Helen Frankenthaler, an American abstract expressionist painter, was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Frankenthaler exhibited her work over a period of sixty years as she spanned several generations of other contemporary abstract painters. Frankenthaler continued to produce vital and constantly changing art works during her career. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in modern museums and galleries in the early 1950s. Her work has since been exhibited on a global basis while working from her home and studio in Darien, Connecticut.

Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011)

Here is an easy way to convert your sluggish PC into a Mac for less than a dollar. Easy D-I-Y for the home computer enthusiast for sure. Thanks for visiting and please come back often!

Nice try, but it's still not a Mac.

A remote control is a component of an electronic device like a television, a DVD player, or a stereo system. The remote control allows for operating the electronic device without wires from a short distance. The remote control is known by many other names as well, such as converter, clicker, flipper, the tuner, the changer, or the button. Some people have more than one, as you can see here. Thanks for visiting and please come back often!

Remotely Controlled ©2011 Eric Hatheway All Rights Reserved

These are a few images that were originally shot with Kodachrome 35mm slide film (camera unknown). The images were rescued from a collection of family slides and scanned so that they could be enjoyed again. Nothing beats the look of Kodachrome! Thanks for visiting and please have a very Merry Christmas!

Kodachrome Christmas No. 1 (Circa 1960) ©2011 Eric Hatheway All Rights Reserved

Kodachrome Christmas No. 2 (Circa 1960) ©2011 Eric Hatheway All Rights Reserved

Kodachrome Christmas No. 3 (Circa 1960) ©2011 Eric Hatheway All Rights Reserved

This is an intentionally vintage looking nativity scene, which is a depiction of the birth of Jesus as described in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. The term nativity scene usually includes the two dimensional depictions shown in film, painting, printmaking, and other media. However, in the history of art and culture, as well as in popular use, the term also refers to a static, a three dimensional, an artistic, commercial or folk art diorama. This is an image of such a diorama.

Nativity scenes exhibit the figures representing the infant Jesus, his mother Mary, and Joseph. The other characters from the nativity story such as shepherds, the Magi, and angels are typically displayed near the manger in a barn. A donkey and an ox are typically depicted in the scene, as wall camels belonging to the Magi. Have a Merry Christmas and thanks for visiting!

Nativity Scene ©2011 Eric Hatheway All Rights Reserved

Merry Christmas from EricHatheway.com

Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, and simply "Santa", is a figure with legendary, historical and folkloric aspects who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24th. Here is a gallery of vintage images of Old Saint Nick. Merry Christmas and thanks for visiting!‎

Santa Smokes? Well he did, or maybe he still does. Although now he would have to go outside the toyshop to smoke his favorite cigarette. And, he certainly wouldn't be seen now in a advertisement for cigarettes or tobacco products in general. The first known advertisement in the USA was for the snuff and the tobacco products of P. Lokllard & Company and was placed in the New York daily paper in 1789. Before the 1970s, most tobacco advertising was legal in the United States and most European nations.

In the United States, in the 1950s and 1960s, cigarette brands were frequently sponsors of television shows or brightly colored print ads like the ones shown here. In 1964, the Surgeon General of the United States released the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee Report on Smoking and Health. This report led to laws requiring warning labels on tobacco products and to restrictions on tobacco advertisements.

In April 1970, Congress passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act banning the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio starting on January 2, 1971. As a result, Santa hasn't been seen dragging on a cigarette in many years. Times have changed – for all of us. Merry Christmas!

Dirque du Soleil

He's from the past, so he knows the future...

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Sailor Martin, as described by his creator and "handler", is an unspeakably vile tattooed and pierced sailor (ventriloquist dummy) who stars in some very funny video mash-ups of vintage songs and public domain films. In this hilarious short film, Sailor Martin gives us his salty version of a holiday greeting. Do you think he's a little creepy? Well, he heard you talking....

A video for a Christmas song by Sailor Martin, a pierced and tattooed sailor puppet. The song, (A Glass of) Christmas Cheer, consists of new lyrics sung over the public domain recording Too Much Mustard from 1913. The video is composed of various public domain cartoons. The song, in the meanwhile, details Sailor Martin's misapprehension that Christmas is a time of epic drunkenness.