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The Humor of Cranach the Elder
2008-02-19 18:19:00
Venus Standing in a Landscape Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey Cupid Complaining to Venus Venus and CupidLucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) had a great sense of humor. He painted a lot of pictures of Venus or Venus and Cupid together. Some of his nudes are discreetly and gracefully holding pieces of fabric over their private parts, but often the fabric is transparent so you have to wonder what it's for. Maybe he was being ironic and maybe he was just having fun painting see-through fabric. Cupid is stealing "honey" from Venus in one picture and complaining to her in another. Venus also has a big crazy hat on. Why? I don't care, I love it! Cranach the Elder had a wonderful narrative folk-art style with a great sense of design. I like these tall panels for standing figures. I am working on a painting right now that has a tall format.Lucas Cranach the ElderThanks to Femme, Femme, Femme for reminding me of Cranach. There will be a show of Cranach the Elder at the Royal Academy of Arts...
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Old Postcard from Dresden
2008-02-19 16:31:00
Can you figure this one out? Vintage image from a beautiful myspace page: linkThe Art of Amy Crehore
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Document Records is Having a Sale
2008-02-18 15:16:00
"If you`re looking for rare, classic, vintage Blues, Jazz, Boogie-woogie, Gospel and Country music then you have come to the right place. Many call it the place. "-blurb from Document Records website. They are having a sale until Feb 22, 2008 on a whole lot of great CDs. If you like the old stuff, you can't go wrong.Document Records Sale The Art of Amy CrehoreP.S."Vote for me" if you like this blog

Sunday Night Song - Tampa Red
2008-02-18 02:24:00
Painting by Amy Crehore for "Feed the Kitty" album coverFrom the Hokum Scorchers' "Feed the Kitty" album comes a wonderful song- originally done by Hudson Woodbridge (a.k.a. Tampa Red 1936)- called "When You Were a Girl of Seven". This version was recorded in 1992. Lou Reimuller plays the National guitar, sings and plays kazoo. Amy Crehore is on a vintage tenor banjo. Scroll down for the music player on this link:Hokum Scorchers Click on "Vote for Me" if you enjoy this blog.
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Bendies Headless
2008-02-17 22:32:00
Bendies Headless figures are now available at:MannequinlandThe Art of Amy Crehore

Morton B. is famous now
2008-02-17 01:19:00
I wish I could have seen this Morton Bartlett exhibit last summer at Julie Saul Gallery. I blogged about him earlier. LINKHere's a NYTimes article about that show. I LOVE M.B.Marion Harris has a cool new website. She wrote about his art and preserved it for the rest of us.The Art of Amy Crehore P.S. "Vote for me" if you like this post
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Krazy Kat Plush
2008-02-17 00:49:00
Cartoonist George Herriman with a model of Krazy Kat. This photo from 1944 is up for bidding on ebay until Feb. 24, 2008. This is so sweet.Thanks STWALLSKULL
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Psycho Girlfriend
2008-02-16 20:05:00
I saw these designers on boingboing TV and I thought they were cool and funny.Your Psycho Girlfriend Xeni wears a tutu of babyheads in the boingboing episode.The Art of Amy Crehore

Happy Valentines Day
2008-02-14 21:58:00
I like the little guys with wings in this illustration for the Kissing Bug Rag.Happy Valentines Day fromThe Art of Amy Crehore

