Archive for the 'Americana' Category

image influence: charles harper

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Indulging in my ongoing obsession with wildlife-inspired graphics, I recently came across Charles Harper. In a style he called “minimal realism”, Charley Harper looked at nature as a series of shapes, patterns and textures, all amounting to a colorful phantasmagoria that inspires his simplified and controlled compositions.

“There’s some who want to count all the [...]

ann and steven go west!

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

and get a lovely dose of nostalgic ski area delight at powder mountain.

lots of snow, open areas, and very few folks to share the mountain with.

cat runs at $10 a pop, plenty of untracked snow, and a prairie schooner theme meal completes the picture of our exciting trip to eden, utah. more photos here.

and… I saw [...]

image influence : the pulps

Monday, February 18th, 2008

I confess to being one of those little girls that snuck nancy drews into bed, in order to read (until the end of the chapter, of course!) under the covers with a flashlight long after my bedtime. My obsession with mysteries has stuck: Ms. Marple, Adam Dalgleish, the 87th precinct, Hitchcock’s Stories Not for the [...]

Mole & Thomas

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

As World War I rages across Europe, Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas took an interesting approach to helping the war effort and boosting the morale of soldiers. Incredible as it may seem, their art form was one of “living photographs”: assembling amorphous masses of men (10,000 and beyond) at army bases into patriotic [...]

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