 Weekend Collages
posted: February 8, 2010
Some collages created over the weekend. I first began doing these types of faces back in the mid-eighties. They were done mainly for my own amusement. Back then I would shake the pieces off the paper before starting another one until someone suggested I should glue them down. Now I glue them down and put them in a drawer. Generally, I'm the only one who sees them. Here are a few from Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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The Girl in the Abstract Bed
posted: February 4, 2010
1954
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She rode in a British sports carriage
powered by her water-cooled mother, jane. 
She ate in a high-chair made of canvas and wrought iron.
Her tableware was stainless steel, from Denmark,
her porringer was pottery, from California, and her typical luncheon menu might have been: Chicken Livers en brochette, puree de petits pois, and Lait au lait. 
She played in a kidney-shaped playpen
built by her power-tooled father, DADA. 
There came the time when nicole learned to walk.
Her parents had the Leotard Service Send in a nice pair of ballet slippers, some horn-rimmed frames (the lenses could come later), and a checked wool shirt. 
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How tranquilly things went! Whenever Nicole tired of walking,
they could put Little Bop Eep on the Hi-Fi, get out a book of Mother Proust stories, and she would lounge in the playpen, surrounded by her favorite toys. 
One summer day it became necessary to take Nicole to visit
her Reactionary Grandmother in the country. 
Grandmother saw the child and steamed like a teakettle,
jane clutched her daughter's hand, firm as a pharaoh, (her husband was unloading the car). But before the two ladies could so much as crackle the first crisp words, DADA called out to jane: 
"Honeypet, could you help me with the playpen?"
"Nicole P. Snow," rasped the Reactionary Grandmother,
grabbing at the glasses, "you are the most peculiar," shucking off the slippers, "baby that I ever saw." And she pulled away the shirt and leotards. 
Nicole rushed happily into the sunshine to play.
The Reactionary Grandmother braced herself ready for any battle, but to her astonishment DADA only smiled and said to jane: "Look, honeypet, 
our baby is primitive, after all."
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copyright 1954, by Tobias Schneebaum and Vance Bourjaily.
Robert Newman on Facebook
posted: January 30, 2010
Robert Newman Design is someone/thing you should become a fan of on Facebook. Terrific site. Newman's long been an advocate for illustration and great design. Here he gets to shower you with his favorites. A lot of the work he scans himself but he also directs you to outside links. The man has a great eye. Following are a few, a very few, examples of the type of stuff to be found on his Facebook fan page.
What are you waiting for? Go "friend" Robert Newman Design now.
Emory Douglas 2
posted: January 28, 2010
A while back Edel Rodriguez posted about Emory Douglas. While rooting through a drawer full of magazines this past weekend I came across a couple of issues of THE BLACK PANTHER newspaper which featured Douglas' work on the back page.
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The newspaper images here have been collected in Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
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