Argentinian Movie Posters

I came across this handsome selection of South American one sheets on Ebay and couldn't resist sharing! The posters in my Flickr set are somewhat crude interpretations of the original domestic materials but they also possess a bold simplicity. Enjoy!

Matumbi - Guide Us

Here's What I did on Thanksgiving

....at the insistence of my progeny. Brad Neely's Wizard people. We did it the way he described starting the audio and the DVD at the same time n' all. Most enjoyable.

Sample here:



Neely's audio to sync up with your DVD player here:

Shop Till Ya Drop

The hideous, modern day phenomena called Black Friday is upon us here in the USA. Thousands of bargain starved miscreants roam our malls in search of the elusive $250 laptop, the $400 flat screen TV or the loathsome "Guitar Hero" video game set.

Are the masses in Sweden behaving this way today?

As I contemplate the idiocy of getting in line at your local Wally World at 4AM, my mind goes back to a gentler time when discount department stores like Korvette's roamed the earth.


Discount Stores of the 60's offers us a glimpse into a bygone era where one could always find the latest Herman's Hermits record for $3.99.
Memories......

Ardans

Sam's

Scagway chuckle, chuckle..

Get Your SwaG! Recroded Radio Broadcasts

Weeks seem to have gone by since our last SwaG! dl opportunity. To make up for this, here are two SwaG! broadcasts, with sounds ranging from crusty old punk to Thai funk.

The Experiment Continues, a Thanksgiving Day Eve experiment in psychological manipulation through sound.

Bat Guano Gives You Funky Spice, with Green Slime (the program within the program) of Thai, Ghana, Bollywood and New Orleans funk.

Pissy McPissington & The Thanksgiving Poem

Me, I'm having turkey & relaxing.



Via the always haunting LouLou or *\***

Dancehall Culture Slideshow

Two slideshows in one week! We MUST be living in the future.
Photos by Beth Lesser at Guardian UK

Testing

Testing Muzicons embeddable mp3 player suggested by WaiWaiMusic.

Take it away Jackie Lee Cochran!

zZz - Grip

zZz is playing: Grip, is the first video of Roel Wouters aka Xelor. it's a one take, top shot music video with trampoline gymnasts simulating typical video effects. The video has been recorded live, as part of the opening 'Nederclips' at the Stedelijk museum 's-Hertogenbosch SM'S (curated by Bart Rutten).

The project was commissioned by the TAX-videoclipfonds. The important
criteria were that the audience at the opening would be able to witness the whole shoot, and that the videoclip would be added to the exhibition
immediately after the shoot. This meant we had no option to reshoot or edit if something went wrong. This made the whole crew so focussed that we
performed even better than any of us could have imagined.

Cast
Drums: Bjorn Ottenheim
Keyboard: Daan Schinkel
Trampoline Gymnasts: Sven Mooij, Kirsten Boersma, Renaud Victor
Timeline: Isabel Penisga
Gray Men: Jurriaan van Nimwegen, Patric van den Dorpel

more

Punk Auction

NYT slideshow of punk memorabilia auction at Christie's.
Plus link to related article.

Verbose , huh?

Happiness is a warm gun

Happiness is a warm gun is the new Aperitivo radio show. Be prepared for one hour of pure dangerous joy with the helping hand of Piero Umiliani, Zombie Zombie, The Peddlers, The Supremes, Kevin Ayers and a lot more electronic, groovy and sensual delights.
Kiss caress and more until next time

Kevin Blechdom + Jamie Lidell sing "Relieving Our Power"

Kevin Blechdom with Jamie Lidell and filmed by Cracker Farm in New York City, October 2008!
"A song written by Jamie and Kevy when they preformed as Burdens of Power...:) It should be said that they practiced this for less than an hour and this was the take...total geniuses, both of them!!! "
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via Swamp Slime

Turkey Treats

In lieu of making my own holiday cards, I head over to one of my favorite sites, Capn Wacky's Gallery of Unfortunate Cards. It's hard to pick a favorite, but after this gem I received in my email:



-anything on Capnwacky is a welcome relief!

Thanksgiving on the Islands.

Thanksgiving Day is coming up here in the States, which means gluttony in all its highest forms. Will any of you be cooking this year? If you are and you need something to spice up your usual turkey day spread, then Los Angeles-area "histo-tainer" Charles Phoenix has just the ticket for you: His own retro-tastic Tiki Turkey Dinner. He created it for NPR's "Day to Day," but here's a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation:


Recipes and the original story audio are available here.

