IS FOR GIRAFFE (Still)

Playing with another dingbat font, Zoologic (Link1) by Daniel Zadorozny of Iconian Fonts.

SOURCES: 

Link1:  www.dafont.com/zoologic.font

October 24, 2020

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MISC: SELECTRIC BALLS (Still)

From the ever-interesting Letter Form Archive collection, a collage of two images of the typing element from IBM's Selectric typewriter.

SOURCE: 

Link1:  archive.org/details/lfaunitedstates0025

October 23, 2020

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MISC: 1600 DEATH'S HEAD TOKEN(Still)

From a recent coin collector's magazine, "Numisgram" (Link1), an image of an early 1600's German rechenpfennig with snakes coming out of a skull's eye sockets, an hourglass, and grave-digger's tools, with a slogan "CONSIDERA : NOVISS · ET · IN · ÆTERNVM · NON · PECCABIS", a call to think about eternity and sin no more. A rechenpfennig is a counting token.
According to "Coinsite" (Link2), Few people today realize that up to as late as the 19th century, many Europeans were trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to do math with Roman numerals. This is a daunting task even for simple arithmetic problems. One counting aid was the abacus... Another solution was to use reckoning counters , also known as jetons, on a counting board, similar to the arrangement of an abacus, but with squares in which the metal counters were placed. Jetons were an important part of government and commercial life and it is easy to imagine that jetons were very much in demand.
COVID Halloween coming up!

SOURCE:

Link1: archive.org/details/numismagram52
Link2: coinsite.com/jetons-reckoning-counters-of-hans-krauwinckel-1586-1635

October 23, 2020

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MISC: PLUMBER'S CARPET BAG (Still)

Illustration from a 1907 catalog (Link1) of canvas goods and tents, a "Plumber's Carpet Bag", made of Brussels Carpet, lined with duck and leather-bound, just $2 for an 18"x26" model.

SOURCE:

Link1: archive.org/details/h.-channon-company-pdf-a

October 22, 2020

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MISC: WHEN GREAT GRAMMA WAS HOT (Still)

In an illustration from a 1915 "Blue Book of Plumbing" (Link1) by Trenton Potteries, a woman examines a hand-mirror in a bathroom furnished with "all-clay" bathroom acessories.
The "I-90" refers to the number of days until January 20, 2021, Inauguration Day, when the next president takes office; note that the "I" is based on a Russian font, Kremlin Bolshevik (Link2) by Bolt Cutter Designs.
Note also that I miscalculated the proportion between the widths of the vertical sides of the frame and the widths of the horizontal sides. It's a subtle calculation. The horizontals are too narrow.

SOURCE:

Link1: archive.org/details/the-trenton-potteries-company-pdf-ax
Link2: www.dafont.com/kremlin-bolshevik.font

October 22, 2020

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MISC: BRUCE & MARX & ENGELS (Still)

In the foreground, an iconic photo of martial artist/movie star Bruce Lee, from a 1983 newspaper comic strip "Legend of Bruce Lee" (Link1).
In the background, cover, title pages and two photos from a 1917 Moscow edition of the writings of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels 1848-1849 writings in "Neue Rheinische Zeitung" (Link2).

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/legend-of-bruce-lee-vol-1-1983
Link2: archive.org/details/marxengelsarticlesnrz

October 21, 2020

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SCOPE: RUBBER BAND AND LOMTRIAN (Still)

TBA

SOURCE: TBA

October 21, 2020

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MISC: LEAVES AND CELTIC BUCKLE (Still)

TBA

SOURCE: TBA

October 20, 2020

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OLD MISC: ANOMALOUS SCENE FROM SOMEBODY'S LIFE (Still)

Interior: An aproned young woman holding a potted plant makes a face, while outside, a man gets out of automobile. It's an illustration from a French magazine, "Magasin Generale" (Link1). What's going on here? That's kind of what my life is like. I see people doing things, it looks interesting, but I have next to no clue as to their motivations, meaning, or purpose, especially with my social I.Q. dulled by the increased social isolation of the Rona.
Around the frame is a series of the letter "A" from the dingbat font 'Lomtrian" (Link2).

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/collection-bdfr-magasin-general-09- (Note: Link no longer works 10/19)
Link2: www.dafont.com/lomtrian.font

October 19, 2020

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MISC: MACHINED STEEL PARTS & LOMTRIAN (Still)

A heavily-distorted drawing from a 1913 catalog by Stewarts and Lloyds, an Australian machine shop. The caption reads "This illustration shows some castings which we have recently supplied."
Around the frame is an alphabet from 'Lomtrian" (Link2), a dingbat font by a designer named Rym, who explained it was an "Alien font made for a project that never really took off. Feel free to use it for anything!" I'm fond of Lomtrian's shapes, and Rym's generosity in sharing it.

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/stewarts-and-lloyds-australia-limited-1913
Link2: www.dafont.com/lomtrian.font

October 18, 2020

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MISC: NEZ PERCE WARRIOR II (Still)

Another photograph of a Native American warrior from the 1914 "The American Indian in the United States: Period 1850-1914" (Link1), a photograph by L. McWhorter. The picture is captioned: The Challenge; Nez Perce Warrior.

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Rethinking my approach to the possibility of electoral craziness in the next 95 days. Here's another call (nationwide) from "Protect the Results" for local actions on election day: "We are building a coalition of voters ready to mobilize if Donald Trump refuses to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election."
In the Philadelphia area, there's a voting day demo ("if Trump tries to steal the election or prevent every vote from being counted, then Protect the Results will activate nationwide mobilizations") at Independence Hall, near the Liberty Bell. This is a central, highly visible location, and I have the impression, from Occupy days, that National Park police are cool.
The group explains its philosophy on violence: "A core principle shared by supporting organizations is a commitment to nonviolent, peaceful actions. All actions that are sponsored, organized, or listed on this page are intended to be nonviolent and peaceful. We expect all participants to act lawfully at all times and to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values."

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/bp_574837

October 17, 2020

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DINGBAT SET IMPROV #11: STAR WARS ON FRACTAL (Still)

Another font alphabet from the fictional future, Aurebesh (Link1) from the Star Wars franchise, sometimes known as Galactic Standard. This version is by Pixel Sagas (Link2). There is even an English to Aurebesh translator (Link3); here is "Trump Out" in Aurebesh:

The background is composed of a pattern for a gesso tile designed for a fireplace mantle from an 1890 issue of "Cassell's Family Magazine" (Link3). The design is overlaid with a clip-art fractal pattern from "Web Clip Empire 150,000" (Link4).

SOURCES:

Link1 (Aurebesh): www.dafont.com/search.php?q=aurebesh 
Link2: www.dafont.com/aurebesh.font
Link3: aurebesh.org/translator/ 
Link3: archive.org/details/cfm-1890
Link4: archive.org/details/web-clip-empire-150000

October 17, 2020

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DINGBAT SET IMPROV #10: DOVAHKIN "D" ON RETRO PATTERN (Still)

Here's another improvisation on a Dingbat font: "Dovahkin" (Link1) by the two designers known as PixelSaga (Link2). They explain: "Dovahkiin is based on the runic dragon-script found within Bethesda Softwork’s The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim game. This is a sharp, ‘crude’ face design to resemble claws tearing into stone."
It is placed over a Photoshop pattern I downloaded long ago, from where and whom I forget. All I know is the name is 'Webtreats Retro Patterns." (Link3)
I used it before, in 2015:

SOURCES:

Link1: www.dafont.com/dovahkiin.font
Link2: www.pixelsagas.com/
Link3: www.deviantart.com/webtreatsetc/art/Seamless-Grainy-Retro-Patterns-145406430

October 16, 2020

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DINGBAT SET IMPROV #9: DAEDRA "A" ON FABRIC (Still)

Anyone who has seen me on Zoom may have wondered at my video background, a plain wall of ordinary window shades and an air conditioner. The only artistic element is a 2015 image composed of mysterious symbols (below).

Those symbols are a dingbat font, "Daedra" (Link1) by two designers known as "PixelSaga" (Link2). The designers explain that the font is "based on the demonic and occult signage and glyphs from Bethesda Softwork’s 'Elder Scrolls' series of games, such as Daggerfall, Oblivion, and Skyrim." It is placed on a fabric from the 1998 clip-art collection "Web Clip Collection 150,000" (Link2).

SOURCES:

Link1: www.dafont.com/daedra.font?back=author
Link2: archive.org/details/web-clip-empire-150000

October 15, 2020

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MISC: NEZ PERCE WARRIOR IN BATTLE GEAR (Still)

From the 1914 "The American Indian in the United States: Period 1850-1914" (Link1), a 1911 photograph by L. McWhorter. The caption reads: "Chief Peo-Peo Tolekt. Nez Perce warrior. Chief Joseph's War 1877."
The spirit of conflict is on my mind as I decide whether or not to sign the following pledge, to take to the street to protest if Trump tries to pulls off a coup. Remember: I won't feel our democracy is safe until after a new president is seated on January 20, 2021. That's what the "I-98" flair in the upper left means on my current work: 98 days until Inauguration Day. The question is whether an old, married, out-of-shape pensioner should accept the risks of the kind of street-fighting that Trump's followers seem to prefer.

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/bp_574837

October 14, 2020

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MISC: EGYPTIAN QUEEN MUMMY (Still)

Illustration from the 1989 "Early Civilizations" (Link1), the cedar coffin of Queen Merit-Amen from 1520 B.C. Its indentations were filled with blue glass inlay work, the rest covered with gold leaf.

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/early-civilizations

October 14, 2020

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MISC: MAP OF NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES (Still)

A two-page map showing the locations of tribal groups, from the 1914 "The American Indian in the United States: Period 1850-1914" (Link1). My location (Philadelphia) was populated by the Delaware, which is a European name; the tribe is now known as Leni Lenape, the native name.

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/bp_574837

October 13, 2020

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MISC: NATIVE AMERICAN WATER SPIRIT (Still)

A photo of a young Native American woman sitting by the water, from the 1914 "The American Indian in the United States: Period 1850-1914" (Link1), with a caption "The Voice of the Water Spirits." A digital copy of this book was recently uploaded as part of the Bruce Peel collection at the University of Alberta. The picture was taken by J. Dixon on a photographic expedition funded by Philadelphia retailer Rodman Wanamaker.
The Peel Collection contains some stunning images of early 19th century Native Americans, and I may be drawing from it.

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/bp_574837

October 12, 2020

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DINGBAT SET IMPROV #7: EUTEMIA & APOCALYPSE (Still)

Another dingbat font from the collection (Link1) of free dingbat fonts, "Eutemia Ornaments" (Link2) by a designer known as Bolt Cutter Designs. The dingbat is short, wide, black swash at the top of the picture. In researching this, ran across more of Bolt Cutter, who specialized in designing post-Apocalypse outfits, shown in background. The font used in the "I-100" (100 days until Inauguration) is "Kremlin Bolshevik," (Link3) also designed by Bolt Cutter.

SOURCES:

Link1: inspirationfeed.com/dingbat-fonts/
Link2: www.dafont.com/eutemia-ornaments.font
Link3: www.dafont.com/kremlin-bolshevik.font

October 11, 2020

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MISC: NATIVE AMERICAN GHOUL MASK (Still)

From a 1902 collection of Native American folklore, "Kuloska the Master" (Link1), an illustration of a "Kiwa'kw, a demon ghoul, ice-giant -- of that race which loves to prey upon the tender flesh of man and babe."

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/bp_575850

October 10, 2020

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MISC: LADY BEFORE MIRROR & WINDOWS (Still)

From a 1923 catalog (Link1) of building material by Gordon-Van Tine Company of Iowa, a collage of depictions of doors, mirrors, and windows, with, at center, a lady staring at herself in a door mirror. I have always been fascinated by how catalog artists depict reflective glass, filling the space with loose rectangles reflecting -- well, nothing.

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/gordon-van-tine-co.-pdf-a

October 10, 2020

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MISC: COUNTING TREASURE (Still)

Two images from a Bullseye 'Step Into Classics' edition of Robert Louis Stephenson's "Treasure Island" (Link1). The illustrator is Paul Wentzel, who worked for Disney Studios for 42 years. Two images: one shows young hero Jim Hawkins counting coins in a pirate's cave; superimposed on the mouth of the cave, the angry face of pirate Long John Silver. In the background frame, barely visible, is an Indian holy man from the cover of an unknown book (Link2; since removed).

SOURCE: 

Link1: archive.org/details/treasure-island-by-lisa-norby-2g3.7
Link2: archive.org/details/gorakhnath-aur-unka-hindi-sahitya-h

October 9, 2020

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CLIP-ART COLLAGE XIII (Still)

The background is a cartoon clip-art figure, a dolphin looking at a pile of books, work product from preparing an illustration for a buddy's book. (Although it is not recognizable after alteration.) Foreground is a dingbat from a font called African Ornaments (Link1).
E-25 means 25 days until election day -- although these days I'm thinking more about the nation's risk profile with an unstable president between now and Inauguration Day, when a new president is sworn in, January 20 -- 105 days. (I voted today, incidentally, by mail.)

SOURCE:  

Link1: www.dafont.com/africanornamentsone.font

October 8, 2020

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MISC: DU FU POEM ON SNAKELADY PROW (Still)

Four images combined.
Luz del Fuego, an exotic dancer who danced with snakes, in the Brazilian movie of the same name, from a 1983 edition of "Brazilian Cinema" (Link1).
A Viking ship's prow, from a 1978 Uruguayan history of the world (Link2),
A calligraphic poem written in prison by 8th century Chinese poet Du Fu , "Spring Landscape" (Link3).
A sample of printed muslin from an 1889 issue of "Journal of Fabrics and Textile Industries," an Engliah trade magazine (Link4).
The translated text of DuFu's poem is:

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The country is broken, though hills and rivers remain,
In the city in spring, grass and trees are thick.
Moved by the moment, a flower [is] splashed with tears,
Mourning parting, a bird startles the heart.
The beacon fires have [not been lit] for three months now,
Family letters are worth ten thousand pieces [of gold].
I scratch my head, its white hairs growing thinner,
And barely able now to hold a hairpin.

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Here's a version that gives more focus (and respect) to the poem itself. In this case, I think my method of stacking interfering images didn't work too well.

And here is a separate treatment of the snake lady and the Viking prow.

SOURCE: 

Link1: FCLT 0049_Brazilian Cinema. Colombia. September October, 1983
Link2: archive.org/details/historia-universal-tomo-2-schurmann-pacheco-coolighan-sanguinetti-1978
Link3: i.pinimg.com/originals/16/d4/9b/16d49b1f48ec9a370095a4c6d49fb7ba.jpg
Link4: archive.org/details/gri_33125014777540

October 7, 2020

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MISC: WEIMAR LOUNGING LADY (Still)

From a 1925 German arts magazine "Monatshefte" (Link1), a portrait by artist Gabriel Moiseler (I think that's his name-- I have trouble reading German black letter type.)

SOURCE 

Link1: archive.org/details/velhagen-klasings-monatshefte-1925/page/311

October 6, 2020

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CLIP-ART COLLAGE XII (Still)

The background is two textures from the one clip-art collection (Link1), the foreground is a pair of ornamental dingats from the WM Designs collection (Link2). Countdown to election day continues in upper left frame.

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/10000Clipart
Link2: www.dafont.com/font-comment.php?file=wm_designs_1

October 5, 2020

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MISC: ILEANA OF ROMANIA (Still)

A 1923 postcard showing Princess Ileana of Romania (b. 1909, d. 1991). Ileana was part of that intermarried network of European nobility that didn't survive World War I and Communism. She married twice, had children, and eventually moved to America, where she became a nun and was named head of an Orthodox monastery. She died in Pennsylvania. This picture also reminds me of a friend's mother.

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/photograph_unknown_post_card_149_/page/n1/

October 5, 2020

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DINGBAT SET IMPROV #6: WM-DESIGNS & APPLIQUE (Still)

Another dingbat font from the collection (Link1) of free dingbat fonts, "WM-Designs 1" (Link2), a font consisting of decorative ornaments. It is laid upon a background pattern of a French Canadian applique fabric pattern from the 1933 book "Canadien : a study of the French Canadians" (Link3).

SOURCES:

Link1: inspirationfeed.com/dingbat-fonts/
Link2: www.dafont.com/font-comment.php?file=wm_designs_1
Link3: archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_canadian-study-french-canadians_FC134B681933-20179

October 4, 2020

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MISC: INDIAN VIEW OF SEVENTIES ROCK (Still)

A drawing from a 1971 Indian children's magazine (in Urdu) "Khilauna" (Link1) showing guitar-playing musicians in the fashionable bell-bottoms of the time.

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/khilauna-new-delhi-salnama-shumara-number-275-iliyas-dehlvi-magazines  

October 4, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION XI (Still)

A collage of images from Digital Systems Research (DSR): a Monopoly board, a colorful frame, a cartoon pair of dice and a cartoon skull.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/ClipArtLibrary1996 

October 3, 2020

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MISCELLANEOUS: PACKARD TOOLS & BIG BUCKS (Still)

A collage of miscellaneous images harvested from the Internet. Two images are from a 1930 catalog "Special Tools and Shop Equipment" from Packard Motors (Link1). One picture shows a wrench set, the other a distributor. They are placed against a picture from a $500 bill from an auctioneer's 2020 coin and currency catalog (Link2).

SOURCES:

Link1: archive.org/details/packard-special-tools-1930
Link2: archive.org/details/Brunk2020October

October 2, 2020

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DINGBAT SET IMPROV #5: COFFEE STAIN & CHILD (Still)

Another dingbat font from the collection of free dingbat fonts (Link1): "Cafeina Dig" (Link2), a font consisting of those circular stains left on white documents by cups of coffee, by Marcos Buccini. (In this case, the dark stains are inverted to white.) Black lines in the background are a diagram from a computer manual (Link3; link not working), showing tracks on what seems to be an old eight-inch-disk. Inside the circular coffee-stain frame is a photograph of a little girl from a 1904 French postcard (Link4).

SOURCES:

Link1: inspirationfeed.com/dingbat-fonts/
Link2: www.dafont.com/cafeina-dig.font
Link3: archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmsystem3em34TheoryDiagr
Link4: archive.org/details/photograph_unknown_post_card_197

October 2, 2020
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DINGBAT SET IMPROV #4: MONGOOSE WITH BORDER (Still)

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Four pictures of a narrow-striped mongoose from Madagascar placed in one of the free dingbat fonts (Link1), Border Corners 2 (Link2). The mongoose pictures are from "Faune de Madagascar 36 Mammifères carnivores" (Link3; trans: 'Fauna of Madagascar 36 Carnivorous mammals').
Second picture is one of those 'in-process' images -- an intermediate step in the digital alteration procedure, which sometimes I prefer to the final image.

SOURCES:

Link1: inspirationfeed.com/dingbat-fonts/
Link2: www.dafont.com/border-corners-2.font
Link3: archive.org/details/faunedemadagasc36albi

October 1, 2020
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DINGBAT SET IMPROV #3: BORDER CORNERS (Still)

Another relaxing, mandala-like exercise in digital alteration based on one of the fonts contained in a collection of free dingbat fonts (Link1). The font used in the design is Border Corners 2 (Link2) by FontFreak (Link3). The font used in the single word "SHOCK" is from the 1906 "Harrild & Sons Specimens of Wood Letter, Corners, Borders, &c." (Link4)

SOURCES:

Link1: inspirationfeed.com/dingbat-fonts/
Link2: www.dafont.com/border-corners-2.font
Link3: www.fontfreak.com
Link4: archive.org/details/lfatype0104

October 1, 2020
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DINGBAT SET IMPROV #2: BIRDS OF A FEATHER (Still)

Another casual exercise in digital alteration based on one of the fonts contained in a collection of free dingbat fonts (Link1). The font is Birds of a Feather (Link2) by Iconian Fonts.

