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November 09, 2008 |
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Girl
FOUND by Eric Almquist
in Belmont, Massachusetts
I found this in a library book, drawn on a Post-it note.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Girl?! I think it's Howard Stern.
Whoever this girl is, she has some rockin' bacon hair!
You can spot a home perm from a mile away...and you can smell one, too.
Bette Midler?
she looks like Jillian from the show "project runway"
http://chris2fer.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/p
I was going to say it's Sarah Jessica Parker drowning, with the ocean waves rising up to her face.
But bacon hair is funnier.
I like the way the lips have been suggested, but with that deep line on her cheek, I think she is older than a girl
This isn't a girl. It's either Picasso (I don't know why I think that) or a judge. Maybe Tom Lefroy in his old age.
Such simple lines combined to make a picture!
The crows feet around the eyes pretty much exclude the word "girl" from my list of possible titles. But I see it wasn't the Finder who titled it thus.
It does kinda look like Jillian (emotionless, Stepford-ish robot chick) from Project Runway-- but it's mostly that Unhappy set of her mouth. No wait.. the vacant stare and bacon hair are right on, too.
At first I thought the letters in the corner said "EVOLVE." As finds go, this is a treasure.
So this is what the elves do in the off season!! I always wondered! Were there any hot chocolate stains anywhere on the post it note?? And by the by...this would explain why it was drawn on a post it note. Elves not wanting to get overwhelmed by a huge piece of paper, you understand.
Quite a lovely drawing, I think--especially for Santa's elves that are used to making toys. Yes, she does look a bit masculine and "stepfordwifeish" (oops! that word was awfully close to fetish now wasn't it?!). But maybe she is just a bit tired (and cold!!) for posing all those many hours for the elves to finish. Poor thing!!
Yes...a boffo good find!!!
Just wanted to clear up that I'm in Houston....drinking coffee. Not IN drinking coffee,,,, in Houston. Although that doesn't sound too bad at the moment, I am rather chilly.
If you cover up the top part, the chin and mouth are stunningly gorgous. Then add the nose on up, and she becomes cold and rather angry, or maybe sad.
And I assumed those lines around the eyes were meant to be lashes.
GIRL is obviously a de bergerac and is a serious candidate for rhinoplasty.
Mmmm... bacon!
Great find, and quite a good doodle.
As y'all might have guessed, I LOVE sticky note art!
Is that Gene Simmons in drag...???
When I hear or see just the word "GIRL" it brings to mind a certain portion of a certain song. The spoken portion of the song, which starts out "girl, when I first saw that ass.."
I can't find lyrics, I don't have a sound card in this computer so I can't youtube it and check on 'em... but here's my favorite line from the song, anyway (aside from the obvious hook):
"I'm gonna warm that ass up.. and tap it like a phone.."
It looks somewhat like Aline Kominsky-Crumb.
@ David Liljemark: YES! A. Crumb! (She always draws herself with such exaggeration. I love it!)
Roger Daltry, "Tommy"
Whoo-hoo! Great movie!
Better looking than A. Crumb. Or R. Crumb.
I think it's lovely. Especially the confident line of cheek and chin, and the slightly Picasso-ish nose and eyebrows. Full of character.
The 'crow's feet' and cheek indentation are what give it individuality. Definitely an attempt at portraying a real person.
I wonder if she was sitting opposite the artist in the library. And he tried to draw her without being observed? -- which would be slightly creepy.
Jonathan, your last paragraph reminded me of a particular Find that I can't locate now.. do you remember the Find that was a sketch of a guy sleeping in the park, that someone had made, then left for him to Find when he woke? (seems that it was blue ink pen on white paper)
kinda cool, but yeah. Creepy. (I searched nap, sleeping, park, Central park, and sketch.. along with numerous other words, and I can't find that Find!!)
I watched a documentary on R. Crumb and his world on IFC a few years ago.. (I think it was titled, simply, Crumb.) Very strange, but intriguing.
R. Crumb is married to A. Crumb.
Also, the movie American Splendor does a bit in there on R. Crumb.
@ not having any success, the find you are looking for is called "the best thing ever"
Thanks, kwyncee. Yes, I was thinking of that too.
http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/767
If R. Crumb were drawing this girl he'd give her buck teeth, spherical knockers with huge nipples, a 'bean body' and large rounded buttocks. And probably high heels.
It's Charlie Brown's friend Frieda, the girl with the naturally curly hair, all grown up and looking a lil bitter from her lack of continued commercial success compared to some of the other Peanuts Gang.
Don't worry, sweetie. Frieda's in good hands.
I mean paws.
My hair looks like Girl's. My husband says it's the first thing he noticed about me. He thought it was beautiful.
Then we spent our first night together and the look of awe on his face the next morning was priceless. Let's just say that I toss and turn all night and the end hair result is not pretty. Or even human.
Said awe quickly turned to horror when he tried to run his hand through my hair- and found it ensnared by the curls.
It didn't help matters that I was yelling, "Disengage! Abort! Abort!" at him.
@ Mom: I, too, have hair like Girl's. That was my first thought when I saw the picture (even the nose is similar to mine).
Anyway, I wonder if the picture is a self-portrait.
It's Mona Lisa before she got her hair chemically straightened.
@Mom Interrupted and Lolita --
I too have THE hair. Today, my entire family got a good, long, and hard laugh at my expense. We were playing ball with a couple of large-sized bouncy balls. One got completely ensnared in my hair and no one could find it. The children looked and looked. It turned up on the side of my head, behind my ear, kind of in the nape of my neck, trapped.
Well, the genetic joke is really on them, because my husband will forever be picking my hair out of the vacuum cleaner and both of my daughter's have it, too.
Women with pre-Raphealite artist's preference hair, unite!
@ Joe Cool in Snoopy's doghouse:
Blech! Dog germs! Dog germs! Get the disinfectant!!
8-)
That's a startlingly brilliant color pink.
Her eyes seem to follow you, don't they?
Thanks to Kwyncee and Jonathan for the link to The Best Thing Ever. I haven't looked at that Find in a long time, but find it very interesting to go back and read the comments. On that one, it's especially cool how the Finder (also the subject of the Find) continues to check in on his Find. (along with various impostors, of course.)
@ brain problem ... I love the Pre-Raphaelites!
This is really weird but I drew that post-it drawing. What book did the person who found it find it in?
Sarah, I can't remember the book, unfortunately.