Travel Posters: JAT
JAT posters - a set on Flickr
by dnik
June 25, 2008
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?
June 22, 2008
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?" (dead link) Evidently I wasn't alone. Look below Click link above and find out what happened.
Updated 1st of June 2015
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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
June 20, 2008
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
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!
June 19, 2008
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
June 17, 2008
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?
June 13, 2008
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!
June 5, 2008
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!"
May 31, 2008
Illustration: Do your strip!
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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Vintage beverage: Cuba Cola
"Cuba Cola was the first cola in the Swedish market - introduced in 1953 and still going strong. The label has been kept unchanged over the years and is a good example of true 50s design. The taste is characterized by the robust taste of cola and many think this is what a real cola should taste like." - Krönleins Bryggeri
"The recipe is owned by Saturnus AB of Malmö and it's brewed on license by Vasa bryggeri, Heines bryggeri, Guttsta Källa and Krönleins." - Wikipedia
"Saturnus produced a great many products during the Second World War to supplement products that were in short supply, and thus became even more well known in Swedish households. " / ". At the same time, the trendy post-War fashions from the USA resulted in a great deal of interest in Cola drinks. The debate was heated, and Coca Cola wasn't allowed to market its products in Sweden until 1953. Saturnus was ready - Cuba Cola was launched a few months before Saturnus' American competitor began marketing its products." - Saturnus
"... beating Coca-Cola by three months. The soft drink has in reality nothing to do with the country of Cuba, although it serves as an alternative cola drink to the many anti-American (or anti-globalization) youths of Sweden." - Wikipedia
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May 28, 2008
Music/odd: Sixten Jansson's MySpace
Sixten Jansson on MySpace
- completely Ålandish.
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About Sixten in Swedish:
Sunkit 1, Sunkit 2
Wikipedia
"Pop from the Åland islands 1965-1971" (SvD)
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May 26, 2008
Illustration: Robert McGinnis
"Robert E. McGinnis (born 1926) is an American illustrator known for his illustrations of paperback book covers and movie posters, including Breakfast at Tiffanys, Barbarella, and several James Bond films." says Wikipedia.
This is my second post with the same name. The link in the first one is dead so when I saw girlfriday_2's excellent Flickr set via This is not happiness I thought "Great! A perfect substitute!" So enjoy!
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