Book Covers: Jules Verne

The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras, 1866) by Jules Verne as published by Hetzel in the book series Voyages Extraordinaires ("Extraordinary Journeys").

A few more.

Other beautiful Jules Verne editions - in English.

Vintage illustrations from Jules Verne books.

The maps from the Voyages Extraordinaires.

If anyone knows of an extensive collection of Jules Verne book covers - Hetzel edition or other - scanned in a decent size, please let me know.

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Flickr: "The Periscope of Jules Verne"

Uploaded to Flickr by magic fly paula.

"Jules Verne had a special way of seeing reality, he saw further than others. His world has one special meaning to me, his books makes me dream." - magic fly paula

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Illustration: Gerhard Munthe

Odin on his horse Sleipnier. His ravens, Huginn and Muninn, at his side.

Gerhard Munthe

(1849-1929)

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Illustration: Halfdan Egedius

"Seidemennene paa Skrattskjaer" - Olav Tryggvasons saga in Heimskringla

Halfdan Egedius

(1877 – 1899) !!

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Zoology: Baby elephant

Photographed and uploaded by kjdrill.

"Baby elephant Impunga sits up on his big brother Vus'musi, they are best friends."

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Poster Art: Tadanori Yokoo

Roger Corman's The Trip, 1967

Tadanori Yokoo

More by Tadanori Yokoo

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Funny: They Didn't Study

They didn't study

No they didn't. Funny or/and disturbing.

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Vintage Tobacco: Adamas Cigarettes

"The most famous, and much coveted, Danish billboard is the Adamas Cigarettes billboard from 1928 made by Johs. Thejll of Copenhagen for American Tobacco Company. It was drawn by the Danish advertising illustrator Aage Lippert." says Danish billboard collector Søren Christensen at his site Emaljskilte. (Enamel porcelain coated signs)

You will find a couple of signs on this page and one here and here . Evidently the Adamas character that was created became such a success that they published books about him. However, according to Christensen, the cigarette brand never became a big hit and it seized to exist in 1942.

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Flickr: Can You See Harvey too?

fancy dress - a set on Flickr
by superbomba

found via this is not happiness


"The story is about a man whose best friend is a "pooka" named Harvey—in the form of a six-foot, eight-and-one-half-inch tall rabbit."
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Vintage Photo: Ann-Margret

Ann-Margret
uploaded by sensen at
LiveJournal - Vintage Photographs


Much more Ann-Margret uploaded by ghostcolours

Movie: Best Movie Title Ever?

A blog post about MATANGO aka Attack of the Mushroom People

Also read this post by Max Sparber.







Watch the trailer:


Watch the movie:


Download movie

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Photo: Thor kaross

Detail from an ol' Volvo bus. Photo by Josephzohn.

Movie Poster: White Zombie

Bad Design: Gummi Lighthouses

From Accordion Guy via Look At This

Transportation: Vespa

niblog's stuff
tagged with vespa
at Flickr

Online Game: Puzzle Farter

Puzzle Farter

Via Drommels!

Repost: Franky

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

Happy 4th to those who celebrate this day! And to all the rest of us: Have a nice day and a great weekend.

Art: Modern Music Masters

Brian Jones


Modern Music Masters
- the relief-block prints of Stephen Alcorn.

Via Drawn!

Movie Posters: 90 Years of German Movie Posters

Filmposter-Archiv

"Here you'll find German movie posters, teaser (?) and sometimes international poster with widths from 250 to 500 pixels... / ...Our focus is on posters from the German-speaking countries. For international poster there are many other sites on the WWW... / ...Our database currently contains 11319 posters."


This is a German goldmine!

Vintage Toy: The Hippie

I have edited the original image somewhat...

Topps Blockhead - #7 The Hippie
by grickily

A Sampler of Things - Post: Topps Blockheads

"...the art was designed by Wally Wood and Basil Wolverton and most were painted by Norm Saunders, the guy that did Mars Attacks."

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