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Leaving the closeness....

…..behind me.

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My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

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Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

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Charade (1963) dir. Stanley Donen

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from “Quadrat 1+2”,1982, by Samuel Beckett

[saintbeckett]

Sometimes....

…..you need to tap into a little extra power.

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[saintbeckett]

Keep warm...

……while the wind blows through the branches.

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"Cat Fancy" by Edward Gorey

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Banned from Broadcast 2: The Cursed Large Family (Toshikazu Nagae, 2003)

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before they kill again

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A Siberian Shaman. Date: Original drawing from around 1776; published as a colored engraving in 1803. The source is cited as “The Costume of the Russian Empire, London: William Miller, 1803,” but I couldn’t find the colored version of this engraving in that specific work- it might be from a different edition.

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Yellow Submarine, 1968

The animation design of Yellow Submarine has sometimes been incorrectly attributed to famous psychedelic pop art artist of the era Peter Max, as his art style greatly resembles the style used in the film, but the film’s art director was in fact Heinz Edelmann. Edelmann, along with such contemporaries as Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, pioneered the psychedelic style for which Max would later become famous, but according to Edelmann and producer Al Brodax, as quoted in the book Inside the Yellow Submarine by Hieronimus and Cortner, Max had nothing to do with the production of Yellow Submarine.

Edelmann’s surreal visual style contrasts greatly with the efforts of Walt Disney Animation Studios and other animated Hollywood films that had been previously released at the time (a fact noted by Pauline Kael in her positive review of the film). The film uses a style of limited animation. It also paved the way for Terry Gilliam’s animations for Do Not Adjust Your Set and Monty Python’s Flying Circus (particularly the Eleanor Rigby sequence), as well as the Schoolhouse Rock vignettes for ABC and similar-looking animation in early seasons of Sesame Street and The Electric Company. (Only one of the animation staff of Yellow Submarine, Ron Campbell, contributed subsequent animation to Children’s Television Workshop).

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Modest Marvel

Heinz Edelmann Remembered

– Gabrielle Kennedy, 2018

German-Czech designer and graphic illustrator Heinz Edelmann (1934 – 2009) might be labelled an anti-hero of the design discipline. He was modest and relentlessly committed to his craft, albeit with an almost amusing distaste for all he came to represent – the 1960s ethos. ‘I’m a conservative, working-class person,’ he told Mojo magazine in 1999. ‘I just knew about the psychedelic experience by hearsay.’

So no drugs, no pop music, no free love… Edelmann was an anti-experimenter, an old-fashioned intellectual who fused a ferocious wit with a high-brow tongue. Still, in his work for art director Willy Fleckhaus’ Twen magazine and as the genius behind the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, he did capture and even propel the mood of 60s rebellion. And not by accident. (Read more.)

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