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.
This image is based on a French illustration that was one of the first inspirations for the visual look of Goldenbird.
Lou’s skirt pattern is from a sample of art deco patterns found on the web but probably from this book, and Mayann’s skirt pattern comes from some old Tuscan tapestry.
Great illustrated article about the entertainment industry, sensationalist media and censorship in the 1920’s:
http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/Vanities/
Featuring: Ziegfeld Follies, chorus girls, Nita Naldi, bathing beauties, Louise Brooks, “Anything Goes”, Buster Keaton, Tarzan and the Sheik, cocaine, murder, Woodbury’s soap, American Intelligence vs. Anglo-Saxon Civilization.
See also: The E Pluribus Unum Project
Today it’s so sunny and annoyingly nice weather than I must celebrate the spring (for spring IS coming yet, I hope) with the awesomely naughty work of Chéri Hérouard, born Chéri-Louis-Marie-Aimé - aw… Words are unnecessary. In some ways I suppose Goldenbird will be a “hommage à ce simple hérault de la frivolité gauloise”, as [...]
Ur skämttidningen Garm, Helsingfors 1926/3. Mina favoriter:
“En italienare - en glad gosse. Två italienare - en diskussion. Tre italienare - tre politiska partier.”
“En tysk - en arbetskarl. Två tyskar - ett värdshus. Tre tyskar - ett krig.”
“En rysse - ett mysterium. Två ryssar - en bomb. Tre ryssar - en ruinhög.”
Undrar vem som kom på [...]
Whatever the Argentinians might say, the tango is considered the essence of Finnishness in Finland. The fashion dance of the 1910’s was first introduced in Helsinki by a Danish couple, who danced at the Hotel Börs in 1913. Paradoxically, the first Finnish-language tango song was a parody of the tango craze, which was seen as [...]