June 12th, 2008
Graphic Content: June 12, 2008
Treats for the eyes from around the web…
NIGHTHAWKS (AND OTHERS) AT THE DINER
tersmeditasyon.com | via DO
We all know the scene: it’s midnight and the city streets are empty. But light beams from a lonely diner, as a white-coated soda jerk pours coffee for his three insomniac customers. One one side of the angled counter are the lean, hawklike man and his girlfriend, two weary people who have seen the world and learned to live with it. And on the other side of the counter, his back to us, sits the solitary man in the suit. It’s one of those indelible images we all recognize even if the title ("Nighthawks") or the artist (Edward Hopper, 1882-1967) are obscure to us.
And where there’s an icon, there are imitations. In the case of “Nighthawks” there are dozens of them, some wry send-ups, others cheap knockoffs. The Ters Meditasyon blog has assembled a whole bunch, all of which are guaranteed to make you laugh, do a double-take, or just scratch your head.
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S COLLAGE ART
theparisreview.org | via DO
I’d heard stories of Louis Armstrong’s vast collection of reel-to-reel audio tapes, which he would use to create durable copies of his favorite music for travel and archiving purposes. What I didn’t know was that Stachmo would turn the tape boxes into canvases for collage art. The Paris Review has a sampling in their Spring 2008 issue, and a book about Louis’s visual art is in the works. Check it out…
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QUICK HITS
- Design by Humans offers outstanding t-shirts
- Linzie Hunter has some awesome sketchbooks
- Illustrator Glen Mullaly has a monster latin-jazz combo (and more!)
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Ok, I love the Muppet version and the one with the sharks. Thanks also for the link to Satchmo’s collages....wouldn’t you love to own one?
Are you kidding? If those collages were made available as prints, I’d buy enough to wallpaper my office cubicle.
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