The burning question I have today is:

70’s 80’s? era Katherine Kersten and a Van de Graaff generator

…separated at birth?

Posted: May 16th, 2008 under Katherine Kersten.
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Hello again, Tild fans! It is I, your humble ITTR (Imaginary Typical Tildology Reader) here for another foray into the hidden world of our eccentric, seldom-updating blogmistress Tild.

When we last checked in on the old coot Tild she was rambling on about something called a “day job” that seems to eat up most of her time and keeps her from posting more often. Talk about your lame excuses!

From the new headers, it looks like she’s back into crate labels again. No real surprises there; we learned a few years ago that Tildebunkport’s kitchen is decorated entirely in Early Crate Label,with a touch of Local Flour Sack.

Hey Tild! Whatcha up to? Inquiring minds (both real and imaginary) want to know!

Tild:   Well, first of all, back off, Snidely!   You’re crimping my snood. There. That’s better. Yeah, I’m spending a lot of my time messing with crate labels these days. I’ve always loved crate label art. I spent an entire day once on Cannery Row in Monterey just going through thousands of old original crate labels. Expect at least a few more crate label blog headers still to come. I’m even starting to design my own.

A new wrinkle is looking for Droste Effect crate labels. I just recently learned about Droste Effect packaging, and now I’m looking for it everywhere. Here’s the Droste cocoa package design from 1904 that the effect is named for:

Yes, that’s right, recursive picture mavens. It’s… to infinity and beyond!!

With only a little bit of searching I’ve found three Droste Effect crate labels so far:

(click on the thumbnails for the full size versions)

And last but not least, the extremely rare Triple Droste:

Find any more examples? Post a comment, please.

And a h/t to The Mississippifarian for pointing me to the Droste effect article. Thanks, TMiss!

Update: Found another one! Now, this is really embarrassing — this one’s been on my kitchen wall for NINE YEARS and I never noticed it was a recursive picture until 5 minutes ago. Sheesh…

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Posted: May 2nd, 2008 under Crate Label Art, Droste Effect, Personal History.
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