Imageisms

R1-18A 2

2010-05-18T07:12:00.003-07:00

R1-18A 2
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

Self Portrait With Light Trails

2010-05-18T07:12:00.001-07:00

Self Portrait With Light Trails
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

NatGeo Pic of the Day: Bride, Havana, Cuba (5.18.10)

2010-05-18T06:49:00.000-07:00

I thought this was a really interesting picture of the day today. I like how drastically out of place the bride looks, and her great smooth smug smile of satisfaction is just lovely. And how beautiful she looks. What a great portrait.

Ready to Love Again

2010-02-26T17:00:00.000-08:00

Visual & Typography Pieces

2010-02-26T16:58:00.000-08:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ky_olsen/sets/72157623456028170/

My Poster/Card Art

2010-02-26T16:55:00.000-08:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ky_olsen/collections/72157623331383993/

Ultraviolet Bath Photo, Russia Picture - National Geographic Photo of the Day

2010-02-23T09:04:00.000-08:00

It's creepy how the children are standing at such attention, hands behind back, backs straight. Nurse kneeling before the god of artificial sunlight. Reminds me of something you'd see in a David Lynch film, right!?

October 26, 2009

Ultraviolet Bath, Russia

Photograph by Joe McNally

This Month in Photo of the Day: Images from the National Geographic Archive
Make-believe summer lasts for a minute or two as kindergarten children in sunless Lovozero bathe in ultraviolet light. Brief exposure to UC radiation provides the children with vitamin D, normally supplied by sunlight. The "sunshine vitamin" strengthens young bones.

Ultraviolet Bath Photo, Russia Picture - National Geographic Photo of the Day

El arte de morir

2009-12-17T09:53:00.001-08:00

El arte de morir
Originally uploaded by 7 (Miguel Angel)

Prego with Gun

2009-11-12T09:54:00.001-08:00

Prego with Gun
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

2009-11-12T09:41:00.001-08:00

Originally uploaded by superbomba

Portrait of an articulated skeleton on a bentwood chair

2009-11-11T09:28:00.001-08:00

Portrait of an articulated skeleton on a bentwood chair
Originally uploaded by Powerhouse Museum Collection

Match Light SP 6

2009-11-09T08:58:00.003-08:00

Match Light SP 6
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

Wayfayer Smoke Color SP 8

2009-11-09T08:58:00.001-08:00

Wayfayer Smoke Color SP 8
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

Textured Talking Tina

2009-11-09T08:57:00.003-08:00

Textured Talking Tina
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

Self Portrait Frame 1

2009-11-09T08:57:00.001-08:00

Self Portrait Frame 1
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

The Evil Eye

2009-11-09T08:56:00.001-08:00

The Evil Eye
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

Preaching the Hate

2009-10-22T09:04:00.000-07:00

Jesus Hates Zombies!

2009-09-15T07:43:00.000-07:00

Shopping Cart "Cage"

2009-09-03T08:10:00.000-07:00

Barrels by the River

2009-07-13T13:46:00.001-07:00

Turtle Cut Out by Hi-Fi Cafe

2009-07-13T13:42:00.001-07:00

Turtle Cut-Out on dumpster by Hi-Fi Cafe

Horses Grazing on the Beach in Belize

2009-07-13T13:39:00.001-07:00

Original photo and coloring by Greg Pardo

Weathered Stones

2009-07-01T13:55:00.001-07:00

Poster found on a utility box on Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA

Trust

2009-07-01T13:51:00.000-07:00

Poster found on a dumpster on Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA

Under observation

2009-06-18T07:23:00.001-07:00

Under observation
Originally uploaded by seriykotik1970

A fine Flickr find of some beautiful street art.

Japanese Monkeys Soaking

2009-06-17T09:57:00.000-07:00

Japanese monkeys soak in a hot spring in a snow-covered valley in Yamanouchi town, central Japan February 17, 2008.

REUTERS/Issei Kato

The Black Angels: Live at Mad Planet (Milwaukee, WI) 6/22/08

2009-06-15T08:00:00.000-07:00

Image courtesy of Drew.

Delete

2009-06-15T07:52:00.001-07:00

Obama Sculpture in Chicago

2009-06-15T07:07:00.000-07:00

Brittany Bajent (L) and Amanda Meyer kiss an eight-foot-tall sculpture of the head of U.S. President Barack Obama as it sits on display in the Grant Park area of downtown Chicago, Illinois June 13, 2009.

