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Design: The Bride of Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein, 1935 – The first of a long list of sequels in the Frankenstein saga. The first treatment was called The New Adventures of Frankenstein — The Monster Lives!, but quickly...
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Halloween Count-down: The art of Basil Gogos
Basil Gogos – During the 1960s, Gogos provided a steady stream of illustrations for a variety of New York-based publications. The majority of his work during this period was for men’s adventure...
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Psycho: Behind the Scenes
Filmed in 1959 and released in late 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho has been voted the #3 best horror movie of all time. Made with Hitchcock’s own money ($800,000) and generally regarded as too base...
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Halloween Pin-ups
Dusty Anderson Ava Gardner Veronica Lake Clara Bow Anne Nagel Hedy Lamar Lola Blanc Betty Grable anonymous Janet Leigh Nan Grey Dusty Anderson 3 anonymous devils June Knight June Lang Joyce Holden...
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Design: Mondo Movie Posters
Movie posters seem to have no real artistic punch anymore. No more beautiful dames and bright yellow type like noir posters from the 50′s, wild multi-color collages from the 60′s or crazy psych art...
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Photography: Vintage Burlesque Part ?
I’ve posted a lot of these in the past and always get a great response. These women were/are great. Playing by their own rules in the repressed 1950′s. First, check out the great poses (and skin), then...
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Design: Those Terribly Designed Gangsta Rap LP’s
It was imperative in the 90′s to “Show the Wealth”, in most gansta rap LPs. Cash, diamonds, girls and pit bulls were the symbols of success. Granted a number of these are mix tape style covers from...
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Photography: Bowie Proof Sheets
Is there anyone in the world more photogenic than David Bowie? Many of his album covers (always a self portrait) have become iconic. Everyone knows the lightning bolt make up of Alladin Sane and the...
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Design: Playboy in the 1960′s
Playboy in the 1960′s still had a bit of naivete to it. It really did focus on the man of the times and actually had unbelievable articles (Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was first published in 3...
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The Life and Mysterious Death of Thelma Todd
Thelma Todd was a dish, a dame, a bombshell and also a very funny comedienne and actress. She was one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the late 20′s and early 30′s. Appearing in over 40 movies between...
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Jessica Harrison’s Ceramic Nightmares
Edinburgh-based artist Jessica Harrison transforms the collectible ceramic ladies that populate grandmothers’ china cabinets into spectacles of gore. These elegant abominations are now on view at the...
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Elaborate CD Box Sets – 2013
It’s that time of year again. Here are a few grand ideas for stuffing stuffers. Perhaps Santa will bring you the $300. Clash retrospective in a cardboard boom box, the 15 CD Blind Guardian (?) set or...
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Style: Peter O’Toole – RIP
Peter James O’Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) O’Toole first appeared on film in 1959 in a minor role in The Day They Robbed the Bank of England. His major break came when he was chosen to...
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Design: Extreme DVD, Blu-Ray sets
These aren’t all from 2013 but a good many are. It’s nice to see some actual thought going into some of packaging. However, this did seem to be the year where they took the main characters head and...
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Don’t Hate Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono (オノ・ヨーコ, also 小野 洋子 Ono Yōko, born February 18, 1933 in Tokyo Japan). It’s time to stop hating poor Yoko. She’s 80 years old, she didn’t break up The Beatles (they hated each other long before...
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Music: Vintage Asian 45′s
Asia is a big place. China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, India, the Phillippines – even Iran and Iraq are considered as West Asia. These 45′s are from all over Asia. You can see the American influence on a...
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Film: Cry-Baby – the cast
Cry-Baby was John Water’s second shot at main stream success – after the original Hairspray, in 1988. Following years of underground notoriety w/ films like Female Troubles and Pink Flamingos w/ it’s...
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Klaus Kinski – One crazy son-of-a-bitch
Klaus Kinski (born Klaus Gunther Nakszynski; 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) Klaus Kinski may be somewhat forgotten now, but in the 70′s and 80′s he had a wildly popular run of films with German...
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Swedish Dance Bands – 1970′s
I blame ABBA. The Gert Jonnys, not to be confused w/ The Gert Johnnys Lasse Stefanz Pelles Apells Jan Kjellners – In your mother’s housecoat Sven-Erics Gomaans Ninnis Thorleifs Gordie Tickies Saints...
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