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 …
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 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. …
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 …
The challenge this week on Monday Artday is “design a cd cover”. This is my second entry for this challenge. Thanks to this guy, once again, for inspiration. There’s a joke here somewhere.
The challenge this week on Monday Artday is “design a cd cover”. For several years now, I have been compiling a list of possible band names. I have had a lot of help (from this guy and this lady, among others). Sometimes, someone will utter a phrase, as part of regular conversation, and a band …
The Monday Artday challenge word this week is “anarchy”. Outside the 1968 Democratic Convention, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman announced that their candidate for president would be a pig named Pigasus. Jerry Rubin was a left-wing social activist (read: radical). In 1967, Rubin and some others founded the Youth International Party (The Yippies), an anti-authoritarian …
In 1982, I was in my second year of art school. When I began my first year at The Hussian School of Art, Jimmy Carter was president and he was very generous with government money for education (if you can call “art school” education). When Ronald “There’s a Commie under my bed” Reagan became president, …
The Monday Artday challenge this week is “Elvis”. Sure, he was known worldwide as “The King”, but here are a few little-known facts about Elvis Presley. He was a black belt in karate. His entourage were known collectively as the Memphis Mafia. None of Elviss 31 feature films were ever nominated for an Oscar in …
The challenge word on Monday Artday this week (at my suggestion) is “money”. On February 26, 1981, in Philadelphia, a twenty-eight year-old, meth-addicted, unemployed longshoreman named Joey Coyle had his life changed forever. Joey and two of his friends were on their way to buy drugs. They were driving behind a Purolator Armored Services truck that …