REUTERS/Frank Polich

Lego Jesus!!!

2009-06-12T11:54:00.001-07:00

A Model Porcupine

2009-06-11T07:10:00.000-07:00

A model walks behind a porcupine during the Defile.zoo fashion show in the zoo in St. Petersburg May 24, 2009. The show featured creations by local designers who promoted clothes made out of natural materials and without the use of fur.

Line Pool Screams

2009-06-03T10:08:00.000-07:00

Self Portrait Line Drawing

2009-06-03T09:52:00.001-07:00

Old Baby Pic & a Knit Superman Hat

2009-05-29T09:41:00.000-07:00

A college roommate of my Mom's found this old baby pic of me in a stack of photo's. I cleaned it up a little and thought it was cute enough to post.

Inverted Girl Smoking with Glasses at Balzac

2009-05-15T13:08:00.000-07:00

Inverted Girl Smoking with Glasses at Balzac (Black & White)

Inverted Girl Smoking with Glasses at Balzac (Color)

Pi Mobile

2009-04-22T13:45:00.001-07:00

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Frog eats Christmas light, gets illuminated

2009-04-22T13:36:00.000-07:00

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, April 22, 2009 11:43 AM | permalink

James Snyder took this striking photo of a frog that ate a small light bulb. It was featured in National Geographic's "Daily Dozen."

This is a Cuban tree frog on a tree in my backyard in southern Florida. How and why he ate this light is a mystery. It should be noted that at the time I was taking this photo, I thought this frog was dead having cooked himself from the inside. I’m happy to say I was wrong. After a few shots he adjusted his position. So after I was finished shooting him, I pulled the light out of his mouth and he was fine. Actually, I might be crazy but I don’t think he was very happy when I took his light away.

(Via bangocibumbumpuluj)

Al Capone’s Prison Cell

2009-04-17T13:15:00.001-07:00

Posted by Miss Cellania in Crime & Law on April 17, 2009 at 10:56 am

When notorious gangster Al Capone was incarcerated at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, he was treated with deference by guards, and maintained powerful connections from behind bars. I don’t know about the walls, but I’d commit a crime for that furniture! Link -via J-Walk Blog
(image credit: Mike Graham)
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Anatomical drawing on a cast

2009-04-14T11:26:00.000-07:00

Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 14, 2009 5:46 AM |

Heather Tomkins drew this lovely anatomical illustration on the casted arm of her friend, the illustrator Taylor White: "I was thusly wrangled into making this old school plaster cast (they do things funky in Norway apparently) into an awesome work of art."

Vicodin Ring

2009-04-13T12:22:00.000-07:00

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, April 10, 2009 9:43 AM |

Crafter Becky Stern says: "To go along with my Vicodin earrings, I made this Vicodin ring from sterling silver. I sanded one side of the pill flat (while wearing a dusk mask, of course!), and bezel set it.

US Postal Service to Release "Simpsons" Stamps

2009-04-13T12:18:00.000-07:00

Posted by Xeni Jardin, April 10, 2009 9:23 AM |

Scott Beale blogs,

¡Ay, caramba! On May 7th the US Postal Service will be releasing a series of postage stamps commemorating The Simpsons. As part of the pre-release preview you can vote on your favorite Simpsons character and pre-order sets of the stamps.

Sneak peek at the images over at Laughing Squid. (Congrats, Boing Boing pals Matt Groening + David Silverman!)

Zipper Dress

2009-04-13T11:59:00.000-07:00

Posted by David Pescovitz, April 10, 2009 11:28 AM |

Designer Sebastian Errazuriz created this dress out of 120 zippers. I dig the idea of reconfigurable clothing that isn't ugly. Zipper Dress (Britannica.com, thanks Alex Pang!)

Jumpei Mitsui's monumental LEGO Battleship Yamato

2009-04-13T11:27:00.000-07:00

Posted by Joel Johnson, April 10, 2009 9:58 AM |

The Bros. Brick brings word that Jumpei Mitsui's six-year project, the minifig-scale Battleship Yamato, is finally complete.
Length: 6.6 meters (22 feet) from bow to stern
Width: 1 meter (3 feet) at the widest point midship
Scale: 1/40
Time to complete: 6 years, 4 months
Parts: 200,000 LEGO elements
Weight: 150 kilograms (330 pounds)