SOURCES:

Link1: inspirationfeed.com/dingbat-fonts/
Link2: www.dafont.com/birds-of-a-feather.font

September 29, 2020
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OPPOSING FORCES (Still)

With 35 days left until the November presidential election, I put together a piece of two different designs or patterns, meeting in a diagonal. Coming from the top left is a 1889 design for a Brussels Carpet from 1889 issue of "Journal of Fabrics and Textile Industries," an Engliah trade magazine (Link1). Coming from the bottom right is an abstract pattern on the cover of an undated Arabic book, "فاكهة الندماء في مراسلات الأدباء" (Link2; trans. 'Fruit of Remorse in Literary Corrrespondence').
The piece represents my horror at the continuing division of the people in Trump's America into two camps. The divisions are inflamed and manufactured by foreign and domestic actors (Russia and Trump, to name names) and helped by Americans' naive acceptance of Internet propaganda. If Trump refuses to leave office after election defeat, it will lead to a civil war.
[Later:] Second image, of headline on 9/25/2020 New York Times lead story, puts these thoughts in context. They also preserve an early state of the above image, which I hated to discard.

SOURCES: 
Link1:  archive.org/details/gri_33125014777540
Link2:  archive.org/details/20200926_20200926_1258

September 28, 2020

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COSTUME CHANGES FOR KATYA: PAPER DOLL SET #2 (0:45)

Another paper doll. I must have misplaced my X-chromosone.

 
SOURCES:

IMAGES: 2002 Russian paper doll set "Katya: Astrel" (Link1)
MUSIC: From “Recorrido Sonoro”, a 2020 mixtape of Andean dance music by Chilean electronic musician/DJ 'Jack_plug' (Link2; trans. 'Sound Tour')
COLLECTION of paper dolls (Link3) 

Link1: archive.org/details/2_20200922_20200922_1926
Link2: pueblonuevo.cl/catalogo/recorrido-sonoro
Link3: archive.org/details/@foxkrim

September 26, 2020

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COSTUME CHANGES FOR CHRISTINA (1:14)

Paper dolls are human figures and clothing ensembles that little girls like to play with. Recently I ran across an online collection of links to 59 paper doll books by someone called "Foxkrim" -- see link at the end. Most of the books were Russian, like this one, showing someone called "Christina" with outfits spanning centuries I did a quick assembly of a movie, easy because most of the pictures had clear white outlines that I could select with the Photoshop Magic Wand tool. I didn't even bother to cut off the tabs. I did no fancy effects. This was just a test. The Paper Doll style of illustration is very children's book slash cartoon style -- very simple.
This, incidentally, is my first video in three months. Not sure why the video is fitting so awkwardly on the web page. Too late at night to figure it out.

 
SOURCES:

IMAGES: 1999 Russian Paper Doll "Christina" (Link1)

MUSIC: 2020 release by Chilean Rene Roco on album "Musica Para el Caos"  (Link2: trans 'Music for Chaos")

COLLECTION of paper dolls (Link3) 

Link1: archive.org/details/5_20200922_20200922_2006S
Link2: archive.org/details/pn167
Link3: archive.org/details/@foxkrim

September 25, 2020

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DEVELOPING ELECTRIC BATTERY TECHNOLOGY (Still)

New York Times photograph illustrating a September 21 article, "The Age of Electric Cars Is Dawning Ahead of Schedule." (Link1) The Times picture is combined with a photograph from a press release from the Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology (Link2), one of the research institutions conducting the studies. Looks like they're learning how to store energy in thin black-and-gold film which can be rolled or folded for storage, but that's just my guess.

SOURCES:
Link1: www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/business/electric-cars-batteries-tesla-elon-musk.html
Link2: www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2019_103_battery-production-at-record-speed.php

September 21, 2020

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CLIP-ART COMPOSITION: BUTTERFLIES (Still)

SOURCES:
Background: archive.org/details/IMSIMasterclipsActivities
Butterfly: archive.org/details/butterflyillustrations

September 21, 2020

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ATTRACTIVE GLASS PITCHER OF MILK (Still)


Illustration from an ad for milk products in a 1954 issue of the "American Agriculturist." The text says that each adult should drink three glasses of milk per day and recommends "an attractive glass pitcher of milk at every meal." Does anybody today drink that much milk? I suspect not. Has human nutrition changed or were the milk producers just hyping their product?
Technical note: in this image and in the RBG image a few days ago, I am using deliberate overpainting of parts, such as in the face and arms of the mom (pink), her kerchief (blue), and the pitcher of milk (white).

SOURCES:
Link1: archive.org/details/americanagricul151

September 21, 2020

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DINGBAT SET IMPROVISATION #1 (Still)

A design website offered a list of free dingbat fonts and I downloaded some of them to experiment with. Here's the first experiment, on a set of sport silhouettes from a font designer called 4YEO. The font is published as linkware, which means the makers expect those who use the free font to link back to them.

SOURCES:
Link1: www.dafont.com/4yeo-sport.font

September 21, 2020

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GIRL WATCHING IN THE FIFTIES (Still)

From the cover of a 1959 issue of "Girl Watcher" magazine (Link1), two young women (Jenni Lugon and June Wilkinson) pose on an exurban street. Wilkinson (in yellow) is wearing a conical (or parabolic or bullet) brassiere of the time. I was fifteen at the time, quite attentive to these things, but also deeply intimidated by grown-up women, especially ones with sharp points.

SOURCES:
Link1: archive.org/details/girl_watcher_n02_bonanza_1959-06_202009

September 20, 2020

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TRIBUTE TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG (Still)

From the 1954 book "Modern Belgian Woodengravers" , an image that makes me think of recently deceased RBG: it is from a woodcut that illustrates a Flemish ballad about a Bluebeard-like villain, who, the caption explains, "is finally slain by a brave and enterprising damsel, here leaving her father's castle on her dramatic errand."

SOURCES:
Link1: archive.org/details/woodcuts2

September 19, 2020

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ILLUSTRATION FOR ARAB DETECTIVE SERIES (Still)

I was glad to see another example of Arab illustration, appearing as covers on a series of detective stories of a Sherlock Holmesian crime solver by the name of Arsene Lupin, translations of the early 20th century French writer Maurice Emile LeBlanc. It's a rather grisly image of a foot stuck in a champagne bucket of ice.

SOURCES:
Link1: archive.org/details/20200918_20200918_0624

September 19, 2020

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BREAKFAST NOOK FAILS AS ZOOM BACKGROUND (Still)

I started working on this image as an attempt to create a neat virtual background for my Zoom meetings, but it didn't work. The room is from the 1927 catalog "Hoosier Breakfast Sets" (Link1) by an Indiana furniture company. "No home is complete without a cozy breakfast nook," reads the headline. I don't have one, either real world or virtual world.

SOURCES:
Link1: archive.org/details/hoosier-pdf-a

September 18, 2020

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MICROPHOTOGRAPH OF TRIMMED BEARD (Still)

Finally attempted to trim and shape my wild beard. Again, the framing device is from Broderbund clip art (Link1).

SOURCES:

Microphotograph by Bob Moore.
Link1: archive.org/details/Clickart50000

September 17, 2020

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MICROPHOTOGRAPH OF LINT FROM CLOTHES DRYER (Still)

Another microscope photograph. a clump of lint. The see-saw framing device is from Broderbund clip art (Link1).

SOURCES:

Microphotograph by Bob Moore.
Link1: archive.org/details/Clickart50000

September 17, 2020

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ORIGIN OF TRILOBITE LOGO'S WINGS (Still)

The wings part of my logo come from an illustration of "winged globes" in the 1976 book "The Twelfth Planet" by psuedo-scientist Zecharia Sitchin, proponent of the Ancient Astronaut theory. Sitchin said that besides the nine planets of our solar system, plus earth and moon for a total of eleven, there was a twelfth planet with a wide, off-center 3600-year orbit called Nibiru. Sitchin said that inhabitants of that 12th planet called Anunnaki founded human civilization millennia ago and the ancients remembered that visit with a "winged globe" logo standing for that planet. "Wherever archaeologists have found the remains of ancient civilizations of the Middle East, they met the symbol of the [winged globe], the image of which dominated the walls of temples and palaces, on barrels ..., on cylindrical seals and frescoes... The rulers of Sumer and Akkad, Babylon and Assyria, Elam and Urartu, Mari and Nuzu, Mitanni and Canaan - they all bowed to this symbol," writes Sitchin. As far as I'm concerned, it's a con job, but even if it's real, we don't have to worry about it because Nibiru won't be back for another 300 years.
Anyway, it's nice to know that the wings of my trilobite logo have deep mythical (if unscientific) roots.
9/21 Add: Re-reading this, I think I was too dismissive of the set of beliefs Sitchin offers. I don't believe any of it, but to call it a "con job" is not in the spirit of this enterprise, which riffs on the wide variety of human creativity over time and space without intending to be condescending.

SOURCES:

Link1: archive.org/details/B-001-000-340

September 16, 2020

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VARIATION ON PATTERNS IN SAND (Still)

One of the few pleasures of the Covid Quarantine is that my family, scattered along the Atlantic Seaboard, is much more connected via weekly Zoom sessions. Janice and I use Zoom's "Screen Share" to show our latest art work. This week, my niece and her husband shared a photograph of a peculiar sand pattern they spotted in Rehoboth Beach. (First picture) Looks like the peculiar purple of an oil spill. I made a composition based on it, using an illustration of a sea monster from an old science fiction magazine (Link1). Not sure my composition is better than their beautiful original, just different.

SOURCES:

Link1: archive.org/details/super-science-stories-v-07-n-03-195

September 14, 2020

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WHEN SHE'S SICK OF YOUR SHIT (Still)

From a July 1912 (?) issue of the German movie magazine "Der Kinematograph" (Link1),

SOURCES:

Link1: archive.org/details/kinematograph-1912-07

September 14, 2020

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MICROPHOTOGRAPH OF RECENTLY-WASHED RUBBER BAND (Still)

First microscope photograph in a while, a closeup of a tangled blue rubber band which was just retrieved from a wash-and-dry cycle. Surface looks like felt. Mixed in with stray hairs and lint.

SOURCES:

Microphotograph by Bob Moore

September 13, 2020

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CLIP ART: POLITICAL MESSAGE (Still)

Fifty days until the election, although I hope to get my mail-in ballot in before the November election. Overlay of three images newly converted from the 1995 Mega Art clip-art library (Link1).

SOURCES:

Link1:  archive.org/details/mega-rom-clip-art-library

September 13, 2020

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TRACTOR BOY & TIRES & MAGIC SPELL BOOK (Still)

Three elements in this collage. Two are illustrations from a 1952 farm magazine, "American Agriculturist" (Link1). One, the frame, shows the sturdy treads of an advertised tractor tire, the other shows a young boy behind the wheel of a tractor.
The third element is a woodcut figure of Jesus ascending into heaven, from the 1788 German book of spells (or 'grimoire') "Romanus Büchlein" (Link2; trans: The Little Book of the Roma), This book of bible-based magic was popular in Pennsylvania Dutch pow-wows, along with their circular hex signs and folk magic.

SOURCES:

Link1:  archive.org/details/americanagricul149
Link2:  archive.org/details/romanus-buchlein

September 12, 2020

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TRIPPY IMAGE FROM ARAB MAGAZINE #3 (Still)

Stairs leading to a Middle Eastern city, an illustration by an unidentified artist from an unknown magazine in Arabic. I added texture and color. The only reason I don't know the name of the artist or the magazine is that I don't read any Arabic.

SOURCE:  

LINK1: archive.org/details/155_20200909

September 12, 2020

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TRIPPY IMAGE FROM ARAB MAGAZINE #2 (Still)

Another image by an unnamed artist from an unknown magazine in Arabic. This image was on the cover and included color. Very modern in its way.

SOURCE:  

LINK1: archive.org/details/155_20200909

September 11, 2020

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TRIPPY IMAGE FROM ARAB MAGAZINE #1 (Still)

I've always been disappointed by the lack of illustrations in Arabic publications. But I was overjoyed to find this magazine. My lack of Arabic reading skills means I don't even know the name of the magazine, but I like this artist's illustration. The only thing I've been able to figure out -- well, guess -- is that I think the source is from the 15% of the Muslim world that is Shiite>. There is Arabic script, but I reversed the image left-to-right, so it won't read right to Arabic readers. Original is black-and-white line drawing, color and texture added by me.

SOURCE:  

LINK1: archive.org/details/155_20200909

September 10, 2020

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FLOWERY FRAME FOR DISAPPEARED COLLEEN (Still)

Silent movie actress Colleen Moore from a 1925 movie magazine (Link1), set in a frame from a clip-art collection (Link2). Almost half of Moore's movies are "now considered lost," Wikipedia says. After retiring from movies, she became a partner at Merrill Lynch and wrote a book "How Women Can Make Money in the Stock Market." Copies of that book go for nearly $900 online.

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/kinematograph-1925-05
Link2: archive.org/details/incredible-65-000-image-pak/borders

September 10, 2020

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FARM WIFE DRESS PATTERNS (Still)

Illustrations for dress patterns from a 1941 issue of "American Agriculturist." (Link1) The illustrator built in a simple narrative: in the upper right corner, a little girl peers through the keyhole of a door. To the left, there is the little girl's view through the keyhole enlarged, with the thin-waisted grown-ups in their new dresses visible. An experimental piece, not happy with result.

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/americanagricul138

September 9, 2020

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CLIP ART SNAKE OVER A QUEEN'S HATS (Still)

A clip-art snake gobbling a rodent (Link1) from an Italian collection of clip art, overlaying a photo spread of royal headshots to go with an article, "Why Queen Mary Wears Those Awful Hats," from a 1937 "Look" magazine (Link2).

SOURCE:  

Link1 (Snake):  Altre Italian\Animali\g1107784
Link2 (Background): archive.org/details/look-v-01n-02-1937-02-bones

September 8, 2020

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ART DECO MAIDEN WITH ALIEN ENERGY PLANT (Still)

A curious combination of a clip-art sign in 19th century Art Deco style, combined with a landscape created by the 3-D computer modeling program Bryce. The landscape, "Alien Power Station II" is by Chuck Joiner.

SOURCE:  

Bryce Landscape: archive.org/details/RWBRYCE2
Sign: archive.org/details/best-of-mega-graphics-pack

September 8, 2020

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NORMA WITH COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION (Still)

The face of 1920's silent-film star Norma Talmadge, from a 1930 United Artists press package for the film "Du Barry, Woman of Passion." I added a new element to this piece: instead of my usual "Trump Out" slogan, I'm adding an election clock. "E-56" which means there are 56 days until election. The font is Dance by Vladimir Nikolic.

SOURCE:  

Talmadge: archive.org/details/pressbook-ua-du-barry-woman-of-passion
Text:  8kun.top/doomer/2.html, post #24080

September 7, 2020

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STATEMENT OF MODERN DESPAIR (Still)

Shown is the face of a villain from the Star Wars universe, the Sith Darth Nilius. I appreciate the contrast between that fearsome figure and the flowery Victorian garden lushness (complete with lovely young women) in the frame. I found the picture of Nilius on something called "The Doomers Club" housed on the bad-boy bulletin board 8kun (one of the current homes of the Q-Anon craziness). It was used to illustrate the following text, by a user called "Doomer", whose post-adolescent angst, curiously, resonates with my own senior citizen angst:

"Who cares? The Sun will die out eventually. The Universe will go dark and cold. Even the Black Holes will vaporize. And obviously, humanity will exterminate itself much sooner than any[] of this happens. There won't be anyone to remember. Just go through this ride with ease. Even though it's ultimately pointless, but nevertheless you should live your life as best as you can: don't become a mindless NPC (see below), read, contemplate, watch good movies, listen to good music. Given the times we are born in, we have the possibility to experience only the best th[at] humanity has to offer. There are plenty of things to be sad about, but being 'forgotten' is definitely not one. Consider how many people has there even been on this planet, and think about how many we remember. Billions and billions of lives: everyone had their family, their desires, everyone had consciousness, and thought about this at one point in life for sure. Just relax. You are not the first one."

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Some references:
NPC (Non-Playing Character) :
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=NPC
Doomer:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Doomer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomer
Why Not End It All?:
https://www.peacefulpillhandbook.com/
There are lots of video histories of Darth Nihilus (destroyer of worlds) if you search the web.

SOURCE:  

Text:  8kun.top/doomer/2.html, post #24080

September 6, 2020

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POLITICAL STATEMENT OVER INTERFERING PATTERNS (Still)

Created quickly and carelessly from various collections of clip art.

SOURCE:  NA

September 5, 2020

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FEMINIST ANTI-PRINCESS COLLAGE (Still)

A digitally-altered collage from a Spanish magazine "FEMINIZINE 1" (Link1) published by feminist publishers 'Bombas para Desayunar' (trans: "Breakfast Pumps"), currently based in Madrid. The collage illustrates a 2012 article entitled "This Story is Ending" about the death of the white knight rescue myth: "Once upon a time many, many years ago, in a very, very distant place, there was a girl who dreamed of meeting her Prince Charming, getting married, having many children, and living happily eating partridges..."

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/feminizine-1/

September 4, 2020

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BABY CHICKENS GET MARKET FORECAST (Still)

Illustration accompany an article in a 1937 issue of "American Agriculturist" (Link1) encouraging poultry farmers in the Northeast to expect a good season for eggs and poultry meat because of a good supply of feed and flooding in the Midwest.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/americanagricul134

September 3, 2020

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ANGEL APPEARS TO SHEPHERDESS JOAN (Still)

Another romantic-tone digital redo, from a painting by 19th century historical painter Jules Lenepveu. An angel appears over the left shoulder of a simple French shepherdess, Joan of Arc, and arms her with a sword. Long story short: Joan would fight the English during the Hundred Years War, was burned at the stake, and declared a Saint by the Catholic Church.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  ia801501.us.archive.org/4/items/pc-0621r/PC0621r.jpg

September 3, 2020

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MOTHER AND CHILD AT THE BEACH (Still)

After the five-day excursion into old clip-art, I go back to more direct artistic expression. Here is a digitally altered photo from a 1934 German magazine "Illustrierter Beobachter" (Link1; trans: "Illustrated Observer"), showing a woman and her son at the seashore. The original was dotty, and I used an advanced technique called Fourier Transform to blur the artifacts of printing.
The propaganda magazine was published by the Nazi party, pushing the values of Aryan motherhood for women and warrior virtues for men. Setting history aside, I think the picture is lyrical and improves my mood. (I also include my pre-election "Trump out" motto in the upper left.)

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/illustrierter-beobachter-9.-jhg.-folge-27-07.07.1934

September 2, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION XIV (Still)

From the 1995 collection "Mega ROM Clip Art Library" from ArtMaker. Lots of black and white, careful illustrations, in a traditional mode.
Got bored with this, after 14 clip-art libraries since August 28. Payoff: mastered mounting and ejecting ISO virtual CDs, some profit in learning how to handle different file formats, spent $25 on a file conversion utility "File Viewer Plus."

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/mega-rom-clip-art-library

September 2, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION XIII (Still)

A trove of Victorian holiday imagery on the 1998 "All Holidays Clip Art & Fonts" by Swift Jewel. Couldn't find the advertised fonts, but it was easy to copy the Victorian cards in all their dated, cloying sweetness into a local directory for later use.

SOURCE:  

Link1:   archive.org/details/AllHolidayClipartFonts

September 2, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION XII (Still)

Intersecting patterns from the 1998 "100,000 Images Clip Art" by ValuSoft, Inc. A solid collection. I copied the Patterns and Textures sections. The illustrations were not strong.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/100000ImagesClipArtValuSoft1998

September 1, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION XI (Still)

The 1997 "Holiday Clip Art" from Expert Software, a mediocre and mixed collection. Stopped working at the "dots" stage of my procedure, skipping the usual Style Transfer finale.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/HolidayClipArtExpertSoftware1997

September 1, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION X (Still)

An excellent collection from Digital Systems Research (DSR), the 1996 "Clip Art Library." A lot of corny, cliche cartoons, but a wide selection of useful geometric designs.
Next, for your consideration, an intermediate step of my procedure. Sometimes I wonder whether that step should be the finished job.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/ClipArtLibrary1996 

August 31, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION IX (Still)

A 1998 collection entitled "Religious Clip Art" by Media Graphics International (Link), The profusion and variety of images in this collection kind of overwhelmed my taste. Also had trouble with the variety of file types.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/religiousclipart 

August 31, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION VIII (Still)

Another early collection of clip-art, "Clip Art Extravaganza" from 1994 by CSB Inc. Not too useful because many of the images are very tiny.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/clip_art_extravaganza_volume_2_media 

August 31, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION VII (Still)

A very early collection of Macintosh clip-art -- so early it came on floppy disks. It's from the 1994 "Clip Art" by Wayzata Technology (Link1). Nice style but I didn't move any of it into long-term storage. Files are stored in a peculiar way, in MOV files (like video), and EPS and TIF.
You can see Internet Archive's collection of clip-art here.

