Blog Description

This is a site where you can post graphics created by using celebrity names that have a common meaning in the English language beyond just being the person's name. These meanings might be objects, actions, trades or occupations etc. The idea is to use a play on these words to create a collage picture representing the celebrity's name.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

A Verry Merry Alex


Airborne in a sleigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer this jolly old elf arrives on the roof tops and entering each house through the chimney he leaves presents for the sleeping inhabitants then departs the same way calling out "Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night" as he flies away urging his coursers into the midnight sky.

(Apologies to Clement Clarke Moore and Alex Trebek)

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Jack Black of Spades


Here is a familiar face as the Jack of Spades.  With all his crazy and wonderful personas, Jack Black doesn't look at all out of place as the looney face card.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Joey da Bishop

Here's a Joey Bishop collage that I found in a Google image search.  I don't know who created it but it was associated with this joke furnished by Fred Zarguna in a post to www.freerepublic.com on 8/13/2011:
An Episcopal bishop, a Methodist bishop, and a Roman Catholic archbishop walk in to a bar... Smart Alec bartender shouts, "OK, where's the Jewish Bishop?"  Guy over in a booth in the corner says, "That's Joey Bishop. But he's either dead or in Vegas this week."

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Reese with her spoon take two

Here's another take on Reese Witherspoon with a "Dora the Explora" kind of look.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Here's a Dan Piraro Strip You Might Like

Dan Piraro does a comic strip, "Bizarro" where he sometimes does take offs on puns which are similar to what we do in this blog. Click here to see his October 2nd 2011 strip.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Vincent's Van Goes

It's a little known fact that Vincent Van Gogh made a few extra francs delivering pizza in the little village of Arles to help support his painting career.

Reese with her spoon

Here is a quick and dirty collage of Reese Witherspoon using Sumo on-line paint program.  I've been looking for a paint program that would be easy to learn and use and that I would make available through a link on this site.  This could be it, I'll try it for a while.  See the links shown in the right column of this page.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Isaac as a moth


Here's what Isaac Asimov might have looked like if he subjected himself to the miniaturizing machine as shown in the 1958 movie "The Fly" and a moth accidentally got into the chamber with him. I don't think Asimov's science fiction was quite in this vane, but he does make a good moth! Apologies to George Langelaan who wrote the original "Fly" and Vincent Price who acted in it.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Another Clark's Gable



Here is another version of Clark's Gable that I created using Google Draw.  Not too fancy, but it works.  This is a rare photo of Clark without his trademark mustache.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

More about the site idea

The idea is to use a celebrity name to come up with a collage of graphics from the web that when put together fit the name. You will probably need to use some of your own art work to blend the pieces together.

Clark's Gable

This is a graphic showing Clark Gable's likeness super-imposed on the picture of a roof gable. I brought the two together using Photoshop.  I put a little upper body on Clark to complete the picture.  The caption should read "Clark's Gable". Just a silly play on words coupled with a picture. Now that you see the idea, try one out yourself.

What is this blog about?

This is a site to post graphics created by using celebrity names that have a common meaning in the English language beyond just being the person's name. These meanings might be objects, actions, trades or occupations etc. I will post some examples to get us started.