Bloom – from Brian Eno & Peter Chilvers
I don’t know about you but I spend around 90 minutes a day collaborating with Brian Eno.
No, really.
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Pressed for Words
June 17th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Just a quick notice that I am in the process of moving from the Google Blogger platform to a WordPress blog integrated with my website, www.coreyshead.com.
The blog is still called “Brother, I Can See Your Skull.” and, once everything is fully migrated, I will be shutting down the Blogger version of the blog for good.
You’d think I would’ve done something like this a bit this sooner but I only just recently got off my ass long enough to move to a server that can handle the requirements of PHP and MySQL.
Other than the new features of categories and tags, it should be a very similar experience and I can assure you the same level of quality and attentiveness with which I have attended this space … *cough*
Hotcha.
Artificial Mystery Flavor
June 8th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
So I’m at the bank depositing a check when, at the end of the transaction, the teller asks, in the depths of her professional rut: “Is there anything else I can get for you?”
Now people learn, after just a few transactions with me, not to ask such questions but this woman has never served me before and, thus, has no idea just what kind of ass is on the other side of the glass.
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Mäusepiep the … Mouse
June 8th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
(part of a series on the advertising character toys of German shoe maker Salamander AG)
Mäusepiep the Mouse.
Being unfamiliar with German beyond movies and a few chance meetings, I can only assume “Mäusepiep” is pronounced similar to “Mousie peep” which has some disturbing implications if one is, like myself, immature enough to move past the more obvious and palatable thought that the “piep” stands for the sound the little critter might make as opposed to the stain and stench he leaves behind.
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Igelmann the Hedgehog
June 3rd, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
(part of a series on the advertising character toys of German shoe maker Salamander AG)
Igelmann the Hedgehog.
Igelmann the Hedgehog is the third in a series of vinyl toys I’ve been profiling from German shoe company, Salamander AG.
Igelmann – is there any more inauspicious of a name? It even seems short a letter: for weeks I’ve misread it as “Ingelmann.” Having now realized it lacks the letter “n” that my eyes first imagined, my onomatopoeic mind now envisions Igelmann as a rather squirmy, wiggly character … but no matter.
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Lurchi the Salamander
May 29th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
(part of a series on the advertising character toys of German shoe maker Salamander AG)
Lurchi the Fire Salamander.
Allow me to introduce (at least to my blog) Lurchi, the fire salamander and main advertising character for the German shoe company Salamander AG (get it? get it?).
Introduced in 1937 as a way to distract children during their parent’s potentially protracted perusal of the proprieters products (cough), Lurchi is the alpha dog of a motley crew of animal characters whose tales are told in small booklets entitled “Lurchi’s Abenteuer” (Lurchi’s Adventure); humorous, sometimes moralistic tales written in simple rhyming couplets for a target audience of primary-school children.
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Unkerich the Toad
May 24th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
(part of a series on the advertising character toys of German shoe maker Salamander AG)
Unkerich shows off his maker’s mark
Meet Unkerich, the yellow-bellied toad and shoe shiller for German shoe company Salamander AG.
Part of a cast of six characters introduced in 1937, ostensibly to entertain the children of fussy, adult shoe shoppers, Unkerich is said to be the “strong man” of the group as well as a gastronome and, if Wikipedia can be trusted, also a bit of a maladroit.
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Wet Scream of Consciousness
May 16th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
It Came From Taiwan (via Bend, OR)
March 8th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
I recently scored this fantastic walking toy from a good toy buddy during a Japanese Toy Freak-Out Weekend in San Francisco.
Now you, too, can know the fear of its spindly, trundling legs and flashing, evil bug eyes.
Beware!
#19 What’s with the skulls?
January 13th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
#19 – Shelf Life
The Skull
The skull may skulk;
a visage grim
with proof that life
is tissue thin
but that is not the breadth of him
Forget you not:
the skull doth grin.
cae
I just added a gallery of skull shots to my website and, thinking of posting that fact here, readied myself for a fairly common question I hear: what’s with the skulls?
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FarceBook: Alternate Profile Pics
January 7th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Happy New(ish) Site!
January 3rd, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
Murray Christmas!
December 25th, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
I really need to work up a new gag for the holidays but at least this is a different shot from the ’06 session – Murray Christmas, everyone.
Dang Bird
December 22nd, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
Another of my (thankfully) rare Christmas cards – this one 2010
Hammerfist Odious
December 1st, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
So, I am a good little donkey: dutifully ordering Frank Zappa releases when they are announced and in as timely a fashion as finances allow.
This latest, a 3-cd set of live recordings from performances at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in 1978, I was able to nab at preorder – joy!
Somehow, however, the company that handles the sales sent my CD to an old address, long-since sans forwarding.
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Splashdown
November 11th, 2010 by Corey A. Edwards
A long-ago trip by ferry to Seattle’s Pike Place Market produced this composite.
Organizing my photos for a long-overdue and imminent site makeover has led to the discovery of many, many, many unfinished and/or forgotten projects. This is one.
