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Old News
Only a couple articles are shown one the main page at once to avoid cluttering and they get moved here after they get bumped off (so they can clutter this page). They are kept achieved here for your enjoyment.
2005-2-15 20:14:02
They Are not Mine
After 2 minutes and 52 seconds (according to eBay) and 70 bids later, the original Coolidge paintings sold for an astonishing $520,000, 10x what the auction house had estimated. The author of this site was, unfortunately not the winner. Maybe I can still hold out hope that the winning bidder is going to make a donation....
Back to reality though, I don't really know anything else to comment on the action other than it's amazing that a pair of original paintings of whose prints are usually placed next to velvet Elvises and in smoky bar can be worth half a million dollars.
2005-2-10 10:48:33
Coolidge Up for Auction
You can track the upcoming auction of the original Coolidge paintings by Doyle New York live on eBay. (This website is even mentioned in the auction description.) You can also bid on any other of their puppy paintings while you are there. I'm tempted to bid on it for $15,000, just to say that I did, since I know it will sell for a lot higher than that. At least I can grasp the painting from afar.
2005-1-4 22:37:46
Round o' Updates
Original Coolidge Art!!
For those of you with an estimated $30-50K of extra money on hand (that's all of us right?), you have a rare opportunity to buy an original dogs playing poker painting, which Cassius Coolidge created with his own hand. Doyle New York is auctioning two off Feb 12-14. They are A Bold Bluff and Waterloo, although they are referred to by different names. They are oil paintings and each measures 24x36".
If only I had a couple of more years out of college, I might have enough money saved to blow on this (and then live in a shack afterwards). Well, hopefully, another one will come up in a couple of years. Or if someone would just like to make a very generous donation....
I can dream, can't I? Or maybe I should just roadtrip to New York.
More Comics
Hopefully I can post about this comic without getting another cease and desist letter sent to my alma mater. The comic Mixed media, ran a comic with some other dogs playing poker "masterpieces."
TV
I was watching TV, and one of those crappy prescription drug commercials (Vioxx maybe?) was on TV, and they had the painting Poker Sympathy, in it. I turned it on halfway through the commercial, so I didn't see the setup for it, but it is good to know someone is at least trying to pick up where ESPN left off.
2004-9-17 17:45:48
Today's Frazz comic mentions Dogs Playing Poker shirts, of which I own a couple.
2004-06-25 16:30:14
Real Life Poker Dogs
Something as a cross between Wegman and Coolidge, Sands Casino Hotel in Atlantic City used real dogs to recreate one of Coolidge's famous "dogs playing poker" scences. Read an article about the event. You can see a picture of it here or listen to a short bit on NPR.
2004-4-15 0:38:28
More Original Coolidge (I think)
I guess it is just my week for original Coolidge work. I stubbled across this site selling "The Pea-Nut Feast," which although contains no dogs or poker, was painted by Coolidge and appears to be the original. (Or at least for $3500 it better be) Now if anyone would like to hive me a nice present, I would very much appreicate it.... :)
2004-4-2 8:31:24
Original Coolidge Painting
I found some interesting news on the location of at least one of the original paintings which Coolidge created. According to a news article, one of the originals (it doesn't specify which one) is in the Hauge Cartoon Museum in Ticonderoga, NY. I have to go take a road trip up there one day. If anyone lives in that area and wants to give me some information about it, I would very much appreciate it.
2004-2-23 11:50:34
I received quite a bit of information about the painting Riding the Goat from an "Unknown Mason." There is quite a bit of information there about the real meaning behind this picture. It is a pretty interesting read.
2004-2-16 9:03:45
I wish I had more to update on this site, but I really don't have anything. I did get a nice DPP Beer Stein (for all the drinking I don't do). It's sweet.
2003-12-10 09:26:34
While I was working in Minnesota this summer I remembered that Brown & Bigelow (the company that originally marketed the dogs playing poker pictures) was located in St. Paul, only a short distance away. I never actually knocked on the door and asked for information (since I had done that through a letter several years ago), but I did get these more or less useless pictures of their building...I think I may have an addiction
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2003-11-14 17:22:15
The Gallery is Back!
Good news, the gallery is back online. Because of course in my last news post when I said 'soon', I meant a month :) Although there are a couple of pictures missing (I hope to get permission to post those in the future), there is still a pretty good collection. Go look to see all of Coolidge's great work. There is even a new one which was not there when the gallery was previously there.
Note for the curious: I have rights to post all of the pictures in the gallery. The 'Purchase picture' links are not refer based. There is a hidden web image, which does nothing except try to keep my account from being closed. I am not violating Rose-Hulman usage policy or anyone's copyright (to the best of my knowledge). If you email the administration of my school about unfounded accusations without first talking to me, I will consider that harrasment and take appropriate actions.
