Allee has the most incredible collection of african american beer and liquor signs! Some light up, some don’t, some are even made of c...
Kitsch » Art
Cirque Du Ballet in Venice
Confirming Venice, California as one of the funkiest places on the planet is this giant clown in a tutu (or conversely, a ballerina in a clo...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Judging CANstruction
I’ve always been intrigued with label design, especially when appearing on cans, as the designer has to take the roundness into consid...
Fine Art Meets Kitschenette…
Early “Kitschenette” appreciated at the MOMA. Created in 1963 by Tom Wesselmann. A three demensional collage comes to life at th...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Lombardino’s Restaurant in Madison, WI. – In With The Old and Out With The New
. Other than I didn’t have a car so my world was very small when I went to college at the University of Wisconsin in the late 60’...
Portable Modern Vacuum…
Great lines and colors on this portable modern vacuum cleaner from the early 1950’s. I think this was more about design than function....
Frank Chacksfield “The Million Sellers” (amazing floating heads album cover)
I love how Frank Chacksfield used different faces to describe his song titles. Of course I love “floating head” covers anyway! &...
Allee Willis’ “The 365 Days Of September” – Day 20
As opposed to being an actual marching band version of my song, “September”, this is a little film made for the high school band...
My neighbour’s front of house
Madonnas in tiles all over the place in my hometown, Jerez, Spain...
Ceramic Afro Mask
African masks are common, but African-American masks like the one above are a rarer item. It’s made out of plaster, then painted black...
The Leaning Tower of Lunchboxes
This tower of vintage lunchboxes stands in Track 16 at Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station art gallery complex. It’s not really R...
Carnival Time!
This is an entry in our local Carnival. There is an elderly lady who enters each year and dresses up her mobility car and enters the Carniva...
Hand Made Peeps Shrine
Hand Made Peeps Shrine: – found tucked away in a tiny corner of a big place....
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The 21st Of September Jubilee!
Because the opening line of my very first hit song, “September” by Earth, Wind & Fire, is “Do you remember the 21st ni...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – “Jungle Animal” (Theoretically) Coming Tomorrow!
For the last few months I’ve been holed away in the creative jungle known as my desk trying to complete a long-distance collaboration ...
The man behind DEVO…
Just this past Wednesday we had creative jolt at “Studio 2091”, a collective group showing at an art gallery in Cuyahoga Falls O...
The Model T
I think are quite a few car lovers on the AWMOK and I’m certainly one of them. I grew up working on cars with my dad (or well, getting...
Rolling Pin Note Holder
Maybe this was made to hold recipes when you cook? First thing I said to myself was “why”?...
Who?
I bought this painting-on-a-board from a man selling junk on the side of the road in Beatty, Nevada. A friend of mine is working on a docume...
Unemployment and Decoupage
About 12 years ago, in between gigs, I had way too much time on my hands and was actually starting to enjoy not working. One day I started c...
A tribute to September 11
Within days of the tragic attack on our country, September 11, 2001, Bob created this personal tribute honoring our country’s heroes w...
1970 Ringling Bros… Circus Poster
This poster has been with me since 1970. Though the event ran for weeks, I never went to the circus, but did a few years later. Amazing what...
Denver Art Museum Clean up tools
The things people create are fascinating to me, from the obscure to the mundane. This piece is visible from South Broadway on the east side ...
“JUNGLE ANIMAL” TOUR BUS…
Possible Bus Design for the “Jungle Animal” Tour…. DETROIT is busy making them now…. The Partridge Family will have ...