Solid gold guitar goes Hawaiian

Al Caiola - Solid gold guitar goes Hawaiian is available thanks to Third Island.

Scorgies Reunion

The Scorgies Reunion is 24 hours post date and my raging hangover is still lingering.

Scorgies was a bar/lounge/club that ruled the Rochester, New York scene in the 80's. It was a welcome oasis for folks who wanted to hear original, cutting edge music. National acts like the Cramps, Johnny Thunders, Ramones, Fear, Comateens and Alex Chilton performed in the basement while hopheads convened upstairs to listen to the best jukebox in town while feeding rolls of quarters to "Space Invaders" and "Defender".



Local bands such as New Math, Personal Effects and The Cliches played their guts out night after night to huge local followings.


Jeff Laben of the Cliches backed by the Press Tones - "Riverview Restaurant"



Here a few archive polaroids that are posted on the web site courtesy of Paul Dodd:




The reunion show Friday evening was a blast. The music sounded better than ever. The crew were all there. Donny Music, Rick, Chaz, Stan The Man, Cousin Brian, The Keith Richards guy and the Shu. All a bit longer in the tooth but still rolling and as clever as ever. It was a night to remember.

George was nowhere to be seen, a pity.

Question about online mp3 hosting with embeddable player.

Hi, gangsters.

It looks like BooMp3, the service I've used here at PCL for online mp3 hosting with embeddable player, has finally bitten the dust. I really liked that service, and the embeddable player in particular. It looked nice and didn't took up much space.

Now I'm looking for a service as good as this, or at least almost as good. Is such an alternative available? It needs to be free of charge.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

/Z aka mrdantefontana

Vatican Forgives Lennon; Lennon Unresponsive

Vatican forgives Lennon for "Bigger than Jesus" remark.
Way to forgive! Yeah! Just a short 42 year wait! Like 5 minutes in purgatory, really....

60's Asian pop record covers

A wonderful collection of 60's Asian pop record covers curated by Syd Presley aka David Greenfield.
--
visit the gallery
myspace.com/singaporesixties
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Thanks dear Doctor Disco for the link. Hey! By the way, Doctor has started an audio blog en francais with an english title: dig in the disco.

No farting in the water. Let it rip above surface.

"Circa 1959. "Swimming pool."
Not just any swimming pool, but an Esther Williams prefab above-ground swimming pool. I wonder if any of these survive. Color transparency by Frank Scherschel, Life magazine photo archive"
Note: Click image for enlargement.
(via Shorpy)

Hit Songs for Girls

Stax o' Wax offers 101 Strings - Plays Hit Songs for Girls

An Amazing Life

Click for enlargement at source.

New comic strip from Kenn Minter.

Soviet Mayan Playing Cards

"... The only vendor for playing cards (as for many other stuff in Soviet Russia) was the Soviet State, so there were only a few type of the cards - just maybe ten at most, not hundreds or thousands as in free market societies, and one of the types of the playing cards were devoted to the Mayan culture for some reason. ..."
The Soviet Mayan Playing Cards at English Russia. (via Martin Klasch)

Holly Andres

'Fiona II' found in the 'Short Street' portfolio.

Holly Andres, photographer, film maker and installation artist. (via Goddelijke Gladiolen)

Skateboard's not a verb at all

Shake Sauvage gives us a compilation for November nights: "Skateboard's not a verb at all" .

Attention Male PCL Contributors

For the good of humankind and the survival of the blogosphere (PCL's leadership being unparalleled) - here are the proper steps in order to save your sperm.

Now "toss" out those ice cube trays!

LIFE

LIFE magazine is scanning its image resources to google. already they have things from the 1840s/50s/60s /70s ...
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=1960s+source:life&btnG=Search+Images
just change the decade tag above. Enjoy!

Guy Peellaert (1934-2008)

R.I.P.Guy Peellaert - Belgian rock artist and cartoonist, passed away Nov. 17 at the age of 74. In addition to his regular comics work, Peellaert designed a number of record sleeves, including David Bowie's Diamond Dogs cover. And a number of photo collage-based style strips to Hara Kiri magazine.

