Recently in Kawasaki, Japan, a sextet of famous paintings marched their way through the city’s annual Halloween parade— Picasso’s “The Weeping Woman,” Vincent van Gogh’s self portrait, Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” and of course Beast Jesus, the art world’s favorite botched masterpiece. Costume wearers presented themselves as the subjects of the famous paintings from the waist up, with fishnet stockings and heels from the waist down. More
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I'm looking for an idea for a large group halloween parade idea. In the past we have done: Woodstock/hippies where we borrowed an old VW bus and...
Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo / Het Leven, SFA022817079 Carnavals-, gekostumeerde feesten. Carnaval: Parade der zotten, Nederland 1938. [fotomontage] Carnival procession, a Fools Parade. (mounted photo). The Netherlands, 1938. Collectie Spaarnestad Voor meer informatie en voor meer foto’s uit de collectie van Spaarnestad Photo, bezoek onze Beeldbank: www.spaarnestadphoto.nl/ U kunt ons helpen onze kennis van de fotocollecties te verrijken door tags en commentaren toe te voegen. Herkent u mensen of locaties of heeft u een bijzonder verhaal te vertellen bij één van de foto’s, laat dan een reactie achter (als u ingelogd bent bij Flickr) of stuur een mailtje naar: [email protected] You can help us gain more knowledge on the content of our collection by simply adding a comment with information. If you do not wish to log in, you can write an e-mail to: [email protected]
This week's edition of Boardman Neighbors features a storytime at the Boardman library, the nature mug creation class at Fellows Riverside Gardens, the Halloween parade at St. Christine's School and more.
Stilt walkers, bands, giant figures and more than 700 residents paraded through the Calder Valley town dressed in outfits created in a series of community workshops
MAGIC OF MOTION Fascinating push button exhibits make it easy to understand mysteries of physics like the laws of Newton and Galileo. Photo by Vince Townsley Cameo Greeting Cards Plastichrome by Colourpicture P30653
Japan is a country that love festivals. It adopts various cultural aspects and events from all over the world and you can enjoy these events in a uniquely Japanese way. This time, we’re introducing Japan’s Halloween events. Japanese Halloween has events like cosplay parades and contests, candy and food that use pumpkins, and entertaining autumn events. As a country that loves anime and cosplay, we will introduce events unique to Japan held in different area. Once you’re in Japan, be sure to make some fun memories.
With Halloween in the air, I'm revisiting some of my favorite crafts of the witch. From the wonderful British artist and book illustrator, Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) comes this 1960 children's book, The Witch Family written by Eleanor Estes. Source: Froggyboggler's Flickr Just one page from Space Witch, written and illustrated by the great Don Freeman (1908-1978) in 1959. See more here. From the 1971 book, The Woggle of Witches written and illustrated by Adrienne Adams (1906-2002), a former two-time Caldecott winner. See more here. Yes kids, Mother Goose was once a benevolent witch in orbit. Printed by McLoughlin Brothers of New York. Source: Lotusgreenfoto via Flickr It's Midnight, The Witching Hour, reinterpreted by UK artist John Boardley, from an original 1973 cover of The Witching Hour (by Nick Cardy?) found here via Covered. Witches in flight have long been a brand for many products, but this is a particularly nice package design for a fireworks label—with very bewitching typography. Source: Flickr Witch City, a 1930s chocolate covered frozen pudding label from Salem, Massachusetts, home of the witch trials and pudding treats. Source: Dan Goodsell's Flickr An 1860 clipper ship card for Witchcraft, a ship leaving New York for San Francisco. Clipper ship cards were as much a notice of sailing departures as they were a means of advertising. Nesbitt & Co. Printers of New York was a primary source for many of these cards at this time. Most of the cards had no illustration, leaving the lettering to be the main attraction. The heyday for these cards began around the 1860s, but the trade was disrupted once the Civil War began. Source: Harvard Library Another beautiful wood engraved clipper ship card for the boat, Witch of the Wave. This one is printed with four colors and some very wavy type. They had me at "Unsurpassed by any vessel on the berth", but what could appear to be more seaworthy than a ship of demon devils commanded by a wicked witch? Source: Hyland Granby Antiques A celluloid corncob witch racer because a broom is apparently not fast enough. Source: Dave's Flickr And from the Type Mysteries Department comes this October, 1958, Adventures into the Unknown comic cover about levitating type and the Amazing...Witch Who Wouldn't! Source: Another gem from Froggyboggler's Flickrstream Ha! I found this oldie in my attic this morning as I was looking for something else. It's one of my early abstracts illustrated at age 4. It's titled, Some of My Best Friends are Witches.
