September 20, 2011

Couples

The longer I look at this, the less I understand it. Mother/Daughter picnic? What's up with that fence?

Herfordshire, England
1920s

September 2, 2011

Early Life in LA

I love this kind of additional history stuff, and this artist's work is especially seamless. I remember thinking, as a little kid, that dragons were just another extinct animal. That's the part of this appeals to.

Print
2011, artist Matthew Buchholz

Schreibmaschinen

A typewriter for everyone, and everyone to their typewriter.

Hermes ad
1948

Highway 64

Is this a warning or an enticement?

Lake Toxaway, North Carolina
1955

Skeleton


And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting. 

This illustration scared me as a kid, but not as much as the story itself. 

October Country by Ray Bradbury 
1955, illustrator Joe Mugnaini