10 February 2012

Italian Winter

vintage eyewear fashionSeventies winter fashion with textural layers graced with a dramatic pair of oversized glasses, just so you don't get too comfortable.

09 February 2012

Tiny Ideas

From the photo series I have a tiny idea by Dorota Majzer

08 February 2012

The Two Janines : Ghostbusters I and II

Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz in Ghostbusters (1984)

Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz in Ghostbusters II (1989)

Louis Tully (Rick Moranis) and Janine spend a little quality near-sighted time before helping the Ghostbusters protect NYC (again!) from supernatural doom.

The Janine - Barbie Twins as created by Ghostbusters fan Jaime Hitchcock. They look like they can't wait to see the rumoured Ghostbusters 3... who will be the new face of Janine Melnitz?!

07 February 2012

Grey Day Comforts

Vogue Italia 1972

06 February 2012

The Falco Never Dies

Johann (Hans) Hölzel a.k.a. Austrian Pop Sensation FALCO...he's so emotional!




03 February 2012

02 February 2012

01 February 2012

Mellow Yellow

Photo by Pyza

31 January 2012

Shady Lady


Vintage illustration, couple on Lambretta, 1950s.

30 January 2012

Psych-Out Poster Party : The Color of Sound






Susan Strasberg in Psych-Out (1968), with Jack Nicholson, Dean Stockwell, and Bruce Dern.

27 January 2012

Blood Sugar Baby



Soledad Miranda in Jess Franco's Eugenie De Sade (1970)

26 January 2012

25 January 2012

Two by Arthur Lipsett

Canadian Experimental Film Artist Arthur Lipsett



Free Fall by Arthur Lipsett, 1964



Very Nice, Very Nice (1962)

More Lipsett here

23 January 2012

Same But Different

Italians in coral turtlenecks and chocolate pants, circa 1960.

13 January 2012

The Other J-Lo

French Cinema postcard from the Silent Film Era featuring Jean Angelo as Robert Macaire in Les aventures de Robert Macaire (Jean Epstein 1925).

12 January 2012

Awake with Wolves' Teeth

Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy Collins, paperback literature of 1989.

11 January 2012

Watch Man

Watch Man of Oklahoma City circa 1940.
Photo by Ronald Gordon

10 January 2012

Styleye's of 85

Mid City Optical ad from Vogue, September 1985.

09 January 2012

06 January 2012

Richard Alf, Patron Saint of Comic Book Nerds R.I.P.

Richard Alf, one of the founding fathers of San Diego Comic-Con, pictured here with his "Con-mobile", around age 17.

Read about the early days here...

05 January 2012

Your Name In Wood: King of the Bandsaw


Frank Waterhouse, "King of the Bandsaw", at the L.A. County Fair, 1985. Photos by Harold Gee.

03 January 2012

02 January 2012

Woo-Hoo! But You Know I'm Yours

Waylon Jennings and Buddy Holly in photo booth at Grand Central Station, New York City, January 23, 1959.

30 December 2011

29 December 2011

Rodenstock-Sonnenbrille 1957

Carl Möhner in Rodenstock Sunglasses for the German film Weisser Holunder/White Elder (1957).

28 December 2011

27 December 2011

Dolly Dolly

Sex-Happy / Hash-Hippy / Ultra Cool