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Now there's a guy who desperately needs go get to Letterhead meet. Great Oogly Moogly can you imagine that? Wonder what it would take to hire an appearance???
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Here is a link to the artist's site. His name is Kurt Wenner. This guy is awesome. And get this...they are done with chalk! I read some of his bio and it's pretty interesting.
Tim- I also use, "great googily-moogily"! Especially when I see a hot looking woman. I heard it on a Snickers commercial. A guy who was painting the football field for the Kansas City Chiefs was finally completely done when someone comments, "that looks great but who are the Chefs?" The guy forgot to put the "i" in Chiefs. The old man then bends over and says, "great googily-moogily!". I've also heard Homer Simpson say it.
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If Homer hasn't said it.... then it hasn't been said.
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Awesome work! It boggles my mind how he gets that perspective and depth when it's flat. I seen this guys work in JUXTAPOZ magazine a couple of years ago. I'm gonna go dig it out.
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Yeah, This guys work is awesome!! I've seen it around for some time. The "great googly moogly" is from the Frank Zappa album Apostrophe' as far as I know. I could, at one time, recite the whole thing by heart, but I can't really remember when. See ya, R.T.
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I knew it as Frank Zappa's lyric too, but had to do a quick look for other sources & found not only a reference to confirm Mike's Howlin' Wolf trivia, but some additional possibly related history as well:
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Being a parent of 4 young kids ages 2-8 and watching alot of Nick Jr. I have heard that phrase "Oogly Moogly" from Maggie and the Giant Beast. it's a phrase that the beast often says.
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Joe & Tim... I think its official! You've completly hijacked this thread now
...but that guys work really is incredible. I never saw it before I followed Mikes link on to the guys site. Awesome stuff. I'd love to see it in person. (& I do wonder what it looks like upside down)
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I am a Zappa nut, and just wanted to see if there are other possible origins.
Doug found the story so far, and it was a zappa discussion forum where this was first brought up and researched, and the results of its lineage were achieved there.
Frank Zappa covered the Jayhawks/Cadets 1956 song "stranded in the Jungle" a few times in the fall of the '76 concert tour.
Like R.T. most will know it from when Zappa had used it in part of "The Yellow Snow suite" from the Apostrophe album, the song was "Nanook Rubs It"
...right about that time people, a fur trapper (who was strictly from commercial) had the unmitigated audacity to jump up from behind my igloo, (peekaboo) and he started into whippin on my favorite baby fur seal, with a lead filled snowshoe. he went right upside the head of my favorite baby seal and he went WHAP! with a lead filled snowshoe, and he hit him on the nose and he hit him on the fin. That got me just about as evil as an eskimo boy could be, so I bent down and I reached down I scooped down and I gathered up a generous mitten of the deadly... ...yellow snow the deadly yellow snow from right there where the huskies go where upon I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes And then in a fit of anger, I pounced, and I pounced again! Great Googly Moogly! I jumped up and down on the chest of him I injured the fur trapper well he was very upset as you could understand and rightly so because the deadly yellow snow crystals had deprived him of his sight, and he stood up and he looked around and he said "I can't see" "I can't see" "Oh woe is me" "I can't see"
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...and don't forget that earlier incarnation:
quote:"great googa mooga," the '50s equivalent of "awesome," an expression that was first immortalized in song by the Magic Tones in 1953 as "Good Googa Mooga":
Thanks for that blast from the past guys.. I was a real big Zappa fan too... everything from Freak-Out thru Joes garage or so when I got off on some other tangents... (saw him on about 5 tours in the 70's)
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Oh yeah - well Zappa my be a great 'oggly-moogler' but he can't hold a candle to this guy's sidewalk art. <attempts to steer topic back on course>.
It's too early in the morning for me to come up with a clever way to juggle 'oggly-mooger-fooger' into this reply.
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This guys work is phenomenal! Ive never seen anyone with a command of perspective like that. The one where he drew himself actually looks like there are two of him. Amazing!
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Thanks Mike, that is unbelieveable, awsome and great work. What a shame it all gets washed away. I would say the work is as close to genius as you can get. A post like that really makes my day.
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NO WAY... is that really just regular chalk? Thats almost a crime to allow that to wash away.
I guess I can be pretty naive sometimes... I mean I saw the chalk in each photo, but somehow assumed all these municipalities had allowed these permanent sidewalk murals.
I must agree it is a shame... but I guess also a tribute to the temporal nature of all creation in the grand scheme.
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hhhmmm...does this post make Bloke look like chopped liver? He posted a topic & pics of this guys work way back on Jan 13th I believe Don't mind me...just an observation of sorts.
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quote:Originally posted by Karen Sartain: hhhmmm...does this post make Bloke look like chopped liver? He posted a topic & pics of this guys work way back on Jan 13th I believe Don't mind me...just an observation of sorts.
Whoops! I must have missed his post! and apparently so did several other people.
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Lol...just keepin ya on yer toes Mikie Since I don't hardly ever make it to chat anymore, I have to have some way to give ya a hard time
Karen
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