MetaFilter posts tagged with groovy

Art with perspective

hippybear — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:40:21 -0800

Hand-drawn holograms. I've stumbled across a technique for drawing holograms directly upon a plastic plate by hand. It sounds impossible, but I've been sitting on the livingroom sofa making holographic images of floating polyhedra, words, 3D starfields, opaque objects, etc. No laser, no isolation table, no darkroom, no expensive film plates. This takes nothing more than a compass and some scraps of plexiglas. Too cool, if I say so myself! But are they actually holograms? The process has been published, and the author has a pretty good analysis of why the answer is "yes, they are." Evidently others are also working with this method. How can this have been around since 1995? Really? Jeez, where have I been?

Not on the good rug!

1f2frfbf — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:30:58 -0800

Danish 70's Interior Design, Porno Style. sorta NSFW-ish?

Selling in the seventies

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:22:22 -0800

From the 70s version of a bad hair day to disco chart-toppers leaping out of cassette tape boxes to three-legged celebrities who are currently in jail to... well, you just gotta see this one, the Advertising Sillyness from the Seventies flickr group has the groovy images you'll recall (or may want to forget) if you were around in those halcyon days. The group also offers a sampling of the little ads that dotted the comic book back pages of the 1970s, like this old favorite, and this. And lo and behold! Here's an ad for that classic 70s book that I really wanted when I was sixteen, but somehow never got my hands on.: How to Pick Up Girls!. Yep, the future looked bright back then... See also: the Advertising Through the Years group, heavy on 50s and 60s ads.

Ausgezeichnet!

miss lynnster — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:35:07 -0800

Now's the time in the 1974 Bundesliga new uniform unveiling presentation where we dance. Happy Monday! :)

Vamp

Artw — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:26:20 -0800

Curt Purcell of The Groovy Age of Horror (previously) on Vampirella and the art of José González, who modeled his version of the character after Sophia Loren (NSFW, mild boobies) (Previous Vampirella)

groovy dancing girl

nickyskye — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:04:30 -0800

Groovy Dancing Girl #2. via music: Justice's Phantom Sophie Merry, a 25 year old animator from Dublin. "filmed in slow motion and played back at higher speed, but still synchronous to the music"

"Donny Osmond, watch your back! This is Mitt Romney,"

amberglow — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:56:58 -0800

Sizzlingly Inappropriate Republican Debate Hottie Rundown! --in what's becoming a recurring series (see her UK Hostages and Dem candidates here), Werthmann rates (in a supergroovy Tiger Beat/fan mag way) the 10 GOP hopefuls appearing tonight in the Debate. On Rudy: ... The way he burns through spouses, we think he's fair game. Hey, Rudy, we need some "consulting"! ... : >

50s...RIBOSOME!

Turtles all the way down — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 07:03:07 -0800

Only rarely is there an opportunity to participate in a molecular 'happening'. On an open field at Stanford University in 1971, several hundred students convened to undulate and impersonate molecules undergoing protein synthesis by a ribosome. Narrated by Nobel laureate Paul Berg and performed by a cast of very groovy cats. (via)

davidmsc — Sat, 23 Jun 2001 21:50:10 -0800

Groovy, luscious, retro...music to "get hip" by! Call it lounge, call it bubbly, call it bizarre, but "space age pop" music (as the site terms it) is undeniably groovy. We've all heard it before, but did you realize how popular it is (in some form or another)? You've probably got a favorite tune or two that falls into this category, and you didn't even know that this IS a category!