Women Meat Pioneers, 1943

2009-04-09T10:08:00.000-07:00

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, April 8, 2009 4:03 PM |

The new "Pioneer Woman" in MEAT. It sounds like the name of a Damien Hirst work, but it's an advertisement from the 1 November 1943 issue of LIFE magazine. John Ptak says: "This ad is innocent enough: it was simply encouraging the modern housewife to go adventuring into cuts of meat that had been deemed unacceptable before rationing and the war, which brought about a meat drought." Women Meat Pioneers, 1943

Dubai Metropolis

2009-04-09T10:04:00.001-07:00

(Image: "Dubai Metropolis," The Business Bay Executive Towers in Dubai. From the CC-licensed Flickr stream of "twocentsworth." )

Demonic Brazilian DOT Approved Motorcycle Helmet

2009-04-09T09:30:00.000-07:00

Posted by Joel Johnson, April 6, 2009 4:33 PM |

These are DOT-approved (or at least were) motorcycle helmets crafted by a Brazilian artist who uses "animal teeth, fangs, bones, and hairs besides fines stones from the Amazon river" to make these $100 helmets. [via I, Gizmodo]

Richard Deacon for Thermodor

2009-04-09T09:14:00.000-07:00

Sign from the Museum of Sex

2009-04-03T06:40:00.000-07:00

Reuters Strange & Unusual Images (4/2/09)

2009-04-02T11:07:00.000-07:00

Here are just a few I thought were interesting.

The whole slide show can be seen here.

Waitresses dressed in nurse uniforms talk to customers at a hospital-themed restaurant in Taipei March 18, 2009.

REUTERS/Nicky Loh

A man wears a gas mask during a live action role-playing game based on the computer game "Stalker", near the village of Sengileyevskoe in Russia's southern Stavropol region March 21, 2009. The scenario of the game is set in the radioactive exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor after a second fictional disaster where the player has to fight for survival by fending off mutant creatures and dangerous anomalies. Some 70 gaming enthusiasts took part in the role play.

REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko

Seven babies sit in tummy tubs filled with water to cool down after a baby massage class held for young mothers in IJmuiden, about 17 km (10.3 miles) north of Haarlem, March 24, 2009. The "cooling down" segment is to simulate a womb-like environment for the infants to experience the warmth and comfort.

REUTERS/United Photos

An exhibit of a man guarding poppies is displayed in the Drugs Museum at the headquarters of the Mexican Ministry of Defense in Mexico City March 9, 2009. The Virgin of Guadeloupe sculpted in the handle of a gun, high precision rifles, a mobile phone with diamond and gold incrustations, clandestine laboratories for drug processing and many more items that once belonged to drug traffickers are displayed in this private museum used by the military to show the soldiers the lifestyle of the Mexican drug lords.

REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez

Britain's Prince Charles dances carimbo, a typical dance of the Brazilian Amazon region, as he visits the jungle town of Maguari March 14, 2009. Prince Charles is in Brazil on an official visit.

REUTERS/Paulo Santos

A woman walks past a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan during the press preview of the "A Certain State of the World?" exhibition at the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow March 19, 2009. The exhibition comprises of works from the Francois Pinault Foundation.

REUTERS/Alexander Natruskin

A ring-tailed lemur inspects the topping of a birthday treat during celebrations at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), the charity that owns the zoo, March 18, 2009.

REUTERS/David Moir

Artist paints herself having sex with each president of the USA

2009-03-27T11:52:00.000-07:00

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 27, 2009 6:18 AM |

Artist Justine Lai's new project is a set of oil paintings of her having sex with every president of the USA, in order.

In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated. I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that's strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably "controversial." One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its "Fuck the Man" symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.

The Works

Ben Templesmith: Wormword

2009-03-26T10:57:00.000-07:00

Wickedly beautiful new print from

Ben Templesmith

Flickr Page

Super Mario 3 mosaic table

2009-03-26T09:54:00.000-07:00

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 26, 2009 7:39 AM |

Ivan covered this found coffee-table with a pushpin Super Mario mosaic (protected by plexiglass) and painted and decorated the legs to match. Apparently pushpin mosaics are unexpectedly hard on the thumbs. Super Mario Coffee Table

Old Phrenology Illustration

2009-03-26T07:36:00.000-07:00

Ivory model of a skull and a human head, France, undated

2009-03-25T12:53:00.000-07:00

One side of this carved ivory head shows a human face crawling with worms; the other side shows a skull crawling with toads after the worms have eaten away at the flesh. Not much is known about this model, but it is thought that it is a memento mori – literally a reminder of death and the shortness of life. The skull was the symbol of death from the 1500s onwards. Previously death was represented as a skeleton accompanied by a living victim. The model was purchased from a private collection in Rome, Italy, in 1932.

