 Museum Goes Boing Boing!
posted: July 2, 2009
Yesterday, boingboing, blog choice of gadget fetishists round the world, posted our Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies , and worthy artifacts have been rolling in. By the end of the day, Zimm wrote to say that Drawger had spiked at more than an extra 10,000 visitors from the boing boing link alone. Still going strong this morning, and pushing the museum collection toward the 200 mark. Lots of lurkers around here, so watch the ass-scratching and nose-picking, will ya?
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Taking Flash to the Edge with Steve
posted: June 11, 2009
How many of us feel that chasing and catching up with Adobe Flash is like running after the Bullet Train you missed? I'll bet it's that darn Action Scripting, isn't it? I'm not pimping Adobe, but this offering from Odopod San Francisco is a great example of The Art of Flash. If you really have to sell tea-flavored water, why not have a ton of fun? I admit that I'm a gamer geezer, but it almost makes me miss advertising! A few of you might think, "Crap! Another nail in the coffin of print," but, lets make some lemonade with those lemons.
Go try a hilarious and ingenious example of hidden persuasion at Steve's Awesomeness Testing Facility. "Hollywood Art Attack" Alert!
posted: January 28, 2009
Ida Lupino strikes a pose for Jack Benny in "Artists & Models." She's got that pose going like a 12-course dinner! 
Jack Benny plays an advertising exec trying to hold on to that big account. Meanwhile, the agency's hot but swell model, Ida Lupino, longs to be Queen of the Artists and Models Ball, but... sorry, Ida... it's open to snooty debutantes only! Andre Kostelanetz (long before he brought unto us all that elevator music) plays the orchestra conductor. Always the pinnacle of integrity, Hollywood removed a scene of Louis Armstrong and Martha Raye performing together in order to appease some southern US distributors. A touch of synchronicity one again: I mentioned this movie to Murray Tinkleman a couple of weeks ago, and he pushed my envy button by saying he owns a 16 mm print of it. Then wham... here it is for all of us to see. 
Sheet music from "Artists & Models." Jack Benny applies the "finishing touches" to a Russell Patterson backdrop. The film's haunting song, "Whispers in the Dark," was nominated for an Academy Award, and is sung by Connie Boswell. 
"Artists & models" window card. Courtesy of TCM.com 
"Artists & Models" stars Jack Benny, Ida Lupino and Richard Arlen. There are those venetian blinds again! 
Jack Benny with comic strip artist Milton Caniff, creator of "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon." This was taken much later than "Artists & Models,", but I've thrown this in to show just how famous cartoonists and illustrators were back then. Courtesy of ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. To see more about the golden age of comic and illustration art, visit their eye-boggling site at http://www.animationarchive.org/ 
Benny gives Jerry Lewis a silent "Well!" on the back lot. Martin & Lewis starred in the '55 non-remake version of "Artists & Models," which was -- as fellow Bennyhead Drew Friedman states below -- all about the comic book biz in the '50s. Worth seeing for (among LOTS of things) Eddie Mayehoff's send-up of Bill Gaines. Photo courtesy of IMDb.com. "Hey, Mister... Back Off!"
posted: January 28, 2009
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