Thursday, December 11, 2025

striped and splashed and dotted with disruptive colors

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unidentified WWI dazzle-painted ship (AI color), c1918 John Dos Passos , Manhattan Transfer . NYC: Harper and Brothers, 1925, pp. 280-281— T...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

seasonal animal tracks / fox and vixen flirt and play

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Above Book jacket for Judith Krantz , Dazzle . NY: Crown, 1990. ••• Sy Montgomery , Seasons of the Wild: A Year of Nature's Magic and M...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

a primer of visual literacy—including basic camouflage

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book cover Donis A. Dondis , A Primer of Visual Literary . Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1973, p. 56— Most of our textural experience is optical,...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

suspended camouflage nets / gunny sack donations

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Above The Maharajah of Patiala examining 9.2-inch howitzer shells under camouflaged netting (1918). Royal collection of the United Kingdom....
Sunday, November 30, 2025

firm evidence / when you find a killer whale in the milk

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Above Anon, Killer Whale in morning coffee. Pixabay, public domain (2016). ••• THERE IS  a postwar issue of Field and Stream magazine (Sep...
Friday, November 28, 2025

before camouflage / modernists denigrated as crazy

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Above Full-page article on Futurism in The Sun (New York), February 25, 1912. ••• WAY TO TREAT THEM in The Stanstead Journal (Stanstead...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

familiar examples of camouflage in modern motordom

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Monte Sohn  [later inventor of Borden's trademark Elsie the Cow], in the Washington Times . Saturday, September 1, 1917, Final Edition, ...

Native American camouflage / hidden in animal skins

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Above Engraving by Dutch publisher Theodor de Bry (1591), based on a drawing by French artist Jacques LeMoyne de Morgues (c. 1533-1588), ...
Monday, November 24, 2025

will shoe makers soon decree that shoes be dissimilar

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Above Giacomo Balla , Sketches for Futurist clothing (1914). See Caroline Galambosova, How Italian Futurism Influenced Fashion (2025). •••...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

how to be a futurist —and the birth of modernist snow

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Above A British satirical cartoon about Futurism , published in 1912, one year in advance of the American Armory Show (first US exhibit of...

is that a woman shampooing her cornfield?—say what!

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Marthe Troly-Curtin , Phrynette's Letter from London, "River Reflections" in THE SKETCH , June 5, 1918, p. 276— [I am reminded...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Dan Campion / camouflage, surrealism and satiric wit

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Dan Campion, The Mirror Test At a recent book reading, I was fortunate to meet an Iowa City-based writer named Dan Campion . We had an inter...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

whyah duck decoy, whyah no chicken hunting cartoon

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Above This is the cover of the October 20, 1909, issue of Puck , an American humor magazine that was founded in 1875 and continued until 19...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

a fascinating visit to the home of Aldo Leopold in Iowa

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Leopold home in Burlington IA For ten years I lived in Wisconsin. It was during that time that I became aware of the writings of the America...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

Burlington IA Animal Camouflage Talk Coming Soon

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RELATED LINKS   Dazzle Camouflage: What is it and how did it work? /  Nature, Art, and Camouflage / Art, Women's Rights, and Camouflag...
Monday, September 22, 2025

highest-paid camouflage expert in England in WWII

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Eric Sloane , factory camouflage diagram PLENTY OF DIZZY PAINTING WHEN CAMOUFLAGERS WORK in Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (Canada), December 23, ...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Gerald Handerson Thayer / an enigmatic life unsolved

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Gerald Handerson Thayer The American painter and ornithologist Gerald Handerson Thayer (see portrait photograph above) remains a mystery.  ...

striped camouflage applied as to conceal its direction

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Above British steamship Ascutney (center), showing camouflage, with Corle Castle on the right, 1918. ••• Brian Freeland, “Blue Days at Se...
Friday, September 12, 2025

ass o' nine tails / a camouflaged donkey embellished

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Above Illustration titled Camouflaged (signature unclear but possibly by Charles H. Wright)  for the front cover of Judge magazine (March...