nancy and david

nancy cunard's feathers

and

the a,b,c's of david lynch

with no formal training

Deborah Turbeville

self portrait

casa no name

Deborah Turbeville was born and brought up between Boston, 

Massachusetts and the rock bound coast of Maine. At the age of 20 she moved

 to New York City and began working for the avant garde designer Claire McCardell.  

With no formal schooling other than the advanced seminars she attended 

with Richard Avedon and art director Marvin Israel, she launched herself into a career photography.

a story of an unfortunate personality

i hate television. i hate it as much as peanuts.

but i can't stop eating peanuts.

In the mid-1950s, Welles began work on Don Quixote, initially a commission from CBS television. Welles expanded the film to feature length, developing the screenplay to take Quixote and Sancho Panza into the modern age. Filming stopped with the death of Francisco Reiguera, the actor playing Quixote, in 1969. Orson Welles continued editing the film into the early 1970s. At the time of his death, the film remained largely a collection of footage in various states of editing. The project and more importantly Welles's conception of the project changed radically over time. A version of the film was created from available fragments in 1992 and released to a very negative reception.

i feel i have to protect myself against things...

so i'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

[ 3 quotes- orson wells ]

play continually on loop

i would drive over to middle earth records about once a week 

and take all my allowance from chores and washing cars...

 spend hours looking for those hard to find albums.

one band that was tops on my list:

Wire.

sometimes i would buy both the album and 

cassette tape

so i could play it in my 1966 blue

karmann gia immediately upon leaving.

these sort of obscure

sounds would sometimes be played continually

over and over 

for days on end...

some of my friends would just look at me

and say under their breath-

'your weird.'

but then say-

'you make life fun.'

'i do my best..'

november day in the life of

yesterday i went to take my old jalopy

to the fix it shop...perhaps no wheels for a while.

then went over and got a street taco

at the san pedro farmers market

and picked up my art from the

skate shop.

they said two of them had fallen on the floor

and the glass broke.

and then over to storage- 

i came across some more of my vintage

bird masks and props in some random boxes

scenes form Judex kept coming into my mind

-a scene is from a wonderful movie

then today when i was checking messages and such...

i came across this picture of one of my old cloth bird masks

on a friend.

.

paperhome

      

i woke up in my home today

and i like my little place

your home reflects who you are

so they say

and my house is a mess

it's my fault though

moving back and forth

and everywhere else

i'm a mess

or so i say

they told me this might become a problem

thinking that the grass was greener

on the other side

that oz isn't over there

and i always knew that somehow

this is a film called 
Paperhouse


a young girl's private world becomes
far more real than everyone else's
day to day life...


astoundingly neglected, this exercise in
the horror genre is as disturbing as any
film with a flashier budget and special effects.
1988

Bay fog

suitcase packed

cleaned car

tank full

ready for drive

 a road trip

points up north

city by the bay

and listen to this on the way...

to be continued...

overlook

A little movie i made with a tiny

16mm camera 

on top of 

30 rock ... NYC

for me...

happy birthday to me!

dream machine

time is a great teacher...

but unfortunately it kills all it's pupils. 

chimney sweeps

last night i saw the most wonderful chimney sweep costume on a man out at disneyland for the halloween party. i didn't get a photo- but i have a splendid picture in my head...

and then

i'll start working on this costume...

here in the town of machine...

dead man and a few quotes :

coarse you can't put much stock in a man who spends most of a 

conversation talkin' to a bear...

talkin' to a goddamn bear.

look out the window...and doesn't it remind you of when you were 

in the boat?

look...

they are shooting buffalo, government says...

it killed a million of em' last year alone.

that doesn't explain why you've come all the way out here...

all the way out here to hell.

i make flowers out of paper,   smell...

what does it smell like?

paper.

it's better to be Nobody,  then He Who Talks But Says Nothing.

did you kill the white man that killed you?

i'm not dead,  am i?

old photos of people i happen to know

my father's sister, Ione

with a fancy man 

while traveling.

my grandmother, Hermione

in backyard

my great aunt margaret 

is holding the fish 

on the left

Dr. Suess taxidermy sculptures, 1938

This is the world’s only known complete collection of these creatures; this set of three was purchased in the late 1930’s and has remained intact. Created by Dr. Seuss, these sculptures were first carved from wood, then hand painted and mounted onto small plaques.

