Rarely Seen Photographs Capturing Walt Disney

By the way, these are historical photographs, smoking was considered completely common around that time, I'm not revealing any "secrets" about Walt Disney here nor showing him up. I'm always glad to stumble across photos capturing the person Walt Disney, I'm not interested in the larger-than-life, artificial icon he became after his passing.

Images via LIFE and Google Images

Travelling Back In Time: Original Peanuts Voices

via Jim Fanning

True Characters

via LIFE

Snoopy Astronaut Toy, 1969

First beagle on the moon. (Thanks for the heads up, Laura)

Art Challenge

The CTN art challenge is open again for this year: here is all the information! Good luck!

Know How

Drawing a cartoon duck.

Apropos Space Age And First Moon Landing 1969

Everyone and everything went space-crazy back then. Colt 45 Malt Liquor Space Age Ad (Playboy 1969).

You're not going to believe this. Even firearms manufacturer Colt produced a space-age shaped pistol, 22 caliber. (images via)

Duck Press: Flying Saucers Seen!

View Master stereo picture from the 1950s. You can view the full reel at Lance Cardinal's blog, right over here.

Happy First Moon Landing: 45 Years Later

Happy first moon landing, everyone! It's 45 years later. Actually, I'm one of the biggest space travel fanatics on this very planet and this photograph exactly describes how I feel about this very anniversary.

Weekend Plans

Road trip, American Northwest, fall 1960.

via/© LIFE

Saturday Morning Inspiration

Portrait photograph, Charles M. Schulz, cartoon ubervater.

Pascal Campion

My dear friend Pascal, who's an incredibly gifted artist and a wonderful person all around, has started a beautiful project on Kickstarter. You should definitely check it out: 3000 Moments by Pascal Campion

«3000 Moments is a coffee table book that marks a personal milestone that I have achieved by reaching 3000 Sketches of the Day. In 2005, I began a process, which I call "Sketches of the Day" nearly every morning to express my personal art and continue to grow and practice my discipline. Now, almost 10 years later, I find that I have come to the point that I would like to assemble the best and most meaningful sketches in a 250 page hard cover retrospective.»

Rare Photograph: Walt Disney

This is a shot of Walt Disney I really like. To me, this photo portrays Disney not as everbody's uncle but as the entrepreneur or manager he was.

Apropos Ed Wynn

Always worth a repost. Alice In Wonderland test footage - Unbirthday Mad Tea Party.

Paperwalker Journal's Most Favourite Reference/Inspirational Photos, Part 7

Cover photo, LIFE Magazine, October 1950.

Paperwalker Journal's Most Favourite Reference/Inspirational Photos, Part 6

Window cleaners, New York City, by Charles C. Ebbets (ca. 1941). (Thanks, Laura)

John Starduck: Dimitrius 1.0, Polar Racer

I just unpacked the Polar Racer model "Dimitrius 1.0", John Starduck's snow ride of choice and supposed to be part of my exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz (Designforum), built by super talented, Toulouse based, Georges Le Bras. I attached two concept sketches of the not yet built front cockpit part here, too.

Paperwalker Journal's Most Favourite Reference/Inspirational Photos, Part 5

"Man In The Rain", New York City, 1952, by Ruth Orkin. (Thanks, Laura)

Ray Harryhausen, behind the scenes, undated photograph.

Bert and Jim Henson, Creature Shop, rear window, New York City, undated photograph.

Captain Christmas vs Captain Holiday

Long, long ago, I created a superhero - I think it has been the one and only superhero I ever did - going with the name Captain Christmas. I used this character for some edgy season's greetings cards and the like. Today, I would name him Captain Holiday rather than Captain Christmas, I guess. Anyways, this here was the final stage/latest version of the Captain, the previous versions went with a more cartoony/funny style.

Paperwalker Journal's Most Favourite Reference/Inspirational Photos, Part 4

Planet Of The Apes (1968), behind the scenes. Really, really dig these two shots.

Paperwalker Journal's Most Favourite Reference/Inspirational Photos, Part 3

Star Wars, behind the scenes photographs.

Alfred J. Kwak

By tomorrow, July 5th 2014, at the Herman van Veen Arts Center, Netherlands, the grant Alfred Jodocus Kwak exhibition will open its doors. In word, sound and vision. It is to be understood as a deep bow of adoration for the late Harald Siepermann's work. I'm glad and thankful for having become a part of this very duck's journeys and I look forward to the things coming up.