Flag Burner / Torch Bearer

Chap-books of the eighteenth century, 1882

William Mortensen, Off For The Sabbot, 1927.

Resonance

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Some Muppet items: a few behind the scenes shots, one featuring a fugitive from Star Wars, and Kermit and Fozzie with Presbyterians.

Pre-Columbian masks from Central/South America.

Collaborated with Taro Okamoto , 7 mural paintings

“L’ultra-meuble” by Kurt Seligmann, exhibited at the Paris Surrealist Exhibition, 1938

1962

Julie Adams and Ricou Browning in Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

A sense of dread permeates the work of Lieko Shiga as if we are privy to a pagan ritual in some secret village in Japan. What she has achieved during her extended stay in Kitakama is a dreamlike fable of a coastal community tainted by the ghosts of the recent tsunami. Deeply unnerving stuff.

by Mike Chiechi

The only thing that rivalled my love of Sesame Street when I was a kid, was the Muppets; the only thing that could compete with the Muppets was Fraggle Rock. They populated the bright, colorful surface of Jim Henson’s world; below, underground, there were darker things going on: Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, the Storyteller. They were made with the same care, the same passion, the same philosophy. It’s not often you find someone who has both artistic integrity and a talent for business, a dedication to quality and smart commercial instincts, who’s equally famous for bad puns and lingering words of wisdom. But Jim’s magnificent spirit contained all of this and more, and today, if my blog could hand out a Medal of Weirdland to someone, Jim Henson would receive one.

Penguin sci-fi covers by Italian artist, Franco Grignani (1908-1999). 1969-70.