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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Vespa pin-up girls from the 50′s & 60′s
Vespa pin-up girls from the 50′s & 60′s: a huge set at Flickr of vintage pictures and illustrations of calendars. 180 pictures of gorgeous actresses, other famous women and pin-up illustrations in sexy poses with Vespa. Through these calendar photographs … Continue reading
Vintage Chevrolet Cartoons
The Prelinger Archives, at Internet Archive, contains nearly 2,000 ephemeral (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. Ephemeral film, as defined by film archivist Rick Prelinger, is film made for a specific purpose other than as a work of art: the … Continue reading
Posted in animation, vintage
Tagged ads, animation, cars, cartoon, commercials, download, Internet Archive, public domain, video, vintage
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Jeffrey Micheal Harp
Get some Victorian pictures, “put” them at your computer to play with the image, adding details of Surrealism and a personal mark. The result is the strange and fabulous work of Jeffrey Micheal Harp. The American artist was influenced by … Continue reading
The Dayalets
The Dayalets are vitamin mascots, what I translate for scary human portraits made with food, cigars, objects and snacks. One more time the term “playing with food” fits like a glove, and this time moms have all the rights to … Continue reading
Science’s 10 most beautiful experiments
That’s neat. A group of physicits, coordenated by Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, was invited to chose the the … Continue reading
A Flowering of Affection
Valentine’s day is coming, so it’s better I start posting something about it. And I found something nice about it: A Flowering of Affection: A Victorian Valentine Cards at the Lilly Library. A selection of nineteenth century Valentine cards, from … Continue reading
Posted in History, vintage
Tagged cards, History, illustration, love, Valentines, Victorian, vintage
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Full Moon Clay Company
Full Moon Clay Company sells lovely hand crafted ceramic cars, inspired by the wonderful classic designs of Corvette, Porsche, VW and other vintage cars. Those super coloured car sculptures have models for family, with trailer, for just two people, fancy … Continue reading
Peanuts Nostalgia
I used to read Peanuts in the newspaper and watch the cartoon at the Sundays. It was nice, but I missed something: Peanuts isn’t for kids. To really understand it you need of more knowledge that you just get with … Continue reading
Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs
From the collection of the New York Public Library, Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945. A huge collection with thousands of images, photos and political cartoons, in more than 150 albums. Many were originally part of Romanov … Continue reading
Posted in History, photography
Tagged architecture, collection, culture, History, photography, pictures, politics, Russian
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Wong Kar-Wai calendars
The Chinese film director Wong Kar-wai has many fans. A kind of fans that create sites (wongkarwai.net and Chasing The Metaphysical Express) forums and calendars. If you don’t know his works you should do. Start with the Guardian interview, read … Continue reading