Category Archives: art
Southwestern Art Deco
Art Deco had many regional variants. Hoover Dam is the Southwest’s greatest Deco structure but other styles exist like Pueblo Deco. It’s fun to see Deco survive around the region. The first two photos are bridge abutments near Burro Creek … Continue reading
Art Deco Design from Singapore
Vario in Singapore has designed what they call their Empire Art Deco Mechanical Watch. They say they got their inspiration from New York’s Empire State building which is late Deco. They put an etching of the building on the back … Continue reading
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Tagged art deco, art movement, art revival, late deco, modern and old design, singapore, time pieces, watches
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To All The Bands Corporate Radio Never Played
Sci-Fi Caper (internal link), a power trio who has a chance at success with the rise of the internet. I can’t express how suffocating it was to go through the 70s and 80s with radio playlists controlling which bands got on … Continue reading
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Tagged broken sleep, corporate radio, garage bands, Mendota, music, playlists, rock music, Sci-Fi Caper, the west, xoxo
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Modern Art Deco?
NB: All links unsponsored. No monetizing here! Modern Art Deco? In my last post I looked at some watches ascribed to modern Bauhaus design. (internal link) Which got me to thinking. Are there any watches inspired by Art Deco? A … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art deco, Bauhaus, modern art deco, new art deco, ornamentalism, style, the new modernism, watches
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Styling Today in the Bauhaus Way
NB: Links are unsponsored and developed on my own. Bauhaus design lives on. These two German watches show it off. And a third might qualify with imagination. This first is a Nomos Orion which retails for between $1,800 and $4,000 … Continue reading
Good Clip Art Goes A Long Way
While searching my paper files and folders I came across this graphic I did in the mid-1990’s. I had gone to Def Con II the previous summer and I was getting ready to go again. Dark Tangent called for poster … Continue reading
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Tagged black and white design, clip art, def con, def con III, design, graphic arts, hacking, Las Vegas
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So When Did The Color Rust Become Popular?
I don’t recall rust, copper, or terra-cotta as colors for buildings and ornamental pieces when I was growing up. Do you? Somehow, somewhere, it started happening in my part of California in the the 1980s. I think. It’s certainly a … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, building design, color, copper color, cor-ten, rusty steel look, terra cotta color, weathered steel
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