{"id":12783,"date":"2008-04-23T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12783"},"modified":"2014-01-14T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:25:32","slug":"how-paul-di-filippo-stole-from-louis-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/23\/how-paul-di-filippo-stole-from-louis-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"How Paul Di Filippo stole from Louis Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve shared here before, Paul Di Filippo has for years been sending me envelopes decorated with collages culled from old magazines, newspapers, and comic books.  Here&#8217;s yet another example  of his envelope art, which sends a Lady in Red searching for me through a casino. <\/p>\n<p>If only I could manage to look that debonair in reality!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AnotherPaulEnvelope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AnotherPaulEnvelope-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"AnotherPaulEnvelope\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AnotherPaulEnvelope-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AnotherPaulEnvelope.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/5835\" target=\"_blank\">the Spring 2008 issue of <i>The Paris Review<\/i><\/a>, the secret of Paul Di Filippo&#8217;s inspiration has been revealed at last! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Paul was preceded in this hobby by none other than Louis Armstrong.  The fabled musician traveled with a steamer trunk filled with approximately 500 seven-inch reel-to-reel tapes, and he created collages like this one to decorate the front and back of each tape box.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LouisArmstrongCutUp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LouisArmstrongCutUp-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"LouisArmstrongCutUp\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LouisArmstrongCutUp-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LouisArmstrongCutUp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/LouisArmstrongCutUp.jpg 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look familiar?<\/p>\n<p>Admit it, Paul&#151;you&#8217;ve been found out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve shared here before, Paul Di Filippo has for years been sending me envelopes decorated with collages culled from old magazines, newspapers, and comic books. Here&#8217;s yet another example of his envelope art, which sends a Lady in Red searching for me through a casino. If only I could manage to look that debonair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,129],"class_list":["post-12783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paris-review","tag-paul-di-filippo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12786,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12783\/revisions\/12786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}