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Behind the Scenes with David Karp Chris Crisman Photography
February 13, 2012
Tumbling on success: How Tumblr’s David Karp built a £500 million empire (Wired UK) Photograph by Chris Crisman lilly: Fantastic photo of our man David Karp from this month’s UK Wired cover story. This is basically what Tumblr board meetings are like. :-P john: buzz: Forget the scooter shots—this is the best photo of David ever. (via alittlespace) Agreed
February 2, 2012
Tumbling on success: How Tumblr’s David Karp built a £500 million empire (Wired UK)
Photograph by Chris Crisman
Fantastic photo of our man David Karp from this month’s UK Wired cover story.
This is basically what Tumblr board meetings are like. :-P
john:
buzz:
Forget the scooter shots—this is the best photo of David ever.
(via alittlespace)
Agreed
My Imprint Roundup. I started reading Steve Heller’s piece on the amazing poster archive of Yiddish theatre placards at the New York Public Library Digital Archive (which I’d never heard about), and about the only thing I could figure to complain about was that they’re not on tumblr. But, because I really like graphic design, and I’ve been too busy lately to catch up with my favorite sites, The Daily Heller led me to browse a little bit on its home site. Imprint is a blog from Print Magazine where dozens of smart writers and artists share their interests of the moment and it’s the place I like to peruse when my brain opens up enough to let the great in. If you’re a careful reader of my blog you’ll recall Steve’s name, but their index will also lead you to animation community stalwarts like JJ Sedelmaier or John Canemaker writing about animation, sure, but also the wider aperture of their interests. My own perusing today led me to a couple of other cool posts. Ellen Shapiro had a piece on a free show in New York about the great Life Magazine photographers. And my collection of posters from Hatch Show Print in Nashville has my radar up, so Gail Anderson (a wonderful designer) writing about Greenwich Letterpress caught my attention too. Check out Imprint if you have a little time, you’ll have some fun.
December 23, 2011
My Imprint Roundup.
I started reading Steve Heller’s piece on the amazing poster archive of Yiddish theatre placards at the New York Public Library Digital Archive (which I’d never heard about), and about the only thing I could figure to complain about was that they’re not on tumblr.
But, because I really like graphic design, and I’ve been too busy lately to catch up with my favorite sites, The Daily Heller led me to browse a little bit on its home site. Imprint is a blog from Print Magazine where dozens of smart writers and artists share their interests of the moment and it’s the place I like to peruse when my brain opens up enough to let the great in.
If you’re a careful reader of my blog you’ll recall Steve’s name, but their index will also lead you to animation community stalwarts like JJ Sedelmaier or John Canemaker writing about animation, sure, but also the wider aperture of their interests.
My own perusing today led me to a couple of other cool posts. Ellen Shapiro had a piece on a free show in New York about the great Life Magazine photographers. And my collection of posters from Hatch Show Print in Nashville has my radar up, so Gail Anderson (a wonderful designer) writing about Greenwich Letterpress caught my attention too.
Check out Imprint if you have a little time, you’ll have some fun.
I played electric organ in a high school cover band, but that can’t be the argument for why everyone else likes the Hammond organ in jazz and R&B. Jimmy Smith is the reason. From the postcard back: Original Jazz Heroes Jimmy Smith (& Stanley Turrentine) February 8, 1963 @ Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ Photography by Francis Wolff www.frdr.us/fwolff Series 15.6, mailed October 10, 2011 Postcard ©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc. Photograph ©2011, courtesy of Mosaic Editions. All rights reserved.
October 11, 2011
I played electric organ in a high school cover band, but that can’t be the argument for why everyone else likes the Hammond organ in jazz and R&B. Jimmy Smith is the reason.
From the postcard back:
Original Jazz Heroes
Jimmy Smith (& Stanley Turrentine)
February 8, 1963
@ Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Photography by Francis Wolff
www.frdr.us/fwolff
Series 15.6, mailed October 10, 2011
Postcard ©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc. Photograph ©2011, courtesy of Mosaic Editions. All rights reserved.