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comics gallery via World Of Kane / Hara Kiri gallery via PCL! / Guy Peelaert's official page

MAC: The Lo Fi Guy

For avid readers of PCL Linkdump you'd be caught in a bubble within a timewarp if you have not heard of the amazing freeform radio station WFMU.

Recently posted to YouTube is a 3-part short documentary on "MAC", host of the radio show, the Antique Phonograph Music Program. The show appear bi-weekly, every Tuesday, at 7PM Eastern Time.

Besides programming a radio show providing flashbacks of music close to a century old, there is a wonderful archive, The Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Records (that has been on the web for years).

Presented here is the wonderful documentary on MAC, his records, radio show and to fellow collectors of music from a bygone era I believe you will delight in these short videos.

Miss Demontagia

Uploaded by thebrammer

Via the mäktig gåsen

Margaret Bourke White

"Lattice like support struts inside section of a giant pipe which is to be used to divert the flow of the Missouri River during construction of the Fort Peck dam. (note person working)"


1941, Russia

Note: Click images for MUCH better view.

Photos by Margaret Bourke-White in the LIFE photo archive hosted by Google. (via Conscientious)

The Gun Club - Fire Of Love

The Gun Club - Fire Of Love, Madrid 1985
RIP: Jody Reynolds.

four your eyes only

Waxin' & Milkin' is an often random--but sometimes themed--image blog courtesy of Mark Malazarte. That is all.
Time to loose? ... browse his collection here!

The Monty Python Channel on YouTube

"For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into our own hands. We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell. But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we've figured a better way to get our own back: We've launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube..."
--
check it out via YouTube

Endless Sleep

Had I known where he was, I would have visited his record store!

PALM DESERT, California (AP) -- Ralph Joseph "Jody" Reynolds, the rockabilly singer and songwriter whose lone hit "Endless Sleep" in the 1950s ushered in a wave of tragic teen pop songs, has died. He was 75.

Reynolds, who was inducted into Nashville's Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1999, died November 7 in Palm Desert, said his musician friend Alan Clark, who toured with Reynolds in the 1980s.

"Endless Sleep," which sold more than a million copies in 1958, kicked off the melodramatic teen tragedy genre, including Mark Dinning's "Teen Angel," Ray Peterson's "Tell Laura I Love Her," Dickey Lee's "Patches" and the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack."

Reynolds continued to write and record his songs while supporting his family by running a Palm Springs music store and eventually selling desert real estate. He also occasionally toured the rock oldies circuit.

Marc Bolan doing "Endless Sleep." You've been warned!

Behold the Power of Funk.

Oh '70s, how I miss you...



[via Rad Dudes, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite photo blogs.]

Madnight

"Inspirations: dreams, nightmares, Los Angeles noir film and literature, "lowbrow" and Surreal art, carnivals and sideshows, 78 rpm records, weird old black and white movies, autumn..."
RIAA presents Madnight, an inspired mashup/sound-collage worth your bloody ear.
The Dead Stay Awake
Thanks to Mr. Fab!

Listen to the Percy Trout hour tonight!

the Percy Trout hour:

Monday Night (11-17-08)
8pm to 10pm EST-USA

WRFL 88.1fm
Lexington, KY

LISTEN ONLINE

Thrill-a-minute Adventure

Though the promise may be somewhat overstated, this 1950's British children's book does feature a number of great illustrations and artwork. Despite somewhat ho-hum fiction - I'm surprised to find myself thumbing through it again and again.

Check out the complete photo set at Flickr.

Outsider Art

While i don't travel as much as I would like, I'd really like to hit some of the spots listed on detour art.



this one I've seen a bunch. It;s on 6th street and Avenue B in NYC. The artist is Eddie Boros.

Growing up, I lived near Bud's Grave. I wonder if this was the beginning of my love for outsider art.

Vivi and the Playboys

Jambalaya and Kookamunga

I want to live inside this video featuring Homer and Jethro--thw color palette is gorgeous.



found at twindowlicker, along with a lot of classic C & W 78s.

Luden's Zappa Commercial

Via All Night Surfing comes this Zappa rarity.



Time to get out those mildew laden copies of Uncle Meat

"It's the middle of the night
And your mommy & your daddy are sleeping
It's the middle of the night
And your mommy & your daddy are sleeping
SLEEPING
MOM & DAD ARE SLEEPING
SLEEPING IN A JAR . . . (the jar is under the bed)"

Criswell's 1966 Predictions

What a find!