NYTimes: Inside Art

2009-03-25T12:36:00.000-07:00

Some very unusual and cool images taken of everyday items using a CT scanner!

See it Here

Clark Little's wave photography

2009-03-24T11:01:00.000-07:00

Click on the image to see the series of amazing wave photos

Posted by David Pescovitz, March 23, 2009 2:01 PM |

Clark Little takes photos of "The Most Beautiful Waves... Ever." Pitted... so pitted. (Thanks, Shawn Connally!)

Page about the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab (1950-1951)

2009-03-24T10:55:00.001-07:00

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, March 23, 2009 9:10 PM |

Here's a nice homage to the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, from the early 1950s.
This was the most elaborate Atomic Energy educational set ever produced, but it was only only available from 1951 to 1952. Its relatively high price for the time ($50.00) and its sophistication were the explanation Gilbert gave for the set's short lifespan. Today, it is so highly prized by collectors that a complete set can go for more than 100 times the original price.
The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source (Pb-210), a pure beta source (Ru-106), a gamma source (Zn-65?), a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber with its own short-lived alpha source (Po-210), an electroscope, a geiger counter, a manual, a comic book (Dagwood Splits the Atom) and a government manual "Prospecting for Uranium."

Secret Lives of AT-AT's

2009-03-24T10:49:00.000-07:00

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 24, 2009 6:08 AM |

FIickr's NickIsConfused has a great set showing the secret lives of Star Wars AT-ATs, reminding us that these adorable little critters aren't just for Xmas.

Ben Templesmith illustrates The Raven and Dracula!!!

2009-03-24T07:26:00.000-07:00

The one an only creative genius Ben Templesmith has done it again. He has combined his terrifying illustration technique and combined it with the beautifully dark works of Misters Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker.

The Raven & Other Stories by:
Edgar Allan Poe

Dracula by:
Bram Stoker

Jade tooth decorations in Mayan skull

2009-03-20T11:09:00.000-07:00

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, March 19, 2009 1:26 PM |

David Dennis took this photo of a Mayan skull with jade tooth decorations.
From TYWKIWDBI:
At the height of Mayan civilization, body modification included a variety of alterations of the teeth.
...
Holes in the teeth were created by spinning a drill with a bow (as in firestarting), and using powdered quartz as an abrasive.

Star Wars/Dalí tattoo

2009-03-20T11:04:00.000-07:00

Posted by David Pescovitz, March 19, 2009 3:51 PM |

Paul at Old School Tattoo in Bellingham, Washington inked this tattoo, adding a bit of Salvador Dalí's "Elephants" to a Star Wars AT-AT Walker. BMEzine.com has the wearer's story.

Brian Dettmer's book sculptures

2009-03-20T10:55:00.000-07:00

Posted by David Pescovitz, March 19, 2009 4:40 PM |

Atlanta-based artist Brian Dettmer creates marvelous sculptures by performing surgery on books. He has a show opening April 3 at Chicago's Packer Schopf Gallery. The gallery kindly sent a few sneak peeks at the new work. Click the images to see them larger. (Thanks, Dominic Paul Moore!)

Previously:
Brian Dettmer's "Book Autopsies" -- sliced book sculptures - Boing ...
Skull made from melted metal cassettes: Boing Boing Gadgets ...

Freak group photo

2009-03-19T08:26:00.000-07:00

Posted by David Pescovitz, March 17, 2009 10:24 AM |

Joel spotted this terrific freak family photo. Click to see it larger. It's labeled "Truman State University," perhaps from their archives. Anyone know more about it?

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone for sharing great info in the comments. The photo, titled "Congress of Freaks, Ringling Brothers Circus," can be seen in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Eugenics Archive.

World's longest sausage

2009-03-19T08:25:00.000-07:00

Posted by David Pescovitz, March 17, 2009 10:06 AM |

Seen above is a small section of a 6.643 foot sausage made in Turija, Serbia. From National Geographic (click image for full photo by Srdjan Ilic/AP):
Turija already holds the Guinness Book record for longest sausage. Each year, the town breaks its own record by a centimeter...

Massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos free online

2009-03-19T08:17:00.000-07:00

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 17, 2009 11:40 PM |

An incredible archive of US Army medical photos and illustrations is being made available free under a Creative Commons Attribution license on Flickr by the National Museum of Health and Medicine:

This previously unreported archive at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., contains 500,000 scans of unique images so far, with another 225,000 set to be digitized this year.
Mike Rhode, the museum's head archivist, is working to make tens of thousands of those images, which have been buried in the museum's archive, available on Flickr. Working after hours, his team has posted a curated selection of almost 800 photos on the service already, without the express permission of the Army.
"You pay taxes. These are your pictures," Rhode said. "You should be able to see them."

Medical Museum's Flickr stream
Rare Trove of Army Medical Photos Heads to Flickr

Portraits of US Presidents' mistresses

2009-03-19T08:11:00.000-07:00

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, March 18, 2009 8:50 AM |

Annie Kevans has painted a lovely series of oil portraits of the girlfriends of U.S. Presidents.
Shown above: Kay Summersby (Dwight D Eisenhower), Monica Lewinsky (Bill Clinton), Maria Halpin (Grover Cleveland), Pam Turnure (John F Kennedy), Jill Cowan (John F Kennedy), Blaze Starr (John F Kennedy), Marilyn Monroe (John F Kennedy), Madeleine Brown (Lyndon B Johnson). All the Presidents' Girls (Via Presurfer)

Elephant on Rampage in India

2009-03-18T08:36:00.001-07:00

Reuters Oddly Enough Images

An elephant damages a vehicle after going on a rampage in the southern Indian city of Kochi February 27, 2009. The elephant was brought under control after a three-hour rescue operation by animal experts and the police.

GQ On Fell, Volume 1: Feral City

2009-03-17T11:07:00.000-07:00

Fell, Volume 1: Feral City
Written by Warren Ellis; Art by Ben Templesmith

Fans of the parts of TV’s Homicide that played like a hardboiled No Exit will dig this book. Eight mordantly funny short stories about Richard Fell, a misanthropic police detective keeping what passes for the peace in a bleak and bad-mojo-ridden municipality called Snowtown. It’s full of tense close-quarters showdowns in dimly lit spaces and illustrated in a gloomily gorgeous color palette that runs from toxic-sunset violet to busted-nose red.

See the rest of the list here.

Key Fail

2009-03-12T12:19:00.000-07:00

Seriously! The person who did this should be slapped on the back of the head!

Power On Self Test: Picnic on Aldaraan

2009-03-12T11:01:00.000-07:00

Posted by Joel Johnson, March 11, 2009 2:30 AM |

Scarlett Rose Larson makes art from found stings and human hair. (Thanks, Eric!)

Gallery of engraved laptops

2009-03-12T10:52:00.000-07:00

Posted by Rob Beschizza, March 11, 2009 11:24 AM |

You've seen some of them before here, but some newly-lased beauties stand out. Foliage is about the perfect engraving theme, but this one is particularly clever.

Ben Templesmith: Dracula Cover (Penguin Classics)

2009-03-09T13:34:00.000-07:00

Ben Templesmith's terrifying rendition of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Super Mario vs NYC -- street art

2009-03-09T11:40:00.000-07:00

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 7, 2009 10:46 PM |

Some street artist in NYC is using tile-mosaics to turn the street-level water hookups into a giant Super Mario reenactment!
Seen On The Steets Of New York (via Wonderland)

Graffiti of giant people stuffed into small building

2009-03-05T11:34:00.000-08:00

Posted by David Pescovitz, March 4, 2009 10:34 AM |

I really like this clever graffiti found in Bristol. Oysterism posted this one and several more from the always-great Wooster Collective site. "As Seen On The Streets"

American Psycho Advertisment

2009-03-04T09:38:00.000-08:00

Hangover Heaven (April 1947)

2009-03-02T12:06:00.000-08:00

Hangover Heaven is the apt name of the unusual bonnet at right. Originally developed by makeup man Max Factor for the benefit of actresses who wish to refresh their faces on hot studio sets without spoiling their makeup, the facial ice pack was quickly diverted to another purpose by festive Hollywoodians. The headpiece, adorned with water-filled plastic cubes, is kept in the refrigerator while the water freezes.

Ad's of Oddity

2009-03-02T12:05:00.000-08:00

Just a few ads that stuck out to be from the first 10 pages of the advertisements section from the website Modern Mechanix.com

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Stop Mouth Breathing (August 1930)

AND SNORING—the Causes of many diseases and often an early grave.