The Making of the Fine Print at Pressure Printing
2008-02-13 18:31:00
Pressure Print ing just blogged the careful and elaborate process of producing two new framed giclee prints. Here is the making of "The Ruiners"by Glenn Barr and "The Banana Eater" by Amy Crehore. It is very interesting - showing all of the steps leading up to two very fine art products. Read about it here:THE FINE PRINTWhile you are at it, you will want to read about the making of Mark Ryden's print as well. Pressure Printing is best known for the quality of it's fine art pressure prints using antique presses. The Art of Amy Crehore
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Gallery of Vintage Valentines on flickr
2008-02-12 20:14:00
The top one is sexy, eh? In a somewhat stiff kind of way it is cool. And the bottom one reminds me of a Fred Stonehouse painting. I found these on flickr where there is a very nice collection of Vintage Valentines . The older, the better, I think. I love the way that people pool their collections on flickr. It's such a great resource and a it's lot of fun to look at. Remember the Valentine shoebox with the hole in the top? They still do that in the grade schools, don't they? I always freaked out on Valentine's Day back then, when I was just an 80 lb. weakling. The Valentines weren't as nice as these.The Art of Amy Crehore
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100 Years ago - Ragtime Music
2008-02-12 02:55:00
Hey, looky what I found. Well, what do ya know? The "Tickler Rag Two-Step" (by Frances Cox) and "Teasing the Cat" Rag (by Charles L. Johnson) - sheet music from 1908 and 1916. Here are my favorite characters, too. This is the first time I have ever laid eyes on these. See more examples of interesting cover art here: Ragtime PianoThe Art of Amy Crehore
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Sunday Night Song Rotation
2008-02-11 03:00:00
"Yanna's Donut", cover image from a cassette of Hokum Scorcher's musicI have a new song on my music player now. This one is called "Stamps Blues". We got this song from the Tony Hollins' version, 1941. Lou is playing the National guitar and I am playing the washboard. We both sing on this one. We recorded it in 1995 for a little cassette we made called "Yanna's Donut" (Chimborazo Records). Scroll down to hear the song- here:LINKThe Art of Amy Crehore P.S. The songs are changed every Sunday nite, so it will be a different song on the player by the time you read this.
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Feed Your Wall - Amy Crehore's Art Print
2008-02-11 00:00:00
Here's another nice blog that picked up my new framed print by Pressure Print ing.I like the name:FEED YOUR WALLThe Art of Amy Crehore
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Frauenfelder, Sol and Estrada at Roq La Rue
2008-02-10 18:06:00
Amy Sol Catalina Estrada Mark FrauenfelderRoq La Rue Gallery in Seattle, WA just opened a big group show called "A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities" (same name as one of my favorite books). Here are a few stand-out pieces from the show. I think they may still be available, too, if you hurry. There are many different stylistic interpretations of nature in this show. Have a look (click preview):Roq La Rue Artists include: Femke Hiemstra, Travis Louie, Brian Despain, Amy Sol, Lisa Petrucci, Chris Ryniak, Chet Zar, Kozydan, Junko Mizumo, Liz McGrath, Kukula, Laura Plansker, Mark Frauenfelder, Christian Vanminnen, Mark Gleason, Nathan Ota, Catalina Estrada, Sarah Joncas, Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley, John Brophy, Anthony Pontius, Jeremy Bennet, Jim Woodring, Heiko Muller, Javier S. OrtegaThe Art of Amy Crehore

