unfinished plans for a treehouse, circa age 7. each sheet was placed in a laminated protector:
^ brilliant mastery of perspective drawing
^ the only other “plan” is for a bookshelf. after the first shelf, i got impatient with the exhausting task of drawing vertical lines to represent the books. after the second, i realized the word BOOKS probably ought to occupy the entire width of the thing.
^ ? the world will never know
^ took one more stab at the vertical lines.
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celluloid boxes
collection: carolle thibaut pomerantz
Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One (Flydaddy; double LP/CD; 1999)
from a feature on historical color guide: primitive to modern times (1938):
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the historical color guide: primitive to modern times is an intriguing little book written by elizabeth burris-meyer, described on the book’s title page as the “dean of the school for fashion careers.” published in 1938, the book presents thirty different color schemes for use by designers, from interior decorators to dress-makers. burris-meyer proposes her schemes as psychological portraits of a time or place, from the complex tones favored in prosperous times to the brilliant purity of more “primitive” impulses.
the palettes are each presented as the distilled essence of either the work of a painter, a culture, or an historical epoch. one is at first charmed by the seemed naivete of the ambition, but then completely seduced by burris-meyer’s clever mixture of intense hues and gently muted tones. part of the book’s appeal is the startling intensity of the color chips, actual samples of painted paper that have been pasted into the book by hand…
a lady of chance, 1928
caps from a mostly-corrupt digital copy of jacques rivette’s duelle (une quarantaine), 1976
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