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‘Check With Owen Wilson’: Steely Dan’s Open Letter To Wes Anderson

‘Check With Owen Wilson’: Steely Dan’s Open Letter To Wes Anderson

  In 2006, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, aka Steely Dan, wrote an open letter ...
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One Performance Only: Sly Stone Marries Kathy Silva At Madison Square Garden (1974)

One Performance Only: Sly Stone Marries Kathy Silva At Madison Square Garden (1974)

On June 5, 1974, Kathy Silva (born November 25, 1948), mother of Sly Stone Jnr., ...
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Metallic Bras from Space! Sci-Fi Pulp Ladies & Their Shiny Metal Brassieres

Metallic Bras from Space! Sci-Fi Pulp Ladies & Their Shiny Metal Brassieres

For some reason, mid-century sci-fi pulp magazines always had their ladies wearing metallic bras.  Go figure. ...
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‘Welcome to Fear City’ – Raw and Gritty Snapshots of NYC From the Mid-Seventies

‘Welcome to Fear City’ – Raw and Gritty Snapshots of NYC From the Mid-Seventies

These photographs are from Andy Blair's great Flickr site. Where he had hundreds of extraordinary ...
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Existence Is Unhappiness: Graham Wood On 24 posters Inspired By 1968 Oz Magazine

Existence Is Unhappiness: Graham Wood On 24 posters Inspired By 1968 Oz Magazine

Best known as one of the founders of British design collective Tomato, Graham Wood chose ...
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The Glossary Handed To Audiences of David Lynch’s Dune (1984)

The Glossary Handed To Audiences of David Lynch’s Dune (1984)

In 1984, David Lynch distanced himself from his lurid, leaden $40million film adaptation of Frank Herbert's ...
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Testing Ejector Seats In The 1950s

Testing Ejector Seats In The 1950s

  These photographs were taken by Hugo Frederick Mohrlock, a graduate of Syracuse University, California ...
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Selling Harvest-Gold Shag: Carpet Ads from the 1960s-1970s

Selling Harvest-Gold Shag: Carpet Ads from the 1960s-1970s

Ah.  Floor covering ads are the best.  Stare in nostalgic wonder at the often tacky, ...
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Josie & the Pussycats Get Demonically Possessed in 1973

Josie & the Pussycats Get Demonically Possessed in 1973

A while back, I discovered an old Josie & the Pussycats dealing with satanic possession.  An odd ...
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NASA’s Future of Space Travel Posters In A Gorgeous Retro Style

NASA’s Future of Space Travel Posters In A Gorgeous Retro Style

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has created 14 Visions of the Future. In 1962, NASA began an Art ...
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Re-Directed Art: Tired Thrift Store Paintings Become Modern Masterpieces

Re-Directed Art: Tired Thrift Store Paintings Become Modern Masterpieces

  If you consider it, we don't like much. If art is whatever you want ...
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Computer Magazine Cover Girls of the 1970s and 80s

Computer Magazine Cover Girls of the 1970s and 80s

What's more fun than looking at old computer magazines and admiring the paleo-technology? The thick ...
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    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

    Dave Lee's guide to knowing cocaine was presented in the tone of an educational reference book ...
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    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    The Bystanders’ Snapshots of John F. Kennedy’s Murder in Dallas, 1963

    How snapshots told the story of the day the world changed ...
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    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Raymond Chandler’s Guide to Street, Hoodlum, and Prison Lingo

    Some of the best parts of Chandler's notebooks were his compilations of pickpocket lingo, jail house slang, and terms used by Narcs ...
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    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films

    In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple of race-course gangs and their fancy ways with a razor is one of the most brutal things I have seen on the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    Opening Night at The Haçienda: New Order’s Manchester Club Begins Its Legendary 15-Year Run in 1982

    You know the story, or a version of it, if you’ve seen 24 Hour Party People. New Order—or rather, their manager Rob Gretton—opens a club with Factory Records’ Tony Wilson in 1982. From the start, it’s a financial disaster... ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    ‘I’m A Fat Boy Now’ – The Diabetes Miracle (1922)

    This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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