Criswell is my Higher Power.

The Many Faces of Blue Note.

Vintage Vanguard has a terrific (and incredibly comprehensive) gallery of Blue Note album covers (front and back!), stretching from the mid-1940s to the late 1970s or so. Gorgeous design work. The fun starts here.

[via The FontFeed.]

Pierre Henry - machine danse (1973)

You can't miss this album. I would really like to know what kind of discotheque play that music. Somewhere on jupiter maybe!

Sacrifice
Machine Danse

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enjoy it via wheneva we bone i have 2 fake an orgasm (!!!)

Swank!

I'm ready to chuck it all and move to New Zealand, just so I can buy this house and live in it forever:


Look! They even have a vinyl bar!


All it needs is a nice hi-fi console and maybe a sunburst clock. Who's ready to come with?

(Be sure to take the photo tour on the listing page so you can soak everything in.)

[via It's Lovely! I'll Take It!.]

The Battle of the Century.

Forget "Ulysses." This is the great novel of the 20th century. (Of course, I haven't read it yet, but with a cover like that, how can it be anything but the most awesome thing ever?)



[via Pulp of the Day.]

Mallet Magic

OK surly person....you look as though you could use a little musical pick-me-up, and I have just the album. It's a swell collection of novelty marimba numbers recorded in 1957 by Harry Breuer and his Quintet. You can get a taste of the album below, and download the whole thing here.

Maxixe Mambo

spanish classic horror movie posters

a collection of classic horror movie posters in their spanish version.
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via Ciudad Imaginaria Flickr "cine" set

You have really big glasses : The end of postmodernism

This is the motto, this is the death of postmodernism, this is the end of the intention beneath.
It says nothing more than what appears is good, what is good appears.

See more dustfilms, just follow the yellow brick road

A Tropical Affair

The perfect soundtrack for your Tropical Affair: A "Latin American Dance Pot-Pourri" from 1957 by Pedro Garcia and the Del Prado Orchestra found here. Don't you LOVE the album cover?

St. Martin

On the evening of November 11th in some places in Holland (in more and more under commercial pressure), the Dutch speaking part of Belgium and most areas of Germany and Austria, children are walking from house to house with paper lanterns and candles, and are singing songs about St. Martin in return for treats.
I caught some on tape in Zwolle. The background choir is done by my two dash hounds.

listen

Heaviest Wrestler of all time

Martin Levy: the H E A V I E S T wrestler of all time.

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via www.obsessedwithwrestling.com

Hey I'm a Creep!

60 Belgian Belle Choir
From the Taking Tiger Mountain Archives

Peur

Peur a photo collection curated by Mr Duterche

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via le blog La Boite A Puce

Mundo Futuro: spanish comics from the mid 50's

Beautiful spanish comics from the mid 50's created by the geniously inspired Boixcar.
More drawings here(part 1) and here (part 2)
other drawings by Mathias Alonso here
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via the excellent spanish blog
El Desvan Del Abuelito

photo: Boixcar himself

La Cucaracha Cha Cha

Bad cha cha music and its indisputable link to the scourge of circus peanuts: a scientific expose explained here.

Cinematic Turkeys

Donna Lethal's Phillipine movie advertisements got my brain a bubbling about bizarre foreign films. Turkey has a well deserved reputation for having turned out.. well, some cinematic turkeys. During the 1970's, Turkish cinemas were flooded with a wide assortment of 'reinterpretations' of Hollywood films. Often these celluloid clones featured soundtracks and large chunks of footage from their original sources. Unfortunately, much of what survives today, represents a small portion of what filmmakers were churning out during the heyday of Turkish moviemaking. It's hard not to enjoy the downright surreal hodgepodge of American icons shoehorned into low budget, low concept scenarios. YouTube has a decent selection of clips, a few of which are posted below. Two DVD companies I am aware of that have Turkish offerings include MONDO MACABRO and ONAR FILMS. MONDO has a great all region double bill of THE DEATHLESS DEVIL and TARKAN VERSUS THE VIKINGS, both of which are of a reasonable quality. ONAR is based in Greece with a modest library of Turkish films like 3 DEV ADAM and TURKISH SUPERMAN. DVD's from ONAR are PAL format and the quality can be pretty damn rough, however they may be the only venue for some titles.

