IPL
Intellectual Property Law in Art
It was a lot of work to finally get to the point. This 2004 ad above looks like me leaving a thrift store back in the early 2000's, jeep and all, except that for me the most important part of each jeep haul was books, magazines, and DVDs. Everything was a potential project, or part of a bigger picture. I was hoping that I would eventually get the point.
Back in the 2001/2002 era, America's Thrift Store was new to the Atlanta area. Someone at their store in Riverdale would frequently put a Master Lambton relic in the BOOKS section of store, usually with their collection of second hand Bibles. Since the kid looked much like me from years ago, I would spend the $1.98 for my Master Lambton relic. I kept them in a box on a shelf in the bedroom, and wondered if I'd ever get the point.
I was more interested in what had been published about Pan Am Flight 103. Plus there was the upcoming trial in Belgium, but that's a different story at a different tab. Anyway, at the thrift store one day I found a book with the same title as my birthday. I opened to the copyright page to see what year this was published. The Fourth of June was published in 1962; the same year I was born. I wondered if I would ever get the point. I keep it on a shelf in my bedroom with about a thousand other books, but this one is the favorite. The book was about the boys at Eton College, which I later discovered was the school that both Prince William and Harry attended. On page 37, there were 5 words that I needed a dictionary for. In spite of that, I enjoyed the read.
It was at the thrift store where I found the art book that had inside an Andy Warhol painting titled 129 Die in Jet! The date on the Andy's reproduction of the New York Mirror was also June 4, 1962, and I knew that this was the chartered jet crash that had killed so many people with the Atlanta High Museum of Art, including two who were friends of my parents from Druid Hills Baptist Church. I was glad that I had been to the thrift store that day. My Dad was a mechanic at Delta Air Lines when this plane crash happened. Since I was born a day later, co-workers started to call him "Babe." They called him "Babe" even after he retired in 1989.
As you see above, the 129 Die in Jet! painting was used as background in the 20o6 film Factory Girl. The Factory was the name of Andy Warhol's studio in New York, and the debutante featured in Warhol's shorts from the sixties was the 'girl' Edie Sedgwick. Yes. That's Jimmy Fallon holding the camera in the foreground.
My bedroom was looking like Warhol's apartment. That's Warhol's apartment above. Warhol kept all of the paper above to use for his artwork. Most of it was information published and kept as inspiration for a future project. Some of it was for the original paper 'whatever,' to be spray mounted on canvas and shellacked. It all was potentially to become Andy Warhol's IPL.
One day at a dollar store, I saw a collection of old movies and on the cover of one was the face of my Uncle George "GB" Hollis on the cover of the 1945 DVD film titled "Detour." GB was Granddad's brother, and I had seen Granddad's face in an episode of The Twilight Zone. Again, I didn't get the point, but knew it was an old one. Later, if you continue 'surfing' this website, you'll understand how G.B. and his wife Shank are loaded in the world of Intellectual Property Law.
And to the left is baby me and also G.B.'s wife Francis "Shank" Love-Hollis. I first recognized Shank in an episode of Batman, where the actress Estell Winwood played the villan. When I saw Winwood's name in the credits of The Magic Sword (1961) at the dollar store, I took the DVD home and watched the film. It opens with the words "He's gone again. He left home hours ago."
Again, baby me and Shank in this photo in Decatur, GA. She lived two doors down from us on Glendale. The late Jackie Burroughs plays Jay Mohr's grandmother in this phenomenal 2005 film titled King's Ransom. I keep that DVD and about 600 others on a shelf in my bedroom. Note the baby photo beside the TV in the clip above. It was amazing how Jackie was able to capture the likeness of Shank for this role. Estell Winwood could not have done a better job.
The thrift stores were a lot of fun. That's also where I got this shirt that was identical to one I had in the 8th grade. It took years to make it to the point of the 4th of June book, the Warhol painting, the likeness of close relatives found in tv and film (including productions out of Russia too). The point was DNA, and by clicking the ROYAL ANAGRAMS icon below, you can see how the 'distant cousins' are keeping track through anagrams. If you have already been there, click on the Margaret Biddle anagram to get to the 'Royal Doppleganger's" tab for more photos. It's worth it just for that John Sanders Hollis postcard story. What are the odds that you're related to a royal? Read the 1914 data that goes back to the 1400's to assess your odds, then click that image if you want to go to the HOME tab, which sets the goal of this web page. And finally, by scrolling back up and clicking on the "TOOLBOX" that's in Shank/ Kenny baby photo, you can see the articles published in the paper the day that Shank and G.B. were married.