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  1. 11-25-2016, 10:33 PM #1
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    Christmas gift suggestions

    Looking for that perfect gift? Please post your suggestions here.

    I'll start.

    Does everyone know what antique cabinet cards are? According to Wikipedia, they are "a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm ( 4 1⁄4 by  6 1⁄2 inches)."

    Examples:

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    Good. Now the fun begins. There is this artist, Alex Gross, who collects cabinet cards, as a matter of fact, he's purchased dozens of them off EBay. What he does with them could be considered controversial, depending on how much of a history purist you are.

    He paints over them.

    Not just anything. Classic film, TV, superhero, sci-fi: anything culturally interesting is fair game. And don't be a hater, judge the results:

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    Alex has collected many (tho not all) of his cabinet card work in a fabulous little hardcover book, Now and Then: The Cabinet Card Paintings of Alex Gross, and i cannot recommend this stunning collection enough.



    You can purchase this jewel for your significant other on Amazon for less than $20, and believe me, it is so totally worth it.

    I have two copies.

    So, what suggestions do you want to pass on, hmmm?


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    Thats hilarious.
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    "We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."
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    "We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."
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    Your suggestion has been put to use. Thanks, Russ!
    Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
    The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
    Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
    Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
    Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
    Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
    Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
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    Your suggestion has been put to use. Thanks, Russ!
    Cool!

    Last edited by Russ; 11-29-2016 at 10:22 PM.
    "We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."
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    Here's another art book suggestion!

    Overbite: Paintings & Drawings of Mostly Pillowy Girls
    Underbelly
    Bent

    You can find the first two for under $20. I don't know why the most recent release, Bent, is commanding big bucks.

    Seriously, any of these Dave Cooper hardcover collections is a can't-miss! IF you dig his artwork, which is phenomenal and spectacular...

    ...but also NSFW and, uh, one of those "mileage-varying" kind of things:

    be careful in looking at this stuff at work (glorious tho it is):

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