In 3 DEV ADAM, Spider Man is not living with Aunt May or struggling with his awkwardness around Mary Jane - he's one evil sum' bitch and he's not afraid to prove it by taking a girl's face off with a boat propeller. Captain America and Santos arrive in country at the request of authorities and will not rest until the psychotic webhead's crime ring is smashed.



Oodles more action than Singer's SUPERMAN RETURNS. Is it just me or does it look like TURKISH SUPERMAN is sucking in his gut and holding his breath every time he has a frontal shot?



Training montages are an essential component of any action film and TURKISH STAR WARS is no exception. Hang through the first few minutes to see our hero really take it to the limit! (new music added to the Youtube clip)



New to me - this clip of TURKISH RAMBO features a climatic orgy of gun violence as our bare chested, headband sporting he-man scurries about blasting off his RPG only to find additional rounds for his weapon wherever he kneels. I want more!



TARKAN VS THE VIKINGS is a homegrown hero that adventures about Europe with his faithful dog and faces off against the vicious Vikings. Despite lots of goofy props like the cephalopod in the clip below, TARKAN has a genuine core of Turkish values which are fascinating for this North American viewer.

Freakards

Freakards - Portraits of peculiar people brought to us by the freaks over at It's Deadlicious.

Miriam Makeba RIP

Pata Pata on, Miriam.
Obit 1
Obit 2
Some Music (including Pata Pata)

Confessions of a Superhero

I had viewed clips of CONFESSIONS a while back but just picked up the DVD today and heartily recommend the documentary to both geeks and non-geeks alike. The delicate task of portraying Hollywood Boulevard superhero street performers as something other than a pathetic cartoon is deftly handled by director Matt Ogens. The stubborn drive these characters possess to pursue the dream of stardom is both admirable and heart breaking. Peruse You Tube for additional clips and you can also check out the official website here.

And thank you to the curvaceously hot Jennifer Wenger (formerly Gehrt) for squeezing into that Wonder Woman outfit and making one perverse comic book geek very happy.

Philippine Movie Ads

If I don't check Blonde Zombies regularly, I get overwhelmed ... in the best way!

Nashville Pussy - A review

NASHVILLE PUSSY

What can I say?
Nuthin.

Oh well- yes I can.

Last year we walked in late to their opening set at that Horton Heat show. We vowed then & there that we'd see 'em again.

Parade magazine will never feature them. Wayne Cochran is your mother compared to them. Wait, Stiv Bators is your mother compared to them.
They will never be lying on their death beds asking themselves "What was that all about?"
Their show is a full-on 100% Screaming Mimi (or screaming Meemie) assault on the very existence of rock n' roll. If they worked in a grocery store, You'd be greeted at the door, every item would be exactly where it belonged with the right prices, the floors would be immaculate and the produce fresh, and you would zoom through checkout. That's how hard they work. Like hard workin' bastards, who are forestalling their executions by playing for the Governor.

The staging is flawless: they look at each other, and blast! things happen right on cue. The drama don't stop. It's intuitive but looks well thought out.

The last song, Ruyter tore the strings off her guitar - when I asked Blaine how she manages to do that, he replied, "Hey she's got great chops."

Amen.

Phonecam doesn't do it justice, obviously, & I lost 2 closeups while talking to band members (forgot to hit save) so I have adulterated, to give an impression. Maybe successful.






Special show treat: Blaine sings Ace of Spades with Reverend Horton Heat



Go.

Il Medico... la studentessa

Roberto Pregadio's score to the soft erotic Il Medico... la studentessa (IMDb) is available thanks to monone's library.
Roberto Pregadio - Il Medico... la studentessa
Boomp3.com

The Secrets of Isis

Complete episodes available for viewing at Veoh.com

BIZARRO SwaGio!

Since Bat Guano has been taking numerous Wednesday nights off to do whatever mysterious and certainly unwholesome things he does when alone, he was called into service twice to be the substitute host of Bizzaro Fantastico on Thursday nights.

So instead of “regular” host Dirty Dub, listeners were disoriented by Dirty Guano. And the usual fine programing of beautiful and easy listening music became perverted.

Go here to hear those two nights from Nov. and Oct. 2008 that shocked a nation, in convenient two-hour long chunks.

