1915. It seems worlds away from today. My Dad was born in a small farmhouse outside the burg of Colburn 98 years ago today Indiana to Dorothy and Ellis, a young married couple. He was the first of 8 children, seven of whom lived into adulthood. Today I am in the midst of a juxtaposition […]
Classic Commercial Art Posters from the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
It is yet another Wordless Wednesday and today I want to share one of the neatest commercial advertising art books I’ve run across since I regularly began searching through the Internet Archive. If the absolutely amazing resource is properly searched using the advanced search function, it is relatively easy to search for material containing images […]
Retrograde Politics in the U.S.
I sometimes wish I could ignore stupidity, corruption, and the various and insidious old boy networks that are everywhere I look. I try to ignore them, I really do, but politics is everywhere. And most often, or so it seems to me, the politically motivated are stupid, corrupt and play favors with abandon. I do […]
Freebie Digital Background Images and Textures
I love playing with graphics. I talk about this love at least once a week it seems. So even though I posted some images yesterday, I want to share some textures I created. Yes, I am working on an Autumn-themed project. I created these images using Gimp, a free to download, open source drawing program. […]
10 Early 20th Century Advertising Images
It is Wordless Wednesday, so today I’m reproducing some advertising images from 1910. Source Poster advertising : being a talk on the subject of posting as an advertising medium, with helpful hints and sensible suggestions to poster advertisers, and with thirty-two pages of full color reproductions of posters used by national advertisers (1910) Author: Hawkins, […]
My Life, Tucson, and Autumn
I first visited Tucson in October. It was a gorgeous autumn. Warm, but not too warm. Sunny, but with the long, slanted light of fall, not the pounding sun of summer. I had visited the Flagstaff and Prescott areas previously, and that was fun, but I felt at home here in Tucson. I moved here […]