This collection would have been originally purchased in the late 1930’s. They were kept in a child’s room, and eventually retired to the storage barn next to a chicken coop in upstate New York.  The set was acquired for a substantial sum in 2004. Though aged and weathered, restoration was not considered for several reasons. They are perfectly charming, and the need of a face-lift is a matter of opinion, because the personalities remain intact. The aged quality imparts character and denotes the history of these priceless pieces of Americana.  These museum pieces were later copied and reproduced as limited edition sculptures by The Chase Group, the licensee of the fine art property originally created by Dr. Seuss.  The limited edition Blue-Green Abelard was re-created in a smaller edition size than the other contemporary sculptures; only 375 pieces. The Tufted Gustard was 375 pieces and the Mulberry Street Unicorn was 850 pieces. All of those resin limited editions are going for big bucks, which is a good way to gage the value of the originals! The limited edition of the Blue-Green Abelard currently retails in the range of 25-28k! and The Tufted Gustard for 15k!  The entire collection is sensationally popular, because the sculptures are not dead old taxidermy beasts, but Unorthodox Taxidermy, filled with whimsy and life!

 

Today the pieces are part of a larger and very intriguing exhibition by Dr Seuss, in a mideival fortress in France, Chateau de Belcastel, which is a historical monument that is open to the public. The collection includes a pen & ink that was published in The Judge magazine in 1927 featuring Horton’s predecessor and strange creatures and eunuchs. Dr Seuss kept his paintings in his studio, but he created one as a charitable contribution, entitled “Raising Money For the Arts,” which is the only original painting by Dr Seuss on public display in the world, as far as we know. (At some point in time, Dr Seuss’s collection of paintings will go to a museum--either in Springfield Massachusetts or UCSD in Southern California.)   Dr Seuss first used some of these original sculptures in his Esso oil advertising campaign, and photographs of the artist holding various sculptures from this collection are featured in many historical archives as well as the book “The Art of Dr Seuss.” The collection is called “Unorthodox Taxidermy,” and was critically acclaimed. A Retrospective and National Touring Exhibition that was launched in 2001 featured educational panels about it, and the biography, “The Seuss, the Whole Seuss and Nothing but the Seuss” by historian Charles D Cohen writes extensivly about these sculptures.

Due to the delicate nature of the sculptures, the winner of this rare collection and a guest will be flown to the Chateau where the buyer can oversee the packing, and transport the pieces safely away.  Travel and lodging for three nights in the Castle's Romantic and luxerious Tower suite is included courtesy of Animazing Gallery. This is a trip fit for a "king".

Unorthodox Taxidermy

Geisel embarked on an ingenious project in the early 1930’s as he evolved from two-dimensional artworks to three-dimensional sculptures. What was most unusual for these mixed media sculptures was the use of real animal parts including beaks, antlers and horns from deceased Forest Park Zoo animals where Geisel’s father was superintendent. His “Collection of Unorthodox Taxidermy” was born in a cramped New York apartment and included a menagerie of inventive creatures with names like “Two Horned Drouberhannis,” “Andulovian Grackler.” And “Goo Goo Eyed Tasmanian Wolghast.” Shortly after Geisel created this unique collection of artworks, Look Magazine dubbed Ted Geisel “The World’s Most Eminent Authority on Unheard-Of Animals.” To this day, Ted’s unorthodox taxidermy remains as some of the finest examples of his inventive and multi-dimensional creativity.

[selling for 1,000,000.000 -one can have this collection- information from ebay]

onions and turnips in the post

This is a story about W. Reginald Bray.

Bray lived for most of his life in Forest Hill, Kent from birth in 1879 to 1938 before moving to Croydon where he passed away in 1939. His lifelong passion was to send items through the post that, in one form or other, challenged the Postal system. He even had himself "delivered" on more than one occasion having paid the requisite postage. After experimenting with a number of postal curios his main focus was on the collection of autographs through the post. He sent out thousands of cards to all types of people, ranging from the Pope to the local Station Master, asking for them to return the relevant item duly autographed.

Over the years Reginald amassed over 15,000 autographs, declaring himself the Autograph King - a title that was undisputed by his peers.

He posted onions, turnips, combs and curios...

Among an array of other things.

[information from a website dedicated to the postal activities of

W. Reginald Bray.]

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