Stiv Bators on Uncle Floyd

Stiv Bators and "the Dead Boys" miming "I'm Not That Way Anymore" on Uncle Floyd Show 1980. (via [::] )
Note: Not the full clip/perfomance.

Uploaded by redpunk1

Transparent Dresses and Pretty Petti-Pants

Stax-o-Wax pays homage to those naughty naughty girls and their fish-net stockings and nude lipstick with the album "Music to Watch Girls By", recorded by the Girlwatchers (appropriately enough). Though the song entitled "Fishnet stockings" is really the song "Red Top", and "Green Eyeliner" sounds sort of like "Watermelon Man", just sit back and enjoy the view.

Glen Orbik

'Silver Fox' (in the Marvel Comics gallery) & 'The Max' (in the Dangerous Dames & Pulp Noir gallery)
Click chicks for bigger picks.

Glen Orbik, illustrator. Here's the galleries.

Rumble

Devil Dick and his The Devil's Music presents Rumble in various shapes and rhythms.
Boomp3.com

Rock and Soul

Southside and the Boss - "The Fever" - 1978

Get with the program via this monster.

Southside Johnny official web site. I've been listening to the new disc Grapefruit Moon non-stop over the past few weeks. It's a Tom Waits compilation performed by the under appreciated vocalist John Lyons with the amazing big band of Richie "Labamba" Rosenberg.

Trust me on this one.......

Johnny Horton

Check out "Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor" and some other odd facts that I never knew about the rockin' JH at The Devil's Music.

RIP, Jimmy Carl Black.

I was saddened to learn today of the death of Jimmy Carl Black (the Indian of the group). He was always one of my favorite Zappa sidemen, and one of the biggest reasons the Mothers were such a fun, hilarious group. I'll definitely be giving "200 Motels" and "We're Only In It For the Money" some spins tonight in his honor.

Here he is as Lonesome Cowboy Bert from "200 Motels":


And here he is more recently, performing "Trouble Everyday" with the Muffin Men, a gang of former Zappa sidemen who are keeping FZ's music alive:

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Super Fizz Sugar Pop
from all over the Globe.

Download another show from the Archives.
This one from November 3, 2008:

Part One

Part Two

IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL

Life reduced is simply fascinating. Victoria has a tired old attraction called Miniature World that still captures my attention whenever I visit. There's just something inherently captivating about seeing the world shrunk down to a table top model. Australian Keith Loutit has utilized his photography skills to create a mind boggling time lapse video of miniatures that are far from static.

Alley ooops!
As pointed out in the comments. Keith's work is in fact, tilt-shift photography.
Still freakin' cool.
See below!

Tilt-shift miniature faking is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated so that it looks like a photograph of a miniature scale model. By distorting the focus of the photo, the artist simulates the shallow depth of field normally encountered with macro lenses making the scene seem much smaller than it actually is. Many miniature faked photographs are taken from a high angle to further simulate the effect of looking down on a miniature. Objects oriented horizontally...make better subjects for tilt-shift miniature faking than vertically oriented objects such as in the second example, in which one can see how the bottom of the trees are in focus but the top of the trees are out of focus, despite being the same distance from the lens.
From Wikipedia


Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.


Bathtub II from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.


Bathtub III from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.


The North Wind Blew South from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Oskar Schönning - Faustine

Swedish jazz act Oskar Schönning plays Faustine from their new album 'Puerto': (via It's A Trap! )

Uploaded by cdymling

Songs for a better tomorrow

"An album of songs that have given hope to working people in their struggles for freedom and justice"
Songs for a better tomorrow, a fine (and quite appropriate for this particular day) share by Bostworld.
Boomp3.com
No matter what your race, no matter your creed
It’s justice for all that we want and need
United in brotherhood, we will succeed
Together we’ll build and together we’ll stand
Together we’ll make this a happier land,
We’ll work and we’ll sing and we’ll march hand in hand
All together , all together, we are stronger every way
We will build together, work together for a better day

Wolf Talk

"This recording consists of sounds of the wolves mixed with bird calls and water sounds. ..."
A Closet of Curiosities gives us Wolf Talk

"Part 1: You'll hear the calls and howls of wolves and the sounds of the following guest speakers: spring peepers, wood frogs, crow, barred owl, red-winged blackbirds, blue jay, chickadees, nuthatches, and one great horned owl."
Boomp3.com
That's the G-R-E-A-T-E-S-T horned owl I ever heard recorded!!!
The guest stars here make a superb backing band with a great natural back-to-the-roots kind of sound. And the main attraction here - the wolves - are really down with it. They've got the blues, alright! And like all great blues singers they're not show-offs. This is the real deal.
It's truly a wild and animalistic performance altogether.

