[TOYS] ROCKET RADIO MG-306: Pocket Transistor Radios Manufactured During the 1950’s & 1960’s
Posted: July 31, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, History, Mediasphere | Tags: 1940s, 1950s, Radio, technology, vintage Leave a commentGreat website focusing on the design and history of pocket transistor radios manufactured between 1954 and 1965.
Source: ROCKET RADIO MG-306
[FILM] ‘Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women’, 1968
Posted: February 14, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, B Movie, Cinema, Mamie Van Doren, Movies, Peter Bogdanovich, Pulp, Science fiction, SciFi, Scout Paget, Thriller, video, vintage, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, YouTube Leave a comment
‘B’ Sci-Fi Cult Entertainment – Astronauts land on Venus and discover prehistoric monsters and a race of beautiful women.
Directed by …Peter Bogdanovich? Yep, that’s Peter Bogdanovich!
Go Fast With Super Oil!
Posted: February 7, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Asia, Entertainment, Japan, Mediasphere | Tags: 1960s, Advertising, Oil, vintage Leave a commentSafety Matches
Posted: February 7, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: design, Illustration, Matchbook, Matches, novelty, typography, vintage Leave a commentDefending Democracy: Vapo-Man!
Posted: February 5, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Cartoons, design, Illustration, Lettering, Pulp, vintage Leave a commentSource: vintagegeekculture
Sci-fi Cover: ‘A Planet of Your Own’, by John Brunner, Cover art by Jack Gaughan, 1966
Posted: February 2, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: design, Illustration, Mystery, Paperback, Science fiction, SciFi, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a commentSource: Sci-fi Covers
‘World Without Men’: Ace D-274 Paperback Original, 1958, Cover Art by Ed Emsh
Posted: January 30, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Cover Art, Illustration, Mystery, Paperback, pulp fiction, Science fiction, Thriller, vintage Leave a commentClassic Cover by Jim Mooney and Jack Burnley from Batman #43, DC Comics, 1947
Posted: January 25, 2017 Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Batman, DC Comics, Illustration, Jack Burnley, Jim Mooney, vintage Leave a commentOriginal Splash Page by Dick Dillin (pencils) and Sid Greene (inks) from ‘Atom and Hawkman’ #41, DC Comics, 1969
Posted: January 24, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: DC Comics, drawing, Illustration, Inking, Splash Page, vintage Leave a commentJapan: ‘City & Design’ Magazine, Cover Illustration by Isamu Kurita, 1966
Posted: January 23, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Japan, Mediasphere | Tags: 1960s, Comic Art, design, graphics, Illustration, Lettering, Magazines, Tokyo, typography, vintage Leave a commentMarvel Comics: That Time When Captain America Face to Face With Hitler
Posted: January 22, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: America, Captain America, Comic Books, Comics, Hitler, Illustration, Marvel Comics, Superhero, vintage Leave a commentStan Lee: The Human Torch
Posted: January 22, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Comics, design, drawing, Illustration, Lettering, Stan Lee, The Human Torch, vintage Leave a comment✨Design: Illustrations of Grocery Stores✨
Posted: January 5, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Food & Drink, History | Tags: 1950s, Architecture, design, Stores, vintage Leave a commentFrom Morocco to Cuba: Documenting the World’s Endangered Cinemas
Posted: January 5, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Breaking News, Entertainment, Global, History | Tags: ABC Cinemas, Africa, Architecture, Burkina Faso, Cinema, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Movie theater, Photography, vintage Leave a commentWhen I go to the cinema lately, I’ll admit, it does feel nostalgic, almost as if I’m doing something like they did “in the old days”– and my local cinema isn’t even a charming independent one. Should we blame it on Netflix? From our smartphones to internet-abled TV, today we have more entertainment options at our fingertips all the time, than ever before. Netflix has over 85 million members and operates in more than 190 countries worldwide. You’d like to think that cinemas will never disappear, but are you sure they really won’t?
If it did happen, at least German-born photographer Stephan Zaubitzer will have documented most of what we lost. In an ongoing archive of photographs, Stephan has been taking pictures of cinemas in city centers around the world, endlessly fascinated by their dark interiors and outlandish architecture that always stands out from their urban surroundings.
It all started in Morocco in 2003 when his flight was delayed in Burkina Faso and so he went out into the city to explore and began photographing the city’s movie theatres. The rest is history– and a lot of its fascinating old cinemas….(read more)
Why would hey steal presents from a child?
