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Lois Lenski (1893-1974), ''Dream Days'' by Kenneth Grahame, 1922 Source

#Lois Lenski #Lois Lenore Lenski Covey #american artists #dream days #kenneth grahame #children's books #children's illustration #vintage illustration

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Frederick Charles Gordon (1856-1924), ''The Echo-Maid'' by Alicia Aspinwall, 1897 "Listen and Tremble! I Am the King of the Serpents!!" Source

#Frederick Charles Gordon #canadian artists #Alicia Aspinwall #children's books #vintage illustration #vintage art

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Rowena Morrill (1944-2021), “Omni”, #12, 1982 Source

#rowena morrill #american artists #omni #omni magazine #fantasy art #dragons

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Claude Verlinde (1827-2020), ''Omni'', #12, 1987 Source

#Claude Verlinde #french artists #omni #omni magazine #surrealism #surrealist art

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Armodio (Vilmore Schenardi), ''Omni'', #9, 1986

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#Vilmore Schenardi #armodio #italian artists #omni #omni magazine #surrealism #surrealist art

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Gervasio Gallardo, ''Omni'', #2, 1989 Source

#gervasio gallardo #spanish artists #omni #omni magazine #surrealism #surrealist art

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Gervasio Gallardo, ''Omni'', #1, 1990 Source

#gervasio gallardo #spanish artists #omni #omni magazine #surrealism #surrealist art

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''Omni'', #10, Oct. 1982 Come, sit closer children and let me tell you of the time of "dial-up" internet service. Oh, not interested in this old man's stories are you? Well, I seem to have forgotten the impatience of youth. Run along then. Just know this! CompuServe created the GIF format. Ah, caught your attention have I? Do I observe a look of doubt? Be AWAY with your skepticism. Leave this old man to his memories. Yes, yes, I DID start this conversation but NOW I'M ENDING IT!

#Omni #omni magazine #megawars #compuserve #online games

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'Omnibot 2000', ''Omni'', #12, Dec. 1985

We use to be a proper country that understood the craft of good Japanese merchandise. Sure, there was also a wave of xenophobic and racist reactionary politics aimed at the Japanese (see 'Gung-Ho' from 1986 for a mild example of this kind of "cultural anxiety"). When is America NOT racist? I mean, have you MET America? It's a pretty confused country. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to digress here, I just wanted to show you a 25'' toy robot that you could once own. It was also relatively useless if the remote for it broke (or got lost). It ran on two AA batteries. It probably didn't run that long. But robots right? We once lived with the promise of robots in our homes. Now the taste of that promise is bitter on our tongue, the memory of that promise sour. We live in the echo of its lie. We live under the dictatorship of the algorithm.

#omni #omni magazine #omnibot #omnibot 2000 #Tomy Company #takara tomy #robots #does this post make me sound crazy? #I'm not crazy #All I wanted was a pepsi

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Abbey Lincoln - Long as You're Living (1959) Sit down and give this lady two and a half minutes of your time. It's the length of a longish television commercial but you won't feel like Capitalism is trying to colonize your mind with nonsense. You'll want to snap your fingers, start using beatnik slang and become one of those tuned-in cats. Beats being a cube man.

#abbey lincoln #abby is blue #long as you're living #jazz #bop music #hard bop #ordered sound #Youtube

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''The Penrose Annual'', Vol. 54, 1960 Source

#The Penrose Annual #graphic design #color theory #photography #color photography

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''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'', 1869 Just remembering when men use to dress like REAL MEN.

#real men #menswear #mensfashion #mensclothes #this is a joke #that's right #I'm joking #judith butler indeed #of course gender is performative #says this straight white cisgendered dude

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''National Lampoon'', Jan. 1973 (Quick Note: should you decide to venture into this issue to see what content it contains, you should be warned that the humor is solidly of its time and that there is a section in here that I find to be in poor taste called "Play Dead", ostensibly making fun of 'Playboy', where naked women assume various forms of death by suicide. Y'all, it's fucked up and it's even more fucked up when I imagine the possibility of some adolescent boy masturbating to those images. How many serial killers and sexual predators did this issue midwife into existence?*) This was the cover for 'National Lampoon's' "Death" issue and it became one of the most famous magazine covers of the 1970s. "Designed by the late Lampoon art director Michael Gross, the cover is widely regarded as one of the greatest not only in the history of the magazine but in the history of magazines, period. In 2005, the American Society of Magazine Editors named the Death cover one of the Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years. It ranked No. 7, right between the New Yorker's 9/11 cover on September 24, 2001 and the October 1966 cover of Esquire." From what I've been able to glean from some (what the podcast 'The Rewatchables' would call) half-assed internet research, people bought this issue in droves to save this dog's life. (I can only image what the internet reaction would look like to a magazine cover that had the message "If You Don't Buy this Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog.") The dog's name is Cheeseface and the crazy thing about this dog that is news to me as I type these words is that in 1976 an unknown person shot and killed Cheeseface in Vermont. "The identity and motivation of the assailant remain unknown." Someone labeled this shooting "the only assassination in celebrity animal history." I can't verify that claim. (I mean, who would put in the time to verify that claim? Some "true crime" podcast maybe. I hear there's some Reddit threads out there on this. I won't be reading them.)

Maybe all of this is covered in the 2018 film adaptation of Josh Karp's 2006 book, "A Futile and Stupid Gesture." I haven't see it yet.

*this sentence is a joke although the warning prior it and the sentiment about the section is sincere.

#national lampoon #cheesface #celebrity dogs #magazine covers #humor #satire #other words for humor and satire #A Futile and Stupid Gesture

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Bush Hollyhead (1949-2020), ''The English Difference'' by Paul Jennings, 1974 I think Hollyhead is probably most famous for the quick cover-up he did for the Hipgnosis cover for Led Zeppelin’s album 'Houses of the Holy' in 1973. The logotype that Hollyhead dashed off to cover up part of Hipgnosis' artwork became synonymous with Led Zeppelin. (I'm not a big Led Zeppelin fan so I didn't know until making this post that the cover of 'Houses of the Holy' was inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 'Childhood’s End', an idea from the mind of the designer Aubrey Powell and that the kids in that album cover are climbing Giant’s Causeway in Ireland. Or that it's just two kids, siblings, who "were photographed over the course of ten days at dawn and at dusk." Also, another related tidbit, one of Hollyhead's colleagues, George Hardie, who was part of the same artistic studio, did Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' with Hollyhead adding an airbrush glow to the design.

#Bush Hollyhead #british artists #Paul Jennings #The English Difference #graphic design #1970s art #hipgnosis #arthur c. clarke #pink floyd #led zeppelin

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Tony O'Donnell, ''Near Myths'', Vol. 1, #5, 1980 Source

#Tony O'Donnell #scottish artists #near myths #underground comix #fantasy art #comic art #brainstorm studios

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Bonk (Alecks Waszynko), ''Near Myths'', Vol. 1, #2 & #3, Oct. & Dec. 1978

#bonk #Alecks Waszynko #british artists #near myths #underground comix #comic art #radio comix #robots #brainstorm studios

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Charles Burns, ''Collected Shorts'' Source

#charles burns #american artists #black & white illustration #cartoonists #contemporary illustration #seems made for tumblr