Designer : Busse Design, West Germany, Ulm

By : Dr. Zimmermann

Yellow Plastic Thermos 70's

I picked this up for $1 a few weeks ago at an estate sale.  Had a feeling about this. 

I think this is the same person: Rainer Zimmermann

Holiday Pandemonium

Quick skating scene. 

On a lilly pad of a rink.  

Union Square San Francisco

PoP Music

Francoise Hardy

film star: Francoise Hardy
I want that microphone

South West Holiday Explosion

12 inch Lamp

Small ceramic table lamp $19.99 

Ebay Auction 3-day

French Fringe Epaullette

steep $249 Ebay Auction 3-days 

TEA TIME

BY: DOMESTIC CONSTRUCTION

Not Your Grandma's China

BANG...BANG...BANG

HAND PAINTED PORCELAIN PAINTED PISTOLS

IN STYLE OF CHINA PATTERNS

LETHAL ELEGANCE

BY: YVONNE LEE SCHULTZ (2006)

Wallet Options: Hlaska

Astronomical Celestial Wallet

Blue, Black color options $125

night sky final frontier

Embossed Wood Grain Wallet

Tan, Brown, Black color options $125

knot your normal wallet

BY: HLASKA

...more faux wood grain...

Injected Molded Plastics

vintage mousetrap cheese plate 13 x 7.5 inches

unusual quirky graphic

nice faux woodgrain

How Do You Measure Up?

a look at vintage measuring tapes

Lufkin Rule Co. No. 066

formed into star shape

PAT.NO. 1,829,975

DIAL tape measure 50 FT.

Winds up like an old rotary phone.

patent pending

(...a long time ago...)

...tape lamps below...

Measuring Lamps

by industrial designer Chrissy Angliker.  

stumbled upon these researching vintage monterey furniture...

...radomness...

Once Upon A Spy (1980)

An inspirational Segway from BlowUp! 

Nice shadowdancing tease!

I've always appreciated this cat and canary labyrinth challenge.  From the light board in the foreground, to the graphic of the maze, to the jumpsuits.  The trap door is a definite bonus as well as the feathered hair! Early use of handsfree headset too!

"Well (pause) Brahilda it's like this when the cat's away!"

...spy style photos below...

BlowUp Inspired Photos

Autumn a departure from California.

yes, this is Conneticut

...had to take the first shot...reminded me of BlowUp!

...later that weekend...the second shot!

...Alex, Emily, Marissa!

1966 | 1999 BlowUP Simulcast

Side x side movie vs reality. 

a diptic a tricktic

cryptical envelopment 

Vintage | Contemporary

...the trailer to this film...amazing!

BlowUp! Theatrical Trailer

Sometimes reality is the strangest fantasy of all!

Antonioni's camera never finches at 

love (pause) without meaning

murder (pause) without guilt

yes, the beautiful and bizarre!

taking on new forms!

new fascinations!

reminds me of a song...

...keep feeling fascination...

...a fascinating scene below...

BlowUp Scene: Ostrich Feathers

wait for it...

excellent at the 24 and 33 second mark!

This film truly, highlights ...

"The exquisite richness and beauty of the Ostrich plume."

From Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 masterpiece BlowUp

reminds me of Cawston's Ostrich Farm...

More Cawston Ostrich!

Ebay Auction: Buy it Now price $80.00.  With original box from Cawston Ostrich Farm. 

...Ostrich in So. Calif...

Ebay Shopping: Cawston Ostrich Feather

 Up for auction on Ebay is a lot of 7-vintage Ostrich feathers.  Including this off-white plume above.  It still retains its original "CAWSTON" label.  Cawston had botiques selling Ostrich plume products in every major city in the U.S.  They even had a repair department "old plumes may appear more valuable than apparent."  If you sent them your old feathers, they would clean, repair, re-dye and suggest ways  fashioning them into different products. Bids for this lot sit at $6.59.  Ending in 2 days! Shipping is $3.00 within the U.S. 

king of birds below...

...small brain...a pea brain...

King Of Birds!

"In the midst of wild oak, palm, and orange trees, with flowers on every hand, the ostrich has resumed his natural traits and habits - interesting, educational and amusing to watch."

"...four days after hatching the baby ostrich goes without food.  ...begins to eat gravel, alfalfa, grain, oranges, vegetables, and from time to time, small rocks and other hard substances as an aid to digestion."

"In no case are plumes plucked. They are clipped close to the skin by an absolute harmless process."  The brochure reassures me: "Only the wing and tail feathers from the male birds are taken." Whew.

 "... Audobon society thoroughly approves and heartily endorses the use of ostrich feathers in millinery purposes."

Regards to the ostrich plume:

"... no other article of adornment more popular...sought by royalty and beauty-lovers of all nations..."

original postcard next...

Part curiosity, part oddity, part roadside attraction, part- victorian, part- early California, the Ostrich is just strange and unusual.  I picked up this lot of items for $3.00.   It has unleashed a can of worms full of tangents and references.

Dear Rena,

I am in Pasadena - you know the Rose Bowl and parade. I will write and tell you more later.

Potsy

Cannot read the date on the above card. An Ameilia sent the below item to Rena.  Did Amelia and Potsy visit the farm together? Or were they sent to Rena at different times, then stored together by Rena?

Ostrich Farm 1929

click to enlarge and read the well-appointed captions

"the happy family"

"the incubator showing a new arrival"

"Ostrich chicks"

"all ages"

"fighting ostriches"
 "prize winners" (personal favorite)

"the factory"
"feeding oranges to the ostriches"

"dying the plumes"

"dye room"

written on top flap of booklet:

"Visited this place today

will tell you all about it

keep this folder"

Amelia.

size of each booklet image: 3.25 in. x 4.25 in. 

...inspired some research...

...uncovered this...

Ostrich Farms!

Cawston Ostrich Farm

with postcard animation!

1898 -1930?

Particularly noteworthy in the film... the creation of animation from historic postcards.  Cawston Ostrich Farm. The biggest and best Ostrich farm in the U.S.  All other Ostrich farms in the day attempted to emulate Cawston's Ostrich Farm.    

...smarter animal below...

Siamese

Vintage Siamese photos I picked up for a friend.

Paints For Every Purpose

A kitchen in jade and maize.

A girl's room in shell pink and sea foam.

An unusual bathroom in apricot and palest blue.

A bathroom in daffodil tints.

W.P. Fuller and CO. Modern decorating ideas from "The House of Color" 

Vintage Idea Pamphlets

makes me think welcome to the dollhouse...

Sacro Bosco dei Mostri Part II

I found this 1980 LP from an Ebay search of completed listings for "Bomarzo".  I am curious what the LP sounds like.  Continued from my earlier post about a visit to the garden where this ogre resides.  

Giant Lilly Pad

click to enlarge

 Giant Lily Pad Post Card 

12-21-1937

Dear Rena,

I have arrived in Los Angeles. What a thrill, today i saw Lily Pons - or was it lily ponds.  Well I must go now and find some more excitement here. 

Potsy

Roma 60 Fotografie

click image set to enlarge!

mini cards are 3.5" x 2.5"

picked up this set of 60 images for $3.00!

appear to be actual mini photographs!

click image set to enlarge!

original paper packaging!

violence below....