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RUTH ORKIN: PHOTOGRAPHER
Here's (above) a poster you've no doubt seen before. Can you guess the photographer's name? Good for you if you guessed Robert Doisneau, the famous photographer of street life in Paris, but...no, it's...
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CHRONIC DEPRESSION
Recently I watched a couple of Youtube videos on the subject of Depression. Holy Mackerel! I realised that I know next to nothing about the subject. How many of us do?Apparently the sexy subject these...
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ORSON WELLES: GENIUS
I promised some friends that I would tell them how the last complete episode of Orson Welles' TV travelogue show turned out. Well, I saw it last week at Steve's and it was, just like the other...
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CONCRETE BLOCK BOOKSHELVES
You can make great bookshelves with bricks or cocrete blocks and a few planks, but that's a potential only, something that's seldom seen in the real world. Most tall brick shelves look horrible. These...
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HALLOWEEN ART MASKS
Geez, it looks like I won't have time to get something really good together for Halloween this year. If I had I might have tried a painted art mask of some sort. Maybe something painterly, like the...
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ECLECTIC DECORATING
I'll be moving to a part of the country that gets gloomy in the Winter and I want be sure the new house is cheerful and colorful. My plan is to compensate for the overcast by using a lot of interior...
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JOHN KRICFALUSI, KELLY ARMSTRONG
Haw! I don't believe it! This is the most insulting caricature I've ever gotten and yet it's so funny that I wouldn't part with it for anything. How does John do it?Here, thanks much to commenter...
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A TERRIFIC FILM OPENING
I've a huge interest in film gambits, "gambits" being a chess term for the opening moves of a game. The term can apply to storytelling as well. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" was...
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BERYL COOK
I don't know what I think about Beryl Cook. She has talent and an interesting point of view, but her subject is post middle-aged British housewives, the kind that Monty Python used to make fun of, and...
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CARICATURES 10/2015
Haw! 'More John caricatures of me. Big earlobes, a bell on top, egg salad on the mouth, plenty of warts...check! They're all here!Here's a caricature I did of Jim Reardon and his family. I had to stop...
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SUPERGURL VS. THE EVIL UNCLE EDDIE
THE EVIL UNCLE EDDIE (VO): "Boy this house is a mess! Greasy pizza boxes, beer cans, dirty underwear...but I have no time to clean it. I gotta finish this book on hypnotism! Wait a minute...somebody's...
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HALLOWEEN PICTURES
Who are these people??? The masks look old but the shoes look more modern. I''m guessing that these are amusement park workers posing in the 40s or 50s. Here's another picture I can't identify. It...
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RALPH BAKSHI'S "LAST DAYS OF CONEY ISLAND"
This Sunday I paid a visit to Steve Worth's to see Bakshi's new film, "Last Days of Coney island." I knew the film would be good but I didn't know it would be THAT good. It was gorgeous! Look at the...
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HALLOWEEN 2015
Well, another Halloween bit the dust this Saturday. Here I am at Mike's place, posing in his Flintstone hat.I only had a short time to decorate the porch for the Trick or Treaters. Usually I spend a...
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THEORY CORNER FOR TEENS
So you're twelve years old now! You're almost a teenager! Wow, I'm envious, or at least partly envious. Um...there are some troublesome parts and I thought I'd discuss them here by way of giving you a...
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ARCHITECTURAL TOYS
I looked up "architectural toys" on the net and was surprised at how many I found. Christmas is coming and if you know someone who's interested in architecture then one of the items in this post might...
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MODERN FURNITURE
I'll be moving in a few months and I won't be able to take half my heavy furniture. That means I'll have to buy a few new things when I get where I'm going and that's exciting. I plan to go for an...
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DEPRESSION
It seems to me that psychology has long overlooked the "Gorilla in the Living Room," the fundamental mental disorder on which so many other disorders rest.Haw! That's (above) a caricature Mike did of...
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DOODLES AND SKETCHES
I found an old envelope of scraps in the garage and here's a few samples. The picture above is my kid when he was a baby, drawn by John K.Haw! Another John baby picture of my kid. This was for his...
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FUNNY DRAWINGS
'Only two drawings this time, but they're both heavy hitters.How do you like this early one (above) by John K? It's so wonderfully ignorant, so delightfully low...so...so, class clown. It reminds me of...
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