Friday Ephemera
San Zhi, Taiwan. Forgotten houses of the future. // Tales of Tomorrow. Leslie Nielsen mines Martian uranium. (1952) // More boomerangs in space. // The Beast in Space. Cheesy sci-fi porno. (sfw) // Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four. Crap, redefined. // Superhero fashion. Gas masks, girdles, a jaunty hat. // Cutie Honey. She fights crime, I think. // Ophelia Benson on God, types 1 and 2. // Mary Jackson on Boris Johnson. // Charles Murray on educational romanticism. // Deogolwulf on the sound of one hand slapping. // Slow motion raspberry. And. // More robotic exoskeletons. // The android keyboardist. (1985) // The Spirit. // Bomb shelters of Nazi Germany. // Smoking tourism. (h/t, 1+1=3.) // San Francisco panoramas. Sunset, dawn and twilight. // Lamps made from sheep stomach. // The Anatomical Theatre. Morbidity and wax. // Tulip farms. // Plant rights now! Two legs bad, no legs good. // The Internationale in 40 languages. Sing, comrades, sing. // Design for despots. (h/t, Things.) // Retro design. // The Virtual Museum of Vintage VCRs. (h/t, Coudal.) // Wooden shortwave radio. Mp3 compatible. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s the Reverend Robert Wilkins.
re: Superhero Fashion,
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/2008/05/IMG_4181.jpg
I had to wonder at the utility of the codpiece-with-hose outfit. Is it for the on-the-go super-fashionista with no time to duck into a public restroom, or is it for some other purpose?
Posted by:Candice | May 09, 2008 at 07:59
I assumed it was some kind of weapon. Much like the wig on the left.
Posted by:David | May 09, 2008 at 08:08
I can't see the wig being much use in battle.
Posted by:Anna | May 09, 2008 at 08:19
Oh, I don’t know. It appears to defy gravity and the styling is deadly.
Posted by:David | May 09, 2008 at 08:21
Re: slow-motion raspberry -- eew. EEWWW! :)
Posted by:Kang | May 09, 2008 at 16:05
Re: vintage VCRs – I used to have one of these: http://www.totalrewind.org/vhs/H_3300.htm Memories! Thanks.
Posted by:lurker24 | May 09, 2008 at 17:26
Speaking of wigs… http://misc.qti.com/staff/greg/img/photos/fat_wonder_woman.jpg
Posted by:Diana Prince | May 09, 2008 at 19:29
Is the date on that 'Fantastic Four' trailer accurate? Looks more like something made in the late 70s/early 80s...!
Posted by:JuliaM | May 10, 2008 at 06:18
Julia - "An unreleased low-budget feature film completed in 1994. Created to secure copyright to the property, the producers never intended it for release — although the director and other creators were not informed of this fact."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Four_(film)
Posted by:Amos | May 10, 2008 at 07:30
If anyone is sufficiently... intrigued, a bootleg can be bought online.
http://www.antimattermultiverse.com/products/the-fantastic-four-1994-dvd
Anyone for Superman: the Musical? David Hasselhoff as Nick Fury? Or Turkey’s evil Spider-Man…?
http://www.antimattermultiverse.com/products/3-dev-adam-dvd
It’s a whole new realm of trash.
Posted by:David | May 10, 2008 at 07:56
LOL Amazing.
Posted by:Anna | May 10, 2008 at 14:58
Vegetable rights? Whatever next - The Vegetable Liberation Front (VLF)? Identify politics gone raving mad. Whoops, looks like the VLF might just exist:
http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/3652/
and my, they don't like vegans! (I'm open the the possiblity that this might be satire).
Posted by:Andy | May 11, 2008 at 11:21
I’m guessing it’s as authentic as the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Posted by:David | May 11, 2008 at 11:29
re: veggie rights, I just remembered this:
http://unix-spiders.blogspot.com/2007/12/making-music-with-veg.html
VLF's nightmare?
Posted by:andy | May 11, 2008 at 11:43