David Photos
January 31st, 2009 @ 20:24Posted by: Hillary
After seven months of ownership, we finally got the swing set anchored and mulched!We thought you would enjoy the smiles!
Lots of love! Hillary & Mitch & David
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email2friendArchive for January, 2009
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email2friendBoycott the Super Bowl!
January 30th, 2009 @ 22:04Posted by: John
There’s a birthday party for Glenn Allan on Sunday at 2:00 at Oma Gruene’s Secret Biergarten. Glenn will CRUSH the Super Bowl because…. they do not have The Dunkel. They claim that a 30 second ad is worth 3 million, we say a Dunkel is worth 50 million! (Just be sure to ask for your $49,999,996.00 Glenn Allan discount!). Such a deal! There will be a P.A. setup and we’ll be hootennanyin’ all afternoon and then end up at Riley’s for the rest of the night. Here’s a map to Oma’s.
Come on, the Super Bowl has nobody playing in it that you know! You know everybody playin’ in the Glenn Bowl!
I never liked the Super Bowl because
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email2friendA Post from Dilbert!
January 30th, 2009 @ 07:29Posted by: John Whipple Sr.
Dreamgirls and Ukes
January 28th, 2009 @ 23:18Posted by: Jimmie
From Amy Crehore,
“… these are fully restored antique ukes, most from the 1920’s and 1930’s. Some are rare, some near mint, some are brand names. All playable. They will all be set up by a luthier, but they are also hand-painted (by me) fine art objects which will hang next to my paintings in the gallery setting.”
email2friendHow Netflix Got Started
January 28th, 2009 @ 20:56Posted by: Jimmie
From Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings: “The genesis of Netflix came in 1997 when I got this late fee, about $40, for Apollo 13. I remember the fee because I was embarrassed about it. That was back in the VHS days, and it got me thinking that there’s a big market out there.
So I started to investigate the idea of how to create a movie-rental business by mail. I didn’t know about DVDs, and then a friend of mine told me they were coming. I ran out to Tower Records in Santa Cruz, Calif., and mailed CDs to myself, just a disc in an envelope. It was a long 24 hours until the mail arrived back at my house, and I ripped them open and they were all in great shape. That was the big excitement point. ”
We LOVE Netflix!
email2friendHistory of Recession
January 28th, 2009 @ 19:32Posted by: John
I thought this was a well put together interface for these short audio presentations. Click a segment and the audio will play. Keynesian economics is basically the idea behind the bailout – tinkering with the steering wheel to try to keep the 1,000 foot long barge from hitting the bridge. That’s right there in front of us. Even if you don’t have time to listen to each recording (do though, they’re great), take a glance at the timeline. What do we really have to complain about? We’ve had relatively short periods of
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email2friendWay to Go, Casey!
January 27th, 2009 @ 21:34Posted by: Jimmie
Interesting Volkswagen Picture at the Wolfsburg factory 1953
January 27th, 2009 @ 20:22Posted by: John Whipple Sr.
Small Wonder! Designed for a five member family and giving an honest 30mpg on regular gas without trying. Top speed of 71 mph. down hill only and 60mph up!
Many of the cars you see here lasted to over a million miles, because they weren’t “throw away” models. Every one was worth fixing.
email2friendHappy Birthday Ann-Mom!
January 27th, 2009 @ 07:40Posted by: John
recognize Ray Whipple?
January 27th, 2009 @ 01:07Posted by: John
it’s a shame that even the most basic information on Raymond Whipple, Sr. isn’t available on the Internet. He had too much of a humble nature to do any real self promotion and that didn’t leave a trail for the Internet to easily pick up on. He left a trail of incredible art, it’s just not accredited to him. But, hundreds of thousands of copies of each piece were printed and those magazines are out there and we can gather some of it up. There are collectors who take those ads out and sell them. Here’s a guy in Norman Rockwell’s league talentwise, a person Rockwell knew and respected. Commercial artists all over the world could recognize his style on sight and were influenced by him. During the golden age, every last American saw his art just about every time they opened a major magazine or newspaper. There just wasn’t ever a byline or a credit to him. I know that Dad and Renee and Jimmie and others can recognize his work; help me by searching around and seeing what you can find and we’ll post it. I found about twenty like the ones above on a Greyhound memorabilia site. You have to look close, Granddad had a whole art department working under him and they worked in this style. People at other major agencies copied his style. But most of it he did himself, you can see him in the watercolor methods he perfected and in the colors he used and in his lettering. These two I’m putting up above are him for sure. He did historic stuff for lots of companies but he did literally hundreds of these super cool Greyhound pieces – they’re probably the easiest to authenticate. Granddad believed in Greyhound as one of the greatest companies in America and he was a VIP with them. When they built terminals and designed buses, they ran it by him to make sure it fit with the artist statement of the company. Anything that was done in the years he was in Cleveland it came through him. That was a classic relationship, it’s a great loss to culture that artists aren’t respected and included in the process like that anymore. Things wouldn’t have to be so flat. He had a different but similar relationship with Charles Revson. What I’d love to find are some of the Revlon ads he did. He did the ads that made Revson one of the richest men in the country. Like those famous two page centerfolds of the giant lips. Andy Warhol said those ads were an influence to him. That stuff is historic and it’s a shame we don’t have big framed reproductions of it.
email2friendthis has Whippleworld written all over it
January 26th, 2009 @ 12:05Posted by: By Email
[smiley]
how can you afford to do that without any ads?
Are you going to go?
