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Monthly Archives: June 2021
More of those French curves then, Dave?…
But first…Dulltown UK: Today’s quotation is from Flann O’Brien’s bizarre, but riveting, 1930s novel, The Third Policeman:Feeling a weakness in my spine, I went over quickly and stood beside the Sergeant. He had taken a long white instrument like a … Continue reading
Posted in animals, archeology, art, arts, books, creation, design, drawing, fine art prints, food, Grumpiness, history, humour, information, irony, lino cut printing, lino printing, observations, photography, prints, puzzle, reading, smiling, story, style, surrealism, thinking, writing
Tagged 1930s, baked beans on toast, bamboo, bamboo fibres, black sky, bone handle, Cheeky Pnada, christmas satsumas, cutlery design, design, Flann O'Brien, French curves, hypoallergenic, In Eternity, Knife and fork, lino design, moon, peanut butter, poor design, The Sergeant, The Third Policeman, tissues
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Do you think the undead suffer with their backs?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: thick, apogaeic, nacreous, semplice, terrene, windring, groined, and spotty. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, backs… Mine has been aching a bit lately. The lower back mainly, just north of the pelvis. I put it … Continue reading
Posted in adjectives, animals, archeology, art, arts, brain, conversation, cool, design, drama, drawing, dreaming, existentialism, Film, history, humour, information, instruction, jobs, lino cut printing, lino printing, observations, puzzle, science, seeing, smiling, style, surrealism, thinking, words
Tagged apogaeic, bad backs, carefully selected adjectives, crouching, film making, gait, go for a take, grizzled, groined, in the mirror, nacreous, semplice, sit up straight, slouching, spotty, stand up straigjht, terrene, the undead, windring, zombie films, zombies
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Mail Art Postcard. No. 4686…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s weather will feature: urban pinkness in the east, raindrops the size of whelks, blackbirds carrying parasols, clouds shaped like Spanish galleons, a breeze that smells of distant pinewoods, and a smudge of turquoise coming through … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, advertising, animals, art, arts, brain, celebrities, composition, cool, creation, design, drama, dreaming, existentialism, humour, information, magic, mind, people, postcards, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, smiling, style, surrealism, thinking, TV, weather, words
Tagged acting away, actors, African land snail, blackbirds, clouds, collage, conversation, documentary, fluorescent card, in character, juxtaposition, madness, mail art postcards, muggy dusk, pinewoods, raindrops, serendipity, Spanish galleons, style, surrealism, text, trashy magazine, umbrella, urban pinkness, weather forecast, What's On TV, whelks
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It was just some normal paranormal…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s wrinkled old black and white snapshot is the one of me and Marlon Brando sitting on a bench in Central Park, New York, eating sandwiches and ignoring each other.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There used to be just a couple … Continue reading
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Tagged apparition detectors, Beelzebub, Central Park New York, dialogue, eating sandwiches, ghost infested, ghosts, haunted house, Marlon Brando, out of work actors, paranormal, psychic investigators, snatches of voice-over, spooks, Strange, the spirit world, TV, wrinkled black and white snapshot
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That odd lino print is done now…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s nice sounding, but little used word is besom. (click here)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A few days ago, I was blethering on about the depiction, in just black and white, of supposedly three-dimensional objects – this is something I often … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arts, besom, black and white, carbon paper, close-up, conversation, cubes, face, hidden meaning, hovering, illusion, kids' book, lino cut printing, lino print, little-used word, madness, puzzle picture, rough lino, smirking, sneering, snooty, strangeness, surrealism
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This is not art. No. 52…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary words are: lupulin, flagitious, splore, vulpinite, wanigan, and epithalamium. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. Should the professor turn up … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, adjectives, archeology, art, arts, brain, celebrities, colours, composition, cool, creation, drama, dreaming, Dulltown, expletives, green, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, money, observations, painting, photography, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, smiling, style, surrealism, swearing, thinking, words
Tagged art critic, blue, colour, Colours, Dulltown Council, epithalamium, expletives, flagitious, flaking, found art, green, Hang on a minute!, lamppost, lupulin, paint, Professor Mouldie, red, rich parents, rust, splore, texture, this is not art, Victorian street waif, vulpinite, Waldemar Januszczak, wanigan
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Howling, gibbering, and chanting, with RLF…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: spooky, plushy, ianthine, encrimsoned, propriorceptive, aptotic, and tickled.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And, speaking of powerful adjectives, today we are going to look at some more of the work of R L Fanthorpe SMBIS (do click … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Greece, Badger Books, british science fiction, Bron Fane, chanting, cover painting, deign, hand gesture., Henry Fox illustrator, humour, John E Muller, Karl Ziegfried., Leo Brett, Merlin, pel torro, pulp science fiction, R L Fanthorpe SMBIS, RLF, SMBIS, Supernatural special, The Immortal One, The Round Table, Trebor Thorpe
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Ugg and Lugg chatting…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s quotation is yet another from Flann O’Brien’s wonderfully odd 1930s novel The Third Policeman: The Sergeant was reading out figures from one of the many clocks and turning a small wheel with great care. Suddenly … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s, burnt sticks, cave painting, conversation, eternity, Flann O'Brien, Holy-Man Gugg, hunting with the lads, like night!, mommoths, one of my headaches, sabre-toothed tiger, sunlight, the great rock spirit, The Sergeant, The Third Policeman, Ugg and Lugg
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Some more misheard snatches of classical singing on the radio…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s unusual word, often used around these parts, is – ‘maungy’. Click here. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> They all (M and F) have such crisp clear confident voices, their diction is immaculate – they have probably practised for years. … Continue reading
