Friday, January 28, 2022

WWI Army Camouflage and Interpreter Richard Peters

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Richard Peters One of the many enjoyments of historical research, regardless of the topic, is to unearth little-known stories about individu...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

British Gestalt Journal / gestalt and camouflage videos

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Links to four videos have been posted on the Features section of the British Gestalt Journal at < https://www.britishgestaltjournal.com...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

the scintillations of your wit, lambent but innoucous

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Above This strikingly-costumed figure (pre-camouflage, but visually “ dazzling ” nevertheless) is extracted from a theatrical poster from 1...
Monday, December 27, 2021

new article on camouflage in current issue of MUSE

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Camouflage article in MUSE Magazine (2022) There may be no limit to the curiosity about camouflage , both natural and man-made—or so it wou...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Zoologist Hugh B. Cott and WWII camouflaged cannon

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In the past we've often blogged about a variety of camouflage called countershading , which was first discussed at length by Abbott H. T...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

metamorphosis / shape shifting from pitcher to pitcher

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Above Anon, Evolution of a Pitcher (1889). Library of Congress. ••• CAMOUFLAGE LIQUOR TO SOLDIERS AROUSES JUDGE NEW YORK , in Boston Globe ...
Friday, December 17, 2021

suicide of WWI illustrator and ship camouflage artist

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Cover design by Arthur Hutchins (1912) As a civilian working for the Emergency Fleet Corporation during World War I, Boston illustrator Art...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Rorschach, klecksography, bigamy, and camouflage

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an essay in The Iowa Source The German word for inkblot is klecks . In the latter half of the 19th century, it was a source of amusement to ...
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...