Stuff: Are you tired of all those generators?



Well, who cares! Here's another one: Letters
More generators here.

Retro: Hungarian Calendar Cards







































A bunch of,
in many cases, hilarious Hungarian vintage calendar cards (or whatever you'd prefer to call 'em) will be found on this Hungarian site. On the picture side there are pin-ups, other collectible images, advertisement for sausages and lotto, (I think) public awareness info and more. And they are all worth a look. Just check out the Borat look-alike on the last one!

via Elsrgarcia


Do you know Dean Reed by the way?

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Music: Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog



"Her big hit came, not from Robey's capable pen, but from the young songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was "Hound Dog", which she recorded in 1953 with the Johnny Otis band. Big Mama Thornton always claimed to have written the song herself (a claim which may actually hold some validity), and her ferocious rendition of it (complete with Big Mama's growl and a nasty guitar line by Pete Lewis) held the #1 spot in the Billboard rhythm and blues charts for nine weeks. Unfortunately for Thornton, Elvis Presley's smoother and bowdlerized version was a major pop hit in 1956 and successfully eclipsed her biggest claim to fame."
Go to Wikipedia for the rest of the article about Big Mama Thornton

Music: AFREAKA !

"Messed -up funky jazz from an obscure early 70s UK group and an album that really lives up to its trippy cover! The tracks are all long and stretched out with lots of organ, sax, and spaced out drums and the overall style is a mix of dub-heavy funk, Afro jazz, and a bit of jazz rock jamming!"

ORGY IN RHYTHM: DEMON FUZZ- AFREAKA !

Check out the blog Orgy In Rytm for more jazzy stuff!

Thanks to Seidrik for the tip!

Stuff: Giving You The Finger

NADER

UPDATE
So the creator seems to be Bayat and here is a link to his popular fingers on Flickr instead - "Middleman".

Photo: Antique Dog Photos' photos













Antique Dog Photos' photos

Via Earnest Little Cartoon Guy

PS. Bibi thinks that dogs rule too. There's proof!

Music: "Frenzy" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins

"...the stage in pitch darkness... a terrifying bang which scared the audience silly... Jay emerging into the spotlight over the "I Put A Spell On You" riff, Henry smoking a cigarette (you know smoking's bad for you, look at Henry) FLASH... Jay's rich baritone coming as though from the back of a swamp-filled cave... howling, screaming, grunting the lyrics, Jay suddenly whipping out a battered tenor sax, blasting the enthralled audience with all the power his lungs could command... the red spotlight, white turban, shades, a skull on the end of a pole... BANG!... FLASH!... "I put a spell on you... because... you're mine... SCREAM... all mine... CRASH!"... and now a whole album full of the choicest cuts from the man's repertoire... play it loud and often. " linernotes: Roger Eagle April 1982

Get it at TWILIGHTZONE!

Cartoons: Bibi's Cartoon-O-Rama

Krazy Kat, Felix The Cat, Betty Boop and La Linea cartoon links very neatly collected by Bibi. Great job!

The Martin Klasch Re-Post-O-Rama...



...is finally over. The past week's re-posts was, as I said earlier, a one-year-jubilee-thing. I also said it would last a week and one week has gone so that's it (for now). For our collective convenience I have gathered the re-posts on a new blog that I've called Martin Klasch - These Are Some Of My Favorite Things.

Finally: You might have noticed that I've borrowed the visual style for the re-post images from El Burlador. Thanks Fede, I hope you didn't mind! See it as a homage!

Anyone else getting tired of ...

...the frequent Blogger image uploading problems?

Re-post #20: La France à GOGO



Serge Gainsbourg and Serge in Comics!
Brigitte Bardot Gallery

Jane Birkin
France Gall
Francoise Hardy and Hardy on magazine covers
Anna Karina with Rollergirl (YouTube) via Spiked Candy
Radio Oh-la-la Franco à GOGO
Spiked Candy
Vidéo Nostalgie

Petanque postcards
Gauloises
La vie à bord Air France.

Re-post #19: Germany



Deutschland 1929 -photo gallery
WWII in color
Third Reich in Ruins
German Propaganda Archive
WFMU's Beware of the blog: "A short audio-visual history of the GDR (mp3s, videos)" a few videos taken from that blog here.
DDR-Plakate Galerie
ddr-im-www.de
Kraftwerk Official Site

Re-post #18: Magazine Covers



Esquire Cover Gallery
Vanity Fair Cover Gallery

UFOPOP magazine collection and comic book collection
French Sci-fi Magazines

Crimeboss - Crime Comics from the 1940s & 1950s

Re-post #17: Posters



Movie
De Lijst - 18+ Movie Posters
De Lijst - Cult Movie Posters
De Lijst - Yet More Cult Posters
Posterman: Original, Rare & Vintage Film Poster (vintage film)
ThGroh's movie poster collection on Flickr
Seriesam (Swedish movie poster collectors site)
Classic Polish Film Posters

Polish Poster Gallery
Bollywood Posters
Serial Covers From the 30s and 40s
African Movie Posters

Music

pOoTer's pSycheDelic shAcK - Art (60s psychadelic poster art)
Collectable records poster gallery (more 60s psychadelic poster art)



WW and cold war
World War II Propaganda Posters from WWII-collecibles.com
World War II Posters at the New Hampshire State Library
British Propaganda of the Second WW - "Weapons on the wall"
German Propaganda Archive
WWI and II propaganda from HistoryDigger.Info
Stalin Era Posters
Soviet Propaganda Posters
Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
Vintage Chinese Propaganda Posters


Other/misc

The Los Angeles Public Library ’s collection of travel posters
Vintage French and Italian Posters
Vintage European Advertising Posters

Affiche Francaise: Default, original vintage posters
American Posters from the 50s to the 70s
Vintage Disneyland Posters
Nancy Steinbock Posters (varied collection)
Abram Games Posters (posters by Abram Games)
Hong Kong Poster Collection (public Hong Kong posters)
Ospaaal.com (Cuban graphic designs from the 60s until today)

Re-post #16: Acoustic Radar



Acoustic Radar

Re-post #15: Elephants On Match Boxes



Match Boxes With Elephant Motives