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...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

late night out / some little camouflage artist himself

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Above Cartoon by Daniel Francis "Bud" Counihan , from the Evening World Daily Magazine , February 23, 1918.
Saturday, February 20, 2021

like a chameleon / the checkered pattern of his clothes

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Carolyn Lachner, Fernand Léger . Exhibition catalog. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1998, p. 52— By September of 1939, six months after...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

camouflage ball at Willard Hotel and Lincoln's slippers

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President Lincoln's bedroom slippers Above Bedroom shoes given by Abraham Lincoln to the proprietor of the famous Willard Hotel in Wa...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Gertrude Hoffman's perturbing lack of camouflage

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Gertrude Hoffman as Salomé LACK OF CAMOUFLAGE BY DANCER SHOCKS: Gertrude Hoffman Asks Church People If They Expect Portrayal of Greek Nymph ...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

car dealers are the finest lot of camouflage experts

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WWI camouflaged truck, source unknown AUTO CAMOUFLAGE IS USED CAR DEALERS’ ART; NOT AN ARTIST in Omaha Daily Bee , November 4, 1917, p. 35—...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

not hardly the last of the (dreadful) camouflage jokes

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Above THE LAST (?) OF THE CAMOUFLAGE JOKES , cartoon (artist's signature unclear) from London Opinion reprinted in The Brooklyn Daily ...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

stage design, cubist nightmares, a toy shop gone mad

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the life of camoufleur Carol Sax Above In the past, we've posted various findings about Carol Sax (1885-1961), an Iowa-born theatre s...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Walt Kuhn, the Penguin Club, and ship camouflage

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USS Santa Teresa (1918) Above USS S anta Teresa (1918), painted in dazzle camouflage scheme Type 14, Design E. ••• Manya Denenberg Rudina ...
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...