Saturday, May 3, 2014

Contest imagery (riding in a wheelbarrow full of money)

I pulled a page from Entertainment Weekly, with a photo of a blonde woman in a wheelbarrow full of money, with three people behind her—a dark-haired white man; black man; darker-skinned woman (the woman in the wheelbarrow below).

When I googled to see if I could find the image, I found this one:


This image appeared on "Empowering Everyday Women," and accompanied an editorial by Dianna Hobbs objecting to cigarettes being advertised in Ebony magazine. http://www.empoweringeverydaywomen.com/cigarette-ads-in-black-magazines-this-needs-to-stop.html

The graphics and background are all the same. Same wheelbarrow and money. Different set of models. (Two of the models in the image above are also in the image used in Entertainment Weekly.)


But the motif of a wheelbarrow full of money here is happier than those from Germany between the wars noted in this post: A wheelbarrow full of money

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Fishbourne excavation, 1960's

Fishbourne Roman Palace has a recent-ish wheelbarrow history.

In the display, which is largely about the discovery, excavation and preservation of the site, there is a photo of lots of archeologists and volunteers with wheelbarrows. In the display there is some graphic art of a man using a wheelbarrow, and another of some of the workers resting (not very comfortably, unless they were really tired and the metal was cool).





That last photo is fun. I've brought it here the day I was there, with a story about wheelbarrows and my dad. Fishbourne, July 17, 2013.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Illustration from 1930's


Here's a scan of a page from one my mother's books from when she was young, that I also loved as a girl.   The Dominant Vth by Jessie McAlpine (1930).

The girls have hidden their midnight feast goodies in this wheelbarrow and are trying to get it away without the third girl seeing the loot.

It's funny how I remember it being a better picture of the barrow itself. I colored it with my crayons.

Regards,
Robyn Coburn

Monday, April 21, 2014

Child's wheelbarrow, Melbourne


Photo by Claire Horsley, at the side of her house.

An Iranian wheelbarrow and Hamed, its owner

"My whole life depends on this wheelbarrow. It's my best friend. I don't have much say in the work I do with it, but I'm trying to enjoy them as much as I can."

Hamed and his wheelbarrow. Seen in Tajrish Bazaar


Humans of Tehran on facebook here.

Thanks to Laurie McPherson for sending it to me.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Top 10 Best Things to do with a Wheelbarrow

The World’s Top 10 Best Things to do With a Wheelbarrow at [the Internet Archive's save from] EverythingOrganized.org, April 9, 2013

Rainbow, table, lace…
Others I had seen: planter, cooler, barbecue...

To be fair, this takes a big building and a bunch of wheelbarrows...







Shovels and other things by the same artist, Cal Lane.

Thanks to Tam Palmer for sending me a link to these!

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Puzzle Craft game's pig wheelbarrow

Puzzle Craft is a farming and mining game, with pattern puzzles. If you match a bunch of chickens, you get pigs. If you match a bunch of pigs, you get cows. If the pigs aren't touching each other but you still want to collect them, at some point you can obtain a wheelbarrow, used for picking up all the pigs on the screen.