Friday, January 29, 2021

our chef is no dub, and is good at camouflaging grub

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Patent Drawings Above Application drawings for US Patent No US2005/0081272 for a “camouflage hood assembly,” for use in game hunting, inve...

measles, camouflage and asymmetrical shoes in 1918

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SHOES DIFFER IN COLOR in the Davenport Democrat and Leader (Davenport IA), March 1, 1925, p. 3— Futurism, cubism or some other art complex...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Genevieve Cowles | Connecticut Woman Camoufleur

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Genevieve Cowles, c1932 Above A news photograph of a Connecticut-based artist named Genevieve Alameda Cowles (1871-1950). We blogged about...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

when father mangles celery with unctuous enthusiasm

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Above A vintage photograph (source unknown) of a highly unusual example of ship camouflage during World War I in which the shape of the ve...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

WWI ship camouflage models in exhibition in Illinois

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Above and below are a few of the crisp new renderings of WWI dazzle camouflage patterns that are being recreated by Steve Morris , a desi...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Alice in Wonderland meets the Wizard of Oz in 1918

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WWI US government photograph (AI colorized) Edwin Carty Ranck , SERVICE OF SUPPLY IN FRANCE AND WHAT IT MEANS TO SAMMY WHO IS BATTLING “OVER...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

hollywood trompe l'oeil / catastrophic film tomfoolery

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MOVIE CAMOUFLAGE DRIVES CAT CRAZY in Pittsburgh Post Gazette (Pittsburgh PA), February 24, 1944— Camouflage experts of the cinema industr...
Friday, December 25, 2020

the mouse-skeeters / a phenakistoscopic rodent race

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Phenakistoscope motion picture toy (1833) CAMOUFLAGE FOR MICE in Garnavillo Tribune (Garnavillo IA), November 21, 1929, p. 2— Camouflage, ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Designer John Vassos / WWII Camouflage Consultant

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John Vassos, c1932 Above Art Deco-era turnstyle, designed by John Vassos , c1932. We blogged about Greek-American designer John Vassos a f...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

in Oswego / a tonsorial camoufleur of the first water

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USS Wilbert Edwards (1917) in camouflage Oswego Independent (Oswego KS), November 21, 1919, p. 2— The question of whether a barber is a ca...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

1919 newsreel film on the design of ship camouflage

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USS Sierra (1918) Above US government photograph of the USS Sierra , 1918, port side, painted in dazzle camouflage plan Type N40 Design B....
Friday, December 18, 2020

commuters now wear goggles to counter dazzle paint

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Above US government photograph of a dazzle-camouflaged British tank steamer, the Cadillac (c1918). AI colorized black and white photograph...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

guyed, razooed and hifalutin / as full as a boiled owl

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WWI "dazzle-painted" ship (unidentified) Since posting our previous entry—on the use of the term razzle dazzle in reference to da...
Monday, December 14, 2020

seasickness / a merry-go-round with the jim-jams

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American ship camoufleurs, c1918 (AI colorized) Camouflage was originally a French slang term and did not migrate into English until 1915, ...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Robert G. Skerrett on WWI ship camouflage at its best

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Robert G. Skerrett, HIDING SHIPS WITH PAINT: How protective coloring causes Fritz [the German Navy] much waste of torpedoes. It is camouflag...
Saturday, December 12, 2020

mechanic and dairyman listed as camouflage artist

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RECRUIT OF DRAFT AGE HAS EIGHTY SIX YEARS EXPERIENCE: Personnel Section of Mustering Office Finds a Man Who’s Done Many Things: Dairyman Fin...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

William Andrew Mackay / Fighting U-Boats with Paint

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One of the most clearly written and best illustrated articles on World War I Allied ship camouflage was authored by Waldemar Kaempffert , e...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

using a periscope to view camouflage-painted models

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The US Secretary of the Navy during World War I was Josephus Daniels (1862-1948), a prominent North Carolina newspaper editor. He was appoi...

a ruler proves / are you bow-legged or knock-kneed?

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Anon, DO YOU BELIEVE ALL YOU SEE? Source unknown— Which one of these figures has bowlegs and which knock-knees? Easy to see that the knees...

irrefutable confirmation that the artist can be practical

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Lieutenant Warner at his residence Washington Evening Star (Washington DC), March 17, 1918, p. 28— Everett L. Warner of this city and New ...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

camouflage and the ames demonstrations in vision

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Above Photograph of the author and a colleague in an Ames Distorted Room , a demonstration in perceptual psychology in which people seem to ...

concealed as snow, as a tree stump or a bale of hay

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WWI US soldier positioned on tree stump (c1918) Oliver Herford , quoted by Constance Murray Greene in HUSH, BLUSH AND PLUSH IN NEW BOOKS OF ...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Paris is dazzle-mad, seemingly part of a futurist dream

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USS Aniwa (c1918), Type 9 Design D Other People’s Troubles: A Paris Letter in The Sketch (London), October 13, 1920, p. 412— Paris is daz...