Modernism Week – Coast to Coast Cool
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Modernism Week

Coast to Coast Cool

Feb 15th 2013 by Amy Thyr

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Event A mecca for all things mid-century modern, Palm Springs once again showcases its world-famous modern design, architecture, and culture with the 11-day festival know as Modernism Week. Modernism was a popular design aesthetic originating in the 1950s and ’60s, which typified clean, simple lines with elegant informality. It came to define desert modernism as a sought-after architectural genre. Modernism Week has become one of the most popular events for architects, modernism aficionados, artists, designers, and mid-mod fans. Over the last few years the attendance has grown to around 35,000 people and 2013 is expected to be bigger and better than ever. Palm Springs Modernism Week features over 100 events including architectural tours, films, lectures, symposiums, ( continue reading... )

The Cocktail Nation - Queens Of Vintage

Episode 266    May 12th 2013

This week we talk to the publisher of an online magazine called Queens Of Vintage, her name is Lena Weber and recently she interviewed me in her kings of vintage portion of the website so I thought we should have her on to talk vintage culture and the English scene. Plus the best exotica and lounge music from across the globe.

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Mars Attacks
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Mars Attacks

Feb 8th 2013 by Baron von Swankenstein

Readable In the middle of the twentieth century, fear and paranoia were ingrained into the subconscious of every American. The 1957 launch of the Sputnik satellite had Americans wary of Soviet attack from the skies. And the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 assured the world that Soviet Premier Khrushchev was serious in his threat when he said “We will bury you.” The spectre of mutually assured destruction was ingrained throughout much of American culture. In movie theaters, Soviet invasion of America was proxied in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) and Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956). And, in the real ( continue reading... )

Never Built Los Angeles – What It Could Have Looked Like

Jan 11th 2013 by Christopher

Never Built Los Angeles – What It Could Have Looked Like
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Event Never Built: Los Angeles is an exhibition opening spring 2013 at Los Angeles’s A+D Architecture and Design Museum. It features a collection of spectacular projects that only saw the drawing board. In words, drawings, models, videos and other media the show looks at visionary works that had the greatest potential to reshape the city. The exhibition will include buildings from legends like Frank Lloyd Wright, ( read more... )

Elektro the Smoking Robot – At the 1939 World’s Fair

Dec 9th 2012 by Christopher

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Science Elektro, the “Westinghouse Motor Man” filmed inside the Westinghouse Pavillion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. Elektro can not only smoke, he also has a giant ego. User commands are given through a telephone with some kind of a voice recognition system. The whole presentation might look like a kitschy hoax from our eyes, but for the folks back in 1939 this technology ( read more... )

Satan Magazine – A Devilish Magazine for Halloween

Oct 22nd 2012 by Baron von Swankenstein

Satan Magazine – A Devilish Magazine for Halloween
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Readable After Playboy magazine made its mark in the early 1950s, imitators of all kinds sprang up with titles like Sir, Knight, and Gent. In 1957, one publisher took a devilish bent and called its new magazine Satan. Satan was little more than a Playboy clone. Both magazines had pin-ups, articles on the urban bachelor lifestyle, a jokes page, and an iconic anthropomorphic mascot. But maybe ( read more... )

Cult Vegas – The Weirdest! The Wildest! The Swingin’est Town On ...

Sep 4th 2012 by Baron von Swankenstein

Cult Vegas – The Weirdest! The Wildest! The Swingin’est Town On Earth
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Readable The Golden Age of Las Vegas has been over for quite some time. If you don’t count auxiliary members like Shirley MacLaine, Buddy Greco, or Angie Dickinson, the last member of The Rat Pack, Joey Bishop, passed away in 2007. He outlived Frank by 9, Dino by 12, Sammy by 17, and Peter by 23 years. Even the buildings, which are supposed to outlive those ( read more... )