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/clip_art/EPS+Pro+Vol+1.MOV 

August 30, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION VI (Still)

An undated collection of clip art from Italy. I liked the style so I copied the images for later conversion and use.
You can see Internet Archive's collection of clip-art here.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/microforum-clipart-2 

August 30, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #18: FOAM PACKING MATERIAL (Still)

The packing material used to ship fragile things like pastel crayons and art supplies. Center circle shows the original microphotograph, rest of picture shows enhanced and filtered colorized image.

SOURCES: 

Microphotograph by Bob Moore.

August 30, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION V (Still)

Canadian Corel has a great collection of fonts, photos, and clip-art, but they use a company-proprietary file format (CMX) so I'll back off until I install a program that reads CMX files.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/corelcustomphoto1999 

August 29, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION IV (Still)

Still another digital collage from a quick sample of a clip-art collection, the 1996 "Designer Clipart 12,000" by SoftKey. I wasn't too fond of the graphic style, so I just mounted the ISO, sampled, and ejected it.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/designer-clipart-12000 

August 29, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION III (Still)

Another digital collage, this time from the 1996 "Clipart Library" (Link1) by DSR Software. Besides my usual winged trilobite logo and the seasonal "Trump Out" slogan, elements include, reading from the bottom, the cover of the Clipart CD, an artist's palette and brushes, and the earth.
I like the loose brush style of the unnamed DSR artist so I downloaded 3000 of the clipart images. Am beginning to understand the technique of downloading, mounting, copying, and then ejecting the ISO images of old CD's, and I'm considering teaching a Zoom class on it.

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/ClipartLibraryDSRSoftware1996 

August 29, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM CLIP-ART COLLECTION II (Still)

Collage from elements from another old clip-art collection, the 1996 "Mega Clipart 7000" by Softkey for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 (Link1)

SOURCE:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/mega-clipart 

August 28, 2020

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COLLAGE FROM 1992 SHAREWARE CLIPS (Still)

A collage composed of two pieces of clip-art from a 1992 collection of shareware, "The Ultimate Shareware Collection" (Link1). Both pictures were in old-fashioned file formats and most of the exploration work was figuring out which programs could open the old MS-DOS formatS. Funny how the mustachioed "Boss" seems dated; the world map behind him was an 8-bit file.

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/TheUltimateSharewareCollect

August 28, 2020

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JESUS IS BAPTIZED IN THE RIVER JORDAN(Still)

Variation upon a 10th century monk's calligraphic illustration showing Jesus baptized by John the Baptist. Much changed and distorted, because only half of the picture was available in the 1841 book "Essai sur la calligraphie des manuscrits du moyen-âge et sur les ornements des premiers Livres d'heures imprimés." (Link1; trans: 'Essay on the calligraphy of medieval manuscripts and on the ornaments of the first printed Books of Hours')

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/EssaiSurLaCalligraphie

August 27, 2020

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GIRL WITH DOLLHOUSE (Still)

Cover photo from 1935 "American Agriculturalist." (Link1) The caption: "Home-Keeping Hearts Are Happiest."

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/americanagricul132

August 27, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #17: JANICE'S SURPRISE MEAT LOAF (Still)

I have lived with this woman more than 30 years -- and only around the second month of the COVID quarantine did she reveal that she could cook delicious turkey meat loaf (seen above) -- moist, subtly seasoned, with a crisp, ketchupy crust.

SOURCES: 

Microphotograph by Bob Moore.

August 26, 2020

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ZIEGFIELD GIRL/SILENT FILM ACTRESS (Still)

From the cover of 1919 Brazilian movie magazine "Revista Palcos e Telas" (Link1; trans: 'Magazine Stages and Screen'), a picture of American actress Rubye De Remer. I used two new techniques in this. (1) Running the G'Mic Test filter "Engrave colore" on progressively smaller images and (2) choice of colors at every step by consulting color wheel. Also made the "Trump Out" sign (in upper left corner) smaller and less conspicuous.

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/per480703_1919_00063

August 26, 2020

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COLLAGE OF ADVERTISING IMAGES (Still)

Two combined images from ads in a 1935 issue of "American Agriculturalist" (Link1): a Bell Telephone ad extolling the virtues of the telephone for farmers selling goods and; an ad for a dessert created from Kremel, a corn-starch-based pudding, with marshmallows, cream, pineapple and pecans. Also contains my pre-election political message. Laid over an early 17th century silk curtain with floral embroidery from the Cleveland Museum (Link2).

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/americanagricul132
Link2: ia800908.us.archive.org/11/items/clevelandart-1933.421-floral-embroidery/1933.421_full.jpg

August 25, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #16: SNEAKER SOLE/COLOR WHEEL EXPERIMENT (Still)

Microscopic picture of the bottom/street side of one of my New Balance sneakers, suggested by Diane Podolsky's lecture on sources of home-based printing imagery. You can faintly see the brand name. Also, I fiddled with the color using my brand new Color Wheel, suggested by colorist Ted Gutswa's use of that tool. Also, I added a political statement, using a font by Woodcutter (Link1). May be doing this more as I feel an increasing urgency to get Trump out of the presidency.

SOURCES: 

Microphotograph by Bob Moore.
FONT: "Barcelona Streets" by Woodcutter (Link1)

Link1: www.dafont.com/barcelona-streets.font 

August 24, 2020

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BLAST FROM THE DIGITAL PAST #2 (Still)

Another experiment with a 20-year-old clip-art collection. A scarab (dung beetle) placed against a repeated texture. From "Greenstreet 10,000 Clipart Essential" CD-ROM (Link1).

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/10000Clipart

August 23, 2020

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BLAST FROM THE DIGITAL PAST (Still)

Curious exercise: finally learned how to "mount" ISO files (which are images of CD-ROMs) onto my computer. Loaded a version of a 2000 CD-ROM collection of clip-art called "Greenstreet 10,000 Clipart Essential" onto my computer, and in a quick experiment, used one of the samples from the Texture collection and one of the samples from the Shadows collection to make this.

SOURCE:  

Link1: archive.org/details/10000Clipart

August 23, 2020

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TEEN IN BRIDESMAID'S DRESS (Still)

This picture of a young girl in a fancy dress appears several places on the Internet, variously identified. Several links identify it as a fashion photograph: "Champagne silk bias slip bridesmaid's dress." (Link1) Reflected in the window, we see the girl in grown-up clothes is incongruously wearing white sneakers. One rather dubious link (Link2) identifies it as 12-year-old Princess Isabella of Denmark.

SOURCE:  

Link1: www.pinterest.com/pin/147704062767507101
Link2: archive.org/details/vlcsnap-2020-06-11-10h42m39s149

August 22, 2020

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CANADIAN RESORT POSTCARD (Still)

Perhaps it's my post-pandemic pre-death bucket list. A trip to Canada and the Great Lakes. Grimsby, Ontario, the city which accepted my exiled Loyalist ancestors after the Revolutionary War. My home-town Detroit, where I spent my most creative years. And a railroad trip along Canada's Southern border to Banff, with a stay in one of the hotels built by the Canadian government along the railroad line.
Here is a postcard from the University of Alberta Postcard Collection showing the lobby of one of those hotels, in the Rocky Mountains.

SOURCE:  

Pre-1927 postcard labeled "Lobby, Prince of Wales Hotel, Waterton Lakes National Park" (Link1)

Link1:  archive.org/details/PC009107

August 22, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #15: WHEN THERE'S NO HORIZON(Still)

First image is an ordinary fabric softener drier sheet. Second image shows that image rotated a quarter turn each quadrant. Which is best? And does the rotation create unexpected effects?

SOURCES:  Microphotograph by Bob Moore. 

August 21, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #14: SCRAPED REMAINS OF BEEF BURRITO (Still)

Beef bits, onion bits, tomato bits, rice bits -- Yumm.

SOURCES:  Microphotograph by Bob Moore. 

August 20, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #12: OK/SELECT BUTTON ON COMCAST REMOTE (Still)

Surrounded by four directional wedges, the "OK/Select" button is how you get something started.

SOURCES:  Microphotograph by Bob Moore. 

August 20, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #11: BATTERY COMPARTMENT OF COMCAST REMOTE (Still)

When you have to take the back off a silver/gray Comcast television remote control, this is what you see. Two AA batteries at lower right.

SOURCES:  Microphotograph by Bob Moore. 

August 20, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #10: YELLOW PLASTIC FLYSWATTER EXPOSED TO FLAME (Still)

A promotional flyswatter distributed by a pest control company twisted and melted after accidental exposure to stove-top heat.

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SOURCES:  Microphotograph by Bob Moore. 

August 19, 2020

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BETTY BRONSON OVER SHELLS (Still)

An old movie picture (of silent-movie actress Betty Bronson) overlaying a filter and recoloring treatment of two pages of seashell speciments. Cropping in much closer than usual because I think that zoomed-out image misses the lovely detail I have added to the original image.

SOURCES:  TBA

August 19, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #9: PERFORATION BETWEEN SHEETS OF TOILET PAPER (Still)

One cut of the row of perforations that separate one sheet of toilet paper from another.

SOURCES:  Microphotograph by Bob Moore. 

August 18, 2020

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MOTHER & CHILD (Still)

A religious picture by illustrator William Luberoff, used in another experiment with Fourier Transform filter.

SOURCES:  TBA

August 17, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #8: SOILED HANDKERCHIEF (Still)

A blue kerchief with camouflage pattern, soiled and torn.

SOURCES:  Microphotograph by Bob Moore. 

August 17, 2020

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FAILED EXPERIMENT IN FOURIER TRANSFORM (Still)

Attempt at using Fourier Transform filter to smooth image, I'm not sure how successful it is. Old pictures of exercising people and an image from an ad in an old farmer's journal.

SOURCES:  TBA

August 17, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #7: APPLE SAUCE DAY 5 (Still)

Same applesauce on blue peanut butter lid, after FIVE days. Neighborhood fruit flies have taken note.

SOURCES:  Microphotograph by Bob Moore. 

August 17, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #6: APPLE SAUCE DAY 4 (Still)

Same applesauce on blue peanut butter lid, after four days.

SOURCES:  Microphotograph by Bob Moore. 

August 16, 2020

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FARMER TESTS HIS PRODUCT (Still)

SOURCES:  

Link1: archive.org/details/americanagricul126

August 15, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #5: SECURITY ENVELOPE MARKING (Still)

The pattern inside an envelope containing financial information.

SOURCES:  Microphotograph by Bob Moore.

August 15, 2020

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TO DYE IN THE HOME (Still)

From an ad in a Brazilian film magazine (Link1), an ad for a textile dye for home use, placed over another of my experiments in intersecting/interfering patterns, using two designs from early Russian sources (Link2).

SOURCES:  

Link1: archive.org/stream/cinearte_1927_00079/cinearte_1927_00079
Link2: archive.org/details/iskusstvovmassy

August 14, 2020

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FARM FAMILY LISTENS TO RADIO (Still)

In the center, a drawing of a farm family -- Mom, Dad, two children, and a courting young couple -- gathered around a radio set. The framing is from a pair of diagrams disassembling television sets, the next means of mass communication.

SOURCES:  tba 

August 14, 2020

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PATTERN ON PATTERN #3 (Still)

Overlaying two patterns from an old Russian art book.

SOURCES:  tba 

August 14, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #4: APPLE SAUCE (Still)

Apple sauce, on a blue peanut butter lid.

SOURCES:  Microphotograph by Bob Moore. 

August 13, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #3: HAIR AFTER SHAMPOO (Still)

Janice's hair after shampoo, from a trim.

SOURCES:   

Microphotograph by Bob Moore.

August 13, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #2: HAIR BEFORE SHAMPOO (Still)

Janice's hair before shampoo, from the tub drain.

SOURCES:   

Microphotograph by Bob Moore.

August 13, 2020

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PATTERN ON PATTERN #2 (Still)

Very interesting experiment on left, but I feared it was too confusing for viewer so I added a cartoon in right image. . Two patterns at the beginning: (1) the pattern from a Russian magazine shown in the "mat" surrounding picture and (2) a floral pattern. Overlaid two versions of the "mat", one inverted with RGB and the other inverted with CMYK, then masked by the floral pattern. To enjoy this picture, you have to view it up close.

SOURCES:   tba

August 13, 2020

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MICROSCOPE PICTURE #1 (Still)

My long-awaited 1000x digital microscope arrived today, this is a first picture. Of some toenail clippings, showing some big toe discoloration caused when I wore a pair of shoes that didn't fit right. Not sure where I'm going with these microscope images, but it brings me back to the excitement of boyhood exploration and escape into the world of the very small.

SOURCES:  

Microphotograph by Bob Moore.

August 12, 2020

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RUSSIAN PATTERN (Still)

From a Soviet artists' magazine of the late 1920's, "Art to the Masses", a pattern, varied and tweaked to modernity with halftones and RGB->CMYK inverson (Link1).

SOURCES:  

Link1:  archive.org/details/iskusstvovmassy

August 11, 2020

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WASHDAY JOY (Still)

Collage of three drawings of happy housewives sniffing clean towels in detergent ads in a farmer's magazine

SOURCES:  TBA

August 10, 2020

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ANDRE NORTON (Still)

Caricature of science fiction writer Andre Norton, from a fan magazine (Link1) against a backdrop of architectural panels.

SOURCES:  

Link1: archive.org/details/lans-lantern-16-1985-03

August 10, 2020

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CLASS EXERCISE (Still)

Actress Maly Delschaft in the 1925 German film "Sudenbabel" (Link1: trans: 'Babylon'). I will be using this image in m Zoom Class Sunday on Style Transfer for Collage and Photo. It is from a 1920's German movie magazine.

SOURCES:  TBA 

August 7, 2020

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THE LUCKIEST KID IN THE WORLD (Still)

This is Tim Sullivan who was the bat boy for the 1937 New York Yankees, from a photo in "Pic" magazine (Link1). Along the right side, inverted, is a Japanese {?} font shown in Vol. 15 of "The Complete Commercial Artist" (Link2), a short-lived periodical that highlighted modernism.

SOURCES:  

Link1: archive.org/details/pic-v-01-n-07-1937-11
Link2: archive.org/details/lfaperiodicalsccartist0009

August 7, 2020

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SHAPE-SHIFTING DEMON-SEED ALIEN DNA LOVING PRESIDENT (Still)

A Style Transfer work posted in the Reddit Dreamscape board by The Responsible Shed (Link1). Headline is his. I think it should be 'Alien-DNA-Loving', but what do I know? I would also prefer it mentioned Trump's reptilian origins (in Trump's early training by Lizard-King lawyer Roy Cohn).

SOURCES:  

Link1: www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/i1ks9b/shapeshifting_demonseed_alien_dna_loving_president/

August 5, 2020

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MY SISTER, THE QUEEN OF ROMANIA (Still)

Our family has a private joke. When my wife and I went out for dinner with my sister one night, we had a waitress who was what Janice and I call a "Ph.D. waitress" -- clearly a very bright person in a relatively humble job. She was friendly and smart and playful. But my sister sometimes demands extra service and attention from wait-people: "Are these eggs free range? Can I get the potatoes on a separate plate?" Now my sister is friendly and playful and tips well, but this sometimes embarasses us.
Anyway the four of us -- me, wife, sister, waitress -- were goofing around and I said to the waitress, pointing to my sister: "You have to understand: she is the Queen of Romania on her American tour. In her country, you would be beheaded." We all had a laugh.
Anyway, here's the real Queen of Roumania, Her Majesty Pauline Elizabeth (1843-1916) in her national costume, from an 1882 book. She was an impressive person, who collected and published Romanian folk tales. She was also considered as a suitable mate for a future King of England but when he was shown her photograph he "was unmoved."
Digging into the Queen's work product, I took one of the illustrations from her book of Romanian fairy tales and jazzed it up. Caption: "A lovely fairy appeared before them."

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Photo from 1882 "Roumania Past And Present" by James Samuelson (Link1) 
IMAGE: Illustration from 1901 "A Real Queen's Fairy Tales" (Link2)(

Link1: archive.org/details/james-samuelson-roumania-past-and-present-1882
Link2: archive.org/details/arealqueensfair00sylvgoog

August 5, 2020

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DRAMATIC 1920'S TREE LADY WITH DECORATION (Still)

Another collage from a 1920's German movie magazine.

SOURCES:  TBA

August 4, 2020

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COLLAGE AFTER ZOOM CLASS II (Still)

Another collage from 1920's farm magazine.

SOURCES:  TBA

August 4, 2020

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COLLAGE AFTER ZOOM CLASS (Still)

Collage, done after class on collage techniques by Laura Storck. It was done during a time when I felt crowded and threatened.

SOURCES: 

IMAGE1 (Crows):  Image from ad in 1925 "American Agriculturist" with four birds representing threats to farmer's crops (Aphis, Red Mite, Scale, Apple Red Bug). Doubled and reversed. (Link1)
IMAGE2 (Sitar player): Masthead image from 1949 issue of Indian literary magazine "Bharathi". (Link2)
IMAGE3 (Far left & right) : Tripod parts depicting heads of legendary Griffins (half bird, half lion), from 1909 book "Petites bronzes, terres-cuites, antiquitiés diverses" (Link3; trans: 'Small bronzes, terracotta, various antiques')
IMAGE4 (Background squares): Code-breaking puzzle from 2015 game "Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes" (Link4)

Link1:  archive.org/details/americanagricul123
Link2: archive.org/details/bharathi19490501
Link3:  archive.org/details/gri_33125000862876
Link4:  archive.org/details/keeptalkingandnobodyexplodesbombdefusalmanualv1

August 4, 2020

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PONDERING FARMER'S WOES (Still)

Image from an advertisement in a 1925 farm magazine, showing a dairy farmer contemplating all the risks he faces. It's worth reading the listed misfortunes. I knew all of them except "garget", which is inflammation of a cow's udder. I love the hand-lettering and the directness of address. The company is selling feed. In the background, a stormy harbor scene from a Dutch magazine.

SOURCES: 

IMAGE:  Ad from 1925 "American Agriculturist" for Detroit company Larrowe Milling. (Link1)
BACKGROUND: Cover photo of storm in harbor from 1990 issue of Dutch magazine "Mens und Wetenschap" (Link2; trans: 'People nd Science')

Link1:  archive.org/details/americanagricul123
Link2:  archive.org/details/menw-1990-06

August 2, 2020

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BALLERINA IN GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST COMEDY (Still)


Swedish prima ballerina and film actress Jenny Hasselqvist in a studio shot for the 1925 German silent film Die Perruque (trans: 'The Wig').

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: From 1925 German film magazine "Der Kinematograph,"
a publicity photo showing star for "Die Perruque" (Link1)

LINK1:  archive.org/details/kinematograph-1925-02

August 1, 2020

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SUITOR CLIMBS IN WINDOW IN OLD WORLD ROMANCE (Still)


From a 1925 German film magazine, a publicity shot from the movie "Zur Chronik von Grieshuus" (trans: 'The Chronicles of the Gray House'), a relatively unknown expressionist film like "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"). The scene shows a son of nobility (Paul Hartmann) who has fallen in love with a the daughter of a serf (Lil Dagover). He is climbing through a window to visit her. It is an old-fashioned melodrama with haunted castles and ruined families.

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: From 1925 German film magazine "Der Kinematograph,"
a publicity photo for "Zur Chronik von Grieshuus" (Link1)

LINK1:  archive.org/details/kinematograph-1925-02

July 31, 2020

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PUTTING ON SHOES BEFORE A DATE (Still)


This is dedicated to my nephew's wife Mollie, who once complimented a colored pencil drawing of an antique shoe drawn by Janice's mother that I uploaded to a previous blog. Mollie said "I like shoes!" and I realized for the first time that shoes have a certain functional beauty.

SOURCES:

IMAGE: Cover of 1923 issue of Canadian trade magazine, "Shoe and Leather Journal" (Link1)
BACKGROUND: Drawing of Medusa-headed Starfish from 1789 "The Naturalist's Miscellany : or Coloured Figures of Natural Objects" (Link2)

Link1:  archive.org/details/shoeandleatherjour1923
Link2:  archive.org/details/naturalistsmisc3shaw

July 30, 2020

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FARM FLAPPERS & OLD MEN (Still)


TBA

SOURCES: TBA

July 29, 2020

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BLONDE & MICROSCOPIC SEAWEED (Still)


TBA

SOURCES: TBA

July 28, 2020

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MICROSCOPIC BACTERIA & KEROSENE STOVE (Still)

A 1920's farmer's wife holds a pan before her kerosene stove; in the background, a photograph of bacteria through a microscope. I indulged myself by buying a 1600x digital microscope that plugs into the computer, so you may see more microscopic imagery here. When this world is so ugly with disease, anti-science disease denial, and a creeping federal police state, I turn inward.

