Exhibition description:

Part of a trove of original paintings in the Corporate Art Collection of the Ford Motor Company “lost” to collectors and the studio itself for 35 years

No one knew they existed until the Ford historian let Charley Harper’s son know they had been relocated along with the Norman Rockwells.

These gems, all gouache paintings on board, were offered for sale to the Harper family subject to approval by Edsel Ford II.

Every painting had appeared at some time or another in the Ford Times or Lincoln Mercury Times Magazines.

My wife and daughter, who at the time wasn’t 2 weeks old, went to the show open. As always Fabulous frames & Art was the place to be. I don’t think I’ve been around so many Charley Harper fanatics as I had that day. The show had visitors from states all around Ohio. I have below a bunch of the photos I took during the show… they aren’t the best due to the reflections on the frame’s glass. Oh, and I could only snap photos of the ones that were shoulder high and below. I wish I could’ve taken photos of all the paintings for those of you who couldn’t make it to the show. Sorry it took me so long to post.

Go to de-OH’s flickr album.

We shot the video in the North River Coffee House in Dayton and all the green screen of Charlie in my condo. We used some Kino lights and a small Arri kit to light everything. We used an HDV workflow that I converted to Apple Pro Res 422 HQ on ingestion and it seemed to work just fine between Final Cut Pro and After Effects.

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This is a photo from a short comedy sketch Alex Mangen, Matt Mulchahey and myself did in early December ’09. It stars Jessica Muehlenkamp (who you might have seen in the new SpeedWay commercials), John Bukowski, Adele Grace Berelsman and Eleanor Rose Berelsman.We’ll let you know when we post it online.

We shot it on the Sony EX-1… nice camera.

Head over to MacHeist.com to download some pretty handy apps that normally cost on the low end $15-25 each… all for free! There are only three more days left on the offer so HURRY! Also if they get more than 500k downloads for the “nanoBundle” then it will unlock the program Mariner Write a $50 value! Go do it and be happy. Oh yeah, they are MAC only so all you PC dudes can keep playing your XBOX 360.

I know there are a few DeLorean cars in the Dayton area but this one was probably the best looking one I’ve seen. I saw this one in Centerville outside a store filled with imported goods from China, some of you know what I’m talking about.

I would’ve waited for the owner to come out and shoot some more photos of the interior and him/her with the car but my little newborn daughter was crying in the back and I had to get home to feed her.

Back on July 11th Fabulous Frames & Art hosted a show exhibiting a “…trove of original paintings in the Corporate Art Collection of the Ford Motor Company lost to collectors and the studio itself for 35 years.” I was able to go to the show opening with my wife and our, at the time, 11 day old daughter. All of the paintings in the show at one time or another appeared in either the Ford Times or Lincoln Mercury Times Magazines.

I took as many photos as I could of the gouache paintings on board. de-OH’s official post is coming soon but below are two photos to get you all excited!

Detail of "Fishing on Lake Keuka"

Detail of "Mammoth Cave"

The Fausto book that I have below is a pretty rare second edition. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Inside cover

Title page. The registration is just a bit off.

An example of the typography.

Molina Campos caught a lot of flack for depicting horses not touching the ground when running. Through his observations he noticed that there is a moment when they don't touch the ground.

Classic gauchos.

Detail of the Devil.

The second edition, printed the same as the first. Printing stopped the 30th of September 1950. My copy is number 2155 of 3150.

I wonder if David Ogilvy did the package design.

Though the neighbors enjoyed us helping out the Baglien family, I’m sure they will not miss our three giant tour buses (one of which was used as John McCain’s Straight Talk Express), the grip truck, the generators, the merch truck, the many pass vans, the giant dumpsters etc. etc.

There was some drama on set as well a couple of times… remember this is a “reality show”… so I can’t wait to see how the show will be cut together in post. The 2 hour special should air around the 4th of July so check your local listings.

Just as an FYI for those that might be wondering… the show was shot on XDCAM. The lighting in the house is all Kino Flo w/daylight lamps… there was also a great deal of ND filters used on the windows at the house as well as at the yard sale location. Outside of the house it was all HMI.

Here are a few photos and a video from the shoot (excuse the quality, they are all off my cell phone):

This is just a cell phone video of a mouse in the basement

This is the basement almost cleared out.

Sorting through everything at the store.

The houseware department.

The toys and clothes department.

Yard sale day.

This is a dolly that the camera department put together.

And here is the final product….

You'll have to watch the episode on The Style Network to see the finished product.