2003-10-16:19:23:35
I must apologize for this website being down for so long. You can read all about it here. Everything that I am certain I am allowed to post is back up, except for the gallery. Hopefully I can get that back sometime soon. Once again, enjoy all of this Coolidge information.
2003-07-17 22:29:45
The gallery is now back up in a workable form. Go look at some of Cassius's great work.
2003-07-15 21:20:13
Well, as my loyal readers have noticed, this site has been up and down as much as a cheap hooker (joke stolen from Dale). There have been several problems. The first was another copyright issue. Basically someone sent my school (hosting location) that I had some copyright infringing content (but they didn't tell me what). Since I really want to graduate, I had to take this real seriously and my site was down for a couple of weeks.
So I get my site back up eventually, and it's working fine for a couple of days when it just stops responding. Since I am about 10 hours from the computer, I can't exactly go to a console and investigate the problem. So after being lazy for a while, I get a static version of the webpage transfered to my school account (what you are viewing it from now). Everything seems to be working except for the gallery which I haven't made a static version of yet abd Joe's Diner which never really was launched. It will remain here till at least the end of the summer. The causes of the server going down are probably one of more of the following:
- The power went out and my server didn't come back up (although there has been no bad weather in the area
- My computing center decided to shut off the port to my server because it is violating some policy (although I thought I fixed all that and they haven't contacted me)
- Someone cracked into my box and took it offline (although that doesn't make much sense to do)
- Someone stole my server from its semi-secure hosting facility
I sure hope it's number 1
I think that's all the updating for now, so hopefully the site will be a little more reliable in the future.
2003-05-28 09:45:09
DNS Change
There will be a DNS change going on either tonight or tomorrow morning since I will have to change hosting providers to new ones for the summer. All services will be down for at least half an hour during the move, and since I am not the saviest admin there may be some dns resolution problems for a little while after the change.
2003-07-17 22:29:45
The gallery is now back up in a workable form. Go look at some of Cassius's great work.
2003-07-15 21:20:13
Well, as my loyal readers have noticed, this site has been up and down as much as a cheap hooker (joke stolen from Dale). There have been several problems. The first was another copyright issue. Basically someone sent my school (hosting location) that I had some copyright infringing content (but they didn't tell me what). Since I really want to graduate, I had to take this real seriously and my site was down for a couple of weeks.
So I get my site back up eventually, and it's working fine for a couple of days when it just stops responding. Since I am about 10 hours from the computer, I can't exactly go to a console and investigate the problem. So after being lazy for a while, I get a static version of the webpage transfered to my school account (what you are viewing it from now). Everything seems to be working except for the gallery which I haven't made a static version of yet. It will remain here till at least the end of the summer. The causes of the server going down are probably one of more of the following:
- The power went out and my server didn't come back up (although there has been no bad weather in the area
- My computing center decided to shut off the port to my server because it is violating some policy (although I thought I fixed all that and they haven't contacted me)
- Someone cracked into my box and took it offline (although that doesn't make much sense to do)
- Someone stole my server from its semi-secure hosting facility
I sure hope it's number 1
I think that's all the updating for now, so hopefully the site will be a little more reliable in the future.
2003-05-28 09:45:09
DNS Change
There will be a DNS change going on either tonight or tomorrow morning since I will have to change hosting providers to new ones for the summer. All services will be down for at least half an hour during the move, and since I am not the saviest admin there may be some dns resolution problems for a little while after the change.
2003-05-11 21:36:28
Found some new Cassius Coolidge stuff on eBay. They are a set of 6 cards (including a title card) that are titled "Before and After Marriage." They were originally made as an advertisements and are copyright 1882. You can read about the cards and view them here.
2003-04-26 15:37:22
Joe's Diner (my personal site), is now pseudo open. The only thing I have up there right now is a section about myself. If I get around to it (meaning I won't) I will finish it off and make it neato! You can read about the backpacking adventure I described in the previous news item here. (Things didn't exactly go according to plan). Also I haven't gotten back some of the pictures yet, so there are more to go in there.
2003-04-18 17:48:21
Good Friday Update
Today is Good Friday, the day our Savior was crucifed on a cross for the entire world's sins.
....Transition from religion to dpp....**poof**....Well, the update didn't quite go as smoothly as I wished, but the site was working by the end of that night, so that is good enough, right? :)
In more copyright news, I had to take down another picture because I didn't have permission to display it. I think it was kinda shady since the picture in question was of a sketch at least 70 years old and the person displayed it freely in an ebay auction. (I actually would have bought it myself, but it was kinda expension and Coolidge hadn't signed it at all). But alas, I am only an individual without much legal knowledge, and don't really feel like getting into any fights over this site.
