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.

Wisconsin Paramount Records Frozen Custard and the Birth of the Blues

CLICK TO ENLARGE Join as we celebrate, well...I would say the opening of Olin's Frozen Custard Stand, but what we are really celebrating...

Michigan Moonshine, Sin Tax and Pleasure Boating to Canada

The origin of stock car racing was the souped-up cars (and drivers) who eluded revenuers with fast and fancy driving over the hills and a tr...

Early Native American Reenactors Windians on no Warpath

Considering we spent a century trying to eliminate the Native American, it sure is odd how many organizations and imbeciles try to effect th...

Harlemisms from New York Confidential Mapback Book Speak like an (Urban) Native

CLICK TO GET HEP, JACK I have written about Mapbacks before, those beautiful mystery books from the 1950s which always had a map on the...

Things to Make SOCK MONKEY (In Time for CHRISTMAS)

CLICK TO ENLARGE YOUR SOCK MONKEY INSTRUCTIONS Those of you who follow regularly know from time to time I post "Things to Make" an...

Elmer Anderson Mike Kelley Inappropriate Appropriation, The Thing , Genuine Genius Scott Warmuth and Ghostly Afterimage

There is nothing better than a slow-burning low-art mystery, and Elmer Anderson just continues to prove it. My third post on Elmer...

Mars Probe Anticipated by Professor Hunt

Professor Everett Hunt's homemade and handmade book, at least a few pages from it. The text consists of a newspaper article with Indian...

Cross Written Correspondence Dull Tool Dim Bulb Greatest Hits

CLICK TO ENLARGE A 19th Century "cross written" letter. Cross writing was a technique to save paper when paper was scarce. Every...

Cynthia Lugo and THE CYNEPHILE Art and Film Make Friends (Essential)

Since I can no longer go see films in the Cable Building (New Yorkers will know it as the converted storage space for cable cars with real p...

Thanksgiving in Manila Paper Tom Turkey

Child's Tom Turkey in manila paper, circa 1950

Trotters in the Trunk Last Winner's Circle and One More Bet Vernacular Photograph Collection Jim Linderman

A photograph I happen to find very sad, I have collected photographs of people making folk art for many years now. It is usually a pleasan...

Mexican Circus Performers At the Circus in Black and White # 29

Entry number 29 in the Dull Tool Dim Bulb AT THE CIRCUS IN BLACK AND WHITE Series is a trio of original circa 1950 snapshots of a most hands...

Miniature Floating Flotilla Toy Boats of Wood

Miniature handmade boats, largest 5 inches Wood, Paper American Flag. circa 1950? Origin Unknown (occupied Japan?) Collection Jim Linderma...

Stonecutters Cutting Stone Sculptors Who Take Away Real Photo Postcard

When it comes to sculpture, there are those that add and those that take away. Stone cutters are the latter, and perhaps in this case I sho...

Michigan Fall Sand Dunes and a Tree House Revealed

The leaves are gone and our topography is again revealed. Michigan's sand dunes are the best feature of the state, although yesterday w...

Well Rendered Drawing from the Photograph CDV Art History

Practice makes perfect. Anonymous primitive drawing based on a CDV Photograph 1884. Photograph Curtiss & Smith, Syracuse New York with P...

Do Men Choose Mary or Alice? Use the Bonomo Ritual and Find Out

The answer, of course, is both. As often as possible. But let's say you want to grow bigger bonomos AND develop raccoon eyes. Strong...

Nation of Immigrants Pilgrim Tale Told c. 1950

A collaborative effort, this handmade book by elementary students well over 50 years ago. The manila paper you may remember. Th...

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