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Sunday, June 4, 2017

C U B E S

a 1905 mystery box
a mystery box holds all of this weeks topic, which is of course . . .
     
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a fountain at the 1970 Japan World's Fair
a fountain at the 1970 World's Fair in Japan
     
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a housing cube concept by Herbert Bayer
a housing concept by Herbert Bayer
     
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an advertising graphic from 1873, please notice, cubes blocks"please notice"       an advertising graphic from 1873       see full size
    
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Art Sussman 1956, prison cube
an Art Sussman book cover illustration, 1956       see full size
     
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a Josef Hoffmann 1910 cube chair
a Josef Hoffmann chair, 1910 ... many cubes are arranged into an
almost-cube,  supported on a flattened cube  (or 'sheet'
as the squares say)       see full size
     
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a 1945 lucite purse, color illustration, clear cube
a 1945 clear-gaze transparent look-&-pick easy-glance quick-see full-view peek-a-boo lucite cube
     
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Yayoi Kusama, mirror cube, dots
a Yayoi Kusama art installation       see full size
       
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Rupert Spira mosaic 1990s
a Rupert Spira mozaic, 1990s
           
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an Eppo Doeve book cover illustration, 1960
"Stories From The Future"  an Eppo Doeve book cover illustration, 1960
     
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a 1908 cuboid or irregular cube shaped small house
a 1908 'cuboid'   (irregular cube)
      
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1970 Sony cube radio, Scandinavian design influence
this 1970 Sony radio closed into a cube
       
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"Garbage Pail Kids - Trish Squish"   parents disapproved, but kids loved them
      
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japan plastic house 1973?
a yellow cube house in  Japan,  1973?       see full size
      
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a 1915 box camera, detailed photograph
an inexpensive box camera, 1915?  it used very large film,  but the lens was low-budget ... pull tabs set the shutter speed and aperture ... little frosted viewfinder windows looked like
tiny moving television screens
      
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an 1879 teaching aid, cube root block
"Square and Cube Root Blocks"      an 1879 teaching aid
     
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anamorphosis photograph
this 'anamorphosis' photograph is real ... in person we would
see the same effect       see full size
     
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Robert Williams art
a Robert Williams painting       see full size
        
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Brutalist architecture 1968 drawing
1968 architecture
     
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brutalist architecture ... or smelly trash cube?
     
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Montreal's Habitat
Montreal's brutalist style 1967 'Habitat'       see full size
     
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French pavilion at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair
part of the French pavilion at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair 
see full size
      
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an 1899 electric kitchen oven photograph
an 1899 electric kitchen oven
           
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a Herbert Leupin 1942 poster for Elna sewing machines, a dice
a Herbert Leupin 1942 poster       see full size
     
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh clock
a Charles Rennie Mackintosh clock, 1910?
     
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Rik Smits art, a cube on a colcanic formation
Rik Smits art       see full size
          
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1958 Philco 4310 tv, color photograph
in 1958,  many homes regarded television as a modern vulgarity,
to be concealed when not in use 
          
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Tower Snappy Camera, 1965
a Tower Snappy camera, 1965 ... the plastic camera had no settings and could only photograph and advance the film roll ... the plastic viewfinder was not aligned,  and the plastic lens itself was distorted ... yet the photographs were magic to a child
       
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Josef Jeggle interior, 1904
a Josef Jeggle design for a store interior, 1904     see full size
    
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Goro Shimaoka 1983 realism art, ice cubes
a Goro Shimaoka 1983 realism painting