JIM WARD MORRIS

Wednesday

Painting #25 James Ward Morris

Painting #25 acrylic, oil, wax, on wood 24X24 inches.

Thursday

Sunday

Cobra Phone

the "Ericofon" made by the L M Ericsson Company in Sweden 1954.

(AKA) the "Cobra" phone.

Saturday

Reid Miles worked as art-director/graphic-designer for
Blue Note Records from about 1956 to 1966...Brilliant!

LP covers from AdamsMorioka’s blog Burning Settlers Cabin http://www.burningsettlerscabin.com/?tag=blue-note-records

Tuesday

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COLLECTIONS COMMISSIONS REVIEWS

Eli Broad, Michael Crichton, Len Peltier, Jay Farrar, Son Volt, Cracker, Adam Duritz, REM, Gillian Welch, Jonathan Rundman, Dwight Yoakam, Paul Turpin, Ziggy Marley, Peter and Barbara Benedek, William Bro, Craig Bennet, Andrew Schwartz, Ian Charles, Colin Gardner, Hunter Drohojowska, Suzanne Muchnic, Constance Mallinson, Heather Allred, Virgin Records, Warner Brothers Records, Elektra Records, Lost Highway Records, Artemis, Artville, Getty Images, Weathered Backgrounds, Fender Music, Chronicle Books, Harper's, Tape-Op, Paste Magazine, National Public Radio, This American Life, The Capitol Group, IBM Corporation, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Artforum and Art In America.

GALLERIES

Jan Kesner Gallery Los Angeles CA, Ace Gallery Los Angeles CA, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery Los Angeles CA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions CA, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art CA, Artists Space Gallery New York NY, Amy Lipton Gallery New York NY, and the Nightlight Lounge Gallery Bellingham WA.

JIM WARD MORRIS

BFA and MFA CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS

360-927-0956 JIM@JIMWARDMORRIS.COM

MIDCENTURY MODERN AMERICA

Midcentury Modern America : Marilyn Monroe meets Pierre Koenig.

An examination of advertising, architecture, art, design, music, performance, and the creative popular culture deluge, developed in the United States (specifically) during the 1950’s and 1960’s decades.

Jim Ward Morris (thesis) 2010.

Monday

School Teacher

School Of Rock!

Many years ago, I first heard the line, “To change the system and to make a difference in this world you must be a part of the system." Well, today as I prepare for school...I prepare to make a difference.

Men who change diapers…change the world and make it better.
Men who teach...teach the world to change and make it better.

J W Morris

"To Sir With Love" 1967
Excellent movie about a public school teacher who makes life better.

Bob Dylan lyrics

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez
When it’s Eastertime too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don’t pull you through
Don’t put on any airs
When you’re down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outta you

Now if you see Saint Annie
Please tell her thanks a lot
I cannot move
My fingers are all in a knot
I don’t have the strength
To get up and take another shot
And my best friend, my doctor
Won’t even say what it is I’ve got

Sweet Melinda
The peasants call her the goddess of gloom
She speaks good English
And she invites you up into her room
And you’re so kind
And careful not to go to her too soon
As she takes your voice
And leaves you howling at the moon

Up on Housing Project Hill
It’s either fortune or fame
You must pick up one or the other
Though neither of them are to be what they claim
If you’re lookin’ to get silly
You better go back to from where you came
Because the cops don’t need you
And man they expect the same

Now all the authorities
They just stand around and boast
How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms
Into leaving his post
And picking up Angel who
Just arrived here from the coast
Who looked so fine at first
But left looking just like a ghost

I started out on burgundy
But soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they’d stand behind me
When the game got rough
But the joke was on me
There was nobody even there to bluff
I’m going back to New York City
I do believe I’ve had enough

Copyright©1965 Warner Bros. Inc, Renewed by Special Rider Music

Friday

everything will be ok in the end

everything will be ok in the end.

if it is not ok,

it is not the end.

Tuesday

Vintage Portable Record Players

check-out the cool vintage turntable collection at klang museum.

Friday

GIRLS LOVE TURNTABLES

this girl loves her turntable more than her shoes!

Monday

ANALOG MUSIC HI FI SOUND

an iPod is easy...but a vintage analog hi-fi is best!

Thursday

THE SOUND OF TOMORROW TODAY!

I did not design this LP cover...but yet it is still extra cool (note the description HI-FI in the upper right hand corner). This midcentury album is way before the more popular STEREO version. I wish the term Hi-Fi (for HIGH FIDELITY SOUND) would make a come back.