Category: History
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Where there’s smoke …
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Sidereal
In my younger days we listened to vinyl record albums. LPs. We’d loan them to each other and exchange notes. I had a friend whose baseline review was which side (A or B) of the record was better. It occurs to me that in this age of streaming music, the concept of album sides is…
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El Sargento
My maternal grandfather, Tomas Marín, was a sergeant in the Cuban army. On eBay I found a photograph of a man in uniform who looked a lot like him, so I bought it and used it as the reference image for this drawing.
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Emmy Shafer, 1980
“Shafer was a Russian-born immigrant who had managed to survive eighteen months in a concentration camp at Dachau during the Second World War. … [She] spoke six languages, none of them Spanish.” – Nicholas Griffin, The Year of Dangerous Days
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Cafetera
Growing up in a Miami Cuban household, the “cafetera” was constantly in play. I never saw this type of espresso maker anywhere else when I was a kid, so I assumed it was of Cuban design, but it was actually invented by an Italian named Otello Amleto Spadini in 1937.
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Vandercar
Lewis Vandercar was a self-styled warlock and artist who chose mythological creatures and topics as subject matter for his sculptures.
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Vandercar