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Fading Ads of NYC featured in latest Entertainment Weekly – Hollywood Design Report – The Sets of Glee

Oct 27th, 2012
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October 26, 2012

ONCE UPON A TIME: HOLLYWOOD DESIGN REPORT

In this issue of ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY go behind the magic of ABC’s hit fairy-tale mash-up Once Upon a Time, including which classic characters might be coming to Storybrooke in the future. Plus, Hollywood Design Report, highlighting the talent creating sets, props, and costumes for Once, Les Miserables, Glee, Skyfall, Boardwalk Empire, and more.

SET OF GLEE: DISTRESSING DETAILS

After an exhaustive search, set decorator Robert Kensinger found the janitor’s sink at an L.A.-area salvage yard and paired it with a beat-up cabinet. Though he added crystal glassware from H.D. Buttercup and artwork by Frank Jump and Gérard Uféras, Kensinger was careful not to over-decorate. “As time goes on, things will change, as if Kurt and Rachel went out and bought things or shopped at a flea market,” he says. TOMMY HILFIGER

Apparently, a photo of mine and a watercolor by Sandra Walker from my book The Fading Ads of New York City (History Press, 2011) that are used for a set in the latest season of Glee are being featured in this week’s EW! Just ordered them online. Can’t wait to read the article.

From The Fading Ads of NYC- History Press, 2011 © Frank H. Jump

From The Fading Ads of NYC – History Press, 2011 © Sandra Walker

CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – © Glee – FOX

HEY! Move that lamp! There’s my photo on the wall behind THAT LAMP!

CLICK FOR CLOSE UP © Glee – FOX

Notice the fading ad on the wall outside of the window of Finn Hudson’s apartment. Flattering to see the influence my project has had on this set decorator.

Posted in: Fading Ads of NYC - the book, Publicity.

Dalceggio Mural Art in Montreal, QC

Oct 26th, 2012
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On St. Denis Theatre door  © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Born in a remote fisherman village in Quebec in 1971, with a pencil in my hand, I knew very fast that my path would be different. I was building my own universe in secret, while seeming to follow a normal path. I was introduced to art by my father, who was painting as a hobby in our basement studio. I started to paint more seriously at 18, after a night of love with a muse. From that point on, I decided that I would from now on do only what I really loved in my life.

I am attracted more and more to large-scale project, like the creation of my dream, a traveling carousel “The Wheel of Freedom”, and multi-media seven minutes of whirling magical experience, for free, traveling in all big cites of the world. – Carlito Dalceggio Website

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Posted in: Montréal Canada, Murals.

Produits Familex – Montréal, QC – CA

Oct 25th, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

ON SALE Familex Culinary Secrets Cookbook, c1944 – Etsy

Courtesy of Fulton History

Ebay

Antique Art Deco Belladonna Medicine Tin Box FAMILEX Montreal Co – Butter Yellow French Apothecary Pharmacy Decor Collectible – Etsy – CLICK

Familex Perfume circa 1938 – Museum of Perfume – CLICK

Courtesy of ANTIQUE QUÉBEC MEDICINE BOTTLES- Inhalant Rhumo-Vap Familex – The Familex Products Co, Montreal. – CLICK

Metal Box – Familex Thymol Throat Pastilles Gorge – Montréal
Walking Baie-Saint-Paul © Andre Vandal

Posted in: Chemists, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms, Montréal Canada.
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SIGILLUM NOVI BELGII – Seal of the New Belgium – Museum of the City of New York

Oct 24th, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Seal of The Province of New Netherland, 1623

Two shields constitute the center of the seal. Superimposed upon a larger shield is a small shield depicting, in diagonal position, a beaver. A string of wampum, the dominant motif of the larger shield, encircles the small shield. Directly above the two shields and forming the crest is a count’s coronet positioned between single stars. Encircling the two shields is the printed legend, SIGILLUM NOVI BELGII. The whole is encircled by a sharply serrated wreath.

The beaver, signifying continuing prosperity, was the commodity upon which the original commerce of New Netherland was founded. In this era, both the beaver skin and wampum were used as money. The coronet of the count demonstrates that the Province of New Netherland had the armorial rights of a countship. The legend, SIGILLUM NOVI BELGII or “Seal of the New Belgium”, recalls an earlier time when the Belgium and Dutch Netherlands were one political entity. – SM Publications – The Resource Center for Silver Collectors, Dealers & Appraisers

Posted in: Marble Placques, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands, Upper Manhattan.

Green Door Mini-Mall – Five Points – Denver, CO

Oct 23rd, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

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© Frank H. Jump

Posted in: Denver CO, Farmer's Market.

Steinway Pianos – Huff Music Store – Bethlehem, PA

Oct 22nd, 2012
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© Frank H. Jump

Another view. Previous related posting on September 24, 2012

Posted in: Bethlehem PA, Pianos.

When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty

Oct 21st, 2012
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Posted in: Brooklyn, Civil Rights, Propaganda.

Adelaide Silk Mills – Allentown, PA

Oct 20th, 2012
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CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE – Adelaide Silk Mills – 1915 – Credit: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Archives – ExplorePAHistory.com

In 1929 roughly one quarter of Allentown’s workers labored in its more than twenty silk mills. Four years later, factory employment in Allentown was down nearly 50 percent, factory wages had dropped 74 percent, and unemployment had soared from just over 2 percent to close to 40 percent of the work force. Opened in 1881, the Adelaide Silk Mill by the late 1800s was one of the world’s largest silk mills. – Explore PA History dot com

Posted in: Allentown PA, Mills, Silk.

Liquid Soap – Bethlehem, PA

Oct 19th, 2012
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Posted in: Bethlehem PA, Ghost signs, ghost ads & other phantoms.

Layers Upon Layers of New York’s Fading Ads | Ditmas Park Corner

Oct 18th, 2012
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Coney Island Avenue – © Frank H. Jump

Frank Jump takes pictures of faded advertisements that recall an older New York. He’s taken simple pictures for a decade, providing an unparalleled connection to a century of history.

“I worked there,” wrote Tony in April 2009 when he saw the faded ad for Coney Island Rubbish Removal from the corner of Cortelyou Road and Coney Island Avenue (pictured above). “I drove roll from ‘75 to ‘86 with Studdering John, Fat Vinny, Dirty Ronnie. Anyone remember those guys?”

Two years later, as if out of the blue, Fat Vinny’s family found the picture, read Tony’s comment and answered that Vinny had died. Soon, Big Jim’s daughter delivered news of his death a decade ago. She hoped to talk to his own co-workers about his life.

The dead returned to life, even if very briefly, thanks to a Frank Jump’s picture of almost illegible chipped green paint in Ditmas Park.

Frank’s Fading Ad Blog started in 1999 as an all-HTML web site documenting a century’s worth of vintage mural ads on brickfaces in New York City. The vast collection of fading ads add up to a time machine that can bring you into close contact with the people and ideas of 20th century Gotham.

“I’m documenting a sign advertising a product that is no longer produced,” says Frank, “developed by a person no longer alive, painted by an ad company that is no longer in business.”

Beyond the peeling paint, there are layers upon layers of humanity, ideas and evidence to examine in fading ads. – BY PATRICK ON OCTOBER 17, 2012

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE: Layers Upon Layers of New York’s Fading Ads | Ditmas Park Corner.

Posted in: Ditmas Park, Frank H. Jump.

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