The PERFECT BREATHER overcomes snoring and mouth breathing. Assures perfect rest; heals inflamed nasal tissues; also prevents flabby facial muscles, double chin, protruding and unshapely lips, etc. Has helped thousands. Men’s, women’s, children’s sizes. Set comprises Perfect Breather, inhaler, inhaling balm, complete instructions and valuable breathing exercises. $3.00, cash or C. O. D. plus few cents postage. Satisfaction or refund. Literature free.

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How to Obtain A Better Looking Nose (August 1930)

Physical Culture Magazine's Aug, 1930 issue carried this intriguing advert for a nose brassiere ("the patented Model 25 Nose Shaper") that would help you by "remolding the cartilage and fleshy parts, quickly, safely, and painlessly." Coming from a long line of beaky sorts, I find this frankly captivating! How to Obtain A Better Looking Nose (Aug, 1930)
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No other deodorant now asks women to Shave First! (September 1953)

Actual skin tests prove YODORA SO “KIND” TO SENSITIVE SKIN we can make this bold statement

FIRST . . . shave under arms. (For faultless grooming — ask your druggist for Yodora shaving booklet.)

THEN . . . apply Yodora immediately with complete confidence*

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Girlie Photo's (October 1949)

I HAVE HUNDREDS of GIRLIE PHOTOS! Some very good, others not worth the paper they’re printed on. I have selected 30 ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS that I believe are the best ever offered for sale. ALL 5 SETS, 6 POSES TO A SET, ONLY $2.

YOU BE THE JUDGE! PRINT NAME & ADDRESS. ORDER WILL BE SENT 1st CLASS.

50c FOR A SAMPLE SET 2 SETS $1 GEM FOTOS, Box 375-J, Dayton, Ohio

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“Its not how long you make it…” (Oct, 1967)

“Its not how long you make it…
“It’s how you make it long!”
We make our long cigarette with an extra measure of that famous good taste that has made Winston America’s largest-selling cigarette! Buy a pack today.
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PERIOD DELAYED? .. Don’t Worry!

*USE “SOLFERA TABLETS”: BE RELIEVED of this worry! Your period delay may be functionally delayed menstruation as a result of secondary anemia due to iron deficiency, and “SOLFERA TABLETS” MAY BRING relief! If Is a QUALITY preparation of OFFICIAL MEDICAL DRUGS! NOT REPRESENTED AS A MEANS TO INTERFERE WITH PREGNANCY. EASY TO TAKE and NO harmful EFFECTS I PAY POSTMAN ON DELIVERY OF PACKAGE TO YOU OR SEND MONEY AND SAVE POSTAGE AND C.O.D. FEES. PACKED IN A CONFIDENTIAL BOX! ONLY $10.00. RUSH YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS . . . TO HEALTH-AIDS CO..

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Drunk? (January 1960)

DOCTORS’ MARVELOUS NEW DISCOVERY RELIEVES DRUNKENNESS IN 5 DAYS

“World Famous Since 1943″

THOUSANDS HAVE BEEN HELPED TO BREAK THE DRINKING CYCLE Does Drunkenness Threaten Your Happiness Or Your Loved Ones? This Remarkable New Discovery Quickly And Easily Helps Bring Relief From All Desire Of Liquor. This Is Strictly A Home Method. Easy To Take. Nothing Like It Before.

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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MEN Appear SLIMMER.. FEEL BETTER, LOOK YOUNGER with COMMANDER (January 1947)

The Amazing New Abdominal Supporter Yes, instantly, you, too, can begin to feel ALIVE . . . ON TOP OF THE WORLD by joining the Parade of Men who are marching up the highway of happier living with the COMMANDER, the amazing new Men’s Abdominal Supporter.

GET “IN SHAPE” INSTANTLY AND ENJOY A HAPPY STREAMLINED APPEARANCE

The COMMANDER presents the exclusively designed “INTERLOCKING HANDS” principle for extra support where you need it most. It flattens the burdensome sagging “corporation” and restores to the body the zestful invigorating feeling that comes with firm, sure “bay window” control. Order this new belt today and begin enjoying the pleasure of feeling “in shape” at once.

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Are you too old to learn?

not at all, new tests show!

