Moggie?
Moggie? No,
Moggie!
The Morgan Motor Company, not to be confused with
MG (
Morris Garages), is a lesser-known British sports car manufacturer building Morgan cars in scenic
Malvern Link, Worcestershire, since 1910. Perhaps most famous for selling cars with
wooden frames to this
very day, Morgan continues building their
most traditional cars alongside their
swoopiest new offerings.
The founder,
H. F. S. Morgan, started out building
three-wheelers in what is known as the
tadpole configuration, and their production continued until 1952, when Morgan moved entirely to four-wheelers.
Until 2011. [more inside]
posted by Purposeful Grimace
on May 9, 2013 -
47 comments
Archie's Recipes - When my grandparents passed away my family rediscovered an old family recipe book that my great grandfather wrote by hand in an old ledger. [via
mefi projects]
posted by item
on Jan 5, 2013 -
17 comments
The
Royal Air Force Museum London will be launching in Summer 2013 a signature exhibition c
ommemorating and celebrating the
national institution that is
Airfix. This will
chart the history of this Great British
Institution by displaying
original Box Art as
well as Airfix’s most
popular models from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s in the Museum’s Art
Gallery.
In
preparation, this
post will focus
upon the history* of
the company, its founding in the late 1940s by a
Hungarian immigrant, through its boom years in the 1960s, the later
years of decline and under investment, and
finally its current resurgence in the market place.
Look at the ways in which Airfix products
are developed, including the
painstaking research
and the cutting edge technology used
to design and manufacture modern kits. (
text inspired by numerous sources)
[more inside]
posted by infini
on Dec 26, 2012 -
17 comments
The argument over whether photography should be considered an art form seems laughable to us today. Yet, beginning in the 1880s and lasting into the 20th century, members of amateur photographic clubs and societies the world over deemed the topic of artistic photography worthy of a decades-long shouting match.
PhotoSeed, representing an evolving online record of this early fine-art photography movement, is a
rich collection of photographs representing numerous vintage processes. From delicate platinum to exquisite hand-pulled photogravures, images produced singularly or published in portfolios and journals, as well as vintage source material, investigate the roots of the online galleries with the
PhotoSeed Highlights.
posted by netbros
on Oct 25, 2012 -
26 comments
A harpsichord automaton. Malcolm Messiter: "After hours of struggling with a soldering iron, suddenly it all became worth it when the system just worked flawlessly. The sheer joy and satisfaction of seeing and hearing it work for the first time was extraordinary. It played Soler’s Fandango, Brandenburg 5, the Goldberg Variations, and even the Flight of the Bumble Bee, late into that first night!" [
Project direct link (PDF, from p.27)].
posted by urbanwhaleshark
on Oct 20, 2012 -
11 comments
GRiZ - Mad Liberation. Take a 21 year old bedroom producer from Michigan, raise them on the the internet with a near complete access to the history of modern music with a focus on electronic/dance and apparently you get this incredibly humanistic and cross-cultural album that's both homage, monument and appropriation of hundreds of influences in modern music in an incredibly dubby dubstep framework. (
Free album download here.)
posted by loquacious
on Sep 5, 2012 -
67 comments
Old Ships is a website packed full of evocative, interesting and historical pictures of old ships
from A