Vintage Comics: ...No Head!

From DataJunkies latest post on superhero The Spectre.

Vintage Ads: Falcon '67

Falcon '67
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uploaded by acecamaro at
LiveJournal - Vintage Ads

Art: Munching Beetles

Portfolio - a set on Flickr
by bebop717's

Vintage Ads: Tell the Judges...

The 15-Minute Cigarette
uploaded by londonfever at
LiveJournal - Vintage Ads

Music Video: Nature Boy with James Last

Nature Boy by Eden Ahbez performed by trumpet player Chuck Findley and the James Last Orchestra

Vintage Ads: Franky

What's he so happy about?!
Get the whole picture
at I'm Learning To Share!

Poster Art: Tomi Ungerer

"Poster image for the launch of Coca-Cola’s chocolate flavored “protein soda” derived from a soybean derivative. The poster was created in 1968 but the product failed."

Perverse, Subversive, and Absurd:
the Poster Art of Tomi Ungerer
at the Noonist

Via PCL LinkDump

Art: Re-designed Album Covers

Simon Roche. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine.


"Over 70 of Ireland’s leading illustrators, photographers and designers were asked to contribute a piece that would re-imagine or re-design their favourite album covers: CandyKaraoke."

Via Drawn!

The artwork shown here is made out of plastic beads (if I'm not mistaken) making what we in Sweden we would call a Pärlplatta.

Travel Ephemera: TWA Swizzle Stick

"TWA Boeing 707 swizzle stick, circa early 1960s."

Flickr: Telstar Logistics' stuff tagged with twa

Flickr Group Pool: TWA

Travel Posters: JAT

JAT posters - a set on Flickr
by dnik

Movie posters: ThGroh's Collection at Flickr

Just a reminder of ThGroh's great movie poster collection at Flickr.

Old blog: Schaukasten
Current blog: Filmtagebuch

Movie Classic: Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

Noir of the Week: Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l’echafaud 1958)

Via del.icio.us/bibi

According to myself this is a great movie (by Louis Malle) with a great music score (Miles Davis). As if that wasn't enough this version of the movie poster is an extraordinary one. Does anyone have the name of the poster artist?

Book Cover: A Clockwork Orange

Paperback edition of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. Cover art by David Pelham.
I've collected a few related images here.

I found the image above here.

Movie: What happened to Indiana Jones when the submarine went down?

I guess hardly anyone has managed not to hear that there's a new Indiana Jones movie out. Perhaps you've even seen. I haven't. But I remember seeing the first one in 1981 and ever since I have wondered: "What happened to Indiana Jones when the submarine went down?" Evidently I wasn't alone. Click link above and find out what happened.

Flickr: 1950s - 1970s Advertising

1950s - 1970s Advertising - a set on Flickr
by Pink Ponk

"Posters, Magazine Advertisements, Brochures, Booklets, Publishing, Calendars, Greeting Cards, Packaging, Logotypes, Trade-Marks, Letterheads, Exhibitions, Show-windows... Graphic design, illustrations and printed artwork in general"

Via The Cartoonist

Design: More Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels

Japanese matchbox labels - a set on Flickr
by maraid

Via Bibi's FFFFOUND!

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A few related posts:

Design: Vintage Japanese Matchbox Lables

Design: Matchbox labels

Postcards: Welcome to Sweden

'Stadsparkens Restaurant, Kalmar, Sweden, 1960s

'It's Midsummer's Eve here in Sweden. All Swedes are not dancing around the maypole in folk costumes. A peaceful dinner for two in a nice spot is sometimes preferred by some.
The vintage postcard above is from Ultra Swank's post "Welcome to Sweden".
Please notice the table flags.

/mrdantefontana

Illustration/Vintage Photographs: Diableries

So you thought Viewmaster was first? Well, think again!






"Diableries are wonderful examples of the fascination for death in 19th Century photography and made with a lot of imagination and humor. Death in photography is seen in many different ways but here we see the subject in a less serious interpretation."

Diableries: Early Visual Media - "Life of the Devil in Hell at the End of the 19th Century - Death and Humor in Stereophotography"

Via the great Coisas do arco da velha!

Music: First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival

boomp3.com

"This site features the full audio from
the rare LP record First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival, published by Creative Computing in 1979. The First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival was held August 25, 1978 as part of the Personal Computing '78 show."

First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival

/mrdantefontana

Children's books: The Little Pig who Stayed at Home

"This little pig very much wanted to go with his brother, but as he was so mischievous that he could not be trusted far away, his mother made him stay at home, and told him to keep a good fire while she went out to the miller's to buy some flour. But as soon as he was alone, instead of learning his lessons, he began to tease the poor cat. Then he got the bellows, and cut the leather with a knife, so as to see where the wind came from: and when he could not find this out, he began to cry. After this he broke all his brother's toys; he forced the drum-stick through the drum, he tore off the tail from the kite, and then pulled off the horse's head. And then he went to the cupboard and ate the jam. When Mrs. Pig came home, she sat down by the fire, and being very tired, she soon fell asleep. No sooner had she done so, than this bad little pig got a long handkerchief and tied her in her chair. But soon she awoke and found out all the mischief that he had been doing. She saw at once the damage that he had done to his brother's playthings. So she quickly brought out her thickest and heaviest birch, and gave this naughty little pig such a beating as he did not forget for a long time." - THE END

My First Picture Book by Joseph Martin Kronheim
- Project Gutenberg

Music: Esbjörn Svensson Trio

boomp3.com








Artist: Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Song: Dodge the Dodo
Album: From Gagarin's Point of View (1999)

Illustration: Viewmaster images

Hanna-Barbera 3-D Viewmaster images at Bob Logan's blog.
Via This Isn't Happiness via PCL LinkDump

Viewmaster (Wikipedia)
PS. Does anyone know of any other nice sites showing Viewmaster images?

Blogger: What a scare!

Phew! I have cause for a huge sigh of relief. For a few of days it has been impossible to read this blog - at least for some. (I'd like to know if you managed it anyway!) When I tried accessing the blog in FireFox a window appeared saying the URL wasn't valid and that viewing the page was impossible. However, when I clicked OK the page was shown anyway (?!). IE couldn't find it at all.

"I'll be doggone", I thought, "if I've gone and sabotaged my own blog!" Had I changed the code recently? No, I couldn't think of any changes. To understand the extent of my concern you have to know that I don't know how to write code. It is true that I have made several changes to the template over the years but they are all small steps one at a time done by trial and error, copying code from other sites etc.


Now, even though I was pretty concerned by this newly arisen predicament I didn't panic. I didn't go berserk deleting, changing code randomly. But I did finally - after scanning the code without finding any loose ends - delete a couple of page elements which were totally meaningless anyway and voilá! We are back!

Beware of the evil Wikipedia search widget!


Thanks to MrJ for the image!

Vintage Comics: Stupid!!

"Dave and Shain love to buy old comic books, too. Really stupid old comic books, with stupid covers and even worse interiors."



Stupid Comics newest page and archives (my favorite is the "Golden Age section")

...and, yes, this is a repost.

Vintage Stuff: Found objet d'crap

"Boy,
do Dave and Shain love to go to thrift stores, is Dave and Shain's place overrun with hideous objet d'crap. Come see!"