I could have sworn I posted these last year, but it doesn’t look like it. The one (and only) redeeming quality of parades, in my opinion, is the collection of bizarre, surreal and kitschy props.
Here’s a collection of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Floats from the 1920’s and 1930’s.
I don’t have much information about Belgian photographer Raoul Ubac, but I was just looking at a few of his pieces that I saved.
A favorite…
I would like to find more surreal photography created before the advent of digital editing software. Suggestions?
Hearing the coughs and sneezes of others during my errands today reminded me of this vintage gem.
Stay healthy this winter, folks. Avoid people with insane projectile rocket coughs.
I can’t believe this book is only 22 years old.
I love how the title equates females routines with great tragedy and struggle, as if you would find this right next to a Coping With Death and Dying in a book store.
Now I know where to go for all of my tips on “no-show smoothness” in undergarments. You can see a scan of the underwear page here.
Pink Tentacle has a great post about Japanese visions of the future from a 1969 illustrated magazine feature entitled “Computopia.”
My favorite:
More pictures and descriptions here.
Ah, how the times change.
Worth a thousand words…
Caption, anyone?
LP Cover Lover featured this album recently; a sermon by Harold Henniger (hardly a famous man by any stretch of imagination, but I like to be informative).
Is it me, or does this remind you of the Handbook for the Recently Deceased from Beetlejuice?
If anyone has other guides to the afterlife featuring affectionate couples strolling into the Great Beyond together, please share.
What everyone surely needs to start a holiday weekend off right: freakish caricatures of Edwardian music hall performers.
George Cooke was a caricatures artist who drew Edwardian music hall performers for the Grand Theatre of Varieties, in Hanley Worcestershire. He compiled them in a series of albums.
More on the fabulous Ephemera Assemblyman, along with info/descriptions.
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