Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Iridescent Logic - Drawings by Captain Beefheart

(REPOSTED FROM THE EXCELLENT BEEFHEART RADAR STATION)
http://www.beefheart.com/zigzag/pictures/iridlogic81.htm
Iridescent Logic
Captain Beefheart's Iridescent Logic was an article written by Lester Bangs that appeared in Musician #29 in 1981. Three of Don's sketches, shown below, were scattered through the article.
The text was also published as Captain Beefheart's Far Cry in the Village Voice, October 1980. The sketches were not included with this version.
An unusual picture this one ... a cartoon family group. Could this be a young Donnie with his parents, Glen and Sue?
Read more at ttexshexes.blogspot.com

Monday, October 11, 2010

Fantastic Memories by Maurice Sandoz Illustrated by Salvador Dali

The eerie, the sublime, and the little bit queer......
 These are a few images from my copy of Fantastic Memories by Maurice Sandoz and illustrated by Salvador Dali. I am a fan of early and mid-career Dali....late Dali not so much. This collection of short stories is from 1944.

  The cover and book plate are particularly engaging. My copy is inscribed:



To Billy Livingstone,

 May he remain ever, just as he is......

Sincerely,

Maurice Sandoz

Christmas 1944 

New York




 (Note the punctuation....hmmmmm.) I have no idea who Billy was, but I have an image in my head....
Read more at thehauntedlamp.blogspot.com
 

Thursday, November 26, 2009

A Few, Good, Borrowed Thanksgiving Images

From: http://musicartstyle.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-thanksgiving.html

I'm thankful to all those who stop by and leave comments. So get out your peace pipes and be thankful for what you have.




From: http://wfmuichiban.blogspot.com/2009/11/thanksgiving-last-frontier-hotel-las.html

"Last Frontier Hotel. Las Vegas, Nevada. Thanksgiving 1951. -- Pretty Joan Manning didn't have the heart to kill this turkey at the Last Frontier Village so she decided to make a pet of it and eat hamburger for Thanksgiving." Via the USC archives. Posted by Greg G.



From: http://pattihaskins.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/happy-thanksgiving-usa/

Here’s wishing you a wonderful holiday. This lovely pair of blue turkeys is available at Linocutboy’s shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/linocutboy



From: http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/happy-thanksgiving-homage-to-the-turkey/
HAPPY THANKSGIVING | HOMAGE TO THE TURKEY « The Selvedge Yard

Circa 1910, postcard by Frances Brundage. You know I love anything on wheels...

Circa 1934 -- Max Baer Sr.(Jethro's dad), world's heavyweight boxing champion, gathering his Thanksgiving dinner. -- Image by © Bettmann.

Jeanne Crain has an axe to grind with a certain turkey, circa 1946.- Image by © Bettmann.

“I’ll take a leg, please…” Marilyn Monroe as vixen pilgrim, circa 1950. -Image by © Bettmann.

(Bettie Page, left) Queens of the the 33rd annual Roseland Thanksgiving Eve ball in New York. circa 1951. — Image by © Bettmann.



From: http://wfmuichiban.blogspot.com/2009/11/pow-wow.html

Grace_Tennessee_and_The_American_Spirits_-_Pow_Wow
Listen & download at: http://www.mediafire.com/?eyozywez2mz
Posted by Kogar the Swinging Ape



From: http://newtextureblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-thanksgiving.html

copyright © 2009 Wyatt Doyle



(And speaking of TURKEYS...)
From: http://space2k.tumblr.com/post/246341949/still-my-favorite-souvenir-of-the-2008-election

"Still my favorite souvenir of the 2008 election." - space2k

Monday, November 9, 2009

13 Images, Hopefully Lucky, Definitely Good & Borrowed, Returned with Thanks...

From: http://community.livejournal.com/adski_kafeteri/1445968.html

Vikki Dougan - Nicknamed "The Back" because of her dresses that were more than backless - they were cut down to just above the gluteal cleft, causing quite a commotion. The Limeliters wrote a song titled "Vikki Dougan" to commemorate this phenomenon, in which they sing of her "callipygian cleft" ("callipygian" meaning "having shapely buttocks") and beg her, "Vikki, turn your back on me". Measurements: 36-20-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)



