Jann Haworth is an American born artist and sculptor of international renown and influence. She was the co-designer of the Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP cover art along with Peter Blake for which she received a Grammy award for her contribution. She is identified with the British Pop Art movement of the 1960′s [...]
In 1968 Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention released their seminal recording ”Were Only In It For The Money” which parodied the cover LP art of Apple Records ”Sergeant Pepper’s” Beatles release. The record cover art was part of a deeper and more profound satire on popular culture and modernism in general. The designer [...]
Sir Peter Blake was the co- designer of the Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP cover art with collaborator wife Jann Haworth. This cover art imagery has been one of the most widely adopted, copied and parodied designs in the music and art illustration business. The work is sometimes referred to as ”People We [...]
This is original pop art in terms of material being used. Or, it can be categorized as a craft project within a low level science fair. Anything can be termed ”art” if the creator labels it as such, thereby blunting criticism that it would be susceptible to if this transformation of old vinyl records was [...]
Sinclair Lewis ( 1885-1951) was an American fiction writer acclaimed for his novel Main Street as well as Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and It Can’t Happen Here. Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He provided a credible contribution in exploring the contradictory myths of the U.S.; from the deeply depressing [...]
Modern Times was Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr’s final silent film and marked the curtain call and definitive farewell to the beloved Little Tramp character he created. It signaled the end of Chaplin’s period where pantomimic art would be the central focus. Certainly, Chaplin was both stubborn and clever. The film has the word ”modern” in [...]
Ardent defender of the faith , paired with a bitter ambivalence towards technology and new media, is a recurring characteristic of Morley Safer’s public pronouncements .Safer is a celebrity broadcast journalist of ”60 Minutes” television fame. Safer has been spreading fear-mongering ”red threat” style dialogue as have many lesser lights in traditional media. This is part [...]
Exploring the web is theoretically as gaping as a black hole or discovering a winning lottery ticket in a sand quarry but in practical terms somewhat less daunting. Two blog pages came to Madame Pickwick’s attention this past week when doing film and animated cartoon blogs. Both are recommended for quality of writing, degree of [...]
Iconic Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein had a strong attraction with American cartoon animation and he in turn influenced their work. His cinematic technique of ”Juxtaposition” opened up non linear possibilities in the story-telling of the animated cartoon. He was a major influence on Hugh Harman as well as Walt Disney. Eisenstein,s approach to cinema was [...]
Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising are virtual unknowns in the world of cartoon animation today, even among animation fans, yet this creative partnership was one of the most influential forces in animation history. They began as collaborators with Walt Disney in 1922 and it can be asserted both never really extricated themselves from all the [...]
