MTN YODEL

December 23, 2011
00s, Europe, Folk Art, Mtns, Music, Watch it Now | Leave a Comment

Watch it Now: Echoes of Home. Directed by Stefan Schwietert. Follow the enchanting Swiss sounds of yodeling through the Alps and through the woods. The yodelers wear towering masks, intricate and fantastic. The little old man shares his drink with the yodelers with the help of a bendy straw—sweet. When they start singing up in the mountains, it’s really strange.

Thanks Andrea Johnson for this gem!

ESLEEP WEAR

December 22, 2011
1980s, 1990s, Fashions, Graphics, Native American, Women | Leave a Comment

Yesterday I was reminiscing about ESLEEP brand pajamas—oversized, jersey style sleep shirts accompanied with boxer shorts. Huge in the late 80s – early 90s. Remember? via Ebay I found the most unusual ESLEEP sleepwear—a button down, collared shirt with native americana style graphics complete with 2-D fringe! What?! Buy it now.

BLACK MTN

December 20, 2011
1940s, Artists, Craft, Designers, Textiles, The South | Leave a Comment

Work hard, study hard, weave hard, frolic hard at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina. via North Carolina State Archives

TOM MARTHA BUNNY

December 18, 2011
1920s, Animals, Books, Children | Leave a Comment

I nearly tumbled over when I saw these illustrations today. Bunnies are my spirit animal, mountains are my spirit terrain, and everything else pictured are some of my favorite things—winter time, wool mittens, rainbows, teepees, vessels, cabbage, rivers, home.

Under the pseudonym Tom Seidmann-Freud—often shortened to just “Tom”—Sigmund Freud’s eccentric niece Martha illustrated a series of wonderful children’s books in the early twentieth century. She killed herself in 1930 (age 37 or 38), a year after her husband killed himself. This grim ending is not reflected in her dream-like, often whimsical work.

Buch Der Hasengeschichten (The Book of Rabbit Stories, 1924)
see more Tom illustrations via 50watts