Harborside Skunks In Love In Tacoma?

Oh sure....we know 70s shirts were often silly....wild prints, odd florals or tiny calicos and refashioned urban scenes, cracked Old Master paintings, Disney cartoon characters inserted into photo-realistic pictures.....
Here's one I have now.....and lucky you ....it's for sale in my ebay store.
At first glance....just a print of ships and boats in the harbor....but look closer..green skunks...painting art....giving flowers! what is going on? I don't know...but somehow, I can't help but think of Tacoma's waterfront...and in honor of Third Thursdays ART WALK today......I offer to the universe....this!

Why So Skinny ?

Ok so I'm sitting here in a 70s poly shirt...and they are skinny thru the shoulders...thank goodness they are knit! I have broad shoulders but I love the color and breezy/silliness of those 70s shirts!!!!



If you were there...or if you are wearing 60s and 70s vintage clothes.....you know they are slim thru the shoulders and everywhere else...

this might explain something......
"[Biba founder Barbara] Hulanicki found her niche designing clothing for the postwar, protein-deprived young women who were growing girls when rations dictated the size of their suppers."
click the Fashionista.com link for more...and a link to The Telegraph for the full article.

Oh yeah....Love that shirt ?? click it to go to funkoma vintage on ebay....

Drinky Crow... as art...and motion......

funkoma vintage has always been a big fan of Drinky Crow...appearing in Maakies cartoon strip.....we've adopted the "dialogue"...
dook dook dook....and use drinky crow as an affectionate knickname for anyone we see that maybe has had a wee bit of too much of the "Liquid Funmaker"......
so I have mixed feelings about the strip becoming a TV show....I don't have cable....but I guess I can watch on my computer...ha ha!

here's an article in the New York Times!

I love the back story because I love it when an artist.....an Art School graduate... makes a living from....art!
And Tony Millionaire is gonna make some big Coin!
the mixed feelings come from the weird idea that it is so esoteric....only a few thousand people, heretofore, prolly knew about it and refer to it in conversation.....so...the Crow is out of the Bag, well, no, the Crow is in the Bag.....but is out......and coming to a paper and/or a screen near you!

from gawker.com

funkoma vintage has pals and friends all over the globe...because the funky is fun.....well, one of my New York City pals, yes, that New York City.....is The Fashionista of the lively ....
Diary Of A Mad Fashionista blog
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buy here...see Bucky.......
(well, I must say it was Bucky the Wonder Dog, that pushed me over the edge...thou who loves a tiny dog who will tolerate tiny hats always impresses me!)

She, the Mad Fashionista, has a well-informed and adamant opinion about Clavicles ...yes, those collarbones things that are hanging out all over ....the new sex spot, apparently.....She...was quoted in the New York Times, fitting to print a quote from our esteemed colleague ....The Mad Fashionista.....Go Now to her blog....and fill your weekly quota of SMART-writing .......sadly in as short supply these days as a politician who subscribes to the belief that rising tides lift all boats........

Oh Amelia....

I love flying....it makes me dizzy....I haven't flown much in my life but I have always thought, in my dotage, I would take up flying lessons....
So how delighted was I when Joni Mitchell released Amelia......


I keep a beat-up caramel leather jacket in my wardrobe at all times, and a few long silk scarves, and tall brown leather boots.....I mean, you know, just in case I must pilot a plane....

In 1932, Amelia became the first woman to pilot a plane across the Atlantic.
Amelia Earhart is of the 20s...surely one of the top 3 of My Favorite Eras In Which I Wish I Had Lived....say that fast 5 times....
My bedtime read right now is Beryl Markham's West With The Night, her 1939 memoir of her time in Africa in the Edwardian era as a child and into her adulthood as an Aviatrix...In 1936 she flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean from London to a crash landing in Newfoundland.
....Such juicy details of her and Amelia.... a topic I'll come back to again and again.....
Vintage? Yes...Fashion was influenced by flying women....how bold of them to Fly! They captured attention then and they surely capture mine now.....
Amelia...it was only a false alarm....
clicky here for a Style.com Slideshow

See Some Shops...while waiting for funkoma vintage.

I am a voyeur...I like to watch...which is a real handy personality attribute to have if you are an artist ...or writer...or nosy...or curious .....and I am all of the above. From Stylebubble is this loverly treat of shops around the world...and I'm all about looking at shops right now since I am designing one...the accomodating mr. has been doing most of the work down there/up there while I am slaving at home....

Above is a picture of a shop sign in NYC, taken by the eponymous ms. bubble.....clicky here for the groovenest post today.....
See them here!

Yes, I make up words to suit my mood...I should publish a Tress-tion-ary for translation purposes.....

Moving right along......

This week was wall-whacking....busted up by several trips to Homeowner Hell.....stud-counting and sheetrock hanging.....It's a fairly bare room about 20' x 40' plus a bath and a closet and a back hall that leads to the backyard weed patch...(Yes, oh Joy...a pre-garden),and the basement.
Looking towards the back.......and Inside looking out my front door....


See that black hole there? That is the dressing room....don't worry.......










I brought a palm and a Boston fern in first.....good feng shui....
and went next door and chatted

with Kenny about promotion......
Keeping it real....and providing another venue for ART.....
We are a block up from Tacoma's Link to downtown....To get here you take
Exit 133 and turn right....Pass Brown & Haley makes 'em daily......and stop in front of Yung's Teriyaki....say hi to Kenny when you eat lunch in his sweet little cafe......

Don't worry...we won't get big swelled heads...Because we have a fantabulous view...You can see our Bright Blue Building from almost anywhere in that part of T*Town
Don't tell anyone....but we can see the switching yard, Brown's Point, all of downtown, the Spur into City Center......We Rock!

A few more pieces of sheetrock and we'll start the painting.....a lot of ragging and sponging.....and we're gonna Pollock the floor.....Jackson Pollock that is.....don't worry .....we won't sell it for 5 bucks like that potty-mouth retired-truck-driving Granny on 60 Minutes.....She's my kinda people....

I'll post pics of the outside soon and I'll draw you a map!
Meanwhile feast your eyes on the first flyer....up there on the right side....soon to be littering the streets of T*Town...press Releases next week...late....and then after Mother's Day...we start moving in the goodies.....

We're shooting for opening day...June 1st...in this neighborhood...we'll get our wish....Bullseye Shooter is just down the hill, nestled across the parking lot from Alfred's Bubble Room! Yup, guns and liquour.....my kinda neighboorhood!