hicockalorum:

MIniature Wood Houses (by Daniel Barreto)

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so many reasons to love this, but not one of them more than it is so in tune with the name of the Etsy shop i’m opening soon: HuldufolkHouse.

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hennessey101:

Theda Bara was one of the most popular silent era actresses between 1914 and 1926. She made over 40 films, but most were lost in a fire during 1937. One of the most popular films, Cleopatra, became  one of Bara’s biggest hits. No known prints of Cleopatra exist today, but numerous photographs of Bara in costume have survived.

Bara is often cited as one of the first sex symbols. As actresses were largely responsible for their own costumes and make-up at that time, she invented her own look. She was well known for wearing very revealing costumes in her films. Such outfits were banned from Hollywood films after the Production Code started in 1930,

In promoting the 1917 film Cleopatra, Fox Studio publicists noted that Theda Bara was an anagram of Arab death, and her press agents claimed inaccurately that she was “the daughter of an Arab sheik and a French woman, born in the Sahara.” In 1917 the Goodman family legally changed its surname to Bara.

She was the first to utter the now famous but often misquoted line, “Kiss me, my fool.” Theda never appeared in a sound film. She died of stomach cancer at the age of 69.

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colinupton:

Self-Indulgent Comics #33

2010

A story about Remembrance Day, which I still sometimes call Armistice Day, the one public event I try to attend every year.  As a history geek and wargamer I’ve always had a strange relationship with the subject of war. This comic took a long time to do as it’s done in acrylic paint on wooden boards, a labourious process.  It’s so difficult to do a piece without hard outlines and in grey tones without it becoming muddy and indistinct.  But I thought the meduim suited the story. The lettering was inked on blue paper (it was handy and shoots grey on a B&W copies) and pasted onto the art. This is the first of my mini-comics to be adapted to a jazz music video by England’s John Lee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nUjo9DVqI

Please note that this mini-comic and many others are available from Colin Upton Comics - colinupton@telus.net - both individually and in sets at reasonable prices.

colinupton:

Self-Indulgent Comics #35

2011

A ligther moment between Roberta Gregory and I in a Seattle magazine shop (yes, they used to have those) preparing for a flight too… well, I’m not sure anymore.  It was usually to California, either San Jose for APE (sometimes via San Francisco, one of my favourit places) or the San Diego Comicon… once to the east coast for a signing tour with Donna Barr and SPX and a couple of times to Europe. This mini was done in grey-tone pencil.  I still have the magazine. 

Please note that this mini-comic and many others are available from Colin Upton Comics - colinupton@telus.net - both individually and in sets at reasonable prices.

99lions:

Smeared Skies by Matt Molloy

Matt busted out into the art scene with his smeared sky photos. Stacking 100 to 200 photos into one, he gave a new way to enjoy the view above us. 

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aeontriad:

Secret Hero Life