In 1919, eighteen year-old Ub Iwerks was working for the Pesman Art Studio in Kansas City, Missouri. It was here he met another eighteen year-old, a fellow artist named Walt Disney, who would become his oldest and best friend. Disney and Iwerks moved on to work as illustrators for The Kansas City Film Ad Company. …
Ray Chapman was born in Beaver Dam, Kentucky in 1891. Ten months later and 150 miles away the man who would kill him was born. Ray was an above-average shortstop playing with the Cleveland Indians in the early twentieth century. He led the league in several hitting and fielding categories. He batted .300 in three seasons …
The ispirational word this week on the InspireMeThursday website is “holes”. “There’s nothing wrong with you that a gaping hole drilled into your skull under unsanitary conditions couldn’t cure.” Trepanation. An innocent enough sounding term. Trepanation is an antiquated and misguided medical procedure in which a hole is drilled into the human skull, thus exposing the meningeal layers surrounding …
The Monday Artday challenge this week is “film noir”. “Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E! It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E! You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers …
The illustration friday challenge word this week is “idle”. “Idle hands are the Devil’s Playground.” Actually, this is the Devil’s Playground.
The current challenge on Monday Artday is “astronaut”. This illustration is based on this short story by this guy… Your dub is dead, theres something wrong The cosmic winds shifted, and the Hera probe battered about its tract of outer space. Inside, the two men in their heavy suits gripped the hand rests on their specially-designed …
The illustrationfriday.com word this week is “tango”. Because of an uneven number of participants at the Afterlife Tango Social, Evel Knievel is paired with Gandhi. A dejected Abraham Lincoln looks on.
The inspirational word this week on Inspire Me Thursday is “glasses”. Although he had been to countless Oktoberfest celebrations, Günther could never get the hang of clinking glasses.
The current challenge on the Monday Artday illustration blog is “Shakespeare”. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. Alas and alack! Arm’d to do as sworn to do, so doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle. O, if I had such a tire, this face of mine hath stird up their servants to an act of …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “hollow”. “In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, “tarried”, in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing …
