Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Glyn L. Evans | Dazzle-Painted Ships of WWI

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book cover (2015) Good news. You may remember British historian Glyn L. Evans , whose 2010 book on UK maritime artist Kenneth Denton Sho...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Khaki Hunting Outfits in Camouflage History

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Article on hunters' use of camouflage (1917) The following is an excerpt from a syndicated article that was reprinted in newspapers ...
Friday, September 4, 2015

Camouflage Artist | Robert Lawson

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Vintage pencil sharpener (c1938). P.D. Whitson Collection. Above Vintage pencil sharpener by Walt Disney Enterprises , which produced a...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Did Native Americans Anticipate Camouflage?

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Comparative camouflage photo by Abbott H. Thayer Above American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer believed that modern military camouflag...
Sunday, August 9, 2015

Camouflage as an Agricultural Food Source

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WWI workers applying ship camouflage (c1918) Above Over the years, we've located perhaps a dozen World War I-era photographs of daz...

Cartoonist Otto Soglow | WWII Tree Camouflage

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Otto Soglow (1942) Otto Soglow (1900-1975) was a New York-born cartoonist and illustrator. His humorous illustrations (especially a com...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Give 'Em Hell | Billy Sunday Camouflaged

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Billy Sunday (Wikipedia) William Ashley Sunday (1862-1935), better known as Billy Sunday , was an Iowa-born fire and brimstone preacher...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Boston Common Camouflage | Artist Philip Little

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Photo of Boston Common camouflage (1918) In earlier postings, we've told the story of how members of the American Women's Servic...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Dazzle Prosthesis | Face Recognition Camouflage

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Article from Interactive Architecture Lab (2015)
Friday, July 17, 2015

Edison Shmedicine | Ship Camouflage Wizardry

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Thomas A. Edison's camouflage for the SS Ockenfels Above Two views (before and after) of an American merchant ship, the SS Ockenfel...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Camouflaged SS West Indian 1918

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Portside, SS West Indian in camouflage (1918) Above The SS West Indian painted in a dazzle-camouflage scheme in 1918. The ship's...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Der Tater Tot | Dead Potatoes Camouflaged

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Spurious butterfly species (top) Above Two examples of the same butterfly, known as the Brimstone Butterfly ( Gonepteryx rhamni ). How...

Muirhead Bone, Decoy Ships and Camouflage

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Muirhead Bone, dazzle-painted ship (c1919) Above Muirhead Bone , drawing of a WWI dazzle-painted ship , in David W. Bone, Merchantmen-a...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Baseball Players Camouflaged as Camoufleurs

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Fred J. Hoertz, two dazzle-painted ships (1918) Above Fred J. Hoertz , "One of Our Largest Colliers Coaling a Warship," publi...

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. on God and Camouflage

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Book Cover | dazzle camouflage Above Book cover (including dazzle-camouflaged ship) for Robert Hudson, The Dazzle (UK: Jonathan Cape, ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

DAZZLE | The Hidden Story of Camouflage

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Dazzle: The Hidden Story of Camouflage Above Coming soon is a wonderful Australian documentary called DAZZLE: The Hidden Story of Cam...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Ship Camouflage Artist | More on Henry C. Grover

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WWI dazzle-painted US ship [color added] A couple of years ago, we posted information about World War I American ship camoufleur Henry...
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Ship Camouflage and Alzheimer's

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Burnell Poole, two views of HMS Mauretania (c1920) Above For a long time we have known about a wonderful painting by American artist Bu...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Irvin Cobb and Camouflage: The SS Tuscania Sinks

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Camouflaged SS Tuscania (c1918) The following are excerpts pertaining to World War I ship camouflage from the wartime writings of Amer...