From: http://lpcoverlover.com/2009/11/01/time-and-space/

Sun Ra and his Arkestra featurig John Gilmore on Tenor Sax I don’t have any information about this as I don’t have the disc, just the cover, which is “homemade.” The back is all pasted over with gold foil and the front has hand-coloring and some stickers. I think that this covered one of Sun Ra’s records on Saturn. Any Sun Ra followers out there that can shine some light here?
#1 philipp says:
November 1st, 2009 at 7:10 am
It’s Super-Sonic Jazz, Sun Ra’s first record on his Saturn label. The title has been covered by the blue tape in your scan. The record originally came out in 1957 with a different cover. This one is the 1968 edition. Details, plus lots more Sun Ra minutiae, found here — http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/sunra.html. Look about half-way down the page for a minty fresh scan of this record cover.
#2 Carl Howard says:
November 1st, 2009 at 7:42 am
All of that is right, and this is also a fairly early release on El Saturn, with the band still in Chicago. For most of his career, Ra favored private releases and even favored raw, primitive recording conditions – even though, being the consummate jazz outsider, these conditions were as frequently motivated by finances as by design.
Because records like this were sold by The Arkestra at shows, and because they were hand covered like this, copies and track lists varied widely for years, making documentation sometimes quite difficult.
#3 lpcoverlover says:
November 1st, 2009 at 9:17 am
Fantastic! Thanks Phillipp and Carl. Carl, so perhaps the hand-crafted cover with the foil and stickers was sold this was at a concert? (Vs. the god-forbid thought that some kid at home defaced his dad’s valuable record?



From: http://violaviolet.tumblr.com/post/237199027





From: http://wfmuichiban.blogspot.com/2009/10/apes-in-bikinis.html

MOST BEAUTIFUL APE? -- Dominique Green, contestant No. 2, won the title of Most Beautiful Ape and a role in "Battle for the Planet of the Apes," the 5th "Apes" film for 20th. Gary Owens crowned the winner at Century City ceremony. (1972)



From: http://www.lostateminor.com/2009/10/07/geordan-moore/

I don’t really have a preoccupation with death, but for some reason I am endlessly compelled by the image of a skull. That said, most artistic renderings of skulls can be quite cliched. Illustrator Geordan Moore is the first person in a while who I’ve seen draw a skull in a way that I’ve never seen before.



From: http://kvetchlandia.tumblr.com/post/221266548/robert-mapplethorpe-grace-jones-1984

Robert Mapplethorpe - Grace Jones - 1984



From: http://nickdrake.tumblr.com/post/232020625/verushka

verushka.



From: http://tartanspartan.tumblr.com/post/234780101/robert-crumb-baron-wolman-1969

Robert Crumb — Baron Wolman, 1969



From: http://txwldflower2.tumblr.com/post/233538308/incredible-shadow-art-created-from-junk

Incredible Shadow Art Created From Junk - More art/photos at: http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/incredible-shadow-art-created-from-junk/12265



From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/6514909/Science-Photo-Library-photos-of-the-week.html?image=9

Human tongue surface, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). The tongue is covered in many backward facing projections called filiform papillae, which sense pressure
Picture: SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY



From: http://lacontessa.tumblr.com/post/235096059/wrestling-ladies

Wrestling ladies.



From: http://crappytaxidermy.com/post/237037833/rat-kings-are-phenomena-said-to-arise-when-a

Rat kings are phenomena said to arise when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails, which become stuck together with blood, dirt, ice, excrement or simply knotted. The animals reputedly grow together while joined at the tails. The numbers of rats that are joined together can vary, but naturally rat kings formed from a larger number of rats are rarer. The phenomenon is particularly associated with Germany, where the majority of instances have been reported. Historically, rat kings were seen as an extremely bad omen, particularly associated with plagues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king_(folklore)



From: http://benjaminhilts.tumblr.com/post/237653880/personality-manifestations-in-psychosomatic

Personality Manifestations in Psychosomatic Illness - Heart: Emotions can affect heart rate and rhythm. (via Kroninger)