SOURCES:
 
IMAGE1: Kerosene stove advertised in 1927 "American Agriculturalist" magazine (Link1; mislabeled as 1847 at citation)

IMAGE2: Microscope photo of bacteria (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/americanagricul120
Link2:  Photo via Good Free Photos

July 27, 2020

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FILM-MAKING MACHINE & FLING GIRL (Still)

Drawing of large film-mastering machine from a 1931 German film trade magazine, with added touch of ink drawing of actress Renate Muller.

 
SOURCES  

IMAGE (Machine): Advertisement from 1931 issue of German film trade magazine "Der Kinematograph" (Link1)

IMAGE (Woman): Ink drawing of Renate Muller in film "Der Kleine Seitenspring" (Link1; trans: 'The Little Fling')

Link1: archive.org/details/kinematograph-1931-08
 

July 26, 2020

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FOUR HOME-SEWN FARM-WIFE DRESSES, 1927 (Still)

The clothing and hair styles are vaguely familiar, but mainly I remember the look and crisp ironed touch of hand-made clothing. Sadly. now you seem them mainly worn by women in polygamous "Sister-Wife" cults. My mother was 19 at the time of these designs, and her high school pictures show similar hair styles. Surprisingly, my wife has a lot of those old sewing skills, but never uses them except to repair favorite items of clothing. Frankly, I find these 95-year-old styles kind of sexy.

 
SOURCES  

IMAGE: Four dress patterns advertised in 1927 "American Agriculturalist" magazine (Link1; mislabeled as 1847 at citation)

Link1: archive.org/details/americanagricul120

July 26, 2020
FIGURE MODEL BEFORE NACELLE (Still)

After a brief hiatus working on a new technique (the Doubled Dot technique), I return with this photo of a Plastic Club figure model against a busy background of an aircraft nacelle (streamlined storage compartment) with filter patterns. The Doubled Dot technique was used on the background, but is barely visible.

 
SOURCES:  

MODEL: Evelyn B. Plastic Club figure model picture from her online gallery (Link1)
BACKGROUND: Photo from aircraft company literature (Link2)

Link1: ebfmgallery.wordpress.com/108-2/ 
Link2: Location not recorded 

July 25, 2020

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A CURE FOR WOMEN'S FATIGUE (Still)

An image of an unhappy housewife at her ironing board, from an ad for a headache remedy in a Brazilian film magazine from 1930. The Bayer product is called Cafiaspirina, and promises relief from "headaches, teeth, ears, nerve pain and rheumatic diseases, consequences from past nights and alcoholic excesses, etc."
Technically, this image marks a new discovery. Click on the image repeatedly until it is full-size on your screen and notice the "dotty" treatment of the image combined with the halftone treatment of the frame.
In the background are also an Incan "quipu" -- a knotted string used to count objects -- and a photo of a collapsing house of cards. Sources not recorded.

 
SOURCES:   

IMAGES: Drug advertisement in 1930 Brazilian movie magazine "Cinearte" (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/per162531_1930_00210 

July 23, 2020

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MORE 1930's CELEBRITIES (Still)

Why so much German cinema? Well, one of my main sources of imagery (The Media History Digital Library) just uploaded a bunch of old German film magazines and their uploads are relatively high quality. (If you visit the Media History site, click to display by "Date Archived.")

Truthfully, I think my treatments give these illustrations, finely drawn in pen and ink, a kind of ghostly look -- a connection between my Coronavirus times and their prewar Nazi times. Still experimenting with styles.

 
SOURCES:   

IMAGES: Studio advertisement from July 1932 issue of German film magazine "Der Kinematograph" (Link1). 
Pictured, clockwise from top left: Gitta Alpar, Brigitte Helm, Gustaf Grundgrens, Dorothea Wieck, Max Hansen.

Link1: archive.org/details/kinematograph-1932-07 

July 23, 2020

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1930's CELEBRITIES (Still)

Experimenting with new graphic techniques on a rainy summer day. Moving black-and-white old-movie illustrations about like puzzle pieces or blocks. Also, one of my style transfer filters is inverted and doubled. Underlying frame size is set to 125% of original. Aim is to develop unique, identifiable style.

 
SOURCES:  

IMAGES: From 1931 issue of German film magazine "Der Kinematograph", Emil Jannings and Anna Sten
in "Sturm der  Leidenschaft" (trans. 'Storm of Passion') and (in circles) Joan Crawford
in "Irrwege des Lebens" (trans. 'Wrong Ways of Living') (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/kinematograph-1931-10 

July 22, 2020

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LIONS IN COLLAGE (Still)

In 1931, MGM released the adventure-romance film "Trader Horn", the story of a little girl kidnapped from her missionary parents who grew up to be the "White Goddess" who ruthlessly ruled an African tribe -- until two traders find and rescue her. It was the first film shot in Africa and audiences loved the animal scenes. The German film magazine "Kinematograph" advertised the premiere with renderings of roaring lions. Two of the drawings are superimposed in this image. In one, a lion twists away from a spear in its head; the other lion, in background, roars, its teeth visible in upper left.

The movie was the first non-documentary film set in Africa; filming was said to be so arduous that actress Edwina Booth (shown here in a 7-minute sequence of glamour shots) quit movie-making.

 
SOURCES:  

IMAGES: Lions shown in 1931 issue of German film magazine "Der Kinematograph" (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/kinematograph-1931-10 

July 22, 2020

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LONG AGO LONG JOHNS (Still)

In this hot summer without the usual beachy pleasures, we look at an 84-year-old "Monkey Ward" (as my parents called it) mail order catalog and recall the wooly wintry underclothes of yesteryear, like "Union Suits". The overall picture may be visually confusing, but the foreground picture of the woman on the right (in what the catalog calls "Comfysnugs") gives comfort, sweetness, and dimension. (Revised to remove grumpiness. Nobody cares that I had a bad day yesterday.)

 
SOURCES:   

IMAGE1 (Left): Two male models posing with arms crossed (Mr. Clean style) dressed in woolen "Union Suits" (long underwear) from a 1936 Montgomery Ward bargain sales catalog. (Link1)

IMAGE2 (Right): Model showing women's winter-weight "Comfysnugs" from same catalog.

LINK1:  archive.org/details/wardsgreatestbargainsalein64years

July 21, 2020

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TURN-OF-THE-LAST-CENTURY HUNK (Still)

This is Jack Bay, a 1902 football star and a big man in Astoria, Oregon, from a photograph in the town's charming, gossipy historical magazine "Cumtux" (which is Chinook jargon for "to know or inform"). Bay went on to run "Jack Bay Farm," a memoir explains, which made him "either a gentleman farmer or a kept man." Anyway, a bit of male beauty to make up for all the female glamour I have provided here. , and got nowhere.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Photo from 2010 edition of "Cumtux" published by the Clatsop (Oregon) County Historical Society (Link1).

LINK1:  archive.org/details/cumtux.20103004

July 20, 2020

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RIO DE JANEIRO VENDOR OF CHARMS & DREAMS (Still)

Experimenting with new style, here reverting to Square Format. The original is much larger. It's announcing the publication of a Brazilian movie magazine's annual issue. Advertising text says it is a book of "charms and dreams" on sale at newstands now. The background is a treatment of the magazines displayed on the peculiarly glamorous vendor's table.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Photo of magazine news agent used in advertisement in 1930 Brazilian movie magazine "Cinearte" announcing the magazine's annual issue (Link1). 

LINK1: archive.org/details/per162531_1930_00208

July 19, 2020

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LABORATORY PROCEDURES (Still)

While we lead our quarantined mask-muffled lives, some folks are working in research laboratories seeking a vaccine against Covid-19. This image is intended to honor them; notice how much of it is hands-on. Pictured here are a few steps in much less rigorous biochemical exercise, testing (I think) whether a sample has developed immunity to certain troublesome bacteria. It's from a laboratory procedures textbook.

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Many people say that they will not return to their regular activities until a vaccine is discovered. I'm advocating that position for vulnerable people at the Plastic Club, where I'm on the Board.
But unfortunately with the Trump administration, who will you believe about which vaccine to take? Trump? Pence? Ivanka? I'm not going to take any vaccine until Doctors Tony Fauci and Francis Collins recommend it. If you're interested in the subject, here's a 28-minute lecture (Link2) by Fauci and Collins on 7/6/2020 at the National Institute of Health. They're fallible, but they're bona-fide experts and not corrupt. (Tony: blink twice if they've kidnapped your family.)

 
SOURCES:  

IMAGE:  Illustrations of Modified Kirby-Bauer method to determine whether a sample is susceptible to toxic bacteria from the 2003 "Basic Laboratory Procedures In Clinical Bacteriology" by the World Health Organization. (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/basic-laboratory-procedures-in-clinical-bacteriology-second-edition
Link2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=85rYYMTXXck&authuser=0

July 18, 2020

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SERAGLIO SCENE WITH STREET AND PLANES (Still)

I am aware of my old man's tendency toward scopophilia -- the attraction to images of physically-attractive young women, also known as voyeurism. I occasionally resolve to back away from the glamour girl images, but this image led me astray.

I only glanced at the picture momentarily when I copied it aside for later use. I thought it was an actor declaiming a speech in some staging of an old Greek tragedy. I liked the composition.

But when I went back I found it was a photograph from a 1934 magazine article called "Their Homes are Harems" by an Englishman describing in panting detail "the secrets of harem life and the veiled mysteries of the East." It is a prime example of Europe's lascivious fascination with orientalism. For instance, here, from that article, is author Col. P.T. Etherton's description of the "houris" he saw when visiting a warlord in Turkistan (now China).

"As a rule, the girls of Turkistan have fair complexions and black hair; the carefully chosen collection of a powerful war-lord, however, often contains the most varied types.

"Girls with tiny feet and hands and the figures of Venus can confront you; dainty Chinese women flit about like butterflies amongst the coarser women of western Mongolia. Samarkand sends fairer, blue-eyed girls, glad-eyed beauties of the harem, who would almost pass for Europeans. From Georgia come the sensuous and voluptuous types; from Caucasia, smiling feminine merchandise full of temperament and fire."

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Glad-eyed? Merchandise? Anyway, this picture is captioned: "This woman would not turn her face to the camera; to take a photograph in the harem at all was the utmost concession."

The woman leaning against the column has two underlying patterns: (1) an identification chart of Nazi war planes and (2) a photograph of wood block pavement (I think) from a recent but undated work of artistic mapmaking.

 
SOURCES:

IMAGE: Harem photo from a 1934 issue of British magazine "The Passing Show" (Link1)

BACKGROUND1: Identification chart of German planes from 1945 issue of "Popular Mechanics" (Link2)

BACKGROUND2: Paving or wall pattern from undated Spanish book "Cartografies de l'Entern" (Link3; trans: 'Mapmaking of the Environment'); the volume is interesting, like so much published in Catalan.

Link1:  archive.org/details/the-passing-show-v-03n-142-new-series-1934-12-08
Link2:  archive.org/details/mechanix-illustrated-1945.05.missing-6-pgs-anon.-malefactor
Link3:  archive.org/details/cartografies-neus-lozano-sanfelix/mode/2up

July 17, 2020

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TWO CARTOON STYLES (Still)

Superimposing a couple drawing styles that caught my eye: (1) a boy in a wide hat riding a dog or donkey, from an advertisement in a 1930 Brazilian movie magazine for a children's magazine 'O Tico Tico' and (2) an illustration from a 1994 girls' book "The Dork Diaries" written and illustrated by Rachel Renée Russell. Original drawings shown in the upper right and lower left of the digital collage, also shown below, as originals.
 

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE (Boy):  Drawing from advertisement in 1930 issue of Brazilian film magazine "Cinearte" (Link1)

IMAGE (Girl): Illustration from 1994 book "Tales from a Not So Best Friend Forever" in the girls' series "The Dork Diaries" (Link2)

Link1:  archive.org/details/per162531_1930_00209
Link2: archive.org/details/dork-diaries-14-tales-from-a-not-so-best-friend-forever_202007

July 17, 2020

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NEVER-NEVER LAND LUXURY (Still)
 
1930's American movie star Nancy Carroll poses for a studio shot, holding some sort of feathered pinwheel and lounging in her high heels.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE:  Photograph from 1930 issue of Brazilian film magazine "Cinearte" (Link1)

Link1:  archive.org/details/per162531_1930_00209

July 16, 2020

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100-YEAR-OLD GLAMOUR GIRLS (Still)
 
1920's film stars from a German film trade magazine. Pictured are Gloria Swanson, Pauline Starke, and Louise Brooks. The image is sent through three online style transfers and combined in Photoshop.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE:  A collage of two overlaid pages from a 1929 issue of German film magazine "Der Kinematograph". The visible page is headlined "O! Diese Anlichkeit" (Link1; trans 'O! The Prettiness').  (Link1)

Link1:  https://archive.org/details/kinematograph-1929-07

July 15, 2020

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WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS (Still)
 
A collage: an old hardware catalog illustration set against a photo of a window pane wet with condensation; redone next morning.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Illustration from 1914 "Sun Foundry Illustrated Catalogue" showing assortment of cast metal wheels (Link1)

BACKGROUND: Photo of window condensation from 2019 report "Condensation In Buildings" (Link2)

Link1:  archive.org/details/a-c-harley-co.-1914
Link2:  archive.org/details/handbook-condensation-in-buildings-2019

July 15, 2020

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EV AND WREATH (Still)
 
Plastic Club laid-off figure model Evelyn B. uploaded some new pictures to her gallery/website. I set her self-portrait inside a wreath from an old book on the meaning of flowers. Some new techniques here: backing off from the Color Halftone texture, switching to a different vendor for style transfer: DreamScope. It's a flat $10/month.
Zoom class went well, except for a few hiccups and my forgetting to hit RECORD button. Attendees seemed to enjoy it. Here is a PDF form of the presentation: Five Tips for Modifying Digital Images.

 
SOURCES: 

MODEL: Evelyn B. new figure model picture (Link1)
WREATH: From 1890 "The artistic language of flowers" (Link2)

Link1: ebfmgallery.wordpress.com/108-2/
Link2: archive.org/details/artisticlanguag00

July 14, 2020

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OLD MOVIE ENHANCEMENT & COLLAGE (Still)
 
Two movie stars from silent movie era, from a 1929 German movie magazine 'Kinematograph'.
Have been unproductive because I'm preparing for a Zoom class tomorrow.

 
SOURCES:

IMAGE: Photo of American actress Dolores Costello in 1928 movie "Noah's Ark" (Link1)
IMAGE (INSET): Line drawing of German actor Conrad Veidt in 1929 movie "Das Lande ohne Frauen" (Link1; trans: 'The Land Without Women')

Link1: https://archive.org/details/kinematograph-1929-07

July 5, 2020

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TWO POSES OF IRENE CASTLE (Still)
 
Influential dance teacher Irene Castle who, along with her husband Vernon, revived the popularity of modern dance in the 1920's.

 
SOURCES:

IMAGE: Two poses of ballroom dancer and dance teacher Irene Castle, from 1921 issue of Brazilian movie magazine "Revista A Scena Muda" (Link1;  trans 'Scene Change Magazine)

Link1: archive.org/details/s192112010040a000

July 5, 2020

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BEETLES & MOSQUITOS & DANCER (Still)
 
Confusing unfestive Fourth of July. As you may know, I am currently following a rather inflexible set of procedures, which I have recently written down. Feel I am going to make some big changes in this process.

 
SOURCES:

BACKGROUND1:  Six mosquitos from 1986 "Moustiques de France: bibliographie et répartition" (Link1)
BACKGROUND2: Beetles from "Two hand-painted volumes of Coleoptera illustrated by Francis du Boulay" (Link2)
DANCER: File photo of classical ballet dancer Christine Du Boulay Ellis (relationship to Francis du Boulay not known; coincidence?) in her 2019 obituary (Link3)

Link1: archive.org/details/moustiquesdefra30mous
Link2: archive.org/details/twohandpaintedv1dubo
Link3: dance.land/christine-du-boulay-ellis-obituary

July 4, 2020

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ANTI-TRUMP POSTER OVER GERMAN STUDIO PHOTO (Still)
 
This started out as an image I saw as I was waking up, orange with white lines.

 
SOURCES:

IMAGE: Photograph from 1926 German film magazine "Der Kinematograph" showing actress Mary Kid at dressing
table, captioned 'Heimlich Sünder' (trans: Secretly Sinner) (Link1)

BACKGROUND: Anti-Trump poster by Mark Fox and Angie Wang, portraying Trump as devil on orange background (Link2).
For more info on this activist art studio, see Link3. They are doing
fundraising for three more anti-Trump posters, see Link4.

Link1: archive.org/details/kinematograph-1926-06
Link2: letterformarchive.org/news/mark-fox-and-angie-wang
Link3: www.fastcompany.com/3065072/whos-behind-that-anti-trump-art
Link4: www.kickstarter.com/projects/whitelies/trump-lord-of-the-lies-and-white-lies-matter-posters

July 3 2020

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NORMA TALMADGE OVER A SPEEDBALL ALPHABET (Still)
 
I love the pen-and-ink illustrations from the movie studios in the 20's, before photography began to dominate. The artist is E.R. Higgins. Here the movie-ad is superimposed on a page from the Speedball pen book, a strong influence on me as a teenager.

 
SOURCES:

FOREGROUND: Actress Norma Talmadge in an illustration in the press book for the 1927 movie "The Dove" (Link1)

BACKGROUND: An alphabet (called Art Lettering) from an undated edition of the Speedball Lettering book (Link2)
 
 Link1: archive.org/details/pressbook-ua-the-dove
 Link2: archive.org/details/LFASpeedball0111

July 2 2020

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PYTHIA, VIRGIN PRIESTESS AND PROPHET(Still)
   

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SOURCES: 
IMAGE: Original chalk or pastel illustration from the 1985 book "The Mystery Of Atlantis ( Time Machine No. 8)" (Link1)

OVERLAY: Stylized fish from 1954 "Modern Belgian Woodengravers" (Link2). 

It is tilted; I include it because it is so cute, although the artist is not identified and Google Images finds no match. 
The book is worth a look. I briefly considered this as a new logo.

Link1:  archive.org/details/jim-gasperini-the-mystery-of-atlantis-time-machine-no.-8-1985
Link2: archive.org/details/woodcuts2

July 2 2020

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OBSERVATION ON SENSE OF TASTE (Still)
 

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Someone cooked a pizza with Reese's Peanut Butter Cup topping. Two of the greatest tastes in American cuisine, but together the thought of them is revolting.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Downloaded 6/30/2020 from 4Chan message board.

July 1 2020

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ZOOM MEETING COLLEAGUE (Still)
 

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Every Tuesday night during the Quarantine I have been joining a ZOOM meeting of artists associated with the Plastic Club. Since I am officially the ZOOM host, I am The Teacher, that is, I kind of monitor and run things. I haven't been a formal teacher for forty years, since I was a second-grade teacher in Detroit. This means I am revisiting the peculiar psychological stresses of teaching, like the nagging guilt that you have mistreated or ignored one of your students. In tonight's ZOOM meeting, Mike and Sarah needed personal attention due to a technical problem, and I slighted them. Being artists, here is my artistic apology to them: a picture of Mike, slightly younger, after going through my standard photo processing. I got the picture because Sarah uploaded it to her Facebook account.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Photograph of Michael Nathan uploaded to Facebook, presumably by Sarah Watkins Nathan (Link1).

