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Cradling Hyper-Realistic Babies In Uncanny Valley

Cradling Hyper-Realistic Babies In Uncanny Valley

  "What you lose as you age are witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared," ...
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‘Ethereal, Cool and Detached’ – Pictures of Monica Vitti

‘Ethereal, Cool and Detached’ – Pictures of Monica Vitti

  The world was properly introduced to the extraordinary Monica Vitti with L’Avventura in 1960. ...
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Groupie-Doo, The Irreverent Archie Parody from 1975

Groupie-Doo, The Irreverent Archie Parody from 1975

Apple Pie was a humor magazine in the 1970s much like National Lampoon but focused a ...
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Alice B. Toklas’ Reads Her 1954 Recipe for Hashish Fudge

Alice B. Toklas’ Reads Her 1954 Recipe for Hashish Fudge

  Author Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) and Gertrude Stein (February 3, ...
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A Look Inside Hotel & Motel Rooms of the 1950s-70s

A Look Inside Hotel & Motel Rooms of the 1950s-70s

Let's have a look inside the rooms of 38 U.S. hotels and motels from the late ...
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Socks And Sandals Snapshots: Mid-Century Summer Fun

Socks And Sandals Snapshots: Mid-Century Summer Fun

  Have fun before the bittersweet end of summer, when school, work and the family departing ...
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Marilyn Monroe Serigraphs For Avant Garde Magazine March 1968

Marilyn Monroe Serigraphs For Avant Garde Magazine March 1968

Ralph Ginzburg (editor) and Herb Lubalin's (art director; creator of the gorgeous Avant Garde typeface) Avant Garde magazine ran ...
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Jessie Knight – Britain’s Greatest Female Tattooist

Jessie Knight – Britain’s Greatest Female Tattooist

  I am a tattoo artist, as such I won my fame, And I’ve certainly ...
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Umberto Eco Lists The 14 Common Features of The Eternal Fascist

Umberto Eco Lists The 14 Common Features of The Eternal Fascist

  In his 1995 essay Ur-Fascism, Umberto Eco looked at how "fascist" lost its meaning ...
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Every Illustration From Shizhuzhai Shuhua Pu – The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book (1633)

Every Illustration From Shizhuzhai Shuhua Pu – The World’s Oldest Multicolor Book (1633)

  In 1633 Chinese printer Hu Zhengyan used the douban technique to produce what is ...
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A Color Tour of France (1890-1900)

A Color Tour of France (1890-1900)

These postcards take us back to France in the 1890s. Through the wonder of Photochrom coloring, we ...
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Vintage Images of Women Shoe Shopping (And The Humble Salesmen That Served Them)

Vintage Images of Women Shoe Shopping (And The Humble Salesmen That Served Them)

Pulled from the vast retro-archives of Flashbak, here are a miscellany of vintage images, primarily ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... 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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    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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    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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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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