Santa Rosa, California

“Art is where you find it”… such as in these images of pavements and street markings from Serendiptious Art captured by Colin Talcroft (who contacted me recently about the art that appears on this blog).

Best wishes to friends far and near on the eve of the old year… and the dawn of the Year of the Rabbit. Kung Hei Fat Choi! Sun Leen Fai Lok!

(lovely masking-tape graffiti from down-under… found here)

Watching live-streaming news on Al Jazeera with a hopeful heart…

callipygous (aka callipygian)

For many years I have collected dictionaries—in printed book form, and also online. I take great delight in discovering new words, and in understanding their roots and etymology. “Callipygous” crossed my desktop recently, and I couldn’t help but ‘share’ this lovely, voluptuous word that means: “of, pertaining to, or having beautiful buttocks,” 1800, from Gk. kallipygos, name of a statue of Aphrodite at Syracuse, from kalli-, combining form of kallos “beauty” + pyge “rump, buttocks.” Sir Thomas Browne (1646) refers to “Callipygæ and women largely composed behinde.”

Gluteous maximus triumvirate image from unknown sources: Cooper Black (typeface) seemed to fit just right… (with a nod to Matt Warburton).

(just passing this on…)

“Tack’s Cartoon Tips have been prepared for the purpose of aiding those desirous of entering the field of Comic Art…”.

From a Flickr slideshow (scan of B. ‘Tack’ Knight’s 1923 instructional book on cartooning). 

Basel, Switzerland

It’s funny how one becomes so attached to certain places… I’ve found myself pining for Basel again of late (I spent most of my school-aged years in and around this fine old city on the banks of the Rhine).

Illustrated poster by Marcus Schneider, Graphis Annual 61/62.