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Through a friend of a friend I ran across facebook photos of local burlesque dancer Ginger Snapps. I always liked Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s posters . but it is hard to find models who are comfortable with thier bodies enough to be a good subject. People tend to get worked up by drawings like this. I am not sure why. I guess that is why I am an artist vs an accountant or politician. There are only so many bowls of fruit and robots a person can draw before it becomes boring. People that draw will continue to draw weather you want them to or not. So at least let us draw something we like … any how…. I hope to keep creating things like this … they would look good in a home …
What no igloos? Iceland sandwich, with white snow like coconut, but where is the Eskimo? it should be at least frosty light blue…
unless it was in the freezer already and when you touch it, your hand became cold, then it sort of makes sense.
but then again, I really hate to be negative on anything vintage with such sweet typography, but what are the red lightning bolts about? “This candy is shockingly good”
or “Hazard to try our Iceland Sandwich?” or “Warning: awesome candy enclosed”
oh well my mind is somewhere else today, I think I saw it lashing together some logs down on the Ohio river bank, getting ready to embark on a scenic tour of the grand waterway, floating slowly down to the pacific. “hey brain! don’t leave yet, you have to finish your work!” but alas it is too far away. we are a small figure on the bank waving hard but look to be the size of an ant to our brain…
“Oh I am putting on my top hat”
Fred Astaire. One of my favorite movies. It is a fantasy world where people wear top hats and tails every where. In 1935 the depression was over and WWII wasn’t there yet, so what does that mean? PARTY. The plot is only put in place to set up Fred and Ginger to dance. Ginger is cute and little bit sexy. Fred is like a cartoon of himself, providing a deadpan delivery with just enough smirk to let you know he is in on the joke. Then the photography is awsome, the sets are sweet, the costumes are tasteful. It is hard to find a movie where all the pieces are done tastefully. What is taste? If you think of it literally taste is equal to palletable, or something you want to eat. You don’t just put anything in your mouth… it has to look edible… I saw the movie carefree with fred and ginger and everything was wrong, the dresses were painfull to look at, the comedy was played out, the songs sucked man, I could go on. A craftsman must have had everying working to get top hat done. and by carefree you feel like they just don’t care.
Who has even seen a top hat these days other than in the game monopoly?
Kids
Originally uploaded by bartenational
I have had the pleasure of watching my kids grow up, Even though they aren’t grown ups, they are pretty much out of the little kid realm. The thing to learn from kids is what they don’t know. Watching the grade school Christmas show, you see them come out barely staying on stage in kindergraten, but by second grade they get out there and sing thier asses off. They steel the show every year. They don’t know they can’t do it. They learn that and by seventh grade they barely make a sound and need microphones turned up all the way just to hear them. Adults are so self concious they don’t even try to sing. Karioke could only happen in bars where people get drunk enough to let thier guard down. Singing is a joyous thing. People should be allowed to sing more often. Church is an excuse to sing but even there people are terrified to take part. Art is an expression of the soul. Musicals are a lost art. We can make movies of anything with computer graphics, but we can’t make joy on a computer.
