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BLACK FRIDAY 2014
Black Friday is here! If you're a cartoonist what better subject is there than this?I have yet to see a photograph that adequately covers the subject.Cartoonists OWN this holiday.Photos can't do...
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HOW TO DRESS A CARTOON CHARACTER
Traditional animal characters looked best without pants, but that would be a hard sell today.Modern designs are sometimes still pantsless but they're designed in such a way as to de-emphasize the...
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THE VANISHING TOWN STORY
KIDS! It's me, Dad!I have to talk fast because I might get cut off any minute. Look, I can tell by your expressions that you don't recognize me anymore. That's okay...it's not your fault!I tried to...
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BRITISH ART NOUVEAU
I thought I'd post about a Christmas gift idea I had, namely architectural posters. I did some research and was amazed to find how few decent ones there were. It looks like those who want that sort of...
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"JOLLY ROUNDERS"
I like the way the best old cartoons (above) used to look. They didn't have the production value of a film like "Frozen," but they were fifty times as funny and they were cheap to make. Here's (above)...
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THE NEW NON-STICK FRYING PANS
 Above, the Orgreenic ceramic cookware ad you've no doubt seen on TV. I bought a similar pan for use as a Christmas present and now I'm suffering buyers' remorse. I wish I'd researched the pan before I...
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A SECOND LOOK AT A GREAT CARTOON
I like "Jolly Rounders" so much that I can't help adding to what I wrote last time. It's wonderful to have a blog like Theory Corner where things like this can be discussed in detail. Anyway, I like...
View ArticleSOME FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONGS
Here's a few Christmas songs that get a lot of play at my house this time of year. I thought you might like to hear them, too.
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MORE ABOUT NASH EDGERTON
 After discovering Nash Edgerton's brilliant work on Dylan's "Must Be Santa" video (see the previous post) I had to see more. Here's (above) another Edgerton short called "The Spider." Watch it and see...
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Here's an excerpt from Handel's "Messiah" performed by students in a small auditorium. I'm envious! The audience got to hear the music in a small hall with low ceilings that no doubt bounced the sound...
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THE ART OF CONVERSATION
Hi everybody! 'Hope you had a good Christmas! Me, it's a holiday morning and I just got out of bed after lying there for an hour and daydreaming. Usually I forget thoughts like that but today I had a...
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WHAT I SAW IN THE 1950S
I had an absolutely wonderful Christmas but there was a lot to digest and it may be a few days or weeks before I can post about it. In the meantime here's something I reminisced to my kids about when...
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IS JAZZ DEAD?
Above, that's a caricature of Al "Jazzbo" Collins the famous New York jazz DJ from the 50s. Below is an excerpt from a fairly recent Washington Post article which declares that jazz is dead. The upbeat...
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WILLIAM MORTENSEN: PHOTOGRAPHER
A cartload of thanks to Mike for turning me on to this photographer! I'd used the photo above in a previous post but I had no idea who did it. I thought some anonymous glamour photographer  just got...
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WHAT I'M READING NOW: JANUARY 2015
Some good books here! I'm reading a biography of film director, Geoge Cukor (that's him, above). It's a library book but I'm considering buying a copy of my own just so I can underline it...it's that...
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COLLAGE CHARACTERS
The legs (above) are facing the wrong direction but what the heck.Above, the neighborhood chick magnet. He's never without a girl in his arms.Haw!Oops! The legs are facing the wrong direction again!
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DANCING TO WORK
Nothing in this unstructured and rambling Theory Corner post will make any sense. I've been fooling around with collages and Photoshop effects and somehow I've worked my way into obsessing over this...
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DIRECTING TV ANIMATION: AN OVERVIEW
Most of the directors showed here had career paths radically different from the one I discuss in this post. I include them simply because I can't think of TV animation without their images coming to...
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NEW ASTRONOMY PICTURES: JANUARY 2015
Above, a kilometer high cliff on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The largest boulders at the cliff bottom are about 20 meters wide. The photo was taken a few weeks ago by the Rosetta orbiter.Here's an...
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GOOD GIRL/BAD GIRL
In this post Theory Corner considers the question of nature versus nurture. Are we shaped by genetics or by culture and experience? I don't know the answer but I can relate a story I heard that might...
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