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BASEMENT TOILET FLUSHES UP

TO OVERHEAD SEWER OR SEPTIC TANK.
NO DIGGING UP FLOORS. PREVENTS FLOODING.
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EX-LAX OFFERS YOU GREATER BENEFITS THAN EVER! (Dec, 1937)

HERE’S WHY THE NEW SCIENTIFICALLY IMPROVED EX-LAX OFFERS YOU GREATER BENEFITS THAN EVER!

TASTES BETTER THAN EVER Ex-Lax now has a smoother, richer chocolate flavor—tastes like a choice confection ! You’ll like it even better than you did before.

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FreakAngels by Warren Ellis & Paul Duffield

2009-02-27T10:01:00.000-08:00

FreakAngels is a free, weekly, ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield.

Simpsonize Me!

2009-02-19T10:51:00.000-08:00

Have you ever wanted to be a character on the Simpson's!? Well The creators of the Simpson's and Burger King joined forces in honor of the Simpson's Movie a couple years ago and have made this possible! I feel that it's pretty accurate and a great way to kill some time. One fun thing about it is that you can have a blank background or have some scenery from the Simpson's show! Here's a couple that I made.

Simpsonize Yourself!

Make me a Muppet!

2009-02-19T10:48:00.001-08:00

Have you ever pictured yourself as a character on the Muppet's? Well F.A.O Schwartz has the closest thing to it that I could find. You can buy them for $90! I think it would be a lot cooler to have a program (like Burger King has) that analyzes an image and creates options from that. But I'm not a programmer so I'll just sit back in my arm chair and wait for it I guess. Here's the one I thought kind of looks like me. I look a little jaundice ridden but I'll get over it.

The F.A.O. Schwartz Muppet Shop

Russian Star Wars posters

2009-02-13T13:18:00.000-08:00

Posted by Joel Johnson, February 13, 2009 5:41 AM |

I've seen a few different Star Wars posters in my day, but these Russian ones for A New Hope are especially great. Yours today for just $3k! (Thanks, Homerj!)

Continue reading Russian Star Wars posters.

Brushed metal nixie tube clock

2009-02-11T07:15:00.000-08:00

Repost from Boing Boing Gadgets

Posted by John Brownlee, February 9, 2009 2:38 AM |

The nature of nixie tubes makes any clock made of them relatively indistinguishable from its brethren, short of the composition of the base. There's not a lot of variation: six nixies lined up in a row, fluorescently glowing strangely sinewy numerals in the dark. But I still love the look for a bedside clock. This one is $350: it's like a Cold War nuclear countdown to the 6am apocalypse of waking up.

IN14 Brushed Clock [Tubeclock via Uncrate]

Luxury speakers from another world

2009-02-11T07:06:00.000-08:00

Repost from Boing Boing Gadgets

Posted by John Brownlee, February 10, 2009 7:16 AM |

These gorgeous speaker systems by NBS Cables look less like music blasters and more like sacrificial altars from an alien world. Like all extraterrestrial relics, though, these objects d'art will cost you: their speakers range in price from $25,000 to $75,000.

E.V.A. & Butterfly Speakers [NBS Cables via Born Rich]

The Isophone: Conference calls meet sensory deprivation

2009-02-11T07:01:00.000-08:00

Repost from Boing Boing Gadgets

Posted by John Brownlee, February 10, 2009 8:18 AM

AT&T goes Altered States. Verizon goes pre-cog Minority Report. Sprint goes Pyramidhead. Designed by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, the Isophone allows you to make calls with total sensory deprivation... because listening to your mother complain about her latest bowel complaints is just that interesting.

Cyberpunky Isophone concept [DVICE]

Sanyo Ultrasonic Bath invites you to experience its spurting endometrial nozzles (1970)

2009-02-11T06:47:00.000-08:00

Repost from Boing Boing Gadgets

Posted by Joel Johnson, February 10, 2009 8:33 AM

Pink Tentacle collates snippets about the Sanyo Ultrasonic Bath, an egg-shaped prototype appliance shown at the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, in which a bather sits inside and is cleaned, massaged, and dried in an "automated 15-minute process." Consider me fully willing to place this in my bathroom should Sanyo ever decide to produce this wet Orkian womb.

Japan's terrifyingly beautiful monster factories

2009-02-11T06:32:00.000-08:00

Repost from Boing Boing Gadgets

Posted by John Brownlee, February 10, 2009 9:45 AM

This gallery of Japanese monster factories at night are astonishing: industry at its most beautiful and terrifying. The resemblance to Final Fantasy VII's city scapes can not be accidental.

