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Rugged Steel Worlds! Remembering the Carry-All Action Playsets by Marx

Rugged Steel Worlds! Remembering the Carry-All Action Playsets by Marx

  In the late 1960s, toymaker Marx introduced an incredible new concept in toys: giant ...
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Wild Raspberries And Fighting Gefilte Fish: Andy Warhol’s 1959 Spoof of Haute Cuisine Cookbooks

Wild Raspberries And Fighting Gefilte Fish: Andy Warhol’s 1959 Spoof of Haute Cuisine Cookbooks

In 1959, interior designer and bohemian hostess Suzie Frankfurt was perusing the art displayed at New York's Manhattan’s ...
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Rare Photos Of Frida Kahlo Wearing A Plaster Communist Corset, Feeding Ducks And On A New York Rooftop

Rare Photos Of Frida Kahlo Wearing A Plaster Communist Corset, Feeding Ducks And On A New York Rooftop

These rare photographs of Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954) are from a show at ...
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Cats, Chemicals And A Gun Under The Pillow: Dying William S. Burroughs’s Daily Routine

Cats, Chemicals And A Gun Under The Pillow: Dying William S. Burroughs’s Daily Routine

These are the last private musings and reflections of William S. Burroughs, written from mid-November ...
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21 Fantastic Pulp Fiction Book Titles From The Mid 20th Century

21 Fantastic Pulp Fiction Book Titles From The Mid 20th Century

Pulp Fiction at its best is insolent, cruel, lurid, provocative, escapist and fast. The wit is ...
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22 Unforgettable British Football Programme Covers From The 1960s, 70s And 80s

22 Unforgettable British Football Programme Covers From The 1960s, 70s And 80s

The joy of old football programmes... ...
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30 Vintage Japan Illustrations – 1950s-1970s

30 Vintage Japan Illustrations – 1950s-1970s

“It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed — that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed” - Bill Moggridge ...
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Where No Collectibles Have Gone Before: A Survey of Weird Star Trek Merchandising Tie-Ins (1966 – 1996)

Where No Collectibles Have Gone Before: A Survey of Weird Star Trek Merchandising Tie-Ins (1966 – 1996)

Star Trek has been around, and popular, for nearly a half-century at this point.  In ...
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Change is Coming? Superhero Taglines 2009 – 2015

Change is Coming? Superhero Taglines 2009 – 2015

    So...are you tired of superhero movies and their tag-lines  yet? If enough of ...
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Polaroids Blown Up: Albert Watson’s ‘Roids! Blend The Tangible With The Digital

Polaroids Blown Up: Albert Watson’s ‘Roids! Blend The Tangible With The Digital

"There needs to be some art of photography here. And that’s… that’s what you need ...
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Fun For A Girl And A Boy: Slinky Toy Commercials Across The Decades

Fun For A Girl And A Boy: Slinky Toy Commercials Across The Decades

  In 1943, an inventor named Richard James created a toy that is still going ...
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Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

Spomenik: Super-Sized Monuments To Eastern Bloc Futurism

The Communists liked concrete. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, they shaped concrete into huge monuments ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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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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