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Vaal the Right Moves: Remembering Mego’s Mission to Gamma Playset (1976)

Vaal the Right Moves: Remembering Mego’s Mission to Gamma Playset (1976)

  In 1967, Star Trek (1966-1969) featured an episode titled “The Apple.” In that story, ...
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Nils T. Granlund And His Colony Of Naked Sun Worshippers Star At New York’s World Fair (1939)

Nils T. Granlund And His Colony Of Naked Sun Worshippers Star At New York’s World Fair (1939)

In 1939, the New York World's fair hosted a display by the NTG Sun Worshippers. ...
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The Vietnam War People Sniffer: Sweating Gets You Killed (1967)

The Vietnam War People Sniffer: Sweating Gets You Killed (1967)

In 1967, US troops in Vietnam were equipped with the People Sniffer, a device designed to ...
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Katharine Hepburn Became A Sexy Silver Moth For Christopher Strong (1933)

Katharine Hepburn Became A Sexy Silver Moth For Christopher Strong (1933)

In 1933, a 26-year-old Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) starred as Lady ...
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Madonna’s AIDS Comic Given To Fans At A 1987 Concert

Madonna’s AIDS Comic Given To Fans At A 1987 Concert

On July 13 1987, Madonna performed at New York's Madison Square Garden. Before the show she ...
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The True Strangeness of the Universe: Errol Morris’ Aborted Film For IBM

The True Strangeness of the Universe: Errol Morris’ Aborted Film For IBM

Errol Morris, the director, whose 2003 film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life ...
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Antonio Rubino Cartoons For Corriere dei Piccoli: Frank Sidebottom, Hitler Youth And Quadratino

Antonio Rubino Cartoons For Corriere dei Piccoli: Frank Sidebottom, Hitler Youth And Quadratino

Illustrator and writer Antonio Rubino (15 May 1880 – 1 July 1964) drew comic strips for Italy's Corriere ...
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Dickie Lowe’s Gorgeous Soho Home

Dickie Lowe’s Gorgeous Soho Home

  Witty companion, workaholic, optimist, stoic, computer-phobe, special occasion facilitator, raconteur, moralist, compulsive green thumb, ...
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So What! Keith Haring And Andy Warhol’s Tribute to Madonna’s Nude Pix

So What! Keith Haring And Andy Warhol’s Tribute to Madonna’s Nude Pix

Before his images became familiar Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) created cut-and-paste ...
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Snow Beauties: Bewildering First Photos of Snowflakes By Wilson Alwyn Bentley

Snow Beauties: Bewildering First Photos of Snowflakes By Wilson Alwyn Bentley

In 1885, Wilson Alwyn Bentley (aka Snowflake Bentley, the Snowflake Man) attached a microscope to ...
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Remembering Remco’s Energized Super Heroes of 1978

Remembering Remco’s Energized Super Heroes of 1978

  Here’s another great toy from the disco decade that I have never forgotten. Beginning ...
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Cum on Feel the Noize! Paul Wright’s Seventies Scrapbook

Cum on Feel the Noize! Paul Wright’s Seventies Scrapbook

A selection of pictures and memorabilia from the 1970s by South Londoner and Crystal Palace ...
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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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