A Veteran Mad Man Remains in the Fold

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

After viewing this collection of Jaffee’s fold-ins in Mad Magazine, I think he definitely helped mold my earliest political thinking. I remember the harsh ones shown here from the Vietnam war years. From month to month you never knew if you’d get a silly celebrity joke or hard political commentary, until you actually folded [...]

Grave Portraits

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, PA, just outside of Philadelphia, in the Italian section. It’s a photograph glazed onto ceramics. The dates are in the 1920’s, close to a century in the weather and they are still sharp and unfaded. I haven’t been able to find any definitive information on the photo- transfer technique used [...]

Freeway Blogger Revealed

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

The Freeway Blogger, is a one-man truth army, putting his bold, often funny anti-war/torture/bush statements on freeway overpasses out west. I’ve often featured the Freewayblogger here on the blog.
The Video is by Robert Corsini. After the overblown intro, it’s interesting to see the blogger behind the madness. He walks the no-man’s-land between [...]

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