Bruce Lacey

Bruce Lacey Rituals

Started Again

I've no idea what this image is. Just found it in my thumbnails.

Daily Doodles

Sketchbook pages - "daily doodles" group on FB.

Making Stuff From Junk

Since the Corona virus lockdown I have been making recycled kitchen packets, bottles, toilet roll tubes etc. plus papier mache into colourful objects to pass the time. Here are a few to date. #staysafe

Bernd Lobach 1988

Nice collection of old beer bottle caps ( I assume ) from a German artist who I corresponded with back in the 80's. This photo courtesy of H.R.Fricker ( in his collection ?).

The Flying Alberts

Some great British eccentrics headed by Bruce Lacey back in the 60's.

Love In

Collage for the latest theme at The Kollage Kit  =

http://kollagekit.blogspot.com/

Clown Wars

Scary Doorbell

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Dali's Wonderland

Kosmo Vinyl Kollages

1970s/80s music industry maverick Kosmo Vinyl is now an artist working under the pseudonym Andy Pepper and produces collages in New York based the football results of West Ham.

More here:
http://www.paulgormanis.com/?p=8009#more-8009
and here:
http://issaitchyerdaddy.blogspot.co.uk/

Children's Playing Cards

Some novelty playing cards found at car boot sale today to add to our collection.  Lovely printing process and colours.  Shame they are so battered!  They have obviously been well thumbed over the years.

Rowland Emmett

Rowland Emmett, a great British eccentric, cartoonist and automata maker . His machines featured in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and his Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway was a highlight of the 1952 Festival of Britain in Battersea Park.

Souvenir Leporellos

Found a big bunch of souvenir leporellos online and could´nt resist! They are gorgeous! The cutest are definitly the little ones (1 cent coin for size comparison). Now I can go snipping!

Bonobo - Cirrus

Found a great “50ies-Collage-Music-Video” and would like to share with you:

Bonobo - Cirrus

Found Photos

More photos from the boot sale last weekend bought for a few pennies.  The top one was taken in Egypt in 1944.  RAF  I am reliably told.  The bottom two are from the seaside but no info given.  I love all the hats and the casual way some are lolling about. Note also the boy with a sailing boat and the drying swimsuit in the bottom one.

Postcard-Leporello

I found a postcard-leporello from my grandfather – a souvenir from a trip to the Black Forest 1939.

Stamp Drops

Old Fruit Bags

I bought these at the auto-jumble in Llandudno over the Victorian Extravaganza weekend.  The weather was awful that day we went round the vintage vehicles just outside of town so we didn't stay as long as we hoped. We didn't see much of the old cars or motorbikes.  The rows and rows of chugging stationary engines are always fun to watch and it  amuses me ( and Hazel too ) how the owners sit very proudly behind them in their deckchairs - getting up occasionally to adjust a valve or pour water into a tank or tinker in some way.   The auto jumble is the most fun part for me - rummaging through piles of junk, mostly car parts, but also antiques of various kinds. Things you would never expect - like these packets pf old fruit bags from some dusty corner of a warehouse recently discovered  and bundled up to sell off cheap.  Well, not that cheap - the label said £5  but I got them for £3 - about 50p a bag.

Lard

trade card, circa 1880s