June 30 2020

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ARAB MANUSCRIPT: LOVERS IN PAVILION (Still)
 

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Another attempt at treating Persian miniatures. this one from approx. 1570, from the Iranian city of Masshad. It depicts two lovers cuddling under a pavilion. The page is flipped horizontally.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Illustration (Link1) from 1976 "Islamic Painting And The Arts
 Of The Book (The Keir Collection)"

Link1: https://archive.org/details/islamic-painting-and-the-arts-of-the-book

June 29, 2020

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ON SOVIET CONSTITUTION REFORM (1:15)

 
SOURCES:

RADIO: Archived report of June 22, 1941, German invasion of Russia (Link1) from Russia Twitter feed
BACKGROUND VIDEO: "Virtual Immortal Regiment" broadcast showing pictures of today's Soviet citizens
next to pictures of their relatives killed in WW2 (Link2)
PHOTO (Couple): Old WW2 photo of Ivan and Maria Lapenkov (Link3)
PHOTO (Putin): News file photo
BALLOT (Yes/No): News reports

Link1: https://t.co/vzxsD2aNWE
Link2: www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=ou-db0tiCgk
Link3: www.svoboda.org/a/28468521.html

June 29, 2020

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CHORUS LINE AND SEA PLANT (Still)
 

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Hollywood studio shot combined with nature book sea fern.

 
SOURCES: tba

June 29, 2020

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ARABIC TITLE PAGE WITH ANGELS (Still)
     

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I've always been disappointed that so few book in Arabic have illustrations that are suitable for my treatment. But then I ran across this volume, consisting mainly of old Persian miniatures used in manuscript books, and am rethinking my views.
This is a highly patterned title page, with four angels, reversed. It has the general composition of a Persian rug, but note the treatment of the four angels.
Next to that, a different, simplified treatment of the title page.
And finally a third treatment, much simpler to perform.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Illustration (Link1) from 1976 "Islamic Painting And The Arts
 Of The Book (The Keir Collection)" showing a 1444 manuscript 
title page from Shiraz (or Yazd) in present-day Iran.

Link1: https://archive.org/details/islamic-painting-and-the-arts-of-the-book

June 28, 2020

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ANCIENT ARTHROPOD WITH ANUNNAKI WINGS (Still)
 
At 75, one is entitled to invent a mythological "brand" for one self. In this piece, I take the extinct arthropod insect trilobite I previously used as a personal device. I add to it stylized wings used to depict the Annunaki (the oldest deities from the time of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, and Babylonians).
Will I keep it? Does it represent a change in my spiritual/artistic/career position? Where will I go after the Coronavirus quarantine?

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SOURCES: 

WINGS: Illustration from "Двенадцатая Планета)" (Link1; trans: 'Twelfth Planet'), a widely discredited book
 by Zachariah Sitchin espousing a theory that 'Ancient Astronauts' from a hidden 12th planet settled earth.

Link1: https://archive.org/details/20200621_20200621_1815

June 26, 2020

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DETAIL, HAMMERED COPPER BAS RELIEF (Still)
 
The full piece by Oscar Jespers was exhibited in the Belgian Pavilion at the 1935 Paris World's Fair. Barely visible in the background are the full bas relief and a photo of the marching sailors from the recent Moscow V-E Day Parade.
During Jespers' lifetime, Belgium controlled parts of Africa, with many atrocities. Jespers was apparently exposed to the modernistic simplicities of African sculpture, as was Picasso.

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SOURCES: TBA

June 26, 2020
ON MY WALK 2DAY 6: SIDEWALK GREEN AND MOVIE STILLS (Still)
 

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SOURCES: TBA

June 25, 2020

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ON MY WALK 2DAY 5: BRICK, TAR PAPER, CHIPBOARD (Still)
 

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SOURCES: TBA

June 25, 2020

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IMPROVISATION: SCHOONER, STAMP, SNAKE (Still)
 

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As a boy, I collected stamps. There was always one stamp that I thought was the most beautiful: the British 1913 Seahorse stamp, below, in green, although I thought it looked best in a kind of purple rose color:

Combined it with some other images and got this...

 
SOURCES: TBA

June 25, 2020

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RED HANNAH ON HEIROGLYPHS (Still)
 

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SOURCES: TBA June 23, 2020

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OLD PEOPLE SEX BY DELFAU (Still)
 
Georges Delfau was a 20th century French artist who claimed the genre of "ordinary sex" -- between old and out-of-shape people. Here, are two older woman playing with a dildo (or a vegetable) in a typical middle-class French drawing room.

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SOURCES: TBA June 22, 2020

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ON MY WALK TODAY 4 (Still)
 
A casual walk today -- more or less around the block -- and I saw this broken window on a bus stop, from last month's property damage protests.

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VIDEO VERSION: RUMINATION ON BROKEN WINDOW (0:55)
Having trouble with "audio ducking" -- adjusting music track to play under voice track. Subject matter is practically random and stream of consciousness. Confused about my future, which is why the text for these videos may not make sense -- like this one.

 
SOURCES:

VIDEO & TEXT by Bob Moore, June 2020, bus stop at 22nd & Chestnut, Philadelphia
MUSIC: Excerpt from song "An Ode to Transhumanism - Escaped Trees" by Le Colibri Necrophile on album 'The World Is Over' (Link1)
CARTOON: Excerpt from 2002 movie "Ice Age" uploaded to 4Chan 'Cartoons and Animation' thread (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/VA_The_World_is_Over__A_side
Link2: boards.4channel.org/wsg/thread/3482606

June 21-22, 2020

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POMPEII JUST BEFORE THE VOLCANO (Still)
 
In her chambers, a pampered daughter of the Roman aristocracy has her hair prepared by a servant while another servant gives her a pedicure. All will soon change when Mount Vesuvius erupts!
I like the 1913 silent version, because it's closer to the original Bulwer-Lyton story. Blind Nidia saves a pair of lovers because she can navigate in the darkness and takes them to a boat -- but brave Nidia does not get on the boat and stays behind to perish for unrequited love.

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VIDEO VERSION: REMEMBERING POMPEII (0:48)

 
SOURCES:

VIDEO: Excerpt from 1913 Italian silent film "Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompei" (trans. The Last Days of Pompeii) (Link1)
IMAGE: Publicity photo from 1926 German movie magazine "Der Kinematograph" showing publicity photo from 'Die Letzten Tage von Pompeji' (Link2)
PAINTING: History painting by Russian artist Karl Bryullov produced in 1830–1833 (Link3)
STATUE: Randolph Rogers "Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii" (Link4)
MUSIC: Excerpt from 1634 "Canzon à canto solo" by Girolamo Frescobaldi (Link5)

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGIcZd8mJZE
Link2: archive.org/details/kinematograph-1926-01
Link3: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karl_Brullov_-_The_Last_Day_of_Pompeii_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Link4: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blind_Flower_Girl_of_Pompeii_01.jpg#/media/File:Blind_Flower_Girl_of_Pompeii_01.jpg
Link5: imslp.org/wiki/Canzon_%C3%A0_canto_solo,_F_8.01c_(Frescobaldi,_Girolamo)#IMSLP632263. Permlink imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/632263

June 20-21. 2020

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BUG PASTICHE (Still)
 
These still pieces only take about four hours.

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BUG PASTICHE VIDEO (0:45)

 
SOURCES:

BUG: Drawing from 1789 "The naturalist's miscellany : or coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature" (Link1)
STILL BACKGROUND: Layout of flowers and leaves of Garcinia plant, from 1977 Australian nature journal "Austrobaileya" (Link2)
VIDEO BACKGROUND: Assembly scene from Spanish version of 1936 movie "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (Link3)
PHOTO AND NARRATION: Bob Moore, 6/18-19/2020

Link1: archive.org/details/naturalistsmisc1shaw
Link2: archive.org/details/austrobaileya9quee
Link3: NA; related: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SccPuVdv13I

June 18-19, 2020

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LOOSE AND LONG ENDS (0:42)

Fifth experiment in video/diary/haiku. Not sure I've mastered the content here, but I'm developing a form.

 
SOURCES:

PHYSICS VIDEO: "Golf Ball Hitting Steel Super Slo Mo" (Link1) uploaded 2009 by Billy Karloff. It's not really a golf ball,
commenters say, it's a foam rubber ball included in kids' toy golf sets.
SOLDIERS: Photo from "World War 1: The Definitive Visual Guide from Sarajevo to Versailles" (Link2) showing English soldiers
assembled for a speech from commanding officer after breaking the Hindenberg defensive line in October 1918.
HALLWAY: Background for ZOOM screen, source unknown.
GIRL: Photo from 2020 Spanish erotic magazine "Lascivia Revista" (Link3)
MUSIC: Song "Rib 3" from American computer music artist Thomas Parks (Link4)

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=aMqM13EUSKw
Link2: b-ok.org/book/2644799/50bd9b
Link3: archive.org/details/lascivia-67-2020-05
Link4: archive.org/details/thomasparkshortribs_202006

June 18, 2020

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APOCALYPTIC FEARS LIKE THE 80'S (0:36)

Fourth experiment in video/diary/haiku.

 
SOURCES:

VIDEO: Excerpts from compilation "Nuclear-Bomb Explosions" uploaded 2012 by German Manuel Fries (Link1) 
MUSIC: Excerpt from 2020 song "Locked Up" on album 'Albion' by Russian music project Alex Mason (Link2)
PHOTOS & TEXT: Bob Moore, June 2010
TITLE is from a rock and roll song (Link3) contained in my 1980 music anthology "The Robbie Panek Songbook" 

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gD_TL1BqFg&t=4s
Link2: archive.org/details/enrmp461_alex_mason_-_albion
Link3: zer0sum.net/poetry//walking.htm

June 14, 2020

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ON THE WAY TO THE WATER (0:46)

Third experiment in video/diary/haiku. One mistake in my reading: I meant the word "elegance" to be dripping with sarcasm, but ex-actress Janice says I didn't quite make it.

 
SOURCES:

PHOTO and VIDEO by Bob Moore, 6/13/2020

MUSIC: Excerpt from 2013 piano composition "Tsutsuji" (Azaleas) by Japanese composer and sound engineer Yoshio Chino (Link1; permlink Link2). Chino says "I enjoy watching movies that use my music. I want to assist any kind of person making a video (such as film producers , promotional agencies , Vloggers , etc.) by making music. I am using SoundCloud to promote my music." (Link3) See his compilation "My Favorite Movies that Use My Music" (Link4). 

Link1: imslp.org/wiki/Tsutsuji_(Chino,_Yoshio)#IMSLP631504
Link2: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/631504
Link3: soundcloud.com/chino-yoshio
Link4: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXuP_kFHhhoEL3XzlacYKWiZ-841_JpRW

June 14, 2020

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SPRAY PAINT IN AN ALLEY (0:38)

Another experiment in video/diary/haiku. Using music from American musician who specializes in composing music to accompany haiku.

 

SOURCES:

PHOTOS by Bob Moore, June 2020
MUSIC: Excerpt from 2020 composition "Wild Sea" by Maryland-based George L Smyth (Link1) Smyth writes music to accompany haiku.
This one was written to accompany:
  A wild sea-
  In the distance over Sado
  The Milky Way.

Link1: archive.org/details/a-wild-sea

June 13, 2020

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SIDEWALK ACCESS COVER WITH RAIN AND LEAVES (0:50)

(Later): An experimental use of video to present my still images, also to highlight my short writing. Using my ugly face as a branding mechanism, as much as the extinct trilobite logo.
 
(Earlier): On one of my walks, I snapped a picture of the metal cover that a city utility had placed over a hole in the sidewalk for access to plumbing or wiring. It was early Fall. There had been a bit of a shower and some leaves had drifted into the puddles.

 
SOURCES:

IMAGE: Photo by Bob Moore, Fall 2020

June 12, 2020

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HOUSE PAINTER'S WALL NOTES (Still)
 
On one of my walks, I ran across a residential building slated for repainting. The owner and painting contractor were communicating about color schemes via paint swatches on an outside wall. The building was slated to be completed by November 2019, according to the building permit posted, but it's not done yet.
In processing the photo, I very lightly drew borders around the color swatches -- the outside-the-line nature of the brushed swatches offended my sense of order. That may have been a mistake.

 
SOURCES:

IMAGE: Photo by Bob Moore, March 2020

June 11, 2020

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BROKEN CENTER CITY STORE WINDOW (Still)
 
Encouraged by a participant in our Tuesday Night Digital Share -- a bunch of artists who show what they've been working on using ZOOM's "Screen Share" function -- I have decided to transition in my work to original photographs, taken on walks around the city. Besides getting out of my public domain rut, this will also encourage me to get outside and get exercise.
This picture was taken a couple weeks ago on a walk around my Rittenhouse Square neighborhood after a night of angry protestors breaking windows. I think it was a Chase Manhattan ATM. The property damage has since quieted down and most businesses are open -- although they still have plywood up. The George Floyd protests and the Corona Virus pandemic have not really inconvenienced me that much.
I am glad to see so many young whites protesting police brutality against blacks. The elimination of racist cop behavior is a major goal in America, but it is confusing that the mass media are presenting rapper celebrities with names like Killer Mike and Charlemagne the God and slogans like "Defund the Police" as workable social change strategy. Much more reliable black spokesman is John Ridley, who wrote "12 Years a Slave."
As a young man in Detroit, I was involved in protests against a Detroit police strategy called STRESS (Stop Robberies Enjoy Safe Streets) which edged into armed vigilante squads. I believed then that the answer was independent civilian boards reviewing police actions. Now forty years later, I found out that those civilian review boards have been downgraded to powerless "advisory" roles by all-powerful police unions -- and I hold black leadership, the politicians and ministers, responsible for that, for taking their eyes off the ball. Without independent civilian review boards, there is no recourse for minorities brutalized by police but protest and violence.

 
SOURCES:

IMAGE: Photo by Bob Moore, March 2020

June 10, 2020

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ASMODEUS IN MANUSCRIPT INITIAL "V" (Still)
 
Calligraphic decorations on a 12th century holy book. Figure depicted is a character called "the lame devil," a demon on crutches, surrounded by various snakes and figures. The demon is also known as Asmodeus, a very scary figure in the world of demonology. Follow the link if you want to enter a black hole of mythology going all the way from the ancient Kabbalah to today's "Dungeons and Dragons." Just don't lose your way.
Inscription in Latin says that the book is connected to the Fourth Century "Desert Mother" Saint Eustochius.
Lettering at top is a chapter heading: "Explicit liber terlius, incipit liber quartus" (End Book Three, Beginning Book Four). Lettering on side says: "Vellem si fieri posset Eustochium" (I would like to, if it had been possible, Eustochium -- bad Google translation).

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Illustration from 1841 "Essai sur la calligraphie des manuscrits du moyen-âge et sur les ornements des premiers Livres d'heures imprimés" (Link1; trans: 'Essay on the calligraphy of manuscripts from the Middle Ages and on the ornaments of the first printed Hours Books')

Link1: archive.org/details/EssaiSurLaCalligraphie

June 9, 2020

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ANGELS FROM EAST EUROPEAN PRAYER BOOK (Still)
 
Decorative page headings from a Catholic book of prayers, poems, and saint-of-the-day almanac from Belarusia in 1929. Part of radiactive disaster area Chernobyl is in Belarusia.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Illustrations for heads of chapters from a 1929 Belarussian "Kalendaryk Chryścijanskaj dumki dla biełaruskaj moładzi" (Link1; trans. 'Calendar of Christian Thoughts for Belarusian youth')

Link1: archive.org/details/kalendaryk-chryscijanskaj-dumki-dla-bielaruskaj-moladzi-na-1929-hod

June 9, 2020

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TINY AIR-COOLED GASOLINE ENGINES (Still)
 
I remember the buzzing sound of those two-cycle engines, as they powered model airplanes in tethered circles on the playgrounds of my youth. Their fuel tanks could be filled with an eyedropper. You started them by quickly and briskly rotating the propeller, just like an old car, until the motor "caught"; nowadays, high-end model planes have electric ignitions and jet engines.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Illustration for article 'Popular Power Plants' in 1954 "Air Trails Model Annual" (Link1)
 
Link: archive.org/details/air-trails-model-annual-1954

June 8, 2020

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WHIMSICAL ALTERNATIVE PRESS ILLUSTRATION (Still)
 
In the 60's I worked on an "alternative paper" (Detroit's Fifth Estate). Understaffed and stoned, people did many jobs. I did art and writing and advertising sales; this illustration is from another alternative paper, from Texas. Typical of the alternative press of the time, it is trippy and amateur and imaginative.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Collage in 1969 issue of Austin's "Space City News" illustrating article 'Snake Lady Tells All: A Day at the Circus,' composed of photo by Darlene Burleson and drawing by Kerry Fitzgerald. (Link1) 
 
Link: archive.org/details/spacecitynews01spac_2

June 7, 2020

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SIGNIFICANT OTHER'S BIRTHDAY (Still)
 
Happy birthday, Janice. 30-plus years together.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE1: Wreath from 1842 "Le langage des fleurs" (Link1)
IMAGE2: Monogram letter "J" from Berlin Monogram Font (Link2) combined with Hobo Standard font.

Link1: archive.org/details/langagedesfleur00marta
Link2: www.dafont.com/berlin-monogram.font

June 6, 2020

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ZOOMING MY LIFE AWAY (Still)
 
Screenshot of me zooming.

 
SOURCES: NA

June 5, 2020

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CELEBRITY BEAUTIES OF THEIR TIME (Still)
   
First image is 22-year-old Joan Crawford on the cover of a 1928 movie fan magazine. Second image, also from a movie magazine, is less well known Gwen Lee. To some extent, these represent an intuition that celebrity beauty culture tends to produce monsters.

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE1: Cover of 1928 Brazilian magazine "Cinearte" (Link1)
IMAGE2: Cover of different issue of 1928 Brazilian magazine "Cinearte" (Link20

LINK1: archive.org/details/per162531_1928_00145
LINK2: archive.org/details/c192812030147a000-mesclado

June 4-5, 2020

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UNSUCCESSFUL VIRTUAL BACKGROUND FOR ZOOM (Still)
 
For those who communicate online with groups of people via ZOOM, there is a function to add a "virtual background" so your particular environment is not visible. Colored ones tend to flicker at the edges, black and white ones seem to work better. Here is my attempt to create a virtual background. Historical Note: My paternal grandfather was a "sand hog" -- tunnel digger -- for excavation under the Chicago river. (Later: unfortunately it didn't work, but I still like the image.)

 
SOURCES: 

IMAGE1: Illustration from the 1934 book "Construction of the Subway and the Plan of the City of Moscow." Caption reads "Finishing Work on the Tunnel." (Link1)

LINK1: archive.org/details/kaganovich-lazar.-construction-of-the-subway-and-the-plan-of-the-city-of-moscow

June 3, 2020

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GERMAN CINEMA & CIRCUIT BOARD (Still)
 
TBA

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June 3, 2020

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NEWFOUND FOSSIL, BALL-&-CHAIN FLAIL, DRAGON HEADS (Still)
 
Reversal of my usual pattern, with iconic logo trilobite as major focus on the full page and a silent-movie star as a branding logo in the lower right corner. The star is Colleen Moore from a 1925 German magazine.

SOURCES: 

IMAGE1: The trilobite is from a posting in Reddit's Trilobite board group by user PaintTheKill, bragging that he finally found a trilobite in the Hudson Valley of New York state (Link1)

IMAGE2: The silent movie star in an oval is flapper Colleen Moore from a 1925 German magazine "Kinematograph" (Link2)

IMAGE3: Drawing of a dragon from an issue of the German movie magazine "Licthbild-Bühne" (Link not available) 

IMAGE4: Illustration from 2005 "Hafted weapons in medieval renaissance Europe" showing a weapon the author calls a "kettenmorgenstern" (chain morning star) a spiked ball attached by a chain to a pole. (Link3)

 
Link1: www.reddit.com/r/trilobites/comments/gt9li9/finally_found_a_trilobite_hudson_valley_ny/
Link2: archive.org/details/kinematograph-1925-05
Link3: archive.org/details/hafted-weapons-2005

June 1, 2020

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INTERSPECIES BUG BATTLE (0:40)


TBA

SOURCES:

FOREGROUND VIDEO: Clip from @NatureIsMetal Twitter feed, "Praying Mantis eats Murder Hornet" uploaded May 24, 2020 (Link1)
Earlier version uploaded May 8 "Praying Mantis Eats a Murder Hornet’s Head in Gnarly Video" July 22, 2019 (Link2)

BACKGROUND VIDEO: Clip from @NatureIsMetal Twitter feed, "Wild Wolf" uploaded May 29, 2020 (Link3)

MUSIC: "Album Leaf" 2020 composition for piano by Englishman Andrei Anghel (Link4)

Link1: twitter.com/i/status/1264622028017020930; also www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn3OQsr-aRc&feature=youtu.be
Link2: nerdist.com/article/praying-mantis-eats-murder-hornet/
Link2: https://twitter.com/i/status/1266231729011822593
Link4: imslp.org/wiki/Album_leaf_(Anghel,_Andrei); permlink imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/628273

May 31, 2020

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I DREAMT I PLAYED BADMINTON (Still)
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SOURCES: 

IMAGE: A Maidenform bra ad from a 1950 Ladies' Home Journal. (Link1)

OVERLAY SILHOUETTE: Dancer from 1925 German movie magazine (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/ladieshomejourna67janwyet
Link2: archive.org/details/kinematograph-1925-05

May 30, 2020

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HAFTED WEAPONS (Still)
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Deadly weapons from 1000 years ago. A "guisarme" is an early peasant weapon, created by attaching a metal tool to long pole. Violence is on my mind because I foresee street fighting in this country, especially if Trump cancels the 2020 election one way or another.