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1954 Anaheim Halloween program features the original concept for Fantasyland People here in Anaheim, California celebrate Halloween in a rather unique way— with a parade! The nighttime pageant of ghosts, goblins, jack-o-lanterns and witches stretching a mile through Anaheim’s darkened downtown has been a family-fun tradition for almost 90 years. And, as you might imagine, Disney has played a role in the festivities ever since Disneyland moved into town…and even longer than that! A source of city pride, the parade is part of the larger and older Anaheim Fall Festival put on every year by Anaheim businesses, schools, organizations, and residents. For one exuberant October night, the most populated city in Orange County takes on the atmosphere of a small town. Hallowe'en Past in Downtown Anaheim Long before “trick-or-treating” became the huge thing that it is today (since the 1930s), Halloween was typically a time for mischief and pranks by neighborhood youngsters. In the tranquil little farming community of Anaheim, soaped windows, uprooted fences, and damaged property were turning “All Hallow’s Eve” into a major headache for residents and businesses. To steer the energies of Anaheim kiddies toward “wholesome fun and frolic,” a “Halloween Carnival and Festival” with games and costume contests was devised by local merchants in 1923. Incredibly, this solution did the trick, and the following year a nighttime Halloween Parade was added to the Festival activities. 20,000 residents and neighbors from nearby towns crowded onto the sidewalks on both sides of the street on October 31, 1924 to watch the 45-minute procession led by baseball superstars Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson who served as the first Grand Marshals. Fast-forward to the 1950s, and the Festival with its wildly popular parade has grown to enormous proportions. The Los Angeles Times called it the “biggest Halloween party in the nation” with over 75,000 spectators lining the parade route. Earne Moeller of the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce began exploring ways to attract some serious attention to the Festival by reaching out to Los Angeles industries as possible parade sponsors. One of the organizations that received an invitation from Anaheim was the Walt Disney Studios. 1953 Anaheim Bulletin Unknown by pretty much everyone at the time, Walt Disney had his eye on Anaheim as the perfect location for the world’s first theme park, and Earne Moeller’s invitation to join in the community’s biggest event came at an opportune time. Walt generously responded with an offer to have the Studio design six floats for the 1953 parade to be constructed by “commercial float builders.” The concept and plans for the Disneyland theme park had not yet been revealed to the public, so the unprecedented response of the “Walt Disney Studios of Hollywood” seemed remarkable to many Anaheimers. “In recognition of the unusual interest shown by the Disney studios,” marveled the Anaheim Bulletin, “the division of the parade will be called “Walt Disney’s Fairyland.” 1953 float designs by Disney Studio artist Roy Williams The float designs were sketched by Disney storyman Roy Williams (who would later gain fame as the quick-drawing “Big Mooseketeer” on TV’s Mickey Mouse Club) and included the following themes: Cinderella, Pinocchio, Trick or Treat, Peter Pan, Snow White, and a special Halloween themed float depicting favorite Disney characters enjoying a carnival ride through a “Tunnel of Spooks.” Comparing the concept art with the few existing photographs showing the finished floats, it’s important to keep in mind that Disneyland hadn’t even been built yet, and it was up to the local residents who performed on the floats to provide their own home-made costumes of the famous Disney characters. It may have been a tad hit-and-miss, but it’s a sure bet that Disney made a spectacular first impression upon Anaheim. First Disney character as Grand Marshal, accompanied by his voice. The next year was even better, with Donald Duck himself as Grand Marshal, leading the parade (accompanied by his voice, Clarence “Ducky” Nash). An entire segment of the spectacle was dedicated to “Disneyland”-- now that the cat was finally out of the bag -- with marvelous float concepts drawn up by Disney artist Yale Gracey, who years later would go on to conjure the Haunted Mansion attraction’s most chilling, thrilling illusions. Sketches show a parade-sized Sleeping Beauty Castle, Mark Twain Riverboat, the Casey Jr. Circus Train, and a sleek prototype Tomorrowland rocket; possibly the first three-dimensional preview of Disneyland’s delights to be seen by the public. 