Here are the elements of a collage I made for Nancy Grippo’s psychology class circa 1981:
-Picture of a guy and a gal riding in an orange dune buggy through some oak trees (or between them, rather;
-words: THE DARTMOUTH PLAN;
– a right-handed tennis player with blonde wavy hair on a clay court preparing to hit a backhand; Vitas Gerulatis, perhaps;
-word: PRIDE;
-word: Stones;
– black and white newspaper photograph of Lester Hayes of the Oakland Raiders, flashing a victory salute (peace sign); caption reads: “Cornerback Lester Hayes in a victory salute”; a headline, downstyle “Super Bowl” pasted next to
-word: CHAMPS!;
-an Oakland Raiders ticket stub, from Aug. 24, 1974 (i.e. seven years prior), row 19, seat 20, $7.50 reserved, game 3 (pre-season — when they played 14 games with 6 preseason rather than current 16 games, bye week and four preseason), versus Philadelphia Eagles;
-photo of dude on a powered surfcraft, in an ocean with surf;
-picture of a beautiful Sports Illustrated model, perhaps Paulina P, her more salient parts obscured by:
– photo of old green car, license WDL-8, like an old Rolls, circa 1920s — my Dad could probably identify the manufacture, model, maybe the year; green;
-fading Kodak paper photograph of the Roman Coliseum, that I took on a trip to Europe when I was 16, the summer I lost my virginity to a fellow Gunn student, maybe I took the shot that same day;
-word: Performance
-picture, from an advertisement, of I believe a member of Cheap Trick, Rick Nielsen? from Springfield, Illinois? I mean Rockford, natch.
-word: VETTES;
– photo of a new (1980 or so)Chevrolet Corvette, gray with red trim, B.F Goodrich Radial T/A tires, in limbo;
-picture, on newsprint or pulp paper, cropped tight, of Lampoon (Harvard, maybe National) “64 High School Yearbook Parody” showing literally a cheerleader who forgot her panties;
-picture of a sandy beach;
-words: Editorially speaking;
–very nice picture of Christie Brinkley?
-words: SCVAL crown (cut from Gunn Oracle);
– radio station sticker: for KOME, but with basketball (Voit) filling fairly neatly the O;
-words: ORACLE: Henry M. Gunn Senior High (mast head, or nameplate);
-an arrow, from KOME sticker pointing from “SCVAL crown” to:
– words: No. 1 CCS (we actually came in No. 2);
-a photograph from Sports Illustrates of two Oregon Ducks (42 and 3-something) colliding goofily with one UCLA Bruins (34 I want to say his name is David Meyers), while Oregon 30 looks on and two Bruins, including something-5 look on;
– picture of a very skinny Earvin “Magic” Johnson of Michagan State Spartans, driving in lane with ball in both hands, but cropped fairly neatly to nearly obliterate, as Magic did figuratively speaking innumerable times, the rest of the combatants;
-picture of a beer bottle from a leading European for export to U.S. made in Holland.
-words: FEEL PROUD.
Ms. Grippo’s daughter, a teacher at M-A, in the Chronicle about her battle with depression or bipolar:
http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-06-27/news/17496919_1_bipolar-disorder-at-risk-kids-mood-swings
speaking of lester hayes made me think of diego romero, the artist whose print i bought recently from Landfall press in Santa Fe, that was returned to sender when I never claimed the delivery.
diego is a big fan of the raiders plus sam bradford. at one time i was going to suggest to diego to do a schmaltzy line of pots using silver and black inks in honor of jack tatum who passed on, and dave dalby, and other late great Oakland Raiders. Al Davis.
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