Wacky Stuff: wackystuff
Don't forget to visit wackystuff often for some incredible wacky stuff. Like this and this.
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Architecture: Ford Times, Nov 1959
"Editor's note: As backgrounds for the 1960 Fords, we chose ten wonderful, but unavailable, sites in America's most spectacular scenery, much of which is in national parks and monuments. We then asked R. A. Hermes, graduate architect, to design houses that would take full advantage of each site, against renderings of them by Charles Harper, we photo composed the new models. On the cover you saw a spherical plastic house which would achieve the ultimate in prefabrication since it has no footings or foundation. The tree house on the inside front cover, designed for Sequoia National Park, could be assembled on the ground, then hoisted like a dough nut up a sapling. There are eight other dream houses, each a setting for cars that are not just a dream= "A Wonderful New World of Fords" described in detail on these pages." Ford Times, Nov 1959
This text/image/great set is found at David at The Klockarp Institute's Flickr. He's just swell, go see!
Via butdoesitfloat.com.
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Illustration/Art: Flora Chang
Flora Chang's blog - Happy Doodle Land - and Flickr (don't miss the Alphabet Animals)
Via Drawn!
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Art: Léon Spilliaert
All Things Amazing: Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946)
"...was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist." (read more at Wikipedia)
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Children's Books: Dieren prentenboek
Illustrations by Reijer (Reyer) Stolk, 1945
Dieren prentenboek : silhouetten / Reyer Stolk
Via BibliOdyssey
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Illustration/Art: Lou Loeber
Art by Lou Loeber, 1927
Gouden vlinders / versjes door S. Franke ; plaatjes van Lou Loeber
Via BibliOdyssey
Lou Loeber
(b Amsterdam, 3 May 1894; d Blaricum, 1 Feb 1983). Dutch painter. She trained at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam (1915-18). She discovered Cubism, especially that of Albert Gleizes, the work of De Stijl and of Le Corbusier in 1919. During 1920-21 the form in her work became more rigid and the colour more sober. She came into contact with works by Piet Mondrian in the Salomon Bernard Slijper (1884-1971) collection (now at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague), in particular Evolution (1910-11) and Red Windmill (1910). In 1927 she travelled to the Bauhaus at Dessau and to Berlin. She favoured subjects taken from industry and technology and stylized reality using the diagonal, as well as the horizontal and vertical line. A link with visible reality was maintained, however. (Answers.com)
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Vintage Ads: Cheddar
See the whole ad and read the post: Today's Inspiration: Praise for the Little Things: Naiad & Walter Einsel
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Blog: Mondorama 2000
Mondorama 2000
Selected color illustrations from encyclopedias for the young (1945-1975).
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