The challenge word this week on Monday Artday is “steampunk”. This may be an unfamiliar concept to some, so I’ll do my best to explain it. According to Wikipedia, the Internet source for everything (including a little bullshit), steampunk is a genre of fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The …
Rasmus Karl Therkelsen Gottlieb was born in 1886 in central Copenhagen, Denmark. As a teenager, he apprenticed as a machinist. He married and had two children, but with the outbreak of World War I, he entered the military. In 1916, after his discharge from military service, he headed to America alone, hoping to send for …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “foggy”. Let me start off by stating that although this story ultimately ends with THIS, it is not the same type of celebrity story found elsewhere on this blog. Mel Tormé was most famous for his beautifully mellow voice, but he accomplished so much in his career. He …
The challenge for this week on Monday Artday is “cocktail lounge”. I’m sure the topic of “cocktail lounge” conjures up images of swingin’ little cozy hideaways where a cool cat can order a hip martini-du-jour and smooth-talk a sophisticated chick. Think Frank Sinatra, Buster Poindexter and Dean Martin with a bit of Lord Buckley’s silky …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “sour”. The Fox and The Grapes One hot summer’s day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. “Just the thing to quench my thirst,” quoth he. Drawing …
Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,’why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? …
The challenge this week on Monday Artday is “hair”. The details of Julia Pastrana’s early life are sketchy. She was discovered in Mexico where she worked as a housemaid. She had hypertrichosis terminalis. She had a beard, was covered in glossy black hair. Her ears and nose were unusually large and her teeth were irregular. …
By the time she was six, Anissa (pronounced “ah-NEESE-ah”) Jones was hawking cereal in her first television commercial. A couple of years later, in 1966, Anissa’s acting talents caught the attention of two television producers who were preparing a new television sitcom called Family Affair. They felt Anissa would be perfect in the role of …
The illustationfriday.com challenge word this week is “fierce”. Henry Rollins is a fierce figure onstage. Born Henry Garfield in Washington, DC in 1961, Henry’s parents divorced when he was very young. He suffered from low self-esteem, a poor attention span, bad grades, a confrontational attitude, bad behavior and an uncomfortable feeling around women. He was regularly …
Once again, Monday Artday is using one of my suggestions as the weekly challenge. The challenge this week is “my hometown” illustrate something specific to the city you live in or the city you are from. Funny. When I make suggestions for topics, you’d think I’d have an idea in mind. I don’t. Not …