In other news not related to DPP, I will be gone for the next week backpacking in northern Minnesota, along the North Shore Trail. I haven't been backpacking before, but I love the outdoors and am really looking forward to this. Best of all, the only electronic devices I use for a week are a flashlight and my watch..mmm..no computers (which major am I again?). So if you send any email, I won't answer it for a while, and as long as I don't get eaten by a bear, I can keep ignoring this site when I get back :)
2003-04-13 15:50:51
It's been a while since an update, but I have a tendency to do that. Release a version of something, and then stop working on it for a while. I do have several more things I need to add though so hopefully those will get done sometime. In actual news though, this site was named a USA Today Hotsite on March 14. (Yes I know I am posting news of this almost a month late, oh well) With that award, this site actually received traffic...I was quite surprised when the load average on the sever wasn't 0.00, 0.00, 0.00.
Downtime
This site will also probably be unavailable Monday April 14th for several hours in the evening. I know, this will routine Monday night for a lot of people, but it is necessary for the greater good. I plan to rearrange hard drives, put in more memory, upgrade the kernel, and finally stop underclocking the processor (don't ask). I should also finally have a way to have a routine backup procedure in place.
2003-03-07 12:03:26
Cassius Coolidge Biography Released
After way too many hours of work, I am pleased to announce that the biography I have been working on for Cassius Coolidge is finally finished. You can view it here. I hope you enjoy it.
2003-02-22 18:22:52
Got two new Coolidge paintings posted that I had previously only saw exsisted in articles, but never saw pictures of them. They are Stranger in Camp and Riding the Goat. These paintings are done quite well (just like the rest of Coolidge's). They wouldn't quite fit on my scanner so there is a noticable scan line in the image where I pasted them together, but it isn't that bad.
Also, I am almost done with the Coolidge bio, so hopefully that will be posted by the end of this month.
2003-02-12 01:30:26
New Cassius Illustrations
Well, thanks to my library at school, I was able to obtain the book Prophet of Peace. So what? As you may have guessed by the title, Cassius Coolidge did the illustrations for this book. I've provided the images for your viewing pleasure. Go look at them. They are only sketches, but they are still drawn pretty well.
2003-02-04 12:31:32
Slight setback with the site, but it appears that I won't get sued :) For the story...aparently the picture of Cassius Coolidge I was using for his biography (still not done of course) was copyrighted to Demarco Productions and my posting of it violated their copyright. It was a nice picture, so it's unfortunate I had to take it down, but it was totally within their legal right to ask me to do so. And they were nice since I took it down and that's all they seem to want. Get one of Demarco's catalogs on the Poker Dogs if you want to see it. I'll replace the picture of a self-portrait of Coolidge when I can find 5 minutes to do so.
2003-01-05 16:46:54
Of course, after like 60 or so days of uptime without any problems, the night I leave for home on Christmas the power goes out at my apartment (aka hosting facility) and my ups doesn't last. As a result you may (but probably didn't) notice that this website has been down for the past 2 weeks. All has been corrected and should be working correctly).
2002-12-12 14:06:41
After probably 9 hours not working, I finally noticed that I horribly broke the site while trying to get perl working for something unrelated. Well, all should be restored now so I apologize to that one person that may have visited then :)
In other sorta real "news" I found a company that may just fill some of my poker dog obsession. Slightly Subtle Technology, Inc., created a game aptly titled Dogs Playing Poker. From the site:
Dogs Playing Poker is a first-person, three-dimensional poker game designed to bring the famous painting to life while bringing all the fun and excitement of a home poker night right to your PC.
It may not be the next Quake, but for 10 dollars I think I am going to have to get it. I wonder if you can slip a card under the table to your friend:)
2002-12-08 00:00:00
Pre-Opening of DogsPlayingPoker.org
After lots of hard work and putting things off, we are pleased to announce the pre-opening of DogsPlayingPoker.org, the number one poker dogs site on the internet. Not everything is complete, hence "pre-opening," but I've been sitting on some stuff too long and I decided to get things out in the wild. Check out the FAQ of the important stuff I still need to get done...most notable Coolidge's biography. Also, if you notice anything broken (that isn't documented) or seems wrong, please tell me. In the mean time, enjoy and hopefully we can have the official grand opening sometime soon (although I make no promises).
Also, I am almost certain Google has not spidered this site, so search doesn't really work yet.
2002-10-20 20:30:46
Attention all
West VirginianersWell, on my rafting trip in West Virgina with OVC we also went caving at Organ Cave. Well, the point that relates to DPP is that somewhere on highway 60 in West Virgina between Hitco and Lewisburg we passed some store with Poker Sympathy painted reall big on the side of it. I didn't have a chance to get a picture of it, but if anyone is in that area and finds this place (I don't think I imagined it), please send one to me and I will be eternally grateful and you will be forever imortalized on DogsPlayingPoker.org. The yellow section on the map shows the approximate area where I saw the building.
