Saturday, October 30, 2021

the deserved jot / a decided if non-dazzling personality

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WWII German ship camouflage Above Dutch photograph of a World War II, dazzle-camouflaged German ship (1944). Hypothetical colors applied, u...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

USS Leviathan in a WWI engraving by Bernardt Wall

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Bernhardt Wall (1918) Above An etching by American illustrator Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956), titled Seagate 1918 . In the foreground are two...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

latest terpsichorean fads in WWI wartime dancing

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“CAMOUFLAGE WALTZ” AND “AIRPLANE SPIN” LATEST TERPSICHOREAN STEPS in The Des Moines Register (Des Moines IA), June 11, 1918— Chicago, June...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

the debate about who originated WWI camouflage

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Above World War I photograph (c1914) of four members of the French camouflage squad described in the news article below. They are (l to r) ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

WWI British camouflaged ship in Southhampton water

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Geoffrey S. Allfree (1918) On pages 88-89 of James Taylor’s book, Dazzle: Disguise and disruption in war and art (Pool of London, 2016), on...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

cut-out silhouettes of skunks / embedded figures

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Cut-out silhouettes of skunks Above In a recently posted video on Embedded Figures, Art, and Camouflage (2021) I demonstrate the use of cu...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

skilled cosmetic camouflage / disguised injured optics

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James Montgomery Flagg (1905) Above James Montgomery Flagg (best-known for his I Want You Uncle Sam poster), Cover illustration (with emb...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Poet William Carlos Williams meets Gerald H. Thayer

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Above Gerald H. Thayer , Male ruffed grouse in the forest (1907-08). Watercolor on paper. 19.75 inches high x 20 inches wide. First publis...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

attribute rhymes, proximity, and aligned continuities

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suite of design-themed posters (designer unknown) Camouflage artists are not alone in making use of unit-forming factors . As is evidenced...

bilious green and red-lead squares set diamondwise

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HMS Mauretania Arthur Riggs Stanley , With three armies: on and behind the western front . Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merril, 1918, pp.16-18— Ou...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

two boys beneath a coat become a circus elephant

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Above Page with text for children from Clarence F. Carroll and Sarah C. Brooks, The Brooks Primer . New York: Appleton, 1906. Public domain...
Friday, September 24, 2021

a note to the camouflaged man who lifted my wallet

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Above Anthropomorphic landscape, c1700s. Artist unknown. ••• Milton Jones — To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wal...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

sex on an iowa farm / it is praying mantis party time

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Photograph © Mary Snyder Behrens Of late, we have had some interesting encounters on our five-acre wildlife refuge, and not just because the...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

Franz Marc as a WWI German artillery camoufleur

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Franz Marc, Animals in a Forest Above Franz Marc, Animals in a Forest (1914). In earlier paintings by Marc, figures are easily distinguishe...
Friday, September 10, 2021

harlequin-patterned WWI dazzle ship camouflage

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Above Photograph of a dazzle-camouflaged British troop ship, the RMS Mauretania , arriving in New York harbor, carrying infantry from Europe...

painted bridge camouflage during both world wars

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Above Photograph (c1918) of a World War I-era camouflaged bridge in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, fifty miles southeast of Nancy. Note the...
Friday, September 3, 2021

visual ambiguity / metaphors, camouflage, visual puns

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Anon, French postcard, portrait of Bismarck Today, I ran across an online essay (it's been online since 2017, and I've only just now...
Thursday, September 2, 2021

speeding up the daily production of ship camouflage

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During World War I, did any of the ship camouflage artists come up with clever procedures by which they could speed up the daily production ...
Monday, August 30, 2021

video / a dazzle advertisement of a dazzling discovery

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Above A damaged, 19th century Swiss photograph of a small child in a white hat (just left of center) seated on her father's lap, with h...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

latest new renditions of dazzle-painted British ships

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WWI ship diagrams / Steve Morris Above Here are a few of our favorites from the latest vector interpretations of WWI British ship camouflag...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

New video / Art, Women's Rights, and Camouflage

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It is not widely realized that there were important connections between the rise of Modern-era art and literature, women's suffrage, and...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

Free online video / The Hidden Story of Camouflage

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I was so fortunate to appear in this wonderful film—titled RAZZLE DAZZLE: The Hidden Story of Camouflage —produced in Australia in 2019. It ...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

nature, art and camouflage / duplicitous uses of color

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Now available online is a new 32-minute documentary video titled NATURE, ART AND CAMOUFLAGE: Duplicitous Uses of Color at < https://www....
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

talking to children about illusions at the Hearst Center

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I had a great time this morning at the Hearst Center for the Arts , in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where I talked to a group of about 15 children abo...
Monday, June 7, 2021

The Anatomy of Color, and Nature's Colorful Palette

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I am a decade past retirement age. Despite repeated half-hearted attempts to downsize my possessions, I still have a too-large collection of...

mimicry, empathy, brevity, closure and camouflage

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  Monroe Books in Berlin, Germany has recently published a book of camouflage-related essays and artworks titled Mimicry-Empathy , edited b...
Friday, April 30, 2021

new camouflage schemes for Royal Navy vessels

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Those who follow this blog will no doubt recognize the name of Steve Morris , a Washington DC designer whose precise recreations of World Wa...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

oh dear dear der goose dung all over der trouserz

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Easily, one of our favorite people is David Attenborough , whose excellent documentary films on aspects of nature we have enjoyed immensely....
Friday, April 2, 2021

camouflage / a dance of beatings the boy endured

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Above Roy R. Behrens , Papa's Waltz (© 2021). Digital montage. ••• Yesterday, I put up this blog post and montage (above) on The Poetry...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

the most delirious dazzle camouflage patterns of all

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Above John Everett , paintings of World War I dazzle-painted British ships (c1919), issued as postcards after the war. Collection of Roy R....
Monday, March 1, 2021

diagram of a ship camouflage viewing theatre in 1918

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Recently, we devised a diagram of the type of observation theatre (equipped with an upsidedown periscope) that was first used by the British...