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The themes of "The Marvel Super Heroes"

Trurl — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:04:23 -0800

When Captain America throws his mighty shield, all those who chose to oppose his shield must yield. Doc Bruce Banner, pelted by gamma rays, turns into The Hulk; ain't he unglamorous? Tony Stark makes you feel; he's a cool exec with a heart of steel. Cross the Rainbow Bridge of Asgard, where the booming heavens roar, you'll behold in breathless wonder the god of Thunder, mighty Thor. Stronger than a whale, he can swim anywhere; he can breathe underwater and go flying through the air. Produced by Grantray-Lawrence Animation, headed by Grant Simmons, Ray Patterson and Robert Lawrence, [The Marvel Super Heroes] was an umbrella series of five segments, each approximately seven minutes long, broadcast on local television stations that aired the show at different times. The series ran initially as a half-hour program made up of three seven-minute segments of a single superhero, separated by a short description of one of the other four heroes. It has also been broadcast as a mixture of various heroes in a half-hour timeslot, and as individual segments as filler or within a children's TV program. This mid-60s were a golden age for Marvel cartoon themes - including The Fantastic Four and Spider-Man - the latter the subject of this excellent post. For further research: Mike's Classic Cartoon Themes. (previously)

Restoring Stanley Kramer's "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"

Trurl — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:09:44 -0800

What you see here is a prime example of what happens to film that is neglected and improperly stored. This is an original reel from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World that is now untouchable. The film has turned acidic, sporting the strongest and most foul vinegar-like odor I have ever smelled. In fact, Robert Harris told me a story of how his contact lenses were singed by the fumes the film produced, causing temporary retinal damage to his eye. Efforts to restore the soundtrack by Ernest Gold have been of interest to The Rosarita Beach Podcast.

The John Coltrane Quartet performs "A Love Supreme"

Trurl — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:11:47 -0800

On July 26, 1965, at the Antibes Jazz Festival, the John Coltrane Quartet made its only public performance of A Love Supreme. (previously) Coltrane's original manuscript is exhibited by the Smithsonian as a "Treasure of American History".

Syd Dale, Legend of Library

Trurl — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:11:42 -0800

There is no questioning Syd Dale's [mid-60s UK NSFW] place amongst the legends of library music. ... his lavish big band inspired compositions were quickly brought to the public's attention through their use in countless t.v. shows and advertisements. Much of his work could be as classed as easy listening however Dale was also adept at incorporating elements of funk and spy jazz.* [The music of the 1967 Spider-Man animated TV series - to which he so memorably contributed - has been discussed previously.] He possessed a particular genius for writing memorable melodies that, while often complex, were always designed for the ear to follow. He excelled at marrying them to modern rhythms (usually funk-based), and coupled with his rich, colourful style of orchestration, gave his music a unique and distinctive sound. Whether he was writing a hard-hitting theme for a detective or documentary series, a delicate underscore for a romantic interlude, a period piece or a humorous ‘throwaway’ number, the common factor uniting them all were his lavish, flamboyant arrangements.

there's not very much to say about me

madamjujujive — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:02:02 -0800

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990 - 87 min)
Warhol's Cinema - A Mirror for the Sixties (1989 - 64 min)
From The Factory: 1963-1968
Excellent photo slide show

It's Warhol, actually. It's "hole." As in "holes." Andy Warhol.

fiercecupcake — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:45:38 -0800

Did you know that there's an art museum on the moon? A tiny, tiny one. The Moon Museum features works by Forrest "Frosty" Myers (the instigator), Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, David Novros, and John Chamberlain, inscribed on a little chip of silicon and surreptitiously transported to the moon's surface on the Apollo 12 mission. But of course there's a mystery, in this big of a secret: who is John F., the engineer at least partially responsible for smuggling the chip onboard the lunar lander? Related: other stuff people have left on the Moon (!)

Too Much Horror Fiction

kittens for breakfast — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:06:46 -0800

Too Much Horror Fiction: "Covering horror literature and its resplendent paperback cover art, mostly from the 1960s through the early 1990s. Mostly."

Jack Kirby's William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

kittens for breakfast — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:29:18 -0800

"In 1969, Sheldon Feldner contacted Marvel Comics, asking if one of Marvel's artists would be interested in designing costumes for a production of William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar by the University Theatre Company at Santa Cruz. As luck would have it, the Kirby family had recently moved to California..." Jack Kirby's designs for the production.

The Biology Textbook That Wished It Was A Progressive Rock Album

jonp72 — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:07:29 -0800

This is your biology textbook. This is your biology textbook on drugs. Any questions?

Do A Good Turn Daily

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:54:22 -0800

1965 Boy Scout Handbook

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas

mediareport — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:26:34 -0800

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party's Minister of Culture from 1967 to 1979. Douglas is still alive and making posters for the cause, in this case the San Francisco 8, who were arrested earlier this year for the murder of a police officer in 1971 -- despite the fact that evidence was thrown out of federal court in 1976 because "officers stripped the men, blindfolded them, beat them and covered them in blankets soaked in boiling water," and "used electric prods on their genitals." The SF Weekly published a detailed 5-page story about the case in November 2006.

Ripeness is All: Lustmord Portrayed in Oil

WCityMike — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:48:34 -0800

New York artist Ashley Hope's Ripeness is All exhibit at the Tilton Gallery recreates crime scene photographs of murdered women from the 1910s through the 1990s as oil paintings on huge 4' x 6' canvasses. [some nsfw art] Hope states that her goal is the "re-subjectification of a scene that had been totally objectified by the forensic camera." She chooses the crime scenes of "Lustmord" (or "lust murders") — "these incomprehensible crimes are more sublime; they exemplify a reality that betrays our expectations, a reality that so often takes us outside of our understanding." ArtDaily.com, who made Hope their Nov. 2007 featured artist, comments: "Man is valued for his interior qualities ... woman is valued for her exterior attributes ... Hope's work — images of women reduced to a body — underscores this dichotomy, thus challenging these reductive tendencies."

NYC photos 1968-1972

CunningLinguist — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:06:50 -0800

"New York City 1968-1972" Some very compelling black and white street photography by Paul McDonough. via

Extracts from the journals of Susan Sontag

nthdegx — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:13:52 -0800

Extracts from the journals of Susan Sontag dating from the 1950s and 1960s were published in this morning's Guardian G2.

Under the covers

greycap — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:18:10 -0800

Germano Facetti - who died recently - was art director at Penguin Books during the 1960s. He was responsible for some of the most striking book cover designs of the period. More here.

Mimmo Rotella's decollages

matteo — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:20:13 -0800

The World in Pieces. During the early 1960s, Mimmo Rotella (who just died in Milan at age 87) went around Europe collecting strips of advertising posters that had been pasted over and torn away many times. He also tore at posters (warning: big file) himself in a rebellious act of desecration to create the works he called decollages. More inside.

turn online, tune in, drop out

liam — Fri, 06 May 2005 11:12:39 -0800

Aspen - The Multimedia Magazine ~~In A Box~~ On The Web. Produced from 1965 to 1971 as an alternative to a bound magazine, Aspen came as a box filled with booklets, phonograph recordings, posters and postcards by a stellar array of contributors.

Barr Art

Hands of Manos — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 08:24:57 -0800

Glen Barr draws robots, creatures and vixens that live in a seedy yet swinging 1960's universe, drenched in the haze of a post industrial hangover. Flash enabled and ever-so-slightly NSFW