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August 12, 2009 |
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Willie in Full Regalia
FOUND by Amy
in Austin, TX
This gem found me, actually; it was wedged between the pages of a book I ordered from Amazon about a year ago.
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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...
I love this!! <3 Willie!
Willie looks amazing! i wish i could pull of that costume
This looks very like the style of Andy Warhol's illustrations before he became a pop art painter. Look it up.
So it's true...in Rio everybody and their dog goes to Carnaval.
I like the drawing...it looks like someone has a great future as a graphic artist. I could see this on a T-shirt, friendship card, or similar.
And the outfit would look gorgeous at the gay pride parade.
sked me, "Do you want to see my Willie in full regalia?" I thought he meant something else, so I declined. "What's for desert?" I inquired. "Peaches," he said, "in rega
This is stunning! I'm always making those curliques when I doodle - now I know to intersperse them with "beads" and dot them wih another color for full effect! This takes it to a whole new level!
Baby Basil - What a good idea - I'd wear this on a T-shirt too!
"Free my Willie!"
No! Wait.
It's the moonshine talking!
When my baby,
When my baby smiles at me,
I go to Rio
De Janeiro.
My-o me-o...
I go wild and then
I have to do the samba,
And la bamba.
You dog, you!
Someone has to ask the question: What book was it found in?
Love Willie and the colorful regalia. Is it just me or does the face almost look like a well executed dot-to-dot drawing?
I love this drawing!!
@Somebody ... well, let's see, the drawing's about "Carnaval in Rio" ... and it was ordered from the "Amazon" ... so I'm guessing the book was some kind of cultural history of Brazil, probably written in Portuguese ...
Maybe: "O carnaval dos animais" by Moacyr Scliar. (Porto Alegre: Editora Movimento, 1981.)
Wait a minute! Is Willie naked under those beads?
I love the perfect symmetry of Willie's headpiece. Ovcoarse any good dog's headpiece would be symmetrical, but not every doodler's depiction of it would be. (one awquardly placed deedleball makes it look like Willie's dingleberries are showing. eep.)
At first glance it reminded me of something from a Dr. Seuss book. ("brush brush brush brush, comb comb comb comb.. if you love to brush and comb, then you should have a pet like this at home..!")
I can totally see this one going on a tee shirt (James? are you there?).
Golly, Librarian. your response to Somebody comes across really snooty.
awkwardly!
@ Bored ... I'm a librarian. I'm really snooty. It's my job.
And, jeez, while that's a real book, the funny part of my comment was "ordered from the 'Amazon'." THE Amazon! In Brazil!! Oh, never mind.
I got it Librarian.
Your humor is not lost on all.
OK. Deedleballs is my new favorite word for unnamed little somethings. Widget has been dethroned.
i didnt think it sounded snooty at all, Librarian. (can i call you Libe?). Tres humoreux.
I absolutely love this. It's so much fun. Willie should be a children's book, where he travels the world and dons costumes from several different cultures.
On another note, why does the spam protection have to be the hardest of the days of the week to spell. I'm better at the math ones.
Call: Show us your Willie!
Response: Give us your beads!
Oh yeah. I'm all about the deedleballs and doodlydoots.
La Cage aux Folles, doggie style.
(or, a new, updated version of "Are You My Mother?")
maybe it was a John Green book?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-to4Dl3FALs
This is so cute! I want it on a shirt ASAP!
Every dog has his day including Willie
By the colors of his costume, you can tell Willie is parading for Portela Samba School:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRES_Portela
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3A1Nofbd5k
The outfit reminds me of beaded curtains. When I was a teenager my mother didn't like my friends and she worried that we were hanging out in a "den of iniquity with beaded curtains." That was an exact quote. We never let her live it down. Now every time I see beaded curtains, I think of dens of iniquity.
Tee-shirt! This calls out to be on a tee-shirt!
Actually, peeps, you can have this on a T-shirt. Print it out in color, on an iron-on transfer, put on a white tee, and voila, your very own Willie at Carnaval T-shirt.
Why is everybody spelling carnival as carnaval? Or is that another American thang?
(Oh yeah. If you want the words, and ovcoarse you do-- dont' forget to reverse the image before printing!) I have t-shirt transfers of the Lisandra (aka Stuck on Love) Find, but haven't gotten around to ironing them onto anything.
Let's all just harass - I mean very politely indciate to Jason and James that we'd really like them to make sure that this one's available as a Found Tee shirt option. (yes, please.)
Pedant is one of those people who thinks that everyone could speak English if they wanted to. In Portuguese, French and Spanish, the word is Carnaval. And it's a specific event, known in Louisiana as Mardi Gras (which isn't English, either, btw.)However originally "Mardi Gras" or Fat Tuesday referred only to the day before Ash Wednesday, when people were supposed to eat up the last vestiges of meat etc. before the beginning of (meatless) Lent.
In English, a "carnival" simply means the midway of a fair, where rides, games and food are found.
Totally bought this off of Mrs. Roper at her 'Three's Company' -yardsale.. She has a ton of them, and begged anyone to buy atleast one and she'd throw in about 15 for free!! That Mrs. Roper is sure something else!! *pokes her w/ knitting needle*
"WILLIE DOESN'T BITE!!"
(a little shout out to the two other people in the world who'd get it. Oh. and to Willie.)
This deserves to be framed. Definitely one of the best found notes.
LOL @ moonshine and Mrs. Roper!
Not long ago I bought a number of old muu-muu's, kaftans and maxi skirts at an antique show for a buck apiece. They're not something I'd ever wear, but they're yards and YARDS of amazing vintage fabrics that can't be bought anywhere else! (60's and 70's man, can you dig it.)
This exact drawing is on a card that is sold in the bookshop I work in!
It was done by Alexander Stadler in 2003
Heres a link to see the REAL willie:
http://www.alexanderstadler.com/mydogs.html
Willie actually has his own book "What Willie Wore: Scenes from the Life and Wardrobe of a Very Fashionable Dog" by Alexander Stadler.
Wow, I looked up the book and I'm wonderin' if it was an original sketch? How cool if it was!