MN – CHEER LEADER.
August 4, 2010
1910s, Archive Road Trip | Leave a Comment
Give me an *M* for *MEN* cheer leaders! And another *M* for Minnesota!
1. 7 male students in an M shaped formation as part of a gymnastics exhibition on the lawn in front of Goodsell Observatory.
2. 12 male students in an pyramid formation as part of a gymnastics exhibition on the Bald Spot, with Gridley Hall in rear. 1910.
3. Basketball cheer leader Art Narverud.
via Carlton College
MI – MASSES.
August 2, 2010
1910s, Archive Road Trip, Graphics | 1 Comment
The Masses, a magazine.
With the appearance in America of The Masses in 1911, a new alliance was formed between art and politics. Originally established as an earnest but ultimately dull socialist magazine, The Masses was taken over in 1912 by artists whose commitment to a new artistic age was only equalled by their support of socialist political causes. Modeled after the lavishly illustrated European satiric journals, Simplicissimus and L’Assiette au Beurre, the artists hired Max Eastman as editor who moved the magazine away from socialist “dogma” toward a more far-ranging program condemning racism, supporting women’s rights, and promoting the work of a galaxy of writers and thinkers, including John Dewey, Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, John Reed, and Sherwood Anderson.
IRL : SWISS PICS.
August 1, 2010
Europe, IRL, Nature | 1 Comment
View of Jungfrau – the highest peak
Table cloth at mountain restaurant.
A James Bond movie was filmed on top Schilthorn‘s restaurant.
The trail signage was so helpful and lovely.
Picnic! Notice the LATTA margarine packet, we renamed LGBT butter.
Gondola eye view of a pool of glacier water – near Schilthron summit
Beautifully painted furniture at another mountain side restaurant.
Basel street style.
In Basel, an ikat mural.
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NisN vacation photos! After a fulfilling week working at the Girard archives, my friend/colleague Matt Cassity and I traveled south to the Swiss Alps and chilllllled out on mountain tops. We climbed the highest mountains and/or took gondolas up to the top each day. The thing about hiking in Switzerland, there is a restaurant is only a couple hours away—located in the middle of nowhere, on mountain sides. You are never far from a cappucino or beer, it adds to the beauty of the mountains really. I’m home now with plenty of internet and will hit the archive road trip soon!
IRL : Girard & Vitra.
July 22, 2010
Designers, IRL, Now | 8 Comments
Guten Tag! A quick check in from Vitra Design Museum at Charles-Eames Strasse in Germany. I am working all week in the Alexander Girard archives housed at Vitra. These are some of the wonders I’ve been soaking in over the past few days. Just the tip of the iceberg.
1. My work station. Just like a real archivist I’ve been scanning photographs & sketchbooks all week.
2. Excerpt from a Girard sketchbook.
3. Memphis Group in the hallway!
4. Small section of the Vitra lamp archive.
5. Boxes of textiles from Girard archive.
6. Girard wooden toys.
More to come, I will post building/outdoor, above the basement pictures soon. Bye!
PS: I’m still going to Switzerland, but that’s on Sunday. Mountains & stuff.
SWISS SHOES.
July 19, 2010
1950s, Europe, Fashions, Graphics | 2 Comments
Swiss Bally shoes. I want those wooden sandals with rope laces now! —a remake waiting to happen. Browse through hundreds (maybe thousands) of posters via Swiss Posters Collection care of the Swiss National Library in Bern. discovered via Eye Blog Thanks be to Matt C!
Oh yeah, I am leaving for Switzerland today. Pictures of IRL archives & mountains coming soon. Farewell!
BEVERLY FOOTBALLERS.
July 18, 2010
1900s, Children, Fashions, Sport, The East | Leave a Comment
More Mass : Beverly, MA high school football team, 1901.
Look at those B’s! There’s never been a more attractive football uniform than thick knit turtleneck sweaters with a beautiful B handsomely displayed. See the little kitty cat mascot?!
side note : I used to live in Beverly Mass. It’s a wonderful little New England town complete with seashore, Victorian homes & art school.
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