Fantastic photos of factories in Japan [Bouncing Red Ball via Gizmodo]

Warren Ellis: T-Shirt of the Day (2/5/09)

2009-02-05T08:55:00.000-08:00

February 5th, 2009: Post #6993

Via some pack of creepy cultists:

The comments crack me up:

I’m so excited. As a former masturbator I plan to get every color. I want everyone to know power of Jesus is stronger than the devil’s urge to purge.

War Haunted (Warren Ellis)

2009-01-29T06:38:00.000-08:00

Re-post from Warren Ellis. The photo's get cut off for some reason :(

These are, I’m told, the work of one Sergei Larenkov, and they are wonderful. He’s reshot WW2-era photographs in the present day, from their original perspectives, and then faded the original in. Just look:

The effect is similar to those occasional freak photographs purported to capture ghosts on film.

I prefer to imagine a WW2-era photographer developing his or her prints, and discovering strange colour images bleeding in around the edges of their shots.

Obey Giant (Images of Dissent)

2009-01-27T07:16:00.000-08:00

Just read a great article about Shepard Fairey (creator of Obey) that made me go back and rediscover the strange and interesting recycled pieces he has done. Since there are so very many I will just post my favorites. I created a few collages to condense things. Enjoy.

Check out the article:
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey: A critique by artist Mark Vallen

The Images:

Please Wash Hand Before Return Work?

2009-01-25T10:41:00.000-08:00

Men's restroom at Thai Kitchen, Milwaukee, Wi.

Tobacco Ad's from Yesmoke on Flickr

2009-01-21T12:01:00.000-08:00

Collection of Tobacco Advertisements from the Flickr page of Yesmoke.

Soft Pink Smoke

2009-01-21T11:57:00.000-08:00

Soft Pink Smoke
Originally uploaded by Pink Sherbet Photography

Great smoking picture :) I'm going to do a bigger post dedicated to smoking. Stay tuned.

I'm a Barbie girl

2009-01-21T11:47:00.001-08:00

I'm a Barbie girl
Originally uploaded by Chiara Ferragni

Thought this one was a very well done self portrait of herself as Barbie. There is a caption but it is in Italian.

"Visto che mi chiamano Barbie...
Naturalmente non sono cosi magra sul serio,anche il mio corpo e' stato modificato.
Un'idea che aveva da un po',ringrazio Richie per l'appoggio che mi da' sempre. E per avermi scattato queste splendide fotografie. 30 Settembre 2008."

San Francisco Opium Session circa 1900

2009-01-21T11:43:00.001-08:00

San Francisco Opium Session circa 1900
Originally uploaded by stevechasmar

This rare photo was taken in a San Francisco home around 1900. Typical of the decadence to be found in the city at the time, these upper middle-class residents have invited a Chinese opium smoker into their home to prepare pipes for what would have been a dreamy, day-long session. Confirmed opium smokers of the period learned to prepare their own pipes -- a difficult process that required much practice. For more historical photos of opium smokers as well as examples of antique opium accoutrements, visit www.OpiumMuseum.com

On the Bass

2009-01-16T13:50:00.001-08:00

On the Bass
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

Yonder Mountain String Band @ Summerfest 07.05.06.

Feelin' Good

2009-01-16T13:44:00.001-08:00

Feelin' Good
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

A great action shot of Yonder Mountain String Band @ Summerfest 07.05.06.

Left Shoulder

2009-01-16T13:42:00.001-08:00

Left Shoulder
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

Another great portrait of Steve Molitz of Particle on the keyboards live @ Summerfest 07.05.06 Milwaukee, WI.

Ben 1

2009-01-16T13:40:00.001-08:00

Ben 1
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

A beautiful portrait of Ben Harper starring at my camera at Summerfest 07/01/2000 in Milwaukee, WI.

Thermal

2009-01-16T13:36:00.001-08:00

Thermal
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

Another favorite concert photo I took. This one is also of Steve Molitz of Particle on the keyboards live @ the Miramar Theatre 11.03.06 Milwaukee, WI. The way this photo turned out was STUNNING!!! It looks like a thermal image! The light show was just brilliant and the atmosphere wondrous. NO PHOTOSHOP USED HERE!!!

Pleasure Pose Color Trails

2009-01-16T13:32:00.001-08:00

Pleasure Pose Color Trails
Originally uploaded by ky_olsen

Surreal multi-colored portrait of Steve Molitz of Particle on the keyboards live @ Summerfest 07.05.06 Milwaukee, WI.