Illustration: Are You Ready For New Year? #3
Paleo-Future: "Exploring Space (1958)"
Hey, rocket man! Good to see you've bought your New Year's fireworks but ...there's a giant gaping hole in your rocket.
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Album Covers: Are You Ready For New Year? #2
Original non-photoshopped album cover here.
Nina Persson - "Song for the Leftovers"
Hey man! I can see you've listened and fixed a nice tux but there's still something missing for the New Years party... Bummer!
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Album Covers: Face To Face
The Kinks - Face to Face, 1966, Album cover artist: ... (?) If anyone knows for sure please let me know.
"Sunny Afternoon"
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Poster Art: Sci-fi movie #6
click for largerPoster by ?
Watch trailer
Watch movie
The Sci-fi movie poster series.
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Vintage Comics: That's the Spirit - Part 8
Another one? OK, some fighting spirit then!
Be sure to check out all my other The Spirit (the comic!) posts!
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Vintage Comics: That's the Spirit - Part 7
I had a very strong feeling, after seeing the trailer some months ago, that the movie The Spirit would be awful. It certainly didn't make me want to see it. It seems my feeling wasn't all wrong. And I bet I wasn't the only one.
The reception according to Wikipedia:
"The film has received generally negative reviews from critics. As of December 26, 2008, it has a 17% positive rating from 49 reviews on the movie-review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, the consensus being, "Though its visuals are unique, The Spirit's plot is almost incomprehensible, the dialogue is ludicrously mannered, and the characters are unmemorable". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, "There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material"." (more...)
Try the comic books instead.
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Be sure to check out all my other The Spirit (the comic!) posts!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6 (the movie poster)
...see 'em all.
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Vintage Postcards: What a Modern Man Desires
Let's start phasing out Christmas and make space for a completely new year. Talking of something new - I'd like to show you the presents I got this Christmas. Everything a modern man needs:
More at Popcards.fr
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Animation: Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton
IN SWEDISH! uploaded by maxxtroSwe
Wikipedia (eng): "Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons Julafton ("The Tale About Karl-Bertil Jonsson's Christmas Eve") is Per Åhlin's animated movie adaptation of Tage Danielsson's short story of the same name, telling a heart-warming tale of a modern Robin Hood who takes from the rich to give to the poor people of Stockholm on Christmas Eve. Karl-Bertil Jonsson's Julafton has gained huge popularity in Sweden, and is broadcast every Christmas Eve on Swedish and Norwegian national television.
The film was dubbed to English in 1987, with Bernard Cribbins as the voice-over, and got the title "Christopher's Christmas Mission"."
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Christmas Music: Space Age Santa Claus
The record sleeve comes from www.falalalala.com. The song is written by Ross Christman and performed by The Hal Bradley Orchestra with Patty Marie Jay on vocals:
Listen: Space Age Santa Claus
Sorry. No longer available.
More Space Age Santas.
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Children's Illustration: Christmas and More...
Golden Gems a set on Flickr created by Tales of Whoa. Great vintage children's book illustrations.
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Ephemera: Christmas Card
An obvious Christmas combo?
I wish I remembered where I found this fantastic card, but I don't. Sorry. It could have been here.
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Christmas Comics: Wonder Woman Steals From Children!
Who ever thought that Wonder Woman and the Justice League (geeky correction: "Society", see comments...) would steal Christmas presents from a sleeping child on Christmas Eve?! Well, here's the proof:
From Random Acts of Geekery
Christmas: En Mass...
Look At This...: "Christmas Special"
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Christmas Music: The Martin Klasch Santa Collection 2004-08
Santaism '08
Santaphonic '07
Santology '06
Santalicious '05
Santafobic '04
Please click the individual images to download.
Password: martinklasch.
Grab 'em while they are up. I'm planing on having them up at least until Christmas Day but after that...
UPDATE - Dec 26th:
Downloading is no longer possible.
You can still (until New Year) listen to Santaism online here or from the sidebar.
Sorry. No longer available.
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Music: Lars Gullin
I'm Learning To Share!: "Lars Gullin Quartet - 'Danny's Dream' b/w 'Be Careful' (1954)"
Listen!
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Christmas Music: Santaism
Following the yule tradition that I've created for this blog I've put the annual Martin Klasch Christmas music mix together once again. There are 27 songs in this year's compilation but I'm not going to reveal which ones or by whom they are performed. I will say that if you've heard my other Christmas mixes you'll feel familiar with the style of the mix. If this interests you at all all you have to do is click the image of the cover and you'll end up at zSHARE where you'll be able to download the rar-file (130 MB). And just to annoy you I put a password on it - so to unpack the files you have type the name of this blog (without space).
I hope you'll enjoy it!
Sorry. No longer available.
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PS. If anyone wondered: If I find the time and energy I might repost the mixes from earlier years. We'll see.
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Video: Ernie Kovacs Meets Esquivel
"A classic moment from The Ernie Kovacs Show, featuring
Juan Garcia Esquivel's space-age pop versions of 'Jalousie' & 'Sentimental Journey'. " says The In Crowd in Video Cabinet in Limbo: Ernie Kovacs meets Esquivel: 'Musical Office' (1961)
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Vintage Ads: Erector
Yes we do get that sometimes. We don't all call it that but we do get them. And sometimes we have to lie on our stomach and put on a fake smile.
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Ephemera: Soviet Christmas Cards
Another nice Christmas classic: Old Soviet Christmas card collection
via Everlasting Blört
Illustration: Entr'acte
More entr'acte signs at Agence Eureka.
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"Entr'acte is French for "between the acts" (German: Zwischenspiel, Italian: Intermezzo). It can mean a pause between two parts of a stage production, synonymous to an intermission, but it more often indicates a piece of music (interlude) performed between acts of a theatrical production."- Wikipedia
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Generator: Wordle
This image was created using my blog tags from the tag cloud (at the bottom of the blog) and this generator. Make your own if you like it.
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Vintage Magazines: Google Search
The excellent Modern Mechanix blog points out that over at Google Book Search you can now find "full indexed scans of every Popular Science and Popular Mechanics issue online". This is great of course but they don't have Modern Mechanix (yet anyway) so don't forget to visit the Modern Mechanix blog.
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