David R. Eustace

Click on the pic for more paintings by David R. Eustace.  He is not the same person as the famous photographer David Eustace

Ukulele Two Step, by David Eustace

Ukulele Two Step, by David Eustace

News for View Master Fans

3dstereoFrom the latest bulletin Las Vegas-based 3DStereo  sent to its mailing list:

News and More News:
Sources at Fisher-Price have disclosed that View-Master products are listed in the product list of 2010. A discontinued product line would have no such listing. And although it was not clear what new products are in the offing, it is heartening to hear that View-Master is at least listed for next year.

Of much greater significance, is the news that a tentative agreement has been reached between Fisher-Price and a group of private parties to carry on the work of the now disbanded Custom/Scenic Division. With a surviving reel making machine in Seattle, like the Phoenix rising out of the fire, it appears that the future holds in store for the world, new and favorite scenic View-Master reel sets as well as the ability for custom reel production for the commercial sector.

The Seattle based Alpa Cine, which produced the processed film for the F-P factory in Mexico has combined with Debra Borer, former, able steward of the Custom/Scenic Division pre-2006 will once again head up that exciting, new part of Alpa Cine.

But all is not perfect, probably because the absence was too short, once again Finley-Holiday is being considered distributor of the scenic reels even though their inefficient attitude to View-Master in the past and its resultant distribution practices may have been partly the initial reason that Fisher-Price gave up on scenic View-Master. But then, nothing is always perfect.

More news will be forthcoming and 3Dstereo will endeavor to keep all informed.

Cigar Box Guitar

The finished product has five strings, which is one string more than we’re used to seeing at Los Thunderlads, but it’s still interesting to watch Renee Stokley of Romulus, Michigan make a cigar box guitar.

UPDATE: Here’s her webpage.

Colin R Tribe can see clearly now

I can’t seem to embed videos this afternoon, so you’ll have to follow this link if you’d like to see Johnny Nash‘s hit played by our favorite British Columbian fingerstylist.

Banana Furniture

Furniture made to look like bananas:

banana-bed-humor-01

and

banana rocker

and

katy perry

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The banana coffin

Banana art in the news:

banana casket

MONTROSE, Colo.—Casket makers catering to natural burials have offered biodegradable coffins made of such materials as recycled newspapers or cardboard. Montrose-based Ecoffins USA is selling caskets made of banana sheaves.

They take six months to two years to biodegrade.

Marketing director Joanna Passarelli says the company sold $40,000 worth of banana-sheaf or bamboo coffins to funeral homes last year.

At least 14 funeral homes around the country offer them.

Ecoffins USA is the sister company of The SAWD Partnership, which has helped fuel the “green” funeral movement in the United Kingdom.

In natural burials, bodies aren’t embalmed and eventually decompose into the earth.

It’s a baby.

tell.fll.purdue.edu

tell.fll.purdue.edu

Its name is “Pop.”

Banana Art Today

Click on the image for its source.   

beagle-nana

These two look happy: 

loving couple

These don’t look too tasty:

don't look tasty

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If I Were a Carpenter- Johnny & June Carter Cash

Brubakers Got Back