Category Archives: vintage
Mad Men Season 6 Poster
I’ve been staring at this all day. On one level it’s a simple allusion to the Don Draper / Dick Whitman dynamic, but more broadly it shows Don at the crossroads between domestic stability with his family, and the independent recklessness of his earlier, more hedonistic life style. The retreating Don is wearing a lighter […]
THE GNOME PRESS INC
via boingboing via vintage_ads
Tomorrow Is My Turn
Ha Cha Cha Cha
When I was a kid, sometimes I would pantomime that I had a giant nose and was smoking an imaginary cigar and I’d say “ha cha cha cha!” What a hilarious five year old vaudeville performer I was. I picked that up from some old Chuck Jones cartoons, though I couldn’t tell you which — […]
Ward Kimball Santa
via 365 Days of Ward Kimball
The Hatbox Ghost
via bOINGbOING via Disney History Institute Pictured is a recreation by Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily.
Attaining Imperfection
Like most people with a modern phone, I like playing with applications that emulate the look of various types old film when taking pictures. Namely: Hipstamatic: CameraBag: And the latest app darling, Instagram: As it happens, I knew one of the founders of Instagram years ago in undergrad, and he was a nice fellow, so […]
I Get Ideas
Watching Youtube videos of physical media. Marshall McLuhan nods.
Monkey Bikini Photographer is Cooler than You and Me
Probably a retired space chimp. via boing boing via Where is My Mind? (warning: nudity)