Pop Drawer - Great New Blog
2008-02-09 20:04:00
Aesthetic Apparatus PrintThe "Pop Drawer " blog alerts people to all kinds of great new art and affordable art products.Here's a cool print from their post about OX-OP .They also just featured my new, framed print from Pressure Printing, "The Banana Eater" and mentioned my t-shirt -you can read it here:"WHO NEEDS GROCERIES ALERTS" You might want to subscribe to this blog to stay on top of the latest pop surrealist and contemporary art events and products. It is well-written and looks nice, too.POP DRAWERThe Art of Amy Crehore
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"The Banana Eater" Print, a T-shirt, and a Ukulele
2008-02-08 21:17:00
Close up of Front of Tickler Uke Number One - design by Amy CrehoreT-shirt by Amy CrehoreAmy Crehore's "The Banana Eater " print by Pressure Print ing CLICK ON IMAGES FOR ENLARGED VIEWThis has been an exciting month for me with three very special "fine art products" being released: my new t-shirt, a special framed print of my painting "The Banana Eater" by Pressure Printing and, last but not least, a brand new Tickler Uke Number Two designed by me and built by luthier, Lou Reimuller (due out at the end of February). And, I added a music player to my new website and I will rotate a new Hokum Scorcher song every Sunday nite. Don't forget the "Deep Pop" show at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY. It continues until Feb. 21, 2008. I have a painting in that show and I will also be showing at Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY in July. The Art of Amy Crehore Click "Vote for me" if you like my blog!
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Skin as Soft as Peaches
2008-02-08 18:49:00
This is incredible and beautiful - another instance in which art and hokum come together. Pop surrealism, too. "Ella" is a 12-meter-long sculpture of a nude woman made from peaches, as part of a promotional campaign for an Australian skin care product company. The site has a video about its design and construction. Link Thanks again, boingboing! The Art of Amy Crehore
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More Adventures Starring "Pappy"
2008-02-08 17:18:00
Have a look at Ape Lad's newest little film,"Pappy, Chupacabras and a delicious foot print" These beautiful and very funny little films have been shown on boingboingTV, where you can find an archive of them. I tried to embed the player on this blog, but it was too big or something. So, just follow the links.The Art of Amy Crehore
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New Prints by Pressure Printing - Glenn Barr & Amy Crehore
2008-02-07 23:37:00
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE for Better ViewingAmy Crehore's "The Banana Eater" by Pressure Printing . Pressure Printing has just released a beautifully framed Glenn Barr print (only 50 in the edition). They have also released "The Banana Eater" by me, Amy Crehore (only 40 in the edition). These prints have been hand-crafted by the best printer around and packaged to perfection. Ready to hang, get yours at: PRESSURE PRINTING My art is featured on paintalicious today and the prints are on boingboing . (This "Monkey Love" painting was in the very first BLAB Show, Santa Monica, CA 2005)The Art of Amy Crehore
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FeedBurner Adopts Two-Year-Old, Renames it 'FeedSmith'
2007-05-03 23:47:00
It's official. We've signed adoption papers for the popular WordPress plugin that seamlessly redirects requests for an ordinary feed (from self-hosted WordPress blogs) to your super-powered Feed Burner feed. This plugin — a toddler in age, but a prodigy with HTTP requests — will be made available directly from FeedBurner as "FeedSmith ." It was originally raised by the multi-talented Steve Smith, who's trusting us to ensure its continued well-being. If you aren't already familiar with this handy plugin, you should know it's a reliable way to track your entire feed-reading audience and can even result in that elusive "bump in subscribers" effect when you first activate it. What the plugin accomplishes, in Steve's own words:Using some WordPress plugin magic, and user-agent detection, this plugin simply forwards all your feed traffic to FeedBurner. The plugin will detect all ways to access your feed (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/feed/ or http://www.yoursite.com/wp-rss2...
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Warm Up To a Protected Advertising Climate
2007-04-26 14:00:00
Today we announce AdClimate , a new feature of the formidable FeedBurner ad server for blogs and RSS feeds. AdClimate gives marketers and advertisers the power to suppress their ads from being served into content they might deem questionable. By way of example, let's say you have an aversion to the word, "wingnut" and the thought of your ad for pinenuts showing up in a publisher's blog post about the history of wingnuts would be totally unacceptable (hey - who are we to judge?) AdClimate to the rescue. In addition to screening a multi-language default list of inappropriate language, advertisers can submit their own list of keywords next to which they don't want their ad to appear - wingnuts and all. AdClimate is the solution for that awkward adjacency issue that makes advertisers and media planners sink a little lower in their chairs (kind of like lumbar support, but without the foam cushion or unfashionable belt). If there’s one thing we can say about the content produced by ...
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SFGate + FeedBurner = Summer of Burning Love
2007-04-17 16:30:00
In a match made in distributed media heaven, the City by the Bay's leading newspaper has hooked up with the Windy City's one and only Feed Burner . SFGate, the online edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, has burned a few hundred feeds, blogs and podcasts, and is now contributing inventory to FeedBurner's ad network for blogs and RSS feeds. “As one of the first major newspapers to have a Web presence in 1994, SFGate has maintained its commitment to offering valuable Internet services and we continue this tradition by improving the way we distribute news and information,” said Peter Negulescu, Vice President, Digital Media, SFGate.com. “FeedBurner’s analytics reveal a significant percentage of our readers consume content through our RSS feeds, so this deal signifies a logical extension of our overall content strategy. The online advertising revenue opportunity is very promising.” As the number one newspaper site in Northern California, SF Gate delivers top news stories...
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