Archive for July 29th, 2022

OVER $6 THOUSAND FOR THIS?

an artwork of a pickle slice from a McDonald's burger stuck to a ceiling is on exhibition in New Zealand and selling for $6,200

An Australian artist’s latest masterpiece is a McDonald’s pickle
stuck to a ceiling — and he wants $6,200 for it.

The gallery director said “The work, simply titled "Pickle," gets
at the question of how people attribute value and meaning to
things”. 

Whoever buys the art will get instructions on how to recreate it
for themselves.

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FAMED ISSUSTRATOR HAS PASSED AT 93

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Paul Coker Jr. (March 5, 1929 – July 23, 2022)

The animation industry has lost another prolific artist. Paul
Coker Jr., a cartoonist and designer whose career spanned
nearly five decades, passed away on Saturday, July 23 at his
home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  

 

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Coker’s first appearance in Mad was in 1961; and went on to illustrate
over 375 articles for the magazine.

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COMEDY SERIES PRODUCER HAS DIED AT 87

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Burt Metcalfe (March 19, 1935 – July 27, 2022)


Burt Metcalfe, the onetime actor from Canada
who  served as a producer, director and writer
on all 11
seasons of M*A*S*H.

   
   
      

     
      
 

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Burt Metcalfe (right) in an episode of  Perry Mason (1960’s)


In The Twilight Zone, Metcalfe (second from left) played a neighbor in "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"(1960).         
 

 
 

     

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LEADER OF THE NAZI PARTY ON THIS DAY IN 1921

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On July 29, 1921,
Adolf Hitler became the leader of the National
Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. Under Hitler, the
Nazi
Party
grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany as a
totalitarian state from 1933 to 1945.

Hitler’s early years did not seem to predict his rise as a political
leader. Born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria, he
was a poor student and never graduated from high school.

During World War I, he joined a Bavarian regiment of the German
army and was considered a brave soldier, but his commanders
felt he lacked leadership potential and never promoted him beyond corporal.


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