A short film about an art form that flourished in the 20th Century, that now faces an uncertain future.
Full of arcane references for those who know their history
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This extraordinary image was left over from a recent post about Andre Duranceau
I show it here A) Because I think it’s an astonishingly confident sculpture for its young designer, and B) Because it’s such a robust expression of optimism, reflecting the mood of the 1939 World’s Fair after the [...]
Odd, isn’t it, how the marketing of a film involves both the precise identification and targeting of likely audiences, while at the same time trying to maximise its appeal to the broadest possible market. Focusing and defocusing in one go. How wide of the mark this effort can sometimes be.
Now if somebody had [...]
This brilliant cartoon by P.J.Polyp was originally published in The Ethical Consumer and is one of nearly 1000 postcards published by Leeds Postcards.
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The New Internationalist regularly features his work.
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As seen on The Daily Irrelevant Thanks John!
No.1: The Macaw
(You’ll have to do what the parrot says, and click on his image.)
And yes, you’re right it is a macaw. It’s the image that started me off on a long rumination about parrots.
I found it in the astonishingly well constructed site run by the New York Public Library, amongst a few thousand [...]
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Another chance, as they say, to hear (the late) Humphrey Lyttleton’s appraisal of Louis Prima on BBC Radio 4. As Humphrey says, most people knew Prima only as the voice of King Louie in The Jungle Book, but there was much more to him than that one song. Prima and his band [...]
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For some years, the final year students at the Gobelins school in Paris have provided the opening shorts for screening sessions at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival & Market that takes place in early June.
Every day’s proceedings at the festival are introduced with a new short film.
Details of these animated films have been posted [...]
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Illustrator, artist, muralist and bon viveur André Maurice Durenceau was born in Auray, France in 1904 and by the time he was 24 he’d emigrated to the USA and had his first limited edition folio of designs, called “Inspirations”, published.
There’s very little easily accessible biographical [...]
Will you still need me…when I’m sixty four?
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A picture of one of many much loved beach huts in West Wittering, near where our family recently spent a long weekend with friends on the Selsey peninsula near Chichester.
Selsey is one of many coastal towns that is beginning to renegotiate its [...]