SOURCES: 

IMAGES: Pictures of two medieval "guisarmes" (or pole weapons) from a Stockholm museum, from the 2005 "Hafted weapons in medieval renaissance Europe"(Link1).

Link1: archive.org/details/hafted-weapons-2005

May 29, 2020

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NERVOUS GUN MOLL (1:13)


TBA

SOURCES:

VIDEO & AUDIO: Scene from 1948 movie "Railroaded" featuring John Ireland and Jane Randolph (Link1)

MUSIC: "Sleep" 2013 piano composition by Yoshio Chino (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/railroaded1947_202003
Link2: imslp.org/wiki/Sleep_(Chino,_Yoshio)#IMSLP627929; permlink imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/627929

May 28, 2020

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J'ACCUSE & PIXIES (Still)
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SOURCES: 

Right: Pen-and-ink drawing from 1919 studio press book for film "J'Accuse" (Link1)

Left: A page of Leroy Neiman's "Femlins" (curvaceous naked cartoon figures with thick black hair, black stockings, black gloves) working out in a gym from a collection of Neiman's work (Link2)


Link1: archive.org/details/pressbook-ua-i-accuse
Link2: archive.org/details/leroyneimanfemlin50thanniversarycollection023

May 28, 2020

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NANOSCALE PHOTOGRAPHS AND TRAIN SIGNALS (Still)
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In the background, four Scanning Electron Microscope photographs of silica sand at different magnifications, from a book on porous silicon nanocrystals. Across the foreground is an illustration of signals used by train conductors to signal the locomotive engineer.

SOURCES:  

BACKGROUND: Illustration from undated book "Silicon Nanocrystals" (Link1)

FOREGROUND: Chart of seven trainman signals (with light, hand or flag) from 1934 edition of "Railroad Stories" (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/silicon-nanocrystals-fundamentals-synthesis-applications
Link2: archive.org/details/railroad-stories-v-14-n-03-1934-06

May 26, 2020

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MOVIE STAR WITH INTERFERENCE PATTERN (Still)
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SOURCES:

FOREGROUND: Cover photograph of Olive Borden, a silent-film actress
known as The Joy Girl, from a 1928 issue of "Cinearte", a Portuguese
movie magazine (Link1). Note her tragic biography (Link2)

OVERLAY: Photograph of subway tracks on buckled bricks, from the 1938
book "“Metro and the past of Moscow. Essays on the geology, history
and archeology of Moscow” (Link3).

Link1: archive.org/details/per162531_1928_00125 
Link2: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Borden
Link3: archive.org/details/metro_i_proshloe_moskvy_1938

May 26, 2020

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POWER GROWS FROM THE BARREL OF A GUN (0:58)


TBA

SOURCES:

VIDEO & AUDIO: Scene from 1952 movie "The Fighter" featuring Richard Conte and Lee J. Cobb, based on a
short story by Jack London. Conte enters a winner-take-all boxing match to get the money for the guns.

MUSIC: Chiptune composition (Link2) from Nino Virtual (Reynosa Tamaulipas) on 2015 album "Sonido Lagunero"
(trans. Sound of the Lagoon District of Mexico). Also known as "cumbia." Chiptunes are "synthesized
electronic music made using the programmable sound generator sound chips in vintage arcade machines" (Link3) 

Link1: archive.org/details/thefighter1952
Link2: archive.org/details/mysg008 
Link3: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune

May 25, 2020

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PLASTIC CLUB FIGURE MODEL'S "LIMB-O" (Still)
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Evelyn B., the quarantine-unemployed Plastic Club figure model mentioned in my May 14 entry, uploaded a new set of photographs to her free online portfolio (Link1), called "Limb-O." This is based on one of them.

SOURCES: 

Link1: ebfmgallery.wordpress.com/
 

May 24, 2020

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COLLAGE: ANIME TEEN & SPANISH PARTY (Still)
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SOURCES: 

BACKGROUND 1: Two-page spread overlaid to one page of Japanese anime
actress Reika Nakajima from 1999 edition of videogame magazine
"Famitsu." Previously used in May 23 image.(Link1)

BACKGROUND 2: Explicit photograph of a ten-plus-person orgy from a Spanish porn magazine, "Lascivia" (Link2) 

Link1: archive.org/details/famitsu0570
Link2: archive.org/details/lascivia-07-2015-05 (has since been removed)
 

May 24, 2020

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MAGICIAN'S ASSISTANT REBELS (0:33)


TBA

SOURCES:

VIDEO & AUDIO: From 1945 film "The Great Flamarion" (Link1). Vaudeville magician Erich von Stroheim
 hears the truth from assistant Mary Beth Hughes in backstage scene.

Link1: archive.org/details/thegreatflamarion1945_202003 

May 23, 2020

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DOLLS & ANIME ACTRESS (Still)
 
Center, some dollheads inside a thorn oval. Behind, snapshots of Asian girl in fan magazine.

SOURCES: 

OVAL: Design for base of a dragon made with 3D pen, from a
2019 crafts magazine "Book Of Making Volume 2"(Link1)

DOLLS: Illustration of doll heads from advertisement in 1990 issue of
collector's magazine "The Inside Collector" (Link2)

BACKGROUND: Two-page spread overlaid to one page of Japanese anime actress
Reika Nakajima from 1999 edition of videogame magazine "Famitsu" (Link3) 

Link1: archive.org/details/BookOfMakingVol2
Link2: archive.org/details/the-inside-collector-v1n4
Link3: archive.org/details/famitsu0570

 

May 23, 2020

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JO-JO & FRENCH VASE (Still)
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SOURCES:
 
Top, two Japanese comic characters from the popular series, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
from a 1999 edition of videogame magazine "Famitsu" (Link1)

Bottom, detail of a pattern from a Camille Faure Art Deco vase.

Link1: archive.org/details/famitsu0570
Link2: www.artnet.com/artists/camille-faur%C3%A9/

May 22, 2020

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HEART-WARMING MARY AND ORPHANS (Still)
 
An interesting experiment in interfering patterns, but then I overlay it with a studio press-kit pen-and-ink illustration of Mary Pickford in "Sparrows", and the interference effect is overpowered. (Later, redone to square format.)

SOURCES: 

BACKGROUND: Two fabric patterns from 1897 picture book "Japan: described 
and illustrated by the Japanese, v.5" (Link1)

FOREGROUND: Pen and ink drawing offered to theatres in studio pressbook for 
1926 premiere of Mary Pickford in "Sparrows" (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/gvr-japan-v05-images
Link2: archive.org/details/pressbook-ua-sparrows
 

May 21, 2020

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SCHEMING FORTIES SEDUCTRESS (0:40)


TBA

SOURCES:

VIDEO & AUDIO: Scene from 1948 film noir "Sleep, My Love" with Don Ameche and Hazel Brooks (Link1) 
MUSIC: 2017 composition "Improviser No. 1" by Felipe Brandes from 'Improviser aux Souhaits d'Amour, Op.37 (Link2; trans: 'Improvise to the Wishes of Love')

Link1: archive.org/details/sleepmylove1948
Link2: imslp.org/wiki/Improvisier_aux_Souhaits_d%27Amour,_Op.37_(Brandes,_Felipe)#IMSLP626782; permlink: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/626782 

May 20, 2020

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SEX WORKER KILLED BY INCEL(Still)
 
Photo of 24-year-old Ashley Arzaga (and her daughter). Arzaga was stabbed to death by a 17-year-old "incel" at a massage parlor in North York, a suburb of Toronto. A fascinating (and long) discussion of this killing and the development of incels" (involuntary celibates) into a terrorist group here.
You can sample the incels at www.reddit.com/r/Standardcels (motto: "Place for men who are single because females lack quality") or www.reddit.com/r/ITears/.

SOURCES:

IMAGE: Photograph of victim in massage parlor killing, from Canadian newspaper "The Star" (Link1).

Link1: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/05/19/stabbing-attack-at-north-york-massage-parlour-was-incel-terrorism-police-say.html"


 

May 20, 2020

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IMPROVISATION ON CELEBRITIES & PHONE SCREENS (Still)
     
Mexican Spitfire, the Black Prince, the Girl with the Curls.

SOURCES: TBA


 

May 17-18, 2020

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IMPROMPTU ON PIXEL PHONE SCREEN (Still)
 
TBA

SOURCES: TBA


 

May 16, 2020

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TALENTED WW2 ARTIST IN FLIGHT TRAINING (Still)
   
In 1943, some English airmen were sent to Alberta, Canada, for training. The trainees published an annual magazine, "Three Rivers," a kind of yearbook and literary journal. The December 1943 issue included some caricatures and drawings by the Royal Air Force's D.C. Hickling. Here is an illustration by Hickling to a short story called "Flivver for Hitler."
Second image shows some of Hickley's ink caricatures, laid upon his landscape print used as a cover for the issue.
Did the talented Hickling survive the bitter air battles over Britain and France? The online record is mute. His work in this magazine may be the only record we have of his talent.

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Illustration for short story in December 1943 issue of magazine for No. 32 Elementary Flying Training School in Canada (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/N022713
 

May 15, 2020

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QUARANTINE MODEL (Still)
 
Thursday night. An image created from a photograph in a portfolio uploaded by a former Plastic Club model, Evelyn B. The quarantine has hit artists' models' incomes hard. Usually, Plastic Club models insist that their images only be drawn or painted, but Evelyn put no limitation on creating art direct-from-photo, as here.
The background comes from a phone wallpaper recently created by Google for its Pixel 4a phone.

SOURCES: TBA

FOREGROUND: Photograph from an online portfolio by figure model Evelyn B. (Link1)
BACKGROUND: A wallpaper for phones created by Google for its Pixel phone (Link2) 

Link1: ebfmgallery.wordpress.com/
Link2: www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-4a-wallpapers-leak-download/

 

May 14, 2020

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1920 MAGAZINE COVER (Still)
 

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Cover illustration for 1920 "Saturday Evening Post," by American illustrator Coles Phillips (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/0011919FebruaryPopularScience 

 

May 14, 2020

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ASIAN HAIR BOB (Still)
 
Wednesday night. From an ad for a videogame in a Japanese magazine, a young Asian woman uses scissors to cut off her long hair. The background is a matrix of insect body parts from a museum journal.

SOURCES: 

IMAGE (Figure): Photograph used in advertisement for video game in 2002 Famitsu X-Box magazine (Link1)
IMAGE (Background): Body parts of cicada from 2019 issue of "Records of the Australian Museum" (Link2)
 
Link1: archive.org/details/famitsuxbox200202_202005
Link2: archive.org/details/recordsaustrali71austf
 

May 13, 2020

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DEATH THROES (Still)
 
An old painting from World War I, digitally altered and recolored. See article about "The Grotesque and Erotic Illustrations of Richard Müller" (Link2)

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Painting "Todeskampf" (Death Agony) by Richard Muller (1874-1954) reproduced in 1917 edition of German magazine 'Reclams Universum' (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/reclams-universum-1917-08
Link2: art-sheep.com/erotic-illustrations-of-richard-muller-1874-1954/

May 11, 2020

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PENNSYLVANIA PLAGUES 2020 (Still)
 
Taking a previous work (April 29), and adapting it to Square format -- and adding the Lantern fly that bedeviled this state a few months ago. Also using the Latin date for 2020: MMXX. The background is a display of Austro-Hungarian military medals.
Then there were the Australian brush fires.

SOURCES: TBA 

May 10, 2020

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THE WISDOM OF BATMAN'S BUTLER (1:11)


TBA

SOURCES:

VIDEO & BACKGROUND AUDIO: Nuclear test hits desert ghost town from 1953 film "Split Second" (Link1)

FOREGROUND AUDIO: Speech by Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine) from 2008 superhero film "Dark Knight" (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/splitsecond1953_202004
Link2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHCdKb5UWc

May 9, 2020

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VIRUS AMID QUANTUM-NANO-ENTITIES (Still)
 
Saturday morning sleeping spouse meditation on Covid-19 virus.

SOURCES: TBA 

May 9, 2020

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SEXUAL EXPRESSION OLD AND NOT-SO-OLD (Still)
 
Ancient stone figures copulate, and early 20th century cosmopolitans worry about sex. Foreground is image advertising a 1937 sex manual, "Eugenics and Sex Harmony" by H.H. Rubin. Rubin was eventually expelled from The New York Medical Society for his interest in patent medicine and radioactive devices like the "Radiendocrinator". After World War II revealed the extremes of racial purity thinking in Germany, Eugenics became unpopular.

SOURCES: 

IMAGE (Bottom): From an advertisement in 1937 "Real Northwest Magazine" for a book 'Eugenics and Sex Harmony' (Link1). 

IMAGE (Background): 13th century sandstone carving of couple embracing from 1973 "Art of Tantra" (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/EugenicsAndSexHarmony
Link2: archive.org/details/art-of-tantra-english

May 8, 2020

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NOIR: GIRL KIDNAPPED BY BASHFUL BRUTE (1:07)


From a 50's film noir, Raymond Burr plays a bashful, retarded giant who kidnaps a girl -- played by new starlet, 18-year-old Natalie Woods. I like taking these old movies and zipping them down to the short core.

SOURCES:

VIDEO & AUDIO: From 1956 "A Cry in the Night" with 18-year-old Natalie Wood and Raymond Burr (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/acryinthenight1956

May 8, 2020

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TANTRIC GODDESS OVER GEOMETRIC PRINCIPLE (Still)
 
Here I am being influenced by a religious tradition of which I know very little. A 17th century bronze statue of a Dakini, a sacred female spirit of intense passion in Hinduism and Buddhuism. The statue overlays a sheet from a manuscript (ca. 1700) captioned illustrating the process of projective-evolution of the universe, from the same book.

SOURCES: 

IMAGE (Foreground): Statue shown in 1973 "Art of Tantra" (Link1)
IMAGE (Background): Painting from 1973 "Art of Tantra" (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/art-of-tantra-english  

May 7, 2020

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DREAMY SCHOOLGIRL DOING HOMEWORK (Still)
 
Not sure why I'm doing all these early 20th century advertising images, trying to recreate the false comfort of the simple America of my childhood. Perhaps the idea is, as I confront mortality, an old man in plague times, I want to say Once I was alive and this was real and I remember it! Here is a cover from a 1944 Canadian farm magazine, showing a girl in front of books and papers. The image is superimposed on an illustration from a Russian children's book.

SOURCES:

IMAGE (Foreground): Cover of a 1944 issue of "The Country Guide" (Link1)
IMAGE (Background): Illustration for Russian children's book "Дело В Т Шляпе" (Link2; trans: 'The Dark Hat Case')

Link1: archive.org/details/N027576
Link2: archive.org/details/20200505_20200505_1818

SOURCES:

VIDEO: Clip "Gone" uploaded to @NatureIsMetal Twitter feed on May 3 (Link1). Commenters speculated that the big fish was a Largemouth Bass (Link2).

MUSIC: Song "Dante" from 2019 10-part Hayden Roberts composition 'Dances of the Dead' (Link3). Roberts was born in 2004 and lives in Lomax, Illinois. 

Link1: pic.twitter.com/iIIwwZFl40
Link2: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largemouth_bass
Link3: imslp.org/wiki/The_Dances_of_the_Dead_(Roberts,_Hayden)#IMSLP623116; permlink: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/577742

SOURCES: 

IMAGE (Girl on phone): Image from ad for Manitoba Telephone System in 1932 issue of "Canadian Radio" magazine (Link1)

IMAGE (Background): Enlarged drawing of shark fish scales from 1939 issue of Smithsonian "Proceedings" article on 'Two New Atlantic  Species of Dog Shark" (Link2) 

Link1: archive.org/details/N026576
Link2: archive.org/details/biostor-14333

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: From the 1922 edition of "The Mentor" magazine (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/the-mentor-v-10n-01-1922-02.-crowell-darwin-dregs

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Illustration to an article with a hero horse "Thunderhead", appearing in a 1944 issue of "The Country Guide" (Link1)

Link1: https://archive.org/details/N027576

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Illustration from 2019 magazine "Aeroplane Aviation Archive" (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/aeroplane-aviation-archive-issue-41-01-01-2019

SOURCES: 

IMAGE1 (Background): Matrix of nine men, from 1916 German magazine "Reclams Universum (Link1)
IMAGE2 (Foreground): Photograph of birds taking to the air from  undated booklet "Fishing waters and game haunts of western Canada" (Link2)


Link1: archive.org/details/reclams-universum-1916-17
Link2: archive.org/details/N021500

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Fan Art uploaded 6 days ago by sa5m_i_am to Reddit subreddit "Euphoria" (Link1)

Link1: www.reddit.com/r/euphoria/comments/g98s6e/hi_euphoria_f

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Cover to 1958 French children's book "Martine a la foire", illustrated by Belgian illustrator Marcel Merlier (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/martine-a-la-foire

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: Illustration from 1926 article by pioneering Psilocybin researcher Roger Heim's 
in "Archives du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle" 'Experiences nouvelles 
d'ingesion de Psilocybes Hallucinogenes' (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/archivesdumuseu9muse

SOURCES: TBA

SOURCES: TBA

SOURCES:

VIDEO1 (Car): "Even the Engine!!!" uploaded to Twitter "EngineeringVids" feed by [deleted] (Link1)
VIDEO2 (Other shredding): "Dangerous Machine Destroys Everything in The World" from La Machine (Link2) 
MUSIC: Excerpts from 2020 song "Face Two Face" by Brazilian Caos Sonoro on album 'Split' with Antoine Trauma (Link1)

Link1: twitter.com/engineeringvids/status/1254249768324198402
Link2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRhfSc8ivLg 
Link3: archive.org/details/PLATARECS224 

SOURCES:
 
IMAGE1: Sales clerk on 1916 calendar by Saskatchewan (Canada) clothing company Jack Wood Limited (Link1)
IMAGE2 (Top Background): Photomicrographs of Crowngall plant disease in 1913 U.S. "Journal of agricultural research" (Link2)
IMAGE2 (Bottom Background): Section of chicken intestine showing Roundworm parasites, from 1946 "Internal parasites of poultry" from Alberta (Canada) Department of Agriculture (Link3)

Link1: archive.org/details/P011041
Link2: archive.org/details/journalagricult25unit
Link3: archive.org/details/P010744

SOURCES: 

IMAGE: 2019 photograph from U.S. Navy Medicine FLICKR site (Link1)

Link1: www.flickr.com/photos/navymedicine/49815036302/

SOURCES: 

IMAGE 1 Article "Drumming Ruffed Grouse" from 2018 issue of the Canadian nature magazine 'Blue Jay' (Link1)

Link1: https://archive.org/details/bluejay763sask

SOURCES:

VIDEO1: American Sign Languiage for "Advocate-for Person" uploaded 2020 by Harley Hamilton (Link1)
VIDEO2: American Sign Languiage for "Adorable" uploaded 2020 by Harley Hamilton (Link2)
SYMBOL: Logo used to mark "Video Interpreter" stations in public places (Link3)
MUSIC: Excerpt from 1994 "Laudato sii o mi Signore, Op.6" by Omar Caputi (Link4)

Link1: archive.org/details/advocateASL2 
Link2: archive.org/details/adorableASL
Link3: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Video_interpreter.svg
Link4: imslp.org/wiki/Laudato_sii_o_mi_Signore_(Caputi,_Omar)#IMSLP621364; permlink: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/621364 

SOURCES: 

IMAGE1: 1906 Painting "The Virgin" by Abbott H. Thayer, from 1920 issue of 'Random records of a lifetime' (Link1)
IMAGE2: Illustration of Justinian and Theodora from 1912 Romanian "Istoria Universala sau Istoria Lumii" (Link2; trans:'Universal History or History of the World')
IMAGE3: Illustration from 2009 "The machinery of life" by David Goodsell (Link3)

Link1: archive.org/details/randomrecordsli12holm
Link2: archive.org/details/n.-iorga-istoria-universala-i
Link3: archive.org/details/machineryoflife2009

SOURCES: 

IMAGE 1 (Dominant): Illustration for advertisement for Chevrolet Six -- $475 f.o.b. Flint -- as a second family car in 1932 "McCalls" magazine (Link1)
IMAGE 2 (Interference): Photos illustrating an article on 'Pseudo Hypertrophic Paralysis' from 1901 "Clinical Journal" (Link2). They show the steps an affected boy goes through rising from prone to standing positions.  

