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FRANCES GLESSNER LEE: A REAL LIFE MISS MARPLE
Here's my new hero, Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy self-taught crime scene investigator, a sort of forensic Miss Marple. In the 40s and 50s she built dozens of dollhouse crime scenes based on real...
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ONE MORE POST ABOUT FRANCES GLESSNER LEE
I'm still reading the book about Frances Glessner Lee's crime dioramas and I can tell you that it's really creeping me out. If you don't mind, I'll inflict some of my morbid thoughts about this on...
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PICTURES FOR THE LIVING ROOM WALL
Soon I'll relocate to the farm belt and have the task of decorating the walls of my new house. For that I'll need pictures. I'm considering a big print of Basquiat's "Boy and His Dog" (above).Also...
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MY KID DRAWS ME
Doggone it! Here I am, a working artist, and my kid draws better than I do!!!!! Oops, I should have said "drew" because these sketches were made years ago when my daughter was just a kid. We'd pay an...
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MY WIFE'S OFFICE
A couple of posts back I hinted that my wife was a sentimental romantic who, if given free reign, would decorate our house like Laura Ashley or Thomas Kincaid. That's not exactly true, as you'll see...
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RECENT ASTRONOMICAL PICTURES 2/2016
Here it is, the barbell-shaped Comet 67P as seen from the Rosetta probe this time last year. The amount of water discovered there locates the origin as the Kyper Belt or maybe the even more distant...
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VALENTINE'S DAY FOR WRITERS
Valentine's day is almost here! Guys are supposed to be above it, as if were a holiday made only for women. I just don't see it that way. I like everything about it. Even the cliches make complete...
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A VALENTINE ESSAY: "HOW I MET MY WIFE"
My computer room is in disarray so I can't shoot the fresh visuals I'd need to illustrate this story. Instead I'll borrow some pictures of myself from previous blogs and hope for the best. Here...
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DISNEYLAND ARCHITECTURE
Minnie's House in Disneyland is a destination I never get tired of. The skewered, wonky look of it would be too caricatured for everyday living. Even so, you wonder if some modification of that could...
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MY FAVORITE NEWSPAPER COMIC STRIP
One of my favorite funny newspaper strips...rivalling Al Capp's "Fearless Fosdick" or Feinenger's "The "Kinder Kids"...was the collected strips done by George Herriman in the years between 1904 and...
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ABOUT GEORGE HERRIMAN
"Just one more George Herriman post. That's a Herriman self portrait, above.Herriman was what Wikipedia calls a "Louisiana mulatto creole." who "passed" for white. His family spoke French. He might...
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EDDIE FITZGERALD CARICATURES
Here's (above) the cover of a Mother's Day card drawn by my kid when she was in Middle School. Haw! Am I really that much of a scene stealer?Here's a pencil enhancer...or is it an eraser... designed by...
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EATING BREAKFAST
In artist families a sketch war can break out without warning, at any time. Here (above), on a normal day, on a normal morning, my wife puts outs out breakfast cereal for my daughter and I, and I, as...
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BEFORE AND AFTER ROOM MAKEOVERS
As you probably know, I'll be moving in a few months and I've done some research into "staging." In case you don't know the term, in the housing biz that's another word for "where you put the...
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ROMAN SCULPTURE
I've been searching the net for cheap, good quality plaster replicas of a couple of my favorite sculptures. So far the results haven't been very encouraging but I'll persist. Near the top of my list...
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JEAN SENNEP: GENIUS CLASS CLOWN
Many thanks to Jo Jo and Steve Worth for turning me on to Jean Sennep, the funniest 20th Century French cartoonist I know of. That's his work above. Sennep must have been the king of the French class...
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HORST: THE BEST FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER EVER?
Horst P. Horst 1906 - 1999 may have been the best fashion photographer ever. He worked for Vogue mostly, but also for Chanel, and did memorable portraits of the notables of his era.The man was heavily...
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This morning I did some reading about the Wright Brothers and their famous first flight in 1903. That's (above) Wilbur flying the glider version of the plane over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk. The...
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DIANA VREELAND: HARPER'S BAZAAR EDITOR
That's Diana Vreeland above, the editor of Harper's Bazaar and Vogue in their peak years from 1936 to 1944 when those magazines were undergoing a Golden Age. Theory Corner owes a lot to her influence,...
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FRANK READE'S WEEKLY MAGAZINE
Thanks to authors Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett (and archivist Joe Rainone) I discovered Frank Reade Jr., the fictional 19th Century version of Tom Swift. I can only say, "Wow! Where has this been all...
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