Posted: December 24, 2016 Filed under: Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Christmas, Comic book, Comic Cavalcade, Comics, DC Comics, Illustration, vintage, Wonder Woman Leave a commentSource: kinasin
Science Fiction: ‘The Robot Empire’
Posted: December 22, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Adventure, Books, graphics, Illustration, Magazines, Pulp, Sci-fi, Science fiction, The Robot Empire, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a comment‘The Monster that Challenged the World’, 1937
Posted: December 20, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: 1930s, Cinema, design, Horror, Illustration, Monster Movies, Movies, Poster Art, Thriller, typography, vintage 1 CommentSource: arcaneimages
Have a Strange Christmas!
Posted: December 19, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Dr. Strangelove's Notebook, Entertainment, Humor | Tags: Advertising, Christmas, Dr Strangelove, Illustration, punditfromanotherplanet, Television, TV, vintage Leave a commentMovie Poster: ‘White Christmas’, 1954
Posted: December 17, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1950s, Bing Crosby, Christmas, Cinema, Danny Kaye, design, Irving Berlin, Movies, Musical, Poster Art, Rosemary Clooney, typography, Vera Allen, vintage, White Christmas 1 CommentTin Toy Museum ブリキのおもちゃ博物館
Posted: December 13, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Japan, Mediasphere | Tags: 1960s, Novelties, toys, vintage Leave a comment‘Exciting Comics’
Posted: December 11, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Alex Schomburg, All Winners Comics, Captain America, Comic book, Illustration, Marvel Comics, Timely Comics, vintage Leave a commentBy Alex Schomburg. [The Comic Book Catacombs] (via greystokedpodcast)
Source: Not Pulp Covers
‘Rockets to Nowhere’, by Philip St. John
Posted: December 4, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Adventure, Books, design, Illustration, Mystery, Paperback, pulp fiction, Science fiction, SciFi, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a commentBadges and Decoder Rings for the Buck Rogers Clubs (the Solar Scouts) from the 1930s
Posted: December 2, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Badges, Buck Rogers, Memorabilia, Novelties, Solar Scouts, toys, vintage Leave a comment‘Fantastic’, April 1959, Cover by Ed Valigursky
Posted: December 2, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: design, graphics, Illustration, Magazines, Pulp, pulp fiction, Science fiction, SciFi, Thriller, vintage Leave a commentSource: Sci-fi Covers
Fantastic Science Fiction: ‘The Girl in Tube 14’
Posted: December 1, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Adventure, design, Illustration, Mystery, pulp fiction, Science fiction, Thriller, typography, vintage Leave a comment[PHOTO] Frank Sinatra
Posted: November 30, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Frank Sinatra, LAS VEGAS, Photography, vintage Leave a commentVintage Freak Show: ‘Rubber Skin Man’
Posted: November 30, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Art, Circus, design, Freak Show, Illustration, Lettering, Poster Art, vintage Leave a commentSource: danismm
Sci-Fi Cover art by Kelly Freas illustration: ‘Pipe Dream’, by Fritz Leiber
Posted: November 28, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment, Science & Technology | Tags: Illustration, Magazines, Pulp, Sci-fi, Science fiction, vintage Leave a commentSource: Sci-fi Covers
Movie Poster: ‘L’Entraineuse Fatale’
Posted: November 28, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Cinema, design, Edward G Robinson, George Raft, Illustration, Marlene Dietrich, Movies, Poster Art, typography, vintage, Warner Bros Leave a commentDetective Fiction: January 1951 issue
Posted: November 26, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Reading Room | Tags: Cover Art, Crime fiction, design, Detective Fiction, Illustration, pulp fiction, typography, vintage Leave a commentSource: Seattle Mystery Books
COMPUTOPIA Magazine: ‘School Without Teachers, Humanless Factories, Digital Calculation is the Future of Humanity’
Posted: November 23, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Asia, Comics, Japan, Robotics, Russia | Tags: Magazines, Pop Culture, Science fiction, SciFi, vintage Leave a commentSuperman Model Sheets, by Curt Swan
Posted: November 22, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Comic Books, design, Illustration, Model Sheets, Superhero, Superman, vintage Leave a comment[COMIC] ‘If Science Solved the Secrets of Gland Control’
Posted: October 30, 2016 Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Humor | Tags: Cartoon, Comic book, Illustration, science, vintage Leave a commentHouse of Mystery: ‘The Girl in the Glass Sphere’, Art by Jack Kirby
Posted: October 23, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Entertainment | Tags: Books, Cartoons, Comic Books, Cover Art, Illustration, Jack Kirby, vintage Leave a comment‘The Wolf Man’
Posted: October 18, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Cinema, Halloween, Horror, Movie Stills, Movies, Photography, The Wolf Man, Thriller, Title Cards, vintage Leave a commentSource: Mudwerks