What kind of worries me is that their follow-up has been put on delay, but the title has already been leaked to the press: North Korean Democracy.

Songs of Couch and Consultation

Are you convinced that your superego is just a little more super than everyone else's? Do you have The Will to Fail, or the Repressed Hostility Blues?? Then you might enjoy Songs of Couch and Consultation, a witty collection of cabaret tunes from the late 50s that celebrate the ups and downs (OK, mostly downs) of psychoanalysis.

Piero Piccioni

Piccioni all day and all night long at Isbums Place - and don't forget to suggest/post your favorite Piero Piccioni track here (for an upcoming online tribute compilation).
I feel quite embarresed to suggest ... you know ... my theme ....
Well, there is alot of other brilliant stuff coming from the Piccioni catalogue.

Listen to the Percy Trout hour tonight!

the Percy Trout hour:

Monday Night (11-3-08)
8pm to 10pm EST-USA

WRFL 88.1fm
Lexington, KY

LISTEN ONLINE

Galen Gough

"October 5, 1923. Washington, D.C. The war hero and former invalid Galen Gough, known as the "Miracle Strong Man" after recovering from having his head caved in by bomb shrapnel in France."
Click image for full size at Shorpy.

"Gough's most serious wound came after an exhausting 24-hour march up to the front lines and into battle with the Marines at Vierzy, near Soissons. It was there shrapnel from an airplane bomb caved in the left side of his head and pierced his brain. By all standards he should have been dead. Service personnel at the scene thought he was dead and deposited his lifeless body with the other war casualties.
When officials finally discovered that Gough was still alive he was transferred back to New York where he was treated for his wounds. He was eventually discharged as permanently and hopelessly disabled.
Gough remained in that helpless condition for three years.
However, during those early years, Gough began experimenting with various exercises. He finally settled on crude isometrics and started a regiment of activities that eventually led him to a full recovery. In the process he dispelled the opinions of medical experts on two continents who said he would never be anything more than a hopeless invalid.
His strength didn't stop though, Gough continued to build up his twisted and wrecked body to a point that his recovery was beyond human belief. Noticing that his health had reached super-human proportions, Gough set off on a course that would lead him to such billings as "The Strongest Man on Earth," "The World's Miracle Strong Man" and "The Daringest Daredevil in The World."" (Quoted from this source)

Schönen Gruss aus der Heimat

Von Dieter Koblenz:

Yma Sumac 1922 - 2008

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If you choose for a weird carreer, start young and do it well:

It was only yesterday that I found out that one of the public's favourite finalists of the current dutch version of popstars, Floor(meaning "flower" in Dutch) is the same Floor who sang the solo-part in my Geert Grote School's version of "Dreamer" in the first 365 days project and who one year later sang Chim chim cheree and My Favourite Things in week 40 of 52 weeks
Next week, I might go televoting for the first time in my life!

See/hear Floor sing as she looks/sounds like now!

The Certifiably Insane Eloise Trio

I'm not sure how this album has achieved such a high status among calypso collectors--it is easily one of the most hilariously horrific albums in the history of recorded music. Listen in agony as Eloise does her extended high pitched imitation of a mouse getting its tail cut off with a carving knife. Or her seemingly endless histrionics over the loss of her boyfriend. Or her impression of a donkey braying.

Got an extended car trip coming up with someone you don't particularly like? You NEED The Exciting Eloise Trio.

Samba for the Soul

These vintage 1950s Brazilian album covers gracing the pages of Toque Musical are a joy in themselves, and the smoothly romantic music is aural Valium, evoking an era of ladies in satin gowns gliding across the dance floor with suave gentlemen in dinner jackets.

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'The Apocalypse', a collage created for the Saigon Market Zine.
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5003's photostream at Flickr. Collages, sketches and stuff.

Vintage Naples postcards

From an old accordion booklet of various italian cities Pignouf of Vintage Poster has chosen to share Naples. He thinks they are from the 1940s.