"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
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.
"TWA Boeing 707 swizzle stick, circa early 1960s."
Flickr: Telstar Logistics' stuff tagged with twa
Flickr Group Pool: TWA
Just a reminder of ThGroh's great movie poster collection at Flickr.
Old blog: Schaukasten
Current blog: Filmtagebuch
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?
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?" (dead link) Evidently I wasn't alone. Look below Click link above and find out what happened.
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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
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
'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
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!
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
"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
boomp3.com
Artist: Esbjörn Svensson Trio
Song: Dodge the Dodo
Album: From Gagarin's Point of View (1999)
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?
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!
"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.
"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!"
Do Your Strip!
70 authors/illustrators were invited to show how to create a simple character and then draw a comic strip...
Check out the pdf preview.
Via Drawn!
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