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Tagged baccy, BBC Radio 3, bittern, cheeves, classical singing, evil flies, German Expressionism, in these parts, Italian, maungy, misheard song lyrics, pamphlet, pistorus, posh people, saveloy, semaphore, snout, Tethwrang
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Is it three-D or not?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s featured moths are: the Drab Looper, the Foxglove Pug, the Pretty Pinion, Haworth’s Minor, and the Riband Wave. Which one of these would you give a fleeting mention in your latest fluttery lepidopterist poem? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> … Continue reading
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Tagged 3-D, arty work, black and white, cat treats, close-up lino, cubes, depth, drawing, Elmore the cat, features only, Goody Bag, human face, illusion, lino cut printing, lino print design, moths, photography, psychology of perception, similacrum, sketching, the brain, the Drab Looper, the Foxglove Pug, the Pretty Pinion, the Riband Wave, three-d-ness
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The Cone and the Blossom…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: corpulent, swishy, jubate, ogamic, basifixed, didascalic, and rumbling. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘Juxtaposition’ is a really good word, isn’t it? I’ve always liked it. I remember when it was frequently bandied around by the … Continue reading
Posted in academia, adjectives, art, arts, brain, cafe, colours, composition, cool, creation, drama, Dulltown, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, observations, photography, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, style, surrealism, thinking, words
Tagged April, Art school, basifixed, blossom, cafe, corpulent, daisies, depth of field, diagonal, didascalic, evening, found, In Verona, jubate, juxtaposition, lay our scene, low sun, Mr Cone, ogamic, picked out, rumbling, Shakespeare, swishy, textures, traffic cone, twig
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What’s that then?… Fast art?…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s weather will feature: dank dawn, bluster in the bushes, crackles in the clouds, flashes in the foliage, airy air, and memorable meteoric mugginess.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I was in my workshop doing some new lino prints two or three … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, art, arts, brain, celebrities, composition, cool, creation, decalcomania, finance, fine art prints, Grumpiness, humour, information, instruction, irony, lino cut printing, lino printing, money, observations, prints, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, smiling, style, surrealism, thinking, weather
Tagged artists pay, bluster, crackles, Damien Hirst, Decalcomania printing, expensive or cheap, flashes, hourly rate, instant art, lino cut printing, linseed oil printing ink, lumpy ink?, money - hours, mugginess, oil-based inks, palette knife, printing rollers, rapid art, rubber rollers, serendipity, ten seconds, weather forecast
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That will be the Bird God, then?…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s soup is mulligatawny – just for the sound of the word, really.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> You see, I was just messing about with that set of French curves again.By the way, did you like the N F Simpson quotation … Continue reading
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Tagged a favourite print, big bird, bird-god, birds, black and white, boring book, composition, congregation, deity, French curves, holy egg, Kizuki 4 Monme paper, lino cut print, mulligawny, N F Simpson, oil-based inks, on the branch, our feathered friends, religion, soup of the day, striking, surrealism, the avian realm, the great tweet, today's soup, worship
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Crush names! More Crush names!…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected colours are: ragged red, tangled turquoise, blasted blue, vulgar violet, gritty green, blemished brown, festering fawn, cracked cream, and upset umber. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hm, Veronica Crush (writer from the glory days of the Hull … Continue reading
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Tagged blasted blue, blemished brown, carefully chosen colours, character names, cracked cream, feedback, festering fawn, for free, free character names, free of charge, gritty green, Monty Tick, Netflix, New York, puzzle, ragged red, real name, tangled turquoise, upset umber, Veronica Crush, Veronica's puzzle, vulgar violet
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Football for Surrealists. No 13…
But first…Dulltown UK: Today’s quotation is another from Flann O’Brien’s very odd 1930s novel The Third Policeman:We came to a crossroads in the passage where the light was brighter. A cleaner brighter passage with shiny steel walls ran away to … Continue reading
Posted in academia, archeology, art, arts, books, British film, celebrities, colours, composition, design, Film, history, humour, information, observations, photography, puzzle, reading, serendipity, smiling, story, style, surrealism, Uncategorized, words, writing
Tagged 1930s, 1950s film actor, 1950s illustration, a left turn, a wing-half, Alex Forbes, Arthur Mullard, British films, broad as a bus, comedy, Flann O'Brien, football caps, Football Parade 1950, signalling left, strange book, surrealism, tasselled caps, The Sergeant, The Third Policeman, Un-numbered page?
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How about some more French curve bird heads?
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s rather attractive word is Muntin. Please click here!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Yes, I keep on having bright and novel ideas for new lino prints; I grab a scrap of paper and hurriedly make a rough preliminary sketch of it … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, archeology, architecture, art, arts, books, brain, composition, cool, creation, design, drawing, Dulltown, existentialism, fine art prints, history, Hull.UK., humour, information, irony, lino cut printing, lino printing, photography, prints, puzzle, reading, religion, seeing, smiling, story, style, surrealism, thinking, words, writing
Tagged 1976, 25 pence, Author's Note, Bird-Bod?, birds, bods, bookshelf, boring book, Britsh surrealism, cigarette packet, Deathnote, Florence, French curves, Harry Bleachbaker, Holy Bod, jotter, Leonardo da Vinci, lino cut printing, lino design, Mona Lisa, N F Simpson, photography, red ballpoint pen, Red rubber stamp, rough sketch, Royal Bod, silliness, withdrawn from stock
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Dave Whatt 
Just a few shortish items…
But first…Dulltown, UK: Today’s unusual old expletive is, Hully gee!Originally it was ‘Holy gee’. A euphemism for ‘Holy Jesus!’>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excuses for being late. No. 463.I’m sorry I’m late, but I was considering targetting my demographic. A single overheard remark:‘But I … Continue reading →