John Lennon play-by-play from my 1980 calendar

December 8th:


and happier days, back in June, after Junior High:







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May The Furs Be With You

"On occasion, I have been called upon to perform unexpected functions in circumstances which would have appalled my designers" 

- See Threepio

A rather awesome, if nonsensical, editorial from Vogue, 1977

starring Jerry Hall, C3P0, Darth Vader, Jawas, Snaggletooth, and Stormtroopers- in the shop.

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Luke Skywalker in Frank Gehry's Awesome Kitchen, c. 1978

Watch for young Skywalker during the mustache talk- first with an X-Wing, then with the more civilized light saber. 

I love how casual these Michael Blackwood films are.

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Episode VII

just a thought...

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Debbie Harry, Eric Idle, Lauren Hutton and Princess Leia

Cool people hanging out together, 1982.

 from Monty Python's Autobiography.

Considering this v-neck and no shirt look this fall... (but not the medallion)

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Back to school

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New Blue Review

Some blue things in our shop, including: 

Collection of Vintage Dansk Kobenstyle Pots and Pans, made in France.

Vintage 1989 Nike Lava Hiking Boots, for a 6 month old.

1930's Modernist Workwear Crazy Quilt

Vintage Furry Caterpillar Hand Puppet

1974 Pelican Yoga book

A print of my painting, Bear

The Wary Meyers Shop

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Game of Thronesian Doorstops

and I just now noticed the Jawa...

John's Snow & Neally axe heads/objects/simple machines in our shop.

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Random things in the back hallway

A bear rug from 1905, our version of an Italian radical lamp, and a giant letter P (upsidedown).

related:
an ambitious project from the book Wary Meyers' Tossed & Found :

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Smithson: My father is whaaa??

(too funny. click for credits)

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Alexander Calder constellations

Some constellation wall sculptures by Alexander Calder. I scanned these from the book Calder's Universe, meaning to relate them to the Zolo toys, but amongst the Ettore Sottsass buzz I completely forgot. Anyway, aren't these awesome? My thought was how fun would it be to do this with the Zolos? They already have holes drilled in them, so all you'd need is wire (or a thin dowel), and velcro (to keep it in place on a wall), and you'd end up with something like a "Memphis splat". And a way of actually utilizing the Zolos instead of keeping them sequestered away until the age of non-choking-hazard/non-banging-them-on-the-table comes around.
For that matter you could do this with any wooden toy- the Calder above the fireplace somewhat resembles one of those wooden Pinnochio figures, or a Kay Bojesen soldier. Although if you'd do this on a child's wall I guess it should remain in the abstract.



Also, the Breuer's Constellation (middle photo) makes me want to build an orrery, even a strange Sci-Fi one, like a Star Wars orrery, with two suns, Alderaan, Endor, Death Star....




and below, from Portfolio Magazine, 1950:

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3263827 (empty)

This is a painting I did as an idea for the cover of our book Tossed & Found, wherein die-cut photos of some of the projects would be floating in front of it in a clear plastic cover, referencing the book Italy: The New Domestic Landscape and of course the Death Star trash compactor #3263827.

It would've been awesome, but unfortunately it turned out to be too expensive to produce and (likely) far too obscure to understand.

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Greek

This awesome painting was bought by my in-laws at an estate sale in Florida and arrived via giant tube in our mail last week. Painted by Alex Tavoularis (brother of Dean Tavoularis), who's got an IMDB page so cool you'd expect nothing less than a cute nude blonde crawling around his floor: locations for Coppola's 1974 "The Conversation", art department on The Godfather 2 and 3, production illustrator of Apocalypse Now and half a dozen other Coppola films, designer of the "Taarna" segment of Heavy Metal, the early Star Wars storyboards, etc...

I'm not sure what the story is with the painting, but she could conceivably be anyone: a Playboy Bunny from Apocalypse Now, a girlfriend from Laurel Canyon, a waitress from Marathon, a scuba diver from Key Largo modeling a Taarna look, Teri Garr... but unless informed otherwise I'm going to assume she's most likely an early concept for Princess Leia.

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