Dull Tool Dim Bulb

Jim Linderman blog about surface, wear, form and authenticity in self-taught art, outsider art, antique american folk art, antiques and photography.

Good Neighbor Policy Mexico US Border RPPC

I woke to read the banner headline "Obama: Troop move to Mexican border under consideration." It appears the assault weapons we...

Scarface Smokes (Horrors in Wax #4)

Wax Crime Czar Al Capone enjoys a last fat one as he ferries to Alcatraz while chained to his escort. Known to his friends as "Snork...

Gene Bilbrew African-American Artist of Vintage Sleaze (part two)

African-American illustrator and artist Eugene Bilbrew was born in Sunny L.A. in 1924. As with most of the illustrators I hope to profil...

The Dead Horse Investigation (Forensic Photo Analysis)

What can you tell from this old photograph of a dead horse? PLENTY, as shown in the new book "The Dead Horse Investigation: Forensic P...

Mrs. Albert Friedrich's Rattle Snake Deer

Life size deer made of 657 Texas Rattle Snake Rattles "the patient and artistic work" of Mrs. Albert Friedrich, San Antonio Texas....

Rev. Anderson Johnson Artist Singer Preacher

The congregation of Reverend Elder Bishop Anderson Johnson numbered in the thousands, but they were virtually all painted by the preacher hi...

Wallace the Dictator Box Set

I have some friends who create the most beautiful box sets of sound recordings, and I mean truly beautiful works of art by any standard. On...

Three Original Sponge Bobs

Must be HOT in these suits, note tacky air-conditioner and wire next to the fellow in the middle here. Some "museum." Sponges are ...

Another Bob (Horrors in Wax #3)

Say...isn't that something? Bob "Ski-Nose" Hope's head packed securely for a trip to the wax museum back room. Mr. Ho...

Incongruity Tintype The Painted Backdrop

Not Harmonious. Lacking Propriety. Incompatible. Incoherent and Illogical. Those are dictionary entries. "That's just wrong...

The Devil has the whole world Hypnotized Tract (let)

What is smaller than a Tract? A TRACTLET! A one page version of the small booklet warnings you'll remember finding on your windshield ...

Rev. N. T. Rucker Brown's Holy Chapel

Unknown Location, American South c. 1995 Original 35mm photo collection Jim Linderman

Color if you like Draw if you like

Crayola comes from the French words for chalk (craie) and oily (oleaginous) which were joined in1903 by Alice Stead Binney, wife of industr...

Split Silk Baptist Church

Original 35mm Photo Between Atlanta and Athens, GA c. 1995 Collection Jim Linderman

Dull Tool Dim Bulb's Greatest Hits art photography culture humor

JUMBO PICTURE ARCHIVE (click the Blue for Dull Tool Dim Bulb Greatest Hits compilation, watch as slideshow)

1954 "Ten in One" Circus Sideshow Banner Photographs At the Circus in Black and White (in COLOR)

I'll post the history and such later. Until then, sometimes don't you wish you were born a few years earlier than you were? 4 Origi...

Tintype Painter Backdrop Occupational Pair Tintype The Painted Backdrop

Pair of tintype photographs depicting a painter working on a photographer's backdrop. My book The Painted Backdrop will be published i...

Country Gentleman Crooners (Horrors in Wax #2)

Gentleman country crooner Wax Roy Acuff, front and center, tries to attract attention from his better dressed friends Wax Webb Pierce, Wax ...

Mob Hits Oswald in Wax (Horrors in Wax #1)

The FIRST in my new series "Horrors in Wax" Wax Lee Harvey Oswald, the only "lone nut" who worked for American Intellig...

The Last Word in Sewing Cards

The most primitive, my favorite, and proof sometimes little brother helped. See following posts. Primitive hand-sewn card, c. 1900 Collect...

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