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DISNEYLAND CHARACTER COSTUMES
It's hard to imagine what a truly weird place Disneyland used to be. For a short time after Disneyland opened, the park was full of costumed demons like the one above who roamed around scaring kids....
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MORE DISNEYLAND WEIRDNESS
Here's some more Disneyland walkaround costumes. I'll start with Captain Hook from...I'm guessing...the early 1970s. Yikes!The park seems to have had trouble with this character. In the photos I've...
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HALLOWEEN MASKS 2014
It's HALLOWEEN season...well sort of...I'm getting an early start. Once again Theory Corner is poking around, trying to locate the best masks for its readers. I'll open with one you probably saw on the...
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FUNNY FASHION MODEL WALKS
For the animators out there, I thought I'd put up some funny walk reference. In this case it's fashion models who fall on the runway. Sometimes the fall is the funny thing, more often it's the walk on...
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FUTURE FASHION
Humor has influenced fashion for at least four decades and it shows no sign of abating. The big trend in recent times is clothes that fit but don't don't fit. Here the model wears a tailored version...
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ANIMATING MIME EXERCISES
I'm not working right now so I spent part of my day yesterday animating on my ipad mini and reading notes I took on a book about mime. I'm not thinking about becoming a mime...I just wondered if they...
View ArticlePEREZ PRADO: GENIUS
This is the very best version of the very best recorded Mambo that I know of: Perez Prado doing "Que Rico El Mambo." I don't the name of the terrific female dancer, but the guy is Tin Tan, a famous...
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EXPLORING THE INTERNET
I thought I'd do a quick and dirty survey of the adult internet sites. Theory Corner covered this a few years ago but the net's changed since then and it might be interesting to see how things are...
View ArticleATLAS SHRUGGED PART III
Here's the trailer for Atlas Shrugged part III. I saw it this afternoon and loved it, in spite of the flaws. It suffers immeasurably from a low budget and a much, much too condensed script, but if you...
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HALOWEEN PICTURES
I was thinking about possible Halloween porch decorations today, something to scare the Trick or Treaters. How about something like this (above) looming over the front door? Is it okay to put up...
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MORE HALLOWEEN PICTURES (2014)
Voila!...the ultimate Halloween pictures! They're from French 19th Century stereoscopic images called "Diableries." They were the ViewMaster images of their day, sculpted in clay on tabletops.The...
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SCARY HALLOWEEN PICTURES
Some artists have a knack for simple, dramatic graphics. It's a rare skill that adds value to whatever it's applied to. If this (above) were a book cover you'd have to check out what was inside, almost...
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TIM BURTON INSPIRED COSTUMES
Wow! Here's a beautiful costume in the Tim Burton vein.Here's Burton's "Blue Girl with Wine." It's inspired lots of Halloween costumes. Here's (above) one. And here's (above) a similar one, inspired...
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ADDITIONAL HALLOWEEN PICTURES
Vintage magic posters make great Halloween decorations. Here's (above) one of my favorites. The paniced audience has been driven mad with fright.This (above) is for Theory Cornerites who prefer simple,...
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IDEAS FOR HALLOWEEN MASKS
Here's (above) some examples of Pre-Colombian Inca sculpture. So far as I know the Incas were the world's first funny cartoonists, only their medium was pottery and sculpture, rather than paper. The...
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BEGINNING A STORY
I've been reading some pulp-type stories and I thought it might be fun to discuss the first paragraph of one of them. I liked it so much that I whipped out an index card and quickly wrote my own bad...
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NEW ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOS
Here's two photos taken by the Curiosity Rover on Mars. What are those small stones on the ground? One is a ball and the others are star patterns of some sort.Above is a picture of the four habitable...
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HALLOWEEN FILMS: DR. CALIGARI
No doubt everyone knows about the Expressionist film, "Dr. Caligari" (above). What you may not know is that a monumental new restoration has been done which will soon be on sale in America. I saw it...
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HALLOWEEN MOVIES / DAISY DOODAD'S DIAL (1914)
Here are a few frame grabs from a short film I just discovered on David Cairns' site: "Shadowplay" (link on my right sidebar). Dial is English slang for face.The face belongs to Florence Turner, an...
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CHEAP HALLOWEEN MASKS
Well, they were cheap when they first came out. They're probably expensive collector's items now. Here's a bunch that Steve Worth turned me on to. It includes paper masks (mostly from cereal boxes, I'm...
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