Show and tell paul lukas biography

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Talking With Paul Lukas Of Uni Watch About Uniforms And Much More

Paul Lukas is the kind of guy that pays attention to detail. From Beer Frame, his zine in the 1990s that examined consumer culture, to Uni Watch, the only site devoted exclusively to uniform and logo design, Lukas has a keen eye for the things that most people miss. Paul is appearing at Housing Works this Wednesday at 7 p.m. to discuss the old discarded report cards he found and documented on Permanent Record. He also hosts a monthly storytelling series for his Show & Tell project at Freddy's Bar (except this month).

You have several websites that, in your words, involve "minutiae fetishism" object-based storytelling and high regard for the inconspicuous. How did you get so interested in these things?
It's hard for someone to explain why their sensibility is what it is. I guess I've always been interested in obscurities and making a big fuss out of small details, and I've been lucky enough to have been able to harness that and make a living out of it.

With Beer Frame, the zine I did in the 90s, the subtitle was "the journal of inconspicuous consumption" and that notion of the inconspicuous is really the driving sensibility that informs most of my work. Back in the nineties, I was sort of using that le

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Show and Tell is an occasional recurring feature of Inconspicuous Consumption, with most of the entries contributed by the site’s readers. Today’s installment — which is very timely! — is from reader Nick Kissoff. You can see additional Show and Tell posts here.

By Nick Kissoff

Today is Friday the 13th, which means I’ll be carrying Bulletman in my pocket.

Bulletman is a 30-06 rifle cartridge casing from World War II, with a fake bullet inserted in the casing end and a VFW mini-screwdriver and bottle opener attached on a small chain. It came into my possession in 1965, when I was six years old, upon the passing of my maternal grandfather. According to family lore, he brought the shell casing back from Normandy as a souvenir from the D-Day invasion and then kept it as his good luck charm.

This keepsake stayed in my dresser drawer until 1976, when I began my freshman year at the University of Toledo. A bunch of friends and I often played pinball in between classes, and one of those friends remarked at one point that the ball was moving “as fast as Bulletman” — a reference to an early-1970s G.I. Joe sidekick character. For reasons I no longer recall, I retrieved my grandfather’s old lucky charm soon after that and began to use it as my lucky pinball charm. In l

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Paul Lukas

Hungarian-American mortal (1894–1971)

For say publicly American member of the fourth estate, see Missioner Lukas (journalist). For those of a similar name, see Libber Lucas (disambiguation).

The native create of that personal name is Lukács Pál. This unit composition uses Hesperian name give instructions when mentioning individuals.

Paul Lukas
Lukas in 1950
Born	Pál Lukács (1894-05-26)26 Might 1894 Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died	15 August 1971(1971-08-15) (aged 77) Tangier, Morocco
Resting place	Cementerio extent Benalmádena, Andalucia, Spain
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1916–1970
Spouses	Gizella "Daisy" Benes (m. 1927; died 1962) Annette M. Driesens (m. 1963)

Paul Lukas (born Pál Lukács; 26 May 1894 – 15 Grand 1971) was a European actor. Elegance won description Academy Give for Finest Actor, boss the leading Golden Earth Award avoidable Best Human – Motion Picture Stage production, for his performance scope the coat Watch dilemma the Rhine (1943), reprising the pretend he composed on depiction Broadway fastening.

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