Link1: archive.org/details/mc-calls-v-059-n-08-1932-05
Link2: archive.org/details/the-clinical-journal-18

SOURCES: 

IMAGE (Foreground): Two page spread in 1917 "Motion Picture" magazine (Link1)
IMAGE (Background): Microscopic images of body parts of Goblin Spider (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/motionpicturemag13moti
Link2: archive.org/details/goblinspidergen00plati

SOURCES: 

IMAGE (Foreground): Photos of man doing exercises, from 1920 issue of "Physical Culture" (Link1)

IMAGE (Background): Page of book covers in ad from Arabic magazine "GishgjGishgj" (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/physical-culture-v-45n-05-1920-05-11-12-142
Link2: archive.org/details/GishgjGishgj

SOURCES: TBA

SOURCE:

VIDEO & AUDIO: Excerpted from Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 "Shadow of a Doubt". a psychological thriller/film noir starring Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/shadowofadoubt1943_202003

SOURCES: TBA

SOURCES:

IMAGE: Illustration from 1900 edition of "The Clinical Journal" for an article 'On the Form of 
the Alveolar Arch' (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/the-clinical-journal-17

SOURCES:

MAGAZINE PAGE: From 1917-1918 volume of magazine "Motion Picture Magazine" (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/motionpicturemag14moti

SOURCES:

VIDEO1: Official Flickr page of U.S. Navy Medicine, "Timelapse of USNS Comfort Arriving in NYC", March 30, 2020 (Link1)
VIDEO2: Double bowline knot demonstration uploaded March 13, 2020 to @Engineering'vids Twitter feed (Link2)
MUSIC: Excerpt from 2020 "Abondance" track by Switzerland-based group Floating Mind on album 'Multiple EP' (Link3)

Link1: www.flickr.com/photos/navymedicine/49722207722/
Link2: twitter.com/i/status/1249769653183737863
Link3: archive.org/details/monokrak233floatingmind_multipleEP

SOURCES:

FIGURE1 (Right): Photograph from 2017 "Volo Magazine" #55 (Link1)
FIGURE2 (Left): Photograph from 2017 "Volo Magazine" #53 (Link2)
IMAGE (Butterflies): Diagram from 2009  "Insect Biodiversity" (Link3)
IMAGE (Plates): Ad from 1920-21 "Motion Picture Magazine" (Link4)

Link1: archive.org/details/volon55201711
Link2: archive.org/details/volon53201709
Link3: archive.org/details/r.g.foottitp.h.adler2009insectbiodiversity
Link4: archive.org/details/motionpicturemag20brew

SOURCES: 

IMAGE (Colored Background): Collage of covers of other World War 2 books, from the 2017 Italian book "Paracadutisti: Biografie Di Conoscere La Storia" (Link1; trans: 'Parachutists: Biographies Of Knowing History') 
IMAGE2 (Children's puzzle): "Each design represents a letter." From 1917-1918 volume of magazine "Motion Picture Magazine" (Link2)
IMAGE3 (Ad): Advertisement for $2.75 5-piece aluminum cook set from Chicago mail order firm, from 1922 issue of "Popular Magazine" (Link3) 
VIDEO: Clip of Eddie Lawrence routine (Link4), Date and source unknown, one commenter says it is a clip from a 1991 Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary TV special. There is an early 45 with the routine on the Coral label. (Link5)  

Link1: archive.org/details/biografiediconoscerelastoria_20200413
Link2: archive.org/details/motionpicturemag14moti 
Link3: archive.org/details/popularmagazinev064n0219220507
Link4: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qty7IP8wlXM
Link5: archive.org/details/78_the-old-philosopher_eddie-lawrence-the-sentimental-four_gbia0101290b/The+Old+Philosopher+-+Eddie+Lawrence+-+The+Sentimental+Four.flac

SOURCES:

MAGAZINE PAGE: From 1917-1918 volume of magazine "Motion Picture Magazine" (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/motionpicturemag14moti

SOURCES:

VIDEO: "Trilobite fossil approximately 400 million years old" uploaded on March 20, 2020 to @GeologyPage Twitter feed (Link1)

MUSIC: Piano accompaniment for operatic song "Occhi di Fata" by Luigi Denza, 1846-1922 (Link2; trans: 'Fairy Eyes')

Link1: twitter.com/GeologyPage/status/1241816920023842816
Link2: imslp.org/wiki/Occhi_di_fata_(Denza,_Luigi)#IMSLP618889; Permlink imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/618889

SOURCES:

IMAGE (Background): Cave painting from "The Rock And Gem Book: and other treasures of the narural world" (Link1)

IMAGE (Foreground): Betty Bronson on cover of 1927 issue of "Cinearte" (Link2)
 
SECOND IMAGE: Bronson as Mary in 1925 movie "Ben Hur" (Link3)

Link1: archive.org/details/therockandgembooksmithsoniandk
Link2: archive.org/details/cinearte_1927_00078
Link3: www.pinterest.com/pin/402720391659137219/

SOURCES: 

IMAGE1: Decorative border used on a poster advertising a 1989 medical conference on "Pathogen Strategies: Evasion and Suppression of the Immune System" (Link1)

IMAGE2: Illustration from 2020 issue of "Medicina Narrativa" devoted to COVID-19 virus (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/tobacco_nqlv0000
Link2: archive.org/details/medicinanarrativa_202004

SOURCES: 
 
VIDEO: "Manufacturing Ammunition" looped GIF file uploaded in 2014 to SubReddit 'woahdude' by user 0generic0throwaway0 (Link1)

MUSIC (Intro): Excerpt from 2015 song "Miserere Mei" on album 'Cantica Mysterii' by Carlotta Ferrari (Link2)

MUSIC (Remainder): Excerpt from 1998 song "Concorde" on album 'Trémolo Raquídeo' by Argentinian group Sinapsis (Link3; trans: 'Spinal Trembling')

Link1: www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/1veypi/industrial_ammunition_manufacturing
Link2: imslp.org/wiki/Cantica_Mysterii_(Ferrari,_Carlotta)#IMSLP618766; permlink: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/618766
Link3: archive.org/details/sinapsis-tremoloraquideo

SOURCES: 

IMAGE1: Photo From a 1975 edition of "Le fanatique de L’AVIATION" (Link1). 

Link1: archive.org/details/lefana066 

SOURCES

VIDEO: Snowboarding through the hills in Finland, uploaded by Night Rider on April 6 to EarthBeauty17 Twitter feed (Link1)

MUSIC: Excerpts from 2020 "Through The City" by American composer George L Smyth (Link2)

Link1: t.co/9RwSPE1XMs
Link2: archive.org/details/throughthecity 

SOURCES: 

IMAGE1 (Woman & Butterflies): Frontispiece of 1955 book "Fount of our joy; Madonna legends for dramatization."  

Caption explains: "In the old Syrian calendar, August 15th is called 'Our Lady’s Easter' — Fitha Mariam. The butterfly is the Medieval symbol of the Resurrection."  (Link1)


IMAGE2 & IMAGE3 (Shells): Two overlaid collages of Ammonite shells from 1866 issue of "Memorie della Società italiana di scienze naturali e del Museo civico di storia naturale di Milano" (Link2; trans 'Memoirs of the Italian Society of Natural Sciences and of the Civic Museum of Natural History of Milan') 

Link1: archive.org/details/fountofourjoy
Link2: archive.org/details/memoriedellasoc13soci

SOURCES: 

IMAGE1 (Scorpions): Illustration from 1941 "Generalkommando Des Deutschen Afrikakorps Marsch Und Kampf" (Link1)
IMAGE2 (Skull): Image (without caption) from undated "Thee Psychick's Bible" (Link2)
IMAGE3 (Background): 'Fossils' chapter title page from 2016 "The Rock And Gem Book: and other treasures of the narural world" (Link3) 

Link1: archive.org/details/generalkommandodesdeutschenafrikakorpsmarschundkampfdesdakband11941deit1943215s.scan_202004
Link2: archive.org/details/genesisporridgetheepsychickbible_202004
Link3: archive.org/details/therockandgembooksmithsoniandk

SOURCES:

IMAGE1 (Background): 1913 painting "Cosmic Sychromy" by American painter Morgan Russell (Link1)
IMAGE2 (Center): Cover of undated "The Herald of Harmony: Collin" by Rhea Gera (Link2)
IMAGE3 (Text): Fanciful treatment of name of composer (Alfred Robyn) on cover of 1800 sheet music for song "Melodie Celeste: Nocturne" (Link3)
 
Link1: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Russell
Link2: archive.org/details/theheraldofharmonygurdjieffouspenskycollin_19_o
Link3: archive.org/details/b10010403

SOURCES:

VIDEO: Uncredited and undated clip uploaded to "EarthBeauty17" Twitter feed on April 13 (Link1)

MUSIC: Excerpt from 1952 "Victory at Sea Suite" by Richard Rodgers (Link2)

Link1: twitter.com/i/status/1246194812660920322
Link2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3dwsRSA6KE

SOURCES:

IMAGE1 (Background): Illustration from "The Whirling Ecstacy: Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Collin" (Link1)
IMAGE2 (Center): Illustration "Nature Under the Sun," from 'The Mysteries Of The Seed: Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Collin' (Link2)
IMAGE3: Vision Testing Charts from 1946 "The Eyes Of Industry" (Link3)

Link1: archive.org/details/thewhirlingecstacygurdjieffouspenskycollin_599_J
Link2: archive.org/details/themysteriesoftheseedgurdjieffouspenskycollin_191_m
Link3: archive.org/details/theeyesofindustry 

SOURCES:

IMAGE1: Cover of sheet music for 1917 song "America here's my boy" (Link1)
IMAGE2 (Lower Right): Illustration from 1924 edition of humor magazine "The Judge" (Link2)
IMAGE3 (Top): Wood fiber carving from undated catalog of Decorators Supply Corp., Chicago (Link3) 
IMAGE4 (Bottom): Cover of sheet music for 1900 song "Baby pulled the pussy's tail" (Link4)

Link1: archive.org/details/b10010403
Link2: archive.org/details/judgev087n224819241129
Link3: archive.org/details/woodfibrecarvingscatalog123
Link4: archive.org/details/b10040584

SOURCES:

VIDEO: Excerpt from 1974 Japanese film "Catastrophe 1999" based on the teachings of Nostradamus (Link1)

MUSIC: 2020 "Canon in F-sharp minor" by Andrea Turchetto (Link2) Permlink (Link3)

Link1: archive.org/details/379480699
Link2: imslp.org/wiki/Canon_in_F-sharp_minor_(Turchetto,_Andrea)#IMSLP617397
Link4: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/616430

SOURCES: 

IMAGES: Pages from 1918 catalog of wholesalers G. W. Huntley, Chicago (Link1)
1 - Low cost American pocket watches costing less than $3.
2 - Cook's high-grade printed linoleum sample.

FONT: "Doctor Terror" by the talented Spanish typographer Woodcutter (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/g.w.huntleyco.chicagosummer1918
Link2: www.dafont.com/doctor-terror.font

SOURCES:

IMAGES: From 1960 book by Titus Burckhardt "Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul" (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/alchemyscienceofthecosmosscienceofthesoultitusburckhardt_60_B

SOURCES

IMAGES: Combined views from top of and FROM inside tower of Enercon wind turbine, taken by engineer Jack Dedekials (Link1)

MUSIC: Excerpts from "Traffic Lights." song from 2020 album 'Similaries and Tonal Differences' by Polish DJ and "hard style" music producer Genox (Link2)

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mdGnuQ3KKs&feature=youtu.be
Link2: archive.org/details/enrmp457_genox_-_similarities

SOURCES:

IMAGE1: Buster Crabbe and Jean Rogers in "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars" from 1938 issue of 'Sight and Sound' (Link1)
IMAGE2: Cover decoration for 1870 sheet music for song "Sweet Memories of Thee" (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/sightandsoundv007n027193810bfigb
Link2: archive.org/details/b10016557

SOURCES:

VIDEO & AUDIO: From unsourced file "BOLLYWOOD.WEBM" uploaded by Anonymous to 4CHAN.ORG WSG board (Link1). 

LINK1: i.4cdn.org/wsg/1585114818602.webm

SOURCE:

Link1: archive.org/details/montgomerywardalbany1956springandsummer
Link2: archive.org/details/floristsjournal9184unse

SOURCE: 

IMAGES: From the 1997 book "Los Exvotos Del Occidente De México" (Link1; trans: 'Votive Offerings from Western Mexico")

Link1: archive.org/details/belardmarianneyverrierphilippe.losexvotosdeloccidentedemexico19972013

SOURCES:

VIDEO: Bowling pin reset system, from EngineeringVids Twitter feed (Link1)

MUSIC: "Chacarron" 2006 song (Link2) by Panamanian musician 'El Chombo' (Link3)

Link1: twitter.com/i/status/1243741581280251904
Link2: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chacarron_Macarron
Link3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlW7T0SUH0E

SOURCE: 

IMAGES: From a 1984 edition of the Indian magazine promoting Teluga language, "Andhra Patrika" (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/andhrapatrikamag19840907

SOURCES:

IMAGE: Microscope footage showing a neutrophil (white blood cell) chasing Staphylococcus aureus among red blood cells, produced by David Rogers in the 1950's (Link1)

MUSIC: Song "Milk3" on album 'Digital Milk' by Thomas Park and Mystified (Link2)

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnlULOjUhSQ
Link2: archive.org/details/DigitalMilk

SOURCE: 

IMAGE: Carbonizer from 1926 catalog "Soda Fountains & Supplies" (Link1)
BACKGROUND: Combined fabric patterns from 1936 Montgomery-Ward Catalog (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/sodafountainssupplies
Link2: archive.org/details/wardsgreatestbargainsalein64years

SOURCES

OVERHEAD VIEW: "Maeklong Railway Market" from VTravel Twitter feed (Link1)
STREET VIEW: YouTube video "The Train Arrives" (Link2)

MUSIC: Remix of music from videogame "The Legend of Zelda" by Rebecca Tripp (Link3)

Link1: twitter.com/i/status/1216166457068879872
Link2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH0VPW-PuEE
Link3: ocremix.org/remix/OCR04049

SOURCES

VIDEO & AUDIO: From Milky Way Astronomers Twitter feed March 22, 2020 (Link1)
MUSIC: 2015 remix of videosounds, "ThisIstheMoment" by OCRemix (Link2)

Link1: twitter.com/i/status/1241899514308542465
Link2: archive.org/details/Apex2015-ThisIstheMoment

SOURCE:

Link1: archive.org/details/Nova-xata--1934--9

SOURCES

VIDEO: Footage taken from GoPro camera left in Hawaii's Kilauea volcano (Link1). See story (Link2)

MUSIC: 2009 song "Reprise" from remix of videogame soundtrack 'Impulse' by 12 Followers-Meteo Xavier (Link3)

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOIw62TXYkg
Link2: www.sfgate.com/news/article/Lava-melts-Go-Pro-video-Hawaii-Kilauea-volcano-12354155.php
Link3: archive.org/details/ImpulseOriginalSoundtrack12FollowersMeteoXavier

SOURCES:

IMAGE1: Image of deep-cut glassware from 1918 home furnishings catalog of G.W. Huntley & Co. (Link1)
IMAGE2: Ancient bronze plaque of mountain goat from Pakistan, from 2007 "Kushans, On The Cusp Of An Era: Art In The Pre Kuṣāṇa World" (Link2)
BACKGROUND: Marbled end paper from undated "Nouvelle methode de guitarre / par Gatayes" (Link3)

Link1: archive.org/details/g.w.huntleyco.chicagosummer1918
Link2: archive.org/details/kushansonthecuspofaneraartintheprekusanaworlddmsrinivasanedbrill_541_pup
Link3: archive.org/details/1492221001

SOURCES

VIDEO & AUDIO: Finding a jurassic fossil in Yorkshire. from EarthBeauty17 Twitter site (Link1)

MUSIC: 2020 ukelele song "Aloha Idiota" by Lu Krautman on Tipsypoodl label (Link2)

Link1: twitter.com/i/status/1241392433952366592 
Link2: archive.org/details/Krautman-Aloha_Iditota

SOURCES

IMAGE1: Semaphore flag signal chart from 1967 "The Official Boy Scout handbook" (Link1)
IMAGE2: Illustration from 1929 Ukrainian women's magazine "Нова хата" (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/officialboyscout71967boys
Link2: archive.org/details/Nova-xata--1929--6

SOURCES

IMAGE (LEFT): Aztecs suffering from Smallpox after 16th century Cortes invasion, from undated "A people and a nation : a history of the United States" (Link1)
IMAGE (RIGHT): Tamil woman from Ceylon, from undated "The Smaller British Possessions (Europe and Asia)" (Link2; reversed)
IMAGE (BACKGROUND): Photographs from 2010 "A new genus of the spider family Caponiidae from the West Indies" (Link3)
IMAGE (BACKGROUND): Sample from 1905 "Graphology : how to read character from handwriting" (Link4)

Link1: archive.org/details/peopleandnationa00tunb
Link2: archive.org/details/smallerbrit
Link3: archive.org/details/newgenusspiderf00sayn
Link4: archive.org/details/graphologyhowtor00howa

SOURCES

VIDEO: Rare color footage of 1955 Russian test of a nuclear torpedo on the Arctic Ocean (Link1)

MUSIC: Piano Sonata No. 1 by Australian composer Nicholas Locke (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/sovietnucleartorpedotest1955_202003
Link2: imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No.1_in_F_Minor,_Op.16_No.1_(Locke,_Nicholas)#IMSLP612849, permalink imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/612850 

SOURCES:

ADVERTISING: From 1908 "Catalogue of everything for the garden" by Peter Henderson & Co. (Link1). Original text is "Henderson's Collection of Vegetable Seeds." 

GRAPHIC: Jewelry illustratio from 1867 "Catalogue of the celebrated Esterhazy jewels" (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/catalogueeveryt00hendn
Link2: archive.org/details/frick-31072003612357

SOURCES:

IMAGES from 1949 edition of Sweet's catalog library of building products (Link1). The library is still published (Link2).
 - PATTERNED GLASS: "Meteor" figured glass from Southwestern Sheet Glass, p. 174

IMAGES from 1931 edition of Ramsay's Architectural Catalogue (Link3)
 - BRICKS: from N.S.W State Brick Works, p. 41
 - COLOR SAMPLES: Industrial lacqueurs from Hardie Trading, p. 216

IMAGE Model Lena Nichole from 2007 "Barely Legal" (Link4)

Link1: archive.org/details/sweetsfilearchitceturalsections712
Link2: sweets.construction.com
Link3: archive.org/details/wlrichardsoned1931
Link4: archive.org/details/BarelyLegalMagazine

SOURCES

VIDEO & AUDIO: From 2020 Russian football match between Venit and Ural, after other nations banned crowds because of COV-19 pandemic. (Link1)

Link1: www.reddit.com/r/ANormalDayInRussia/comments/fiotgj/all_countries_panic_due_to_coronavirus_russia/ 

SOURCE:

Presidential press conference, February 26, 2020

Backgroound: www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

If I knew where I could find a nice convenient little flat
in a good neighborhood
I'd have it fixed and furnished
and settle down at that.
Yes I would.if I could
cause I'm getting tired of
living like I used to
and there's someone I've just been introduced to
she must think a lot of me 
cause she smiled and modestly hung her head
when I said:

CHORUS:
Say, Suz, do you think you would refuse!
If I said you wuz de only gal I'd choose
to be my steady company
Say, Suz, how 'bout you?

