November 10, 2009

Seminal Image #975


De dødes tjern
(Lake of the Dead)
(Kåre Bergstrøm; 1958)

The Art of the Panel: DC #20


from Supergirl Gets Adopted!
(by Jerry Siegel and Jim Mooney)
(Action Comics #264; May, 1960)

The Gunslinger Guide to Sophia Loren #3

The Art of Travel #29

Fun at Bohemian Grove #45


Bohemian George McManus stands by Jiggs (1927)

November 09, 2009

Artists in Action #539


Barry Manilow puts the moves on Fanne Fox.

Poets are both clean and warm
And most are far above the norm
Whether here or on the roam
Have a poet in every home! #46


Allen Ginsberg and Robert Creeley peruse

The Future is Now #9


The World of Tomorrow comes to the classroom.

The Art of the Girlie Mag #14


Devils in Skirts (Date Unknown)

Before and After #203: Phil Ochs

Before


After

Sex Education #143


Jacqueline Bisset

The Cool Hall of Fame #180


Ken Russell

P is for Pulp #47


Popular Western
(May, 1940)

November 06, 2009

Artists and Animals #36


Liz Taylor and sandpiper.

Photo by Roddy McDowall.

They Were Collaborators #603


Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier and Shirley MacLaine

Shutterbug Friday #7:
Dmitri Baltermants (Part One: The Big Red Army in Action!)

Born in 1912, Dmitri Baltermants was perhaps the most prominent photo-journalist the old Soviet Union (not the happiest place for journalism of any kind) ever produced. In this, the first of two samplings of his work, we join the mighty Red Army on the field of battle during the Second World War . . . which was already in progress.

















































November 05, 2009

Artists in Action #538


Angie Dickinson leaves the tarmac with a smile on her face and, perhaps, a song in her heart.

Faces of Science #11


Albert Einstein

[this visage is the mask of the Albert Einstein robot developed by Hanson Robotics. Click here for all your uncanny valley needs]

Adventures in the Fight Racket #34

Today's Adventure

Original caption:

Sugar Ray Robinson winds up the left hook that will knock out Carl "Bobo" Olsen in the fourth round of their middleweight championship fight at Wrigley Field

The Art of the Panel: DC #19


from Two New Members Win Their Spurs
(by Gardner Fox, Everett E. Hibbard and Bernard Baily)
(All-Star Comics #8; January, 1942)

Woodcut Confidential! #8


The Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō V as Kan Shōjō
(Utagawa Kunisada; 1860)

The Art of the WPA #20

This Week's Sargent #15


Portrait of Violet (1885)

Glamour Jungle! #20

November 04, 2009

Treading the Boards #6


Vanoye Aikens and Katherine Dunham in L'Ag'Ya

Faces of Science #10


Jane Goodall

The Cool Hall of Fame #179


Van Dyke Parks

Norman Rockwell Saved from Drowning #16


Delight (1956)

The Gunslinger Guide to Julie Christie #13

The Art of Cinema #421


Pitfall
(Andre de Toth; 1948)

Abandoned Images #3


Riot in Cell Block 11
(Don Siegel; 1954)

November 03, 2009

Broadcasters #76


Jerry Doggett and Vin Scully

Artists and Animals #35


Errol Flynn and Bes Mudi aboard the Zaca.

Treading the Boards #5


Osgood Perkins, Frances Fuller and Lee Tracy in The Front Page, 1928.

Before and After #202: Mary Pickford

Before


After

Jesters of the Republic #38


Dick Gregory

The Art of Pop #51


The Passions
(Les Baxter)
(Capitol Records; 1954)

Mop Tops in Action #23


The Mop Tops look down on all they have wrought

Visionary Film #25


Not of This Earth
(Roger Corman; 1957)

November 02, 2009

When Legends Gather #558


Carl Reiner, Robert Culp and Jesse Jackson.

The Future is Now #8


It's true! Flying Sassers do exist!

Faces of Science #9


Hedy Lamarr


George Antheil

The two inventors of the "Secret Communication System" that received patent number 2,292,387. Later known as "frequency hopping" its basic idea is summarized in the second paragraph of the patent:

"An object of the invention is to provide a method of secret communication which is relatively simple and reliable in operation, but at the same time is difficult to discover or decipher."

Orpheus in Action #12


Orpheus chases a tire

Seminal Image #974


Inside Daisy Clover
(Robert Mulligan; 1966)

Twilight of the Dreamboats #22


Cincinnati, Ohio (1954)

The Art of the Panel: Archie #9


from Tough Competition!
(Artists Unknown)
(Life With Archie #20; May, 1963)

Fun at Bohemian Grove #44


Bohemians congregate by flashlight (1906)