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George Barris & Marilyn Monroe – The Summer Of 1962
George Barris is probably best known for the pictures he took of Marilyn Monroe. They had a photo session the summer of 1962, few weeks before she died and planned to make a book together. These photos...
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Art Deco Posters
All posters found at “Dieselpunk” Filed under: Art, Illustration, Posters Tagged: Art Deco
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And So What!
Photo text: Man with fruit stuffed with shillings and a £10 note. Sometimes an explanation makes you only more confused. I can see that the photo shows a man with fruit stuffed full of shillings and...
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Revenge
Image posted on Facebook by my friend Elliot Feldman Filed under: Humour, Illustration Tagged: Buddhists, Reincarnation, Revenge, St Peter, Steve Jobs
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The Beatles This Week
April 2, 1968 – The band initiated Python Music Ltd, a new publishing company. April 3, 1967 – George was the only Beatle around to work on “With You Without You.” He added the vocals, the sitar and...
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On This Day In 1954 – Oxford Wins 100th Boat Race
Oxford has won the 100th Boat Race in rough conditions on the River Thames. The victorious Dark Blues beat Cambridge – also known as the Light Blues – by four-and-a-half lengths despite windy...
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Hazel Lee (1912-1944) – Aviation Pioneer
Experienced women pilots, like Lee, were eager to join the WASP, and responded to interview requests by Cochran. Members of the WASP reported to Avenger Field, in wind swept Sweetwater, Texas for an...
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Zündapp Bella
After the Second World War Zündapp gradually shifted to producing smaller machines, notably the "Bella" motor scooter, which was, however, a relatively heavy machine for its type. In 1951 Zündapp...
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Janis Joplin & Grace Slick – Legendary Voices
Janis Lyn Joplin Was an American singer and songwriter from Port Arthur, Texas. As a youth Joplin was ridiculed by her fellow students due to her unconventional appearance and personal beliefs. She...
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Vodpod Update – Time For Another Obscure Merseybeat band. Here Is Ian & The...
Ian & the Zodiacs had one of the longest histories of any band working in Liverpool, which makes their utter obscurity in that city even more of a puzzle, considering that they had a cool name and...
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Now That That Buffalo’s Gone
ca. 1874, [Buffalo Heads Outside Taxidermist’s Office, Kansas Pacific Railway], R. Benecke By 1874, when railroads were in competition for business, iconic images like this one were used for...
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Germaine Krull – Photographer And Political Activist
Germaine Krull (29 November 1897 – 31 July 1985), was a photographer, political activist, and hotel owner. Her nationality has been categorized as German, Polish, French, and Dutch, but she spent years...
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Pooh, My Childhood’s Hero
I think it was when they bought the copyrights for Winnie The Pooh that I really started to hate the Disney Company – Ted Filed under: British, Entertainment, Literature, Quotations Tagged: A A Milne,...
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Standard Ten
In 1954 the Ten was introduced as a larger-engined (and less basic) version of the Standard Eight, though sharing a similar frame and transmission. Overdrive (from March 1957) or a temperamental...
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Vernors Ginger Soda
Vernors Ginger Soda is America’s oldest surviving soft drink. It was created in 1866 by James Vernor, a Detroit pharmacist. History Although Vernors is the oldest surviving ginger soda sold in the...
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1920s Typewriter Erotica
Images found at “Retronaut” Filed under: Models & starlets, Nudes, Photography, Pin-ups Tagged: Erotica, Risque, Typewriters
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Robert Auer – Croatian Painter
Schooled at the academy in Vienna and Munich at the time when the art nouveau wave swept across Europe and greatly influenced the European cultural centres, Robert Auer is often tied to this particular...
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The Sound Of Music
Every time I hear of this movie or see images from it I think of a lady in her fifties that was interviewed by a major Norwegian paper back in the sixties. She had seen the movie more than 150 times....
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Norwegians, Easter, Skiing And Snow
Norwegians’ relations to skis and snow is at its most peculiar when Easter comes. Other Europeans celebrate spring on sidewalk cafés enjoying the sun while most Norwegians take to the mountains in...
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On This Day In 1968 – Jim Clark Killed In Car Smash
Motor racing world champion Jim Clark has been killed in a car crash during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim. Clark, 32, was at the wheel of his Lotus-Cosworth which left the track at 170mph (274km/h),...
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