Waaaay back in the late 1990s, my friends and I were addicted to Sifl and Olly, MTV’s late-night sock puppet comedy show. (Well, some of my friends. Sifl and Olly turned out to be a real lightning rod: either you loved it or loathed it).
Anyway, the creators of that show (Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco) also made a comedy album called History of America?lampooning America’s gilded past. Their “Ansel Adams’ Theme Song” stands out as the most absurd, uh, “interpretation” of Adams’ “historic” legacy. More than legendary photographer, Adams attains super-heroic status. Sample lyrics:
Who at the age of 10 built Cincinatti … Ansel Adams! Who put American flags on all the dolphin’s dorsal fins … Ansel Adams!
This incredible piece of photographic history is up for auction if anyone has a a few hundred thousand euro they’ve been saving for a rainy day (starting bid is €200,000; it is expected to fetch between €500,000 and €700,000).
“The wooden sliding-box camera was made in Paris in September 1839 by Alphonse Giroux, the brother in [...]
This week’s Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling is doubly awesome: it’s an edition of the recurring “Super-Fun-Pak Comix” (a favorite of mine; mostly hysterical meta-jokes about comic strip cliches) and it includes a great send-up of “fine art” in general.
[ Link: Tom the Dancing Bug at Salon.com ]
Ah, the internet. Home to all sorts of wild speculation and misinformation. Photography history rarely has a part to play in the crazier claims, but I happened upon this doozy not long ago:
Click through to the article (hosted a site whose top articles are currently 10 Bizarre Pairs of Underwear and 10 Weird Diseases) and [...]
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