Paperplay

Susan Stranks with Itsy & Bitsy, 1975.

Jackanory

Brer Rabbit: 1972 (first published 1968). 
Littlenose: 1970 (first published 1969).  Cover design by Graham McCallum

Jump From The Sky

 
 

 

Something about these paintings has haunted me since I had the original Ladybird book "Jump from the Sky" back in the early 70s. Maybe it's the pursed-lipped smile and dead-eyed pleasure of Bob as he loads up the gun. Maybe it's the strangely static action shot of the ball hanging in space, as Peter hits the bulls-eye. (And I used to feel incredibly irritated, as a child, by the way the trajectory is NOT parallel with the barrel of the gun.) Maybe it's the warm haze of proto-fascist military idyll : the sunlight and joy of boys playing with their guns. Luscious and horrifying at the same time.

Central Film Library 64/65 (COI)

The UK Govenments marketing and comunication agency was the Central Office of Information (sounds very omnious) part of the COI was the Central Film Library. Within this CFL publication are such wonderful short film titles as Atomic Energy Explained, Metals of the Nuclear Age, Living with Radiation, Project Tinkertoy, Winter Construction? can it be done?, The World of Semiconductors, Learning in Slow Motion (Training for the Subnormal) Man Machine Charts. All these films and others were available to hire, most are 2 reels and cost around 10 shillings (50p) My favorite title has to be Project Tinkertoy. What I hear you say is/was Project Tinkertoy?????? Project Tinkertoy running at 27mins over 3 reels for 15s, was an account of the joint US Navy and National Bureau of Standards project for the development of a new system for the design and manufacture of electronic assemblies???????  so there you have it. If that interests you, and you fancy a night in with a film, then put your order in now for all 3 reels of this CFL film (CAT US322) it just might not be available any more though.

Endorsement of The Living Dead

Shopping Precincts of Olde Englande - Hanley!

Check out the non-invasive public art in the background. For Cosmic American Needlework and a horrible fire station, look here. That is all!

Celebrity Squares Game

Includes free Willie Rushton.

Simply Not That Good

Found this lovely looking book on a recent Charity Shop patriol. I love the cover the style and the colours. Sadly the contents of the book are not very good. Which is a shame, I really thought it was going to be a gold mine of odd and interesting photos and images. But alas its all a tad basic and bland. That said it has a great front cover. Quite a few of this series on ebay, all with very good covers. Might have to get a few more of these.

Large Wheel

Robots of Kettering.

 

"Circa 1930's press photo of a homemade robot."

via Anonymous Works.

Paolo Soleri: The City in The Image of Man

Published by MIT Press, 1969.

Click on pics to view LARGE.  More HERE

Obituary for Soleri, who died a couple of weeks ago: R.I.P.

Fall Fans' Round Table, 1971

Men of Focus - Open Theatre

Nice vibe / video.

Lights and Lungs

Two lovable young tykes from Life Science Library's book of the body, pub by Time Inc, New York 1961. Photographers unattributed.

Tape Recording its a Hobby

Man in an aran cardigan holding a chicken

Via Retronaut

HMV 20 Series and the Vitrographs of George Pollock

4AD or what, eh?

The photographs used for these 1960s record sleeves are 'Vitrographs' by George Pollock:

George Pollock

Light Vitrographs

Prepare to enter the Black Meadow...

The New Soulless Party album has arrived... There's no song and dance here. No build up. This will be an ongoing and expanding series.. There will also be a book entitled 'Tales from the Black Meadow' which will be following shortly. Feel free to enter in to this world of recently discovered folklore, myth and wonder.. Listen at first, then decide if you want to know more..

A Love Affair with Northampton is a Journey Into Space

Advert for "expanding Northampton", masterminded by yer actual Northampton Development Corporation.

Contemporary local news story here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfTT6xOcbdo

No year attached, so whaddya reckon?  Late 70s or early 80s?  The local news fella says: "punk is popular now" and mentions Star Wars, but in local news world that could place it as late as ,82.

For one week only. This week as it happens.

Hello, what's this? Another special week of posts over at the FO sister blog Mounds & Circles?

Is it full of unnecessary sleazy British smut?

Yes, yes it is.

'Night After Night After Night' is a film from 1969, directed by Lindsay Shonteff. it's full of all the sorts of stuff we like: smut, horror, sex, perversion, cross dressing, groovy dancing. Some of us have seen it, some of us haven't. This week, however, we're going to take it in turns to watch 25 minutes of the film and then report back. We're not allowed to watch anything other than our particular segment, although we are allowed to speculate on what has come before and what is yet to come.

It might work, it might not.

If you'd like to read what's happening and see some rude pictures then have a quick click HERE, but make sure your Mum doesn't catch you at it - you could get told off.

You know you want to.



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