Clutchy Hopkins

 

Waxing Gibbous

...not as I had hoped, a garrulous outpouring of primate related chat.

Rather the more than half-lighted but less than full phase of the waxing Moon.

(gibbous - bulging,  from the Latin for humpbacked)

Run! It's the Monkey Police

stolen from brook power

Take Back The Instant - General Elektriks

Vincent

While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six minute black and white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his (and Burton's) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration. 

The Man with the Beautiful Eyes - Charles Bukowski

from the poem of the same name by Charles Bukowski

...and
we were afraid
then
that
all through our lives
things like that
would
happen,
that nobody
wanted
anybody
to be
strong and
beautiful
like that,
that
others would never
allow it,
and that
many people
would have to
die.

Saul Bass - Better by Design

With a cool name like Saul Bass,

I Guess.....

He couldn't be Anything Less.

(1920-1996)

The man who designed the movies...
"Until then, the lists of cast and crew members which passed for movie titles were so dull that projectionists only pulled back the curtains to reveal the screen once they’d finished....Saul Bass reinvented the movie title as an art form. By the end of his life, he had created over 50 title sequences for Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Frankenheimer and Martin Scorsese."


Ocean's Eleven (1960)

Saul Bass - Edifice and Artifice

One of 8 sections from Saul Bass' excellent Oscar winning 1968 short film 'Why Man Creates' which takes a sideways look at why man does what he does.  Here we see the rise of civilisation...

(I wonder if Sid Meier ever saw this - I wasted many hours of the early '90s sending those little tiles scrolling round the screen)

Bruegal the Elder's 'Tower of Babel (1563)

The Horrors

You better beware the horrors if you gonna start kickin' that gong around...

A Trip to the Seaside

I loved this program when I was very little...

Basketball Jones