SOURCES:
Link1: archive.org/details/b10170121
Link2: archive.org/details/shakuntalaromilatharparpenguinbooksltd_202003_175_b

SOURCES

IMAGE1: 1785 American coin marked "Immune Columbia" (Link1)
IMAGE2: Pattern for tea napkin from 1894 French magazine "La Mode Pratique" (Link2)
IMAGE3: Image of diseased tissue from 1838 "Pathological anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease" (Link3)
Filters applied from online dreamscopeapp.com and neuralstyle.art

MUSIC: "Allego Scherzando" movement of Nicholas Locke's 2019 'Piano Sonata No.3 in A Major' (Link4)

Link1: archive.org/details/immunecolumbiaphot1970epnrf
Link2: archive.org/details/lmp36-1894p
Link3: archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-osl_pathological_anatomy_carswell_folioC321p1838-20093
Link4: imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No.3_in_A_Major,_Op.16_No.3_(Locke,_Nicholas)#IMSLP612858; permlink: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/612860

SOURCES:
Link1: archive.org/details/lultimosignoredegliarii
Link2: archive.org/details/gri_33125010713119 

SOURCES

VIDEO: From 2011 "The Beautiful Maude Fealy: Unseen Scenes from her Movies" by Syrian-Greek director Zouan Kortis (Link1)
 
MUSIC: Anna Netrebko sings Tchaikovsky's lyric opera "Iolanta" in 2007 (Link2)

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oXGXHU_w4k
Link2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MIm95N7L00

SOURCES: 
Link1: archive.org/details/catalogueeveryt00hendm/page/10/mode/thumb

SOURCES: NA

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VIDEO & AUDIO from 1950 film noir "The Killer That Stalked New York" (Link1)
IMAGE: Recoloring of illustration from 1935 pulp magazine "The Blue Book" by John Clymer (Link2)
MUSIC: 2018 organ composition "Requiem a voce sola" by Carlotta Ferrari
IMAGE2: Ergodynamic illustration from 1960 catalog of hospital furnishings from Maysteel (Link4)

Link1: archive.org/details/thekillerthatstalkednewyork1950
Link2: archive.org/details/bluebookv060n05193503p126132/page/n
Link3: imslp.org/wiki/Requiem_a_voce_sola_(Ferrari%2C_Carlotta) Permalink: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/549265
Link4: archive.org/details/maysteelcatalogplanningguide206 

SOURCES

FOREGROUND: 4Chan Fantasy matrix of current movie stars with Dreamscape filter applied (Link1)
BACKGROUND VIDEO & AUDIO: Scene of Hedy Lamarr entering Manhattan office, from 1947 film noir "Dishonored Lady" (Link2)
MUSIC: Song "Longes IV" by Brazilian musician George Christian on album 'Longes' (Link3)

Link1: dreamscopeapp.com/
Link2: archive.org/details/dishonoredlady1947usafeaturinghedylamarrdennisokeefejohnloderfilmnoirfullmovie_202001G
Link3: archive.org/details/mhrk235

SOURCES

IMAGE: Digital filter treatments of color swatches from 1960 catalog of Gotham Chalkboard and Trim (Link1)
MUSIC: 2020 Song "Morskie Oko" by collaborative 'Ethernet Orchestra.' (Link2) Explanation of group. (Link3)

Link1: archive.org/details/gothamchalkboardandtrimco.inc.126
Link2: archive.org/details/pn150/pn150_13_ethernet-orchestra_morskie-oko.mp3
Link3: ethernetorchestra.net/
  

SOURCES

NA

SOURCES

IMAGE: Ornament from 1907 book "Magyar díszítő művészet" (Link1, trans: 'Hungarian decorative art')

MUSIC: Song called "d('-')m('-')m^('-')^w('-')w('-')P" on soundtrack '12 Followers-Meteo Xavier' (Link2; song title without explanation}. Group uses musical
technique called 'overclocking', an electronic technique that reuses videogame soundtracks.

FILTERS: Named filters applied to original image, the first 12 from neuralstyle.art and the final three from dreamscopeapp.com.

Link1: archive.org/details/gri_33125015600626
Link2: archive.org/details/ImpulseOriginalSoundtrack12FollowersMeteoXavier

SOURCES

VIDEO: Animations of paintings by Remedios Varo, a Spanish surrealist artist working in Spain, France, and Mexico. (Link1)

MUSIC: Song "Hazaar Tarike" on 2020 compilation album 'Livecoderas Latinoamericanas' by LILA 1, performed by Brazilian Ingrid Soares (Link2)

Link1: www.wikiart.org/en/remedios-varo
Link2: archive.org/details/A22012_LILA_I

SOURCES

VIDEO: Images from 1930 collection "Heorhii Narbuto: mystetsko-istorychnyi narys" (Link1: trans: 'Georgy Narbut: artistic and historical development'). Narbut was the leading Ukrainian graphic designer of the 20th century. Other images from Wikipedia.

MUSIC & AUDIO: Title song from 2020 album "Go for a Punch" by Wheatley Afton (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/frick-31072003679216
Link2: archive.org/details/cover_20200210

SOURCES:

MUSIC: Song "Uniforme Plumoso" (Link1; trans: Feather Uniform") from 2019 album by Colombian group 'Cacatarsis', recorded in Berlin. (Link1) (Translation from Spanish by Bob Moore and Linda Avila.)

BACKGROUND VIDEO: Clip of 8 girls dancing on video-sharing site TikTok.com (Link2)
IMAGE 1: Cover illustration of 1923 "Ekspressionizm; Katalog der Ausstellung der Aquarellisten-Clubs der Genossenschaft der Bildenden Künstler Wiens" (Link3: trans: 'Expressionizm; Catalog of the exhibition of the watercolorists' clubs of the Cooperative of Fine Artists of Vienna')
IMAGE 2: Portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria from "Monographie de la Basilique de Saint Epvre à Nancy" (Link4: trans: 'Monograph of the Basilica of Saint Epvre in Nancy')
IMAGE 3: "Chatelaine," design for a biscuit poster, from 1897 "Alphonse Mucha et son oeuvre" (Link5)
IMAGE 4: "Jeanne Aux Champs," from 1903 'Jeanne d'Arc dans l'art' (Link6; trans: 'Joan of Arc in Art')
IMAGE 5: Painting by French Symbolist Maurice Chabas from 1928 "Catalogue des œuvres de Maurice Chabas: calme et poésie dans la nature et queques œuvres d'ordre spirituel" (Link7: trans: 'Catalog of works by Maurice Chabas: calm and poetry in nature and some works of a spiritual nature')
IMAGE 6: Engraving from 1763 "Musei Kirkeriani in Romano Soc. Jesu collegio aereaa" (Link8: trans: 'Museum Kirkeriano the Roman Soc. Jesus College')
IMAGE 7: Illustration from 1933 "Wystawa zbiorowa prac Leona Kowalskiego w Palacu sztuki w Krakowie" (Link9: trans:  'Collective exhibition of Leon Kowalski's works at the Palace of Arts in Krakow')

Link1: archive.org/details/cacatarsis
Link2: i.4cdn.org/wsg/1581345634379.webm
Link3: archive.org/details/frick-31072002623686
Link4: archive.org/details/gri_33125013356007
Link5: archive.org/details/frick-31072001412883
Link6: archive.org/details/frick-31072001936360
Link7: archive.org/details/frick-31072003683879
Link8: archive.org/details/gri_33125008257889
Link9: archive.org/details/frick-31072003782705

SOURCES:

VIDEO & AUDIO 1: CNN News footage "Schiff gets choked up during Trump impeachment trial" (Link1) Jan. 23, 2020
VIDEO OVERLAY 1: Stock footage "De Focus Bokeh Leak Light Orange" (Link2)
VIDEO OVERLAY 2: Stock footage "Slow Motion Match Strike" (Link3)
VIDEO OVERLAY 3: Stock footage "Film Burn Special Effect" (Link4)
MUSIC: "In the Beach Breeze" 2020 Haiku-based composition by Maryland composer George L. Smyth (Link5)

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYV6qDU4Lk
Link2: archive.org/details/DeFocusBokehLeakLightOrangeAndShineFreeFootageHD1
Link3: archive.org/details/SlowMotionMatchStrikeHorizontal
Link4: archive.org/details/FilmBurn
Link5: archive.org/details/inthebeachbreeze; also see glsmyth.bandcamp.com/

SOURCES

VIDEO1: Video of automatic rifle action. date and source unknown
MUSIC & SCORE: 2020 composition "Anti-NCoV Scripture/Anti-Epidemic Fugue" (Link1) by Chinese music teacher Shuwen Zhang

Link1: imslp.org/wiki/Anti-NCoV_Fugue_(Zhang,_Shuwen)#IMSLP608291; permalink: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/608291

VIDEO & MUSIC: Russian actor and songwriter Igor Rasteryaev performs his "Russian Roads" (Link1) about the role of bad weather in Russian history, humbling invaders like Hitler and Napoleon. The video was shot in the forest along the Road of Life (Link2), the ice road used to resupply besieged Leningrad between 1941 and 1943. The song also mentions Ivan Susanin (Link3), who, under torture, in 1613 "guided" invading troops into the Russian forest, where they disappeared.  

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DljgSrTbNE; without English subtitles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=37l7P5V1eXU
Link2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_of_Life; www.facebook.com/pages/Road-of-Life/103121266394558
Link3: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Susanin


Along the crying earth, not feeling jackboots,
Our bloodless detachment's escaping from the enemies
Is eating sorrel leaves on the run,
Is staying overnight in a gully under an arrow-wood bush.
It's impossible to rest for us -- run away, run away, run away.
And our pretending friends are staying abroad.
And watching closely how we are being beaten.
And only the long roads are absolutely for us.
Wipe your tears, rest a little,
I'm Russian road. 
Retreat and I cover your retreat 
with mud and water.
But they're head over ears in mud, up to eyes in water.
Some time later the enemies ran us down again. 
they're attacking us more strongly, are just about to overkill us.
But the biting frosts are rushing to help us.
Rest, wipe your bitter tears, 
We are Russian frosts.
As enticing by Moscow, we'll freeze the enemies, 
cover them with melancholy.
The nature is like our own mother in the war,
But it was time to hide, now it's time to advance,
And soon we're appeared in the enemy towns.
And began to destroy all around, oversmashed.
Broke off to pieces, thrashed into ruins.
And as crushing, we explained the moaning enemies. 
Remember our strange tactical method. 
When we retreat - it means we advance.
Together with frosts and forests, Susanin's ahead.
Just God gave us Russian road.
Russian road, Russian road, Russian road.

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VIDEO 1: Spanish singer Rosalia performs "Juro Que Malament" at 2020 Grammy ceremony (Link1; trans: 'I swear badly')
VIDEO 2: European folk dancers performing "Радость моя Улетай" (Link2; trans: 'My Joy Flies Away')
VIDEO 3: News coverage of Corona virus in China and Russia
MUSIC: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1792 "Requiem" (Link3)

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoKQAXSMy4c 
Link2: i.4cdn.org/wsg/1575709800977.webm
Link3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMP5hso2w_k

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VIDEO & SOUND: Excerpt from 1940 movie "Phantom of Chinatown" (Link1)
MUSIC: 2020 song "Autumn" by Uzbekistan music project Aquatone (Link2)
BACKGROUND IMAGE 1: Illustration of 12th century paten of Saint Bernward from "Guelf Treasure" (Link3)
BACKGROUND IMAGE 2: Illustration of Frederick I of Germany from 2004 "Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades" (Link4)

Link1: archive.org/details/phantom_of_chinatown
Link2: archive.org/details/aquatone-autumn-re
Link3: archive.org/details/guelftreasure
Link4: archive.org/details/christophertyermanfightingforchristendomholywarandthecrusades_202001

SOURCES

VIDEO: Excerpt from 1996 German documentary "Sex in China" (Link1)
MUSIC: Song "The Great Ambuscade" by Lui Tsun Yuen from 1964 album 'Exotic Music Of Ancient China' (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/sexinchinanachholbedarfinsachenaufklarung
Link2: archive.org/details/lp_exotic-music-of-ancient-china_lui-tsun-yuen

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VIDEO 1: Page from 1924 catalog by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, English manufacturer of chinaware (Link1)
VIDEO 2: "Monarchial Standards of the World" collection by The Mad Monarchist (Link2)
MUSIC: "Kitsune no Yomeiri," 2010 composition by Roberto Novegno performed by the composer in 2018 (Link3); the title is from a Japanese idiom for a rain shower while the sun shines, (literal meaning: foxes' wedding)

Link1: archive.org/details/frick-31072003726165
Link2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Peu67V6XqHs&t=55s; Mad Monarchist website: madmonarchist.blogspot.com/
Link3: imslp.org/wiki/Kitsune_no_Yomeiri,_tbp_115_(Novegno,_Roberto)#IMSLP605855; permlink: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/605855

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VIDEO: Russian educational film on fluid dynamics in ink jets (Link1)
VIDEO & AUDIO 1: Performance by Libera Cantoria Pisani (Link2) of Carlotta Ferrari's 2018 choral work "In Questa Sacra Notte" (Link3)
AUDIO 2: Song from 2020 album "Psi" by Moscow-based electronic musicians WNRI (Link4) 

Link1: archive.org/details/ajujohbkm4m
Link2: www.cantoriapisani.it/
Link3: imslp.org/wiki/In_questa_sacra_notte_(Ferrari,_Carlotta)#IMSLP605413; permalink: imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/605413
Link4: archive.org/details/wmri-psi

POEM:
At the sea, blue sea
There was a floating flock of white swans
And where did the gray-white eagle come from?
It dispersed the flock around the blue sea
White down rose to heaven,
Gray feathers fell on a green meadow
And who will collect these feathers?
- A beautiful girl

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VIDEO & SOUND: Polish singing group Laboratorium Piesni (Link1; 'Female World/Ethno/Spiritual/Mystic Folk Music') performing traditional Belarusian song  "Sztoj pa moru" (Link2; trans: "At the sea"). 

Link1: laboratoriumpiesni.pl/en
Link2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=04fEWQOwUD4

I've been a bit unproductive visually these days, because I've gotten heavily into reading. Some samplings:

"I always think that the absence of bad luck is the most important thing in life."
-- Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, survivor of 1976 and 2014 Ebola outbreaks, quoted in Richard Preston's Crisis in the Red Zone, 2019

"We held hands and rejoiced in each other's company as we had not necessarily done when young and bemused by each other's closeness, now relishing it! When young I had wondered why the aged were capable of such affection, and I attributed it to a soft-headedness But death is close and touches are precious and the beloved remains beautiful even to the aged swain. This had been delightful to discover."
-- Thomas Keneally, The Book of Science and Antiquities, 2018

I've also begun reading English novelist Ken Follett's The Century Trilogy a mammoth historical epic that follows five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English and Welsh - as they experience the events of the 20th century. The first two books of the trilogy come to some 2000 pages!
SOURCE:

Music notation adapted from a T-Shirt design

VIDEO & AUDIO: Song "Stout Hearted Men" from the 1940 movie version of the operetta "New Moon" with Nelson Eddy (Link1)

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vjqfvZVReM

MUSIC: Traditional 12th Century Christian hymn "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel," 1861 version, by Concordia Publishing (Link1) 
BACKGROUND VIDEO 1: Scenes from 1961 video "Atomic Weatherman" by U.S. Department of Energy (Link2)
BACKGROUND VIDEO 2: Scenes from 1984 David Attenborough documentary "The Living Planet" (Link3)
BACKGROUND IMAGE: Illustration of Borenote Marble from 1915 catalog "Building and Ornamental Stones of Australia" (Link4)

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xtpJ4Q_Q-4   
Link2: ia600409.us.archive.org/4/items/AtomicWeatherman
Link3: archive.org/details/thelivingplanetaportraitoftheearth12newworlds
Link4: archive.org/details/rtbaker1915

MUSIC: Remix of song "Alive" by Gert 3000 on album 'Gemischter Chor Waldenburg' (Link1), part of his 'Final Fight Series' uploaded after his oncologist told him he had "only months to live."

IMAGE: Illustration of Warialda Marble from 1915 catalog "Building and Ornamental Stones of Australia" (Link2)

Link1: archive.org/details/GT1188
Link2: archive.org/details/rtbaker1915

VIDEO: "Aerial Footage Shows Scale of Fires in Australia" by VOA News (Link1)
BACKGROUND: Illustrations from 1915 catalog "Building and Ornamental Stones of Australia" (Link2)
MUSIC: Composition for piano and strings, "Harvey Range - Barringha" from 2018 'Townsville Suite Op. 13' by Nicholas Locke (Link3) 

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQpBiYI_7M0
Link2: archive.org/details/rtbaker1915
Link3: imslp.org/wiki/Townsville_Suite,_Op.13_(Locke,_Nicholas); permalink imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/557122 

VIDEO: Posting on "Comfy" thread on 4chan.org WSG (Work Safe Gif) by Anonymous (Link1)
MUSIC: Same, musician not identified 

Link1: boards.4channel.org/wsg/thread/3170649

VIDEO: Massive Chinese bridge construction machine in action (Link1), manufactured by Wowjoint Machinery Company (Link2)
MUSIC: 2020 Song "011001" on album 'Unexpected Loss' by Bulgarian group This Communication (Link3) 

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKGYs71N72c
Link2: wowjoint.com/
Link3: archive.org/details/mhrk229

VIDEO & AUDIO: Video press release from militant jihadist group in Somalia, uploaded December 30, 2019 (Link1)

Link1: archive.org/details/UYGsffswdaq

VIDEO & AUDIO: Janis Joplin December 1969 appearance on "This is Tom Jones" TV show (Link1); 10 months later, Joplin was dead of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. The song is 'Raise Your Hand.'
BACKGROUND IMAGE: Illustration of wool rug pattern from 1975 "The Silk Road And The Shoso In" by Ryoichi Hayashi

Link1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmiefQ5y4U
Link2: archive.org/details/thesilkroadandtheshosoin

VIDEO & AUDIO: Segment from 1940 documentary "Men and Dust" by little-known film-maker Lee Child (Link1)
BACKGROUND IMAGE: Woodcuts from 1556 book on mining techniques, "De Re Metallica" by Georg Agricola (Link2; trans: 'On the Nature of Metals')   

Link1: archive.org/details/Men_and_Dust
Link2: archive.org/details/deremetallica50agri/page/45

VIDEO & SOUND: Military graveyard with flags near Dnipro, Ukraine from 2019 Twitter posting by Taras Kuzio (Link1); source of music is not identified. See interview with Kuzio.
VIDEO 2: From Physics-astronomy.org Twitter feed, 2017 launch of a Russian "Bastion" coastal defense missile in Arctic, said to be Hypersonic (Link2) 
VIDEO 3: Scene of traffic leaving Idlib province in tweet (Link3) from Syrian pediatrician Amani Ballour; her caption: "They left their homes and memories because of the brutality of Assad regime and Russia. They don't know where to go." 
PHOTO: 2015 photo of Donald Trump from wikimedia (Link4

Link1: twitter.com/TarasKuzio/status/1209769639623966721
Link2: twitter.com/m7mds91/status/1209686819878531072 
Link3: twitter.com/i/status/1209755811653787651
Link4: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trump_SQ.png

IMAGE: Illustration from 1954 "Leica Photography" magazine, showing trapeze artist climbing (Link1)
FILTER: Various online filters from www.neuralstyle.art applied to image (Link2)
FONT: "Streamzy" by Indonesian font designer Bangkit Tri Setiadi (Link3)

Link1: archive.org/details/leicaphotographyv07n02summer1954d.d.teolijr.a.c.
Link2: www.neuralstyle.art
Link3: www.dafont.com/streamzy.font

VIDEO & AUDIO: 1946 movie "Dressed to Kill" with Basil Rathbone (Link1)
MUSIC: "Danny Boy" performed 2013 by James Galway (Link2)
ADLERS: Poster "The Many Incarnations of Irene Adler" (Link3) 
PELOSI: Illustration from CNN "Internet Light Up Over Pelosi's Sunglasses" (Link4) 

Link1: ia800605.us.archive.org/14/items/DressedToKill720p1946/DressedToKill720p.mp4
Link2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv1rI1kFvwA
Link3: adleresque-infinite.tumblr.com/image/185190792064
Link4: www.cnn.com › nancy-pelosi-sunglasses-trump-meeting-moos-ebof-pkg-vpx

Link1: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7752929/Moment-entire-school-performs-unique-haka-leaving-students-sign-respect.html

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