Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 05

This week's painting from Gil Elvgren is I Gave Him The Brush Off from 1947 -

painting by Gil Elvgren (1947)

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 04

Oh, look! Apparently it's Monday.
Sneaky critter.

A few hours late, but here's this week's calendar-

This week's Gil Elvgren painting is The Wrong Nail (Wrong Nail) from 1964.

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 03

This week's Elvgren is Colette from 1957 -

Blue Monday Calendar 2018 Week 02

This week's Gil Elvgren calendar painting is Phone-a-Vision from 1964 -

Blue Monday Calendar is GO!

As indicated, i was rather dissatisfied with the calendar used in the previous post. So much so, that i've started rebuilding a calendar that wouldn't be re-usable until 2040:

NOTE: This lovely painting by Gil Elvgren contains nudity

and has been moved to our back room for adult content.

Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive

of the original post to view the artwork.

I'm much more pleased to proceed with a year of Gil Elvgren's marvelous pin-up girls from the middle of the last century. All paintings in this series originate from between 1944 - 1968. This week's painting is Gay Nymph, from 1946.

I feel better now.

Blue Monday Calendar is Go?

I had previously alluded to a new calendar feature to begin this year - a year which oh, so conveniently begins on a Monday. In my Cultural Archeology digs, i had encountered several weekly desktop calendars, including date matches for the next 3 years. So i decided to start running each week's calendar as a regular Blue Monday feature since they were all image appropriate.

Damnedest thing, though. The calendar intended for this year seems to have gone walkabout. I've hunted here, there, and beyond the bush, and still no sign of the critter. Alas.

At the last minute, a replacement dropped into my hands -a G-Taste manga calendar with one girl for each week, and one for each weekend. It's an odd little thing, not at all what i had intended. But it will give us a start at the start, and i'm not afraid of changing horses midstream.

Presentation kind of sucks on this calendar. I'm not fond of this design for a few reasons. A full third of every page is wasted white space for the logo. I don't mind, can even appreciate, breaking the week and the weekend apart, but with all that empty space they've left the actual calendar of the calendar too small. The date circles could easily be doubled or trebled in size making it more usable, and perhaps more visually balanced, too.

Still - it was very nice of the girls to show up when they did.

So, we'll go ahead and start off with this one, but it's likely to either get modified in layout, or acquire a companion calendar to join it. Even i have to create a new calendar from old artwork.
If things warm up into double digit Fahrenheit around here, i'll be back with an actual Blue Monday post. Otherwise, i'm off to slaughter a Tauntaun.