1954 float concepts by Yale Gracey and Phyllis Williams. Most notable is the float representing “True-Life Adventureland”-- an area originally planned for the Park that would have been themed to Walt Disney’s Oscar®-winning series of nature films. The float was never built, as the concept rapidly evolved into the tropical Adventureland familiar to us today. 1954 Tru-Life Adventureland float by Yale Gracey Disneyland welcomed the world into its fabulous realms on July 17th, 1955, and Anaheim welcomed its newest neighbor with special prominence in the Halloween Festival. The Disneyland Band, led by Vesey Walker, opened the Disneyland section, followed by the Park’s horse-drawn Mickey Mouse Club Circus Wagon carrying Jimmie Dodd and the Mouseketeers, making their first public appearance outside of Disneyland. Nearly 150,000 people came to watch the parade that year, with Buddy Ebsen, (Davy Crockett’s television sidekick, Georgie Russell) honored as Grand Marshal. Disney continued to bestow its own special Halloween magic on Anaheim over the years in surprising ways. In the 1950s, the original Mouseketeers appeared at a special parade pre-show, featuring a ballet performance by Annette. The original Golden Horseshoe Revue - complete with can-can girls - was performed one Halloween in Anaheim’s Pearson Park, with cast members Betty Taylor, Donald Novis and Wally Boag. Disneyland's Wally Boag in the Anaheim Fall Festival, 1961 1973 Anaheim Halloween Parade step off at La Palma Park Stadium Disneyland’s unique fleet of Main Street Vehicles have all driven “outside the berm” to join the parade, including the Omnibus, fire wagon, horseless carriages and Walt Disney’s very own “Runabout” car. Even various Main Street Electrical Parade units have been known to disappear from the Park for an evening’s spin through downtown Anaheim. "Disneyland Salutes Anaheim's Halloween Festival", 1969 1970's Halloween Parade featured the great Scatman Crothers with the Aristocats. 1973: Shared golden anniversaries In 1973, Walt Disney Productions and the Anaheim Halloween Festival celebrated their shared golden anniversaries with a “Fifty Happy Years” cavalcade of thirty-one familiar Disney characters dancing atop six giant drum floats. Naturally, Mickey and Minnie were the star attractions traveling through the streets of downtown Anaheim in one of Disneyland's own "horseless carriages" from Main Street U.S.A. It was Disney's biggest involvement in the Halloween Parade's history - before or since! Real-life Disney film stars-turned Grand Marshals have included The Love Bug’s Buddy Hackett and a very young Jodie Foster with her Napoleon and Samantha co-star Johnny Whitaker! The 2013 Anaheim Halloween Parade stepped off this past Saturday evening at dusk. As the sun began to set, Disneyland's latest entry - Minnie Mouse in a lovely horse-drawn carriage - made its way down the long stretch of Broadway past over 45,000 spectators. Re-discovered by a new generation, the parade continues to radiate old-fashioned charm, and crackle with small town magic! ------------------------------------------------------- Research and text by Kevin Kidney, 2013
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Part pomp, part religious ceremony, the opening parade (meped) of the Bali Arts Festival gives you a glimpse of the diversity of Bali culture. It’s like watching Cebu’s Sinulog grand parade. In celebration of Father’s Day today, I am featuring male portraits taken at yesterday's parade. They are somebody’s father and somebody’s sons. Happy Father’s Day! at the Bali Arts Festival, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia more pics in my Happy Father’s Day in colloidfarl.blogspot.com/
