Friday, June 8, 2012

Sea Classics | Ship Camouflage

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Edward Wadsworth, Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool (1919) In the June 2012 issue of a newsstand magazine called Sea Classics , the...
Monday, June 4, 2012

Eric Kandel | Camouflage

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The same engraving of a sphere (twice), but the right one is inverted. As is increasingly being confirmed by current brain research,...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Camouflage Artist | Alan Sorrell

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Alan Sorrell, Self-Portrait (1928) We've been looking for information about British artist and writer Alan Sorrell (1904-1974), ...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Alon Bement, O'Keeffe and Camouflage

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In earlier postings , we've talked about American artist and teacher Alon Bement, shown here in an early ...

Camouflage Poet | Marvin Bell

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On the Fly , Marvin Bell Many years ago (has it been that long ago?), we organized a non-funded one-day symposium on c...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Camouflage Artist | Arthur Singer

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Birds of the Fifty States There's a wonderful website called Singer Arts. It's all about the life and work of one of the best...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

More About William Andrew Mackay

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Ship camouflage proposals by William Andrew Mackay Since starting this blog , we have featured a number of posts either about William A...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Camouflage Artist | Homer Saint-Gaudens

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Above A portrait by Carlota Saint-Gaudens of her husband Lieutenant Homer Shiff Saint-Gaudens in his US Army uniform in 1917 when he was...
Monday, May 7, 2012

Dazzle-Camouflaged Kayak

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We were delighted to happen upon a web link about a dazzle-camouflaged surface design for a kayak, designed by The Hungry Workshop , an...
Sunday, May 6, 2012

Camouflage Artist | Harry Crisson

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Above The USS Aeolus , in the process of having its dazzle camouflage applied, at the New York Navy Yard (June 1, 1918). US Naval Histor...
Saturday, May 5, 2012

American Ship Dazzle Plans

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Above are three surviving cut-outs from World War I ship camouflage plans. Painted in watercolor on board and measuring 6" hig...
Friday, May 4, 2012

Camouflaged Mermaids and Water Nymphs

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 Above A cartoon from Harper's magazine (September 1919), with the caption: "To Decrease Visibility: Why not camouflage stocki...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Dazzle Camouflage Swimsuits

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The photograph above of British women beach goers dressed in dazzle-style swimwear appeared in The New York Tribune (June 15, 1919, p...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

WWI Camouflage Chateau

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During World War I , the US Committee on Public Information influenced public attitudes toward the war by sending out amusing news photo...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

French Tank Camouflage

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According to the text on a postcard, this is a "French Renault Tank used in the [First] World War by the Republic of France…[and] ...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Dazzle Camouflage on BBC-TV

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Last week, BBC-TV ran a four-minute video on World War I ship camouflage , featuring an interview by John Sergeant on The One Show with...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Kissel Kar Kamouflage

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This is a newspaper ad for a 1917 Kissel Kar ("Every Inch a Car"), manufactured by the Kissel Motor Car Company in Hartford WI....
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Camouflage Amusement Ride

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Camouflaged tank amusement ride (1920) World War I ended in 1919. A year later, in the January 1920 issue of Popular Mechanics , there...

Camouflage Textiles | Valerie Keating

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Dazzle-based knit textiles by Valerie Keating Designer Valerie Keating is a BA graduate from the School of Design at the Glasgow Schoo...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

Camouflage Artist | Ezra Winter

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The Ezra Winter Project (online) American artist Ezra Winter (1886-1949) was born near Traverse City MI. He attended Olivet College (i...