Found Photo of the Day

picked this up at the flea market today.

New Found Photo

I picked this photo-booth photo up at the flea market this morning. They have all the ingredients of cool - knives, leather jacket, cigarettes, slick hair and flashy glasses.

Found Photo - Alaska Brown Bear

I got this at the flea market on Sunday. The back has the f-stop and shutter speed listed as well as the date (4/15/46) and the title or caption, "Alaska Brown Bear".

Found Trail Art

On our hike up to Buffalo Ridge on Memorial day we passed some natural art pieces on the trail - perhaps made by Sue and Spud:

Found Photos; Saturday Edition

I found these three photos among others at the flea market yesterday. As I've mentioned before, I've been collecting old photos since the 10th grade - at first I collected with the intention of using them in artwork but now I just collect them. These three were part of a pile of photos of one family's vacation to Europe and North Africa/Egypt. There were a lot of interesting photos, but these three were definitely some of the standouts.

ps - If you haven't read through Mindy's guest post yet - you really should (see below).

Found Photo - On the Plains

I haven't posted any vintage/antique photos in a while, so here's one from my collection.
The back says,

"Now laugh. Tee hee! Ha! Ha! Those are Mountains yu see 15 miles away."

Found Photo of the Day

(front)

(back)

This is a photo that my Mom found and has since become one of her favorites. It reads, "We are all Here But Joe and He is under the table. From Clark Oliver."

Found Photos of the Day

I went to the flea market this morning and it was very hot - but I did get a photo album with these photos in it (among many others). Click for hi-res versions:

(very Colorado)

Check out his Snow White Tie

Photobooths

At the aforementioned estate sale I also picked up a few new photo-booth images (first four in first row pictured here). I've scanned a sampling of my collection of photo-booth images for your enjoyment:

this is one of my favorites:If you like these, check out a book by Babbette Hines called "Photobooth"

New Finds

I picked up a couple of nice etchings at an estate sale Friday - they have exceptional line work:

Found Friday - Found Recordings

A couple of years ago, I stumbled on a trove of home recordings at a thrift store in Fort Wayne, Indiana which I quickly bought up for a dime a piece. Not too long ago I started trying to record them to mp3. Most of them were badly damaged and I was unable to record form the majority of them. There were a few that came out well, and a few more that came out ok. I've compiled the decent ones (the last two tracks are pretty poor quality) for you to listen to. It is a fascinating collection of short audio letters, talk about the war (WWII), home recordings of the piano and accordian, recordings from the radio, etc. All the information I have on these is that the main two people on the 1945 recordings are M. M. White and Helen. Some of the records have scrawled notes, my favorites being the black markered ones on which they wrote "bad." There were no second takes - so there's a good live, conversational feel to these recordings. I have tagged the mp3s so it should come up as one album on your mp3 player. The audio quality is very rough- covered in a thick layer of fuzz, but sometimes that's refreshing with the over-polished state of most new recordings. Here are some scans of some of the records - some were on a vinyl-coated cardboard disc, some were on vinyl (the ones that sounded better), some were on vinyl-coated aluminum (most of which had peeled off the metal). You can find the collection here, here or here. I especially like the track "Married Life for Us".

This is what most of the look like - on vinyl-coated cardboard

Found

Here's the enthusiastically scribbled inside cover of a vintage grammar school book I found years ago. I think Cy Twombly would be a fan of the "Arf Arf Boys."

Cy Twombly
Apollo, 1975
Oil stick and graphite on paper
59 1/16 x 53 15/16 in (150 x 134 cm)
Photo from the Gagosian Gallery

Found Art

I picked up this "Madame X" book a couple of weeks ago because of its state of disrepair.

Found Photo Sunday

I found this photo at a flea market this weekend. I love the cracks in it. It reminded me of a aerial photo I took not too long ago (below).

Before and After

(before)(after)

This is a little piece I painted over an landscape print I found at a flea market. I changed the mountain peaks into candles and called it "Big Rock Candle Mountain". It's for the "Rethought, Reworked and Re-Painted" juried show at Sliding Door Gallery.