A Little Bit of the Past
Thanks to Barrista I spent most of yesterday wandering around the US Library of Congress webiste looking at the Work Projects Administration Poster Collection 1936-1943. There are some incredibly beautiful examples of art work and graphic design.
Here are a couple of my favourites:
Here are a couple of my favourites:
posted by canoe at 9:30 AM
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Hey, they're fabulous. Number 2 is remarkably like that conversation we had the other night, where I told you I was going back and reading all the books i never got around to reading.
Except, I dunno if I'm going to read Tolstoy. I saw the ballet of Anna Karenina and that was enough for me.
The final poster is cute, but a bit disturbing also. Fucking Wee Willie Winkie, with his double entrendre name and his pervy tendancies. I don't think it's his business who is reading what and he shouldn't be 'prying at their locks' until they are at least 16 years old anyway.
They are beautiful! I especially like the books in March one. Perhaps we should adopt this tradition? But choose a appropriately coldish Springtime month for our upsidedown part of the world (where we walk on our hands and talk backwards). Maybe October?
'The World Has Ears' is timely in an ironic sort of way*, considering the scandal here in the US at the moment over the Govt listening in to everyone's phone calls.
Even Aunt Mavis when she books her poodle Peach in for a nail clipping and shampoo.
Just so you know, when Mavis said she wanted to poison Bush she meant her neighbour's hedge which keeps creeping on to her property. However, it wasn't Mavis who poured the bleach on the bush.
Nor did she pay the boy down the street one and a half packets of Oreos to do it. Ahem.
*Please note that, having been in the US of A for almost a month now, I may well have forgotten the correct meaning of irony. What's that thing about finding forks on your wedding day again?
Jelly, the list of books I should read, and haven't, keeps getting bigger. I think I'm going to take your lead and avoid all the Tolstoy. I haven't seen the musical but did develop a bit of a crush on Greta Garbo when she was Anna Karenina. Classy lady.
Snaz, we've been trying to do the book group thing for about a year now. I will hassle Books again, she who is good at organising others. Also, the story about the bush, I've had to warn you before about being a belligerant neighbour. You have to be extra careful over there in the land of the free.
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