ANOTHER DELIGHTFUL UNTROUBLED YEAR FOR THE WORLD

at 12 midnight we celebrate a new calendar year ... an Alfred S. Mole 1915 photograph

of school students and faculty

       

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a year is a long time to wait ... a Don Martin cartoon for MAD

        

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1936 was a  'leap year'

(a calendar year that contains an additional day)

       

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cartoonist Robert Crumb paused to reflect in 2016 ...

       

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a Wiener Werkstätte greeting card for the new year,  1911?

click twice

       

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Wiener Werkstätte       click twice

       

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noisemakers and confetti are ready in 1926 ... who will be the sober designated driver?

       

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Christmas is over and done ...  a Joseph Christian Leyendecker 

illustration,  1940       click twice

       

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1923 store window displays are being dismantled ... click twice

       

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it's time now for the adults to party ...

Charles Bukowski by Drew Friedman       click twice

       

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there are costume parties in 1890 ...  "Devil & Clownesse"

       

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an 1891 Festival costume    "Sorceress"

       

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Julius Diez,  1903 art

       

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Umberto Brunelleschi       click twice

       

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Will Bradley graphic art

       

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there are house parties ...  architect

Wolfgang Feierbach's 1968 'Kunststoffhaus'       click twice

       

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there are bar parties ... Walter Schnackenberg art

       

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there are wine parties ... a 1966 decanter designed by Olaf Skoogfors

       

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there are life-long parties ...

a Thomas Landseer cartoon       click twice

       

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there are apartment parties ...  Guy Billout art   click twice

       

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there are formal parties ...

1868       click twice

       

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there are royal parties ...  Johann Ulrich Krause,  1700?       click twice

       

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Wayne Thiebaud art       click twice

       

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but the hour grows close ... Alfred Kubin art

       

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until ... it is midnight in 1848 Paris!

       

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1721 fireworks       click twice

       

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it takes a few more

hours for the 1956 party to finish ...   

       

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a ride home for some in a 1969 Dodge taxi       click twice

       

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recuperating the next day ...

 a William Makepeace Thackeray cartoon       click twice

       

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return to the grinding life on

Monday  ...   Hans Tegner    click twice & look closely