Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Massachusetts painter / ship camoufleur Philip Little

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Philip Little (1921) The name of Philip Little (1857-1942) may already be familiar. He was a Massachusetts sea and landscape painter, whose...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

too old for draft Jean-Louis Forain serves nevertheless

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Above Jean-Louis Forain , wartime sketch of a soldier writing a letter home, reproduced in the same news article quoted below. Forain's ...
Monday, November 22, 2021

interview with camouflage scholar Camilla Wilkinson

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In a July 2020 blog post , we shared a major article on World War I dazzle-patterned ship camouflage. It was written by British architect Ca...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Camoufleur John Dwight Bridge and Santa Barbara

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A couple of years ago, we posted our findings about American artist and camoufleur John Dwight Bridge . Now, just a few months ago, a Califo...
Friday, November 12, 2021

pioneering aviator and camoufleur Mittie Taylor Brush

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Above Group photograph of Mary (Mittie) Taylor Brush , with her children. Both she and her artist-husband, George De Forest Brush , were pi...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Margaret Fitzhugh Browne on WWI ship camouflage

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Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, Self-Portrait Above Self Portrait by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne (1884-1972). Browne was a Massachusetts portrait ...
Friday, November 5, 2021

optical camouflage based on Maxwell's spinning disks

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One of the earliest, most important contributors to World War I ship camouflage was an American muralist named William Andrew Mackay (1876-...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Jan Koenderink / to see is to sneeze—in this respect

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Jan Koenderink , “Vision as a User Interface” in Proceedings SPIE 7865, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XVI, 786504 (February 4, 2011)—...
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...