The Chef Does Everything – Except Cook. That’s What Wives Are For!
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The Chef Does Everything

Except Cook. That’s What Wives Are For!

Jan 19th 2013 by Koop Kooper

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Advertising Spend anytime on the internet and you will find lots of vintage advertising with ironic witticism tagged on the picture as the blogger marvels at the sexism of vintage advertising. Perhaps it’s Mad Men that has led us to devour anything that seems vaguely retro but for some reason ads from the midcentury continue to be a source of amusement for those who think that they are oh so enlightened. Those reading the vintage commercials no doubt have a right “ol guffaw” at the commercials and exclaim that the Sexual Revolution changed all that for the better and that they are so glad they live in the twenty first century. The irony is that the ( 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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Never Built Los Angeles – What It Could Have Looked Like
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Never Built Los Angeles – What It Could Have Looked Like

Jan 11th 2013 by Christopher via Kickstarter

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, John Lautner, Rudolph Schindler, Frank Gehry and Thom Mayne, as well as master plans, parks, amusements parks and even transportation proposals like subways, monorails, and aerial transport. All could have transformed both the physical reality ( continue reading... )

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year – From All of Us ...

Dec 20th 2012 by Christopher

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year – From All of Us to All of You
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Inspiration Christmas is around the corner and to celebrate this magical Holiday we are featuring a few samples of Christmas related advertisements and images from between 1946 and 1964, courtesy of the collection of Roger Wilkerson. To me, the hand drawn illustrations and images in mid-century advertisements are the epitomy of style. It shows how talented advertising America were some 50-60 years ago. That fine attention to design and ( read more... )

Vintage Images of California in Living Color – A must for ...

Dec 17th 2012 by Christopher

Vintage Images of California in Living Color – A must for any Bachelor or Bachelorette pad
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Roadtrip Melvin Hale is a award-winning digital artist from Los Angeles, California that specializes in bringing back old photographs to life. He also offers a collection called California Chromes, which are composed from remastered and re-imagined vintage color images of a colorful California. They are primarily street scenes of cities, beaches and other destinations. California Chromes showcase fun places with fond memories, and make for truly ( 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... )

Get the Diner Look with Bar Stools

Nov 27th 2012 by Featured Post

Get the Diner Look with Bar Stools
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