Ornette Coleman turned me on to traditional jazz. It might have been The Tony Williams Lifetime that started me off, but Tony had John McLaughlin’s electric guitar as his primary voice, and that was familiar from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Ornette might have been thought by some as an avant-garde scorge, but to my rock ears, his alto saxophone (plus trumpet, acoustic bass, and drums) was pretty and warm, and not a little connected to the blues that I’d been listening to. He added the traditional jazz sounds into my synapes, and even though I immediately gravitated towards Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, and their contemporaries, it wasn’t long before I was delving backwards into the 20th century for more. I haven’t said too much about the Francis Wolff color photography we’ve been using in this postcard series. Frank, like most other famous jazz photographers, is better known for the ‘classic’ jazz look of his black and white work that adorned the famous Blue Note album covers. But, I must say, to my eyes, the amazing thing about his color is that it retained the complete jazz mood that the B&W’s did, while adding incredible textures; they completely retained the feeling of his older shots. It’s beautifully evident in the Ornette shots because of his fashion penchant for contrasting his brown skin with particularly vibrant colors. From the postcard back: Original Jazz Heroes Ornette Coleman April 29, 1968 @ A&R Recording, New York, NY Photography by Francis Wolff www.frdr.us/fwolff Series 15.5, mailed out July 27, 2011 Postcard ©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc. Photograph ©2011, courtesy of Mosaic Editions. All rights reserved.
July 27, 2011
Ornette Coleman turned me on to traditional jazz. It might have been The Tony Williams Lifetime that started me off, but Tony had John McLaughlin’s electric guitar as his primary voice, and that was familiar from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.
Ornette might have been thought by some as an avant-garde scorge, but to my rock ears, his alto saxophone (plus trumpet, acoustic bass, and drums) was pretty and warm, and not a little connected to the blues that I’d been listening to. He added the traditional jazz sounds into my synapes, and even though I immediately gravitated towards Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, and their contemporaries, it wasn’t long before I was delving backwards into the 20th century for more.
I haven’t said too much about the Francis Wolff color photography we’ve been using in this postcard series. Frank, like most other famous jazz photographers, is better known for the ‘classic’ jazz look of his black and white work that adorned the famous Blue Note album covers. But, I must say, to my eyes, the amazing thing about his color is that it retained the complete jazz mood that the B&W’s did, while adding incredible textures; they completely retained the feeling of his older shots. It’s beautifully evident in the Ornette shots because of his fashion penchant for contrasting his brown skin with particularly vibrant colors.
From the postcard back:
Original Jazz Heroes
Ornette Coleman April 29, 1968
@ A&R Recording, New York, NY
Photography by Francis Wolff
www.frdr.us/fwolff
Series 15.5, mailed out July 27, 2011
Postcard ©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc. Photograph ©2011, courtesy of Mosaic Editions. All rights reserved.
Coming of age in the 60s I got hit square in my brains with the blues revival. So, after producing records in the 70s by Mississippi Fred McDowell, Johnny Woods, and Charles Walker & the New York City Blues Band, it seemed like the right time to add to the Frederator enterprises with our crossroads store, bar, juke joint, and gas station in Melrose, Louisiana 1944, near Natchitiches. Mash up with a 1944 photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, courtesy of the FSA/OWI Collection at the Library of Congress. The original is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsac.1a34361. Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Collection. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. From the postcard back: Congratulations! You are one of 200 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard! www.frederator.com An alternative History of Frederator The Headquarters Mash up with a 1944, Library of Congress photograph Series 14.5, mailed July 20, 2011 ©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
July 20, 2011
Coming of age in the 60s I got hit square in my brains with the blues revival. So, after producing records in the 70s by Mississippi Fred McDowell, Johnny Woods, and Charles Walker & the New York City Blues Band, it seemed like the right time to add to the Frederator enterprises with our crossroads store, bar, juke joint, and gas station in Melrose, Louisiana 1944, near Natchitiches.
Mash up with a 1944 photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, courtesy of the FSA/OWI Collection at the Library of Congress.
The original is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsac.1a34361. Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Collection. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
From the postcard back:
Congratulations!
