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It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.

 
 
 
 

Archive for November, 2006

Mochi in B&W

It’s unfair that Mochi is the only one of my main characters who hasn’t got her own page yet. To compensate that, here are some pictures of Mochi as a pinto pup. What do you think, should she appear in blackface or should she remain lilywhite? I think it has certain optical advantages that her [...]

Music, War and Nationalism

I have posted a small review of Laibach’s latest album Volk in Yellow Peril. An in-depth review is available in Finnish for those who frequent Lassen Purkki.
Inspired by that iconoclastic industrial band from Slovenia (where some gruesome battlegrounds from the Great War are located), I drew an anti-propaganda poster of Falco in the battle of [...]

Comedian Harmonists

The Comedian Harmonists were the greatest German “boy band” of the late 1920’s-early 1930’s. Unfortunately, when Hitler came to power, they were forced to split up, because many of the members were Jewish and weren’t allowed to work in Germany anymore. This is yet another aspect of the destruction that the Nazis wrought on Germany’s [...]

Joséphine Baker Videos!!

Found at YouTube.com. Enjoy some jazz age vibes in my mixed-media blog Yellow Peril.

More Goldenbird?

I’m working on it… But take a look at these nice old sketches meanwhile.