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Looked through too many image files today on my computer… and spent an hour on the phone with someone from Time Warner Cable who said, “Well, they must do things differently in New York.”

Here’s another political sticker I acquired recently, one that dates back to the Watergate scandal in Washington, D.C., during the early 1970s.  Actually, this sticker is a gummed label, a format that pre-dates most of the paper and vinyl stickers we find today.  It certainly makes you wonder who at the time made these little labels and where were they placed?  Nice old radio headphones, bug.

Snowed in today and feeling a little squirrel-y.  There must be at least 18-24 inches of flurry out in the back yard, maybe more.  Don’t know where this sticker came from, but love the mystery. I worked on the mega-sticker exhibition specs this afternoon, however, figuring out exactly how many stickerboards to include, which artists and themes to cover, text panels, etc., at least from my end.  Also trying to find a good title for the show, one that will represent several different categories: i.e., the mostly German/European art, music, clothing, and skateboard stickers from Oli, and the various U.S.,…

This image file has been sitting on my desktop for the past couple of months, an orphan from a previous conference Powerpoint presentation, I imagine.  It’s a tiny little sticker, about a half-inch in diameter.  With Les Misérables due to open in movie theaters tomorrow on Christmas, December 25, 2012, it seemed like a good time to add the sticker to my blog.  Pictured is the young Cosette from Victor Hugo’s 1886 first edition of the book.  Based on an engraving by the French illustrator Émile Bayard, the image of the girl has been used for decades in all of…

Little stickers like these crack me up.  They’re each less than an inch in diameter, but such personality!  You find the wee ones hidden in the narrow crevices of street sign posts.  

I’ve been searching through my collection to find holiday-related images for A Sticker A Day, but aside from the two anti-Christmas stickers I shared last year at this time (Ho, ho, ho!), I can only find a few angels.  These two stickers are from NYC, 2008.  There’s one angel with a gun and another with a human skull.   A fairly disturbing percentage of stickers I find in the United States appropriate a skull and crossbones motif, gang-style or “bad boy” imagery, and/or other militant references, such as guns, grenades, rifles, men in camouflage, etc.  A Web site called Teaching…

December 20, 2012.  Preparing for the beginning of the end… of the world as we know it.

A cynical kitty during the holidays.