Found these beauties at a flea market today. They are WWII era matchbook covers with artwork from artist Gil Elvgren. I love everything pinup and could not pass these cuties down!
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My husband and I have a fascinating taste when it comes to collecting. He is as strange as I am although I tend to be a quite bit more quirky and eccentric in taste. Along with strange collections so do strange conversations. This one happened in bed out of all places:
What can I say, we are a match made in heave but in all seriousness I do not find the fascination for post mortem photography to be strange at all but historically significant. What one must remember is that death was all too common in the 19th century. The rate of child birth mortality, and adult deaths due to disease was a way of life due to the lack of advanced medicine. One way to cope with such a common tragic occurrence was to take a picture of a loved one after death or on a death bed right before their passing. Below is a poste mortem tintype from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Photographic Collection.
So we were watching Dark Shadows a few days ago, it was my husband, my son, and I expecting the worst of this movie since it had such horrible reviews. I honestly do have to say that the movie was not bad at all. I mean if you remember the real episodes back in the 70's yes the movie was an abomination but other than that it was a good entertaining movie. But this blog is really not about the movie it's about the conversation that came up with my husband when we were talking about the soundtrack of the movie. Of course, him being a musician music always comes up in all our conversations. The soundtrack is great and he loved the fact that they used Karen Carpenter's song Top of the World. He always liked Karen Carpenter and he started to boast about her being a great drummer besides having one of the most beautiful female voices in music history. I'm not much of a Karen Carpenter fan but I do feel horrible for what she had to go through with her
eating disorder. Whenever Karen Carpenter comes up in a song, movie, or conversation the topic of eating disorders always comes up. And my husband is always supportive of the topic because talking about it is therapy and relief for his wife who has been struggling with the same disorder since the age of 19. At 19 I weighed 60 lbs. If it wasn't for my father's intervention at that age I would probably be dead back then and If it wasn't for the support of my husband I would probably be dead today. Strangely enough for some reason it has always been the men dearest to me that give me the strength to keep my head on my shoulders. Recently I went on a diet to lose a few lbs. Sure a diet is always good especially if the diet means to change your eating habits to eating healthier foods but a diet no matter how healthy it is intended to be is never a good idea especially for anyone who has battled anorexia in the past without the professional supervision, and when I decide to go on a diet I know my family shrieks "oh no here we go again." As the pounds start to come off, the adrenaline starts pumping and so the quest to keep losing weight becomes obsessive. In the meantime while the losing weight challenge is going on physically, mentally you always believe that you are overweight and the anxiety of getting fat intensifies. You're constantly depressed, anxious, and over emotional about everything going on in your life and the only way to ease the obsessive thoughts and to deal with anything else that you can't control in life is to stop eating. Starvation always seems to justify everything. I find myself every year battling this obsessive cycle over and over with success and this time around it spun out of control as I lost 25 lbs. in 3 weeks by eating only an apple or orange a day. Do I believe I'm overweight? YES. Do I belief I have to lose more weight even though I'm 100 lbs. ? YES. Yes, it makes no sense and I know it angers many people but I have to fight every day for the way my brain is wired. I know it's a bad thing to do but it eases the distress and the battles going on in your mind not just about weight but about everything uncontrollable in life. Anorexia becomes more of a personal issue than a weight issue as you try to control everything with food. I write all of this publicly because I'm extremely lucky to have the care and support of loved ones who always stood by my side with a watchful eye. I'm not afraid to hide an ugly truth or afraid to hide behind the dark shadows of a past or present but I am open because I have helped and supported women in the past who found relief to know that they were not the only ones suffering in silence. If I can reach out to many more in support it would almost make this obsession worth it. I also write this because I need to give the gratitude to both my father and husband for being the ones who always put me back on track. I don't know what I would do without your support and those once in a while angered "snap out of its" when I'm in tears putting a fork full of food near my mouth. I love you both dearly and I truly respect your concern which is why I'm still here today. Dear All,
It's hard enough being the tortured artist struggling every second of your life for the need to create but please, if you are going to use any of my pieces please give me the credit. As an artist I at least deserve that respect. I sincerely do not mind if you use my work, I am an artist not for the money but for the satisfaction and release that I get from creating and the honor I receive from people who like my work. I do not watermark some of my pieces because I believe it will ruin the visual impact of that particular piece. In today's world of laws how dare you not give credit where credit is due and how dare you take any artist's painstaking hard work (both physically and emotionally) and not have the courtesy to give them the gratitude and respect they deserve for their creation. |
AuthorPlain and simple, I'm painfully the artsy type. I like to keep my mind occupied because it keeps me out of trouble. I love art, photography, music and the 1940's. Between art exhibits, photography projects, design work, developing and promoting my new upcoming line the "LuvSicks", dressing up in early 40's vintage clothing for WWII living history events and endlessly researching the 40's home front and women's fashion to help educate the audience, and dusting off my drum sticks once in a while, I am endlessly busy. In a nutshell I draw silly pictures, shoot pictures, and play dress-up. In a nutshell I guess I never grew up. In a nutshell I guess I'm just a nut! Archives
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