Random Scan: idid

Wrestling Santos

Navajo weaving, horse bit, cover of a wrestling video, antique santos hands, pressed flower from 1897.

Venus & Dansk

Once again, as soon as I scanned a page from an old collage journal (lower left quadrant: red foil, Venus de Milo), I just had to start combining it with other images--like the Dansk candelabra which is just so graphic and graceful, and the rust cover of an old Russian book with such an lovely little silhouette. The vertical striped image on the upper left is from a photo of old painted paper--such a serene, and peaceful palette.

Blue Hearts of Glass, TOO MUCH AIR AIN'T ENUF!

OJ II ELITES Skateboard sticker: "SPEED WHEELS SANTA CRUZ - METHODAIR ON A DARE- OJ II - TOO MUCH AIR AIN'T ENUF! - FLY TILL YA DIE - OLLIE ON A DIME!- OJ II ELITES" ; Navajo rug; vintage blue glass hearts, infographic about consumer markets in China.

Needles & Cheese

Covered cheese dish, vintage needle package, desktop.

Moth on White Shoulders

I mercifully got a few days respite from the stinky streets of NYC in the heat! This week's photocollages will include images captured during my delightful weekend visit with friends in the country.

Vintage box of White Shoulders, moth on the screen at night, gorgeous fresh-picked wild roses in my room, vintage vase.

Darling & Babies

Pages from a German art calendar; package of plastic toy babies; title sequence from Darling, the 1965 John Schlesinger film with Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey; incredible ring with a flower of gemstones including turquoise, pearl, amethyst, and onyx.

Piece full & Amethyst

So this is where it all began. The very first Desktop Diaries entry. I just happened to have a few of these images on my desktop at the same time and I found myself layering and sizing the various windows and thinking that it all looked so cool together. That's when I decided to do a screen grab before I moved any of the windows. The rest is history.

Antique color chart, marbled endpaper of an old book, mod fabric, vintage textile swatch book, gorgeous black and red scarf, combs, "Piece Full", about japanese Boro textiles, vintage mushroom textile, photo of a vintage Vanity Fair slip, antique swatch book, print of an amethyst crystal.

Valextrabad

Valextra wallet from Barneys, found "bad", enlarged pixels, gold-rimmed plates.

"Is My Turban Disturbin'?"

Ethnic woven textile, vintage blocks quilt, pin-up sketch calendar page, chemistry set,
graffitied priority mail sticker.

Lady Bayard, 1897

It was bound to happen. I finally started scanning some of the physical collages I've been creating for years, so now they are on my desktop too and exist as one more random image to digitally combine with others.

Paper candy cup, chewing gum foil, rose petal, add accessories postcard, graffitied "Hello my name is" sticker, Lady Bayard label on printed fabric, protractors, Victorian arrow brooch, kokeshi, gaming chips, spine of 1897 bound French fabric archive, a sliver of a bookcase.

Hammered & Hairnet

Vestry seal of the Parish of St. Pancras, hairnet envelope, hammered silver modernist ashtray.