You are one of 200 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!
www.frederator.com
An alternative History of Frederator
The Headquarters
Mash up with a 1944, Library of Congress photograph
Series 14.5, mailed July 20, 2011
©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
Louis Armstrong was the most famous American artist in the world. For many great reasons. Mainly his ability to convey happiness to anyone who ever listened. Photographer William Gottlieb was a New York journalist who turned out to become one of the most important chroniclers of jazz in the period after World War II. Hundreds of his photographs have been donated to the Library of Congress, where we graciously zeroed in on this one of Pops. From the postcard back: Original Jazz Heroes Louis Armstrong @ The New York Aquarium, NYC 1946 Photography by William Gottlieb www.jazzphotos.com Frederator Postcard Series 15.4, mailed June 28, 2011 Postcard ©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress. www.loc.gov
June 29, 2011
Louis Armstrong was the most famous American artist in the world. For many great reasons. Mainly his ability to convey happiness to anyone who ever listened.
Photographer William Gottlieb was a New York journalist who turned out to become one of the most important chroniclers of jazz in the period after World War II. Hundreds of his photographs have been donated to the Library of Congress, where we graciously zeroed in on this one of Pops.
From the postcard back:
Original Jazz Heroes
Louis Armstrong
@ The New York Aquarium, NYC 1946
Photography by William Gottlieb
www.jazzphotos.com
Frederator Postcard Series 15.4, mailed June 28, 2011
Postcard ©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
Photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress. www.loc.gov
As the Frederator ice cream stands and restaurants prospered we started buying up McDonald’s franchises to fund our productions. A lot of people are asking about these “alternative history” postcards. I kind of feel they speak for themselves, yes? From the postcard back: Congratulations! You are one of 200 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard! www.frederator.com An alternative History of Frederator The Headquarters Mash up with a historical McDonald’s photograph Series 14.4, mailed out on June 22, 2011 ©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
June 22, 2011
As the Frederator ice cream stands and restaurants prospered we started buying up McDonald’s franchises to fund our productions.
A lot of people are asking about these “alternative history” postcards. I kind of feel they speak for themselves, yes?
From the postcard back:
Congratulations!
You are one of 200 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!
www.frederator.com
An alternative History of Frederator
The Headquarters
Mash up with a historical McDonald’s photograph
Series 14.4, mailed out on June 22, 2011
©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
Larry Young played the coolest jazz organ…
June 1, 2011
…a cross between the standard bearing of Jimmy Smith and the modern sheets of John Coltrane’s blues. I copped to him as part of the original Tony Williams Lifetime, trio’d with Tony’s explosive traps and John McLaughlin’s Hendrix translations into jazz. As a rock organist with Felix Cavaliere as model, my brain just imploded.
More Frederator postcards: Series 1-15
…..
From the postcard back:
Original Jazz Heroes
Larry Young
February 7, 1969 @ Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Photography by Francis Wolff
www.frdr.us/fwolff
Series 15.3, mailed June 1, 2011
Postcard ©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc.
Photograph ©2011, courtesy of Mosaic Editions. All rights reserved.
Tony Williams: Frederator Postcards Series 15.2
May 11, 2011
Tony’s the reason I listen to jazz. Honestly, at first it all sounded like cocktail music to me. Then in late 1969 I read a Lester Bangs Rolling Stone review (it’s not online, unfortunately; this one of Miles Davis “In A Silent Way” is pretty good though) of “Emergency!” where he said:
“This is the kind of album that gives you faith in the future of music. It’s not rock and roll but it’s nothing stereotyped as jazz either. It’s part of a transcendental new music which flushes categories away.”
How could I resist?
Every time my best friend and I played about two minutes of it we felt like puking. Noise!
We couldn’t hear that he was taking his winnings from Miles Davis’ second quintet, doubling down, and reinventing music.
(The rest of the story with the next postcard in the series.)
More Frederator postcards: Series 1-15
…..
From the postcard back:
Congratulations!
You are one of 200 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!
www.frederator.com
Original Jazz Heroes
Tony Williams
@ Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Photography by Francis Wolff
www.frdr.us/fwolff
Series 15.2, mailed May 11, 2011
Postcard ©2011, Bellport Cartoon Company, Inc. Photograph ©2011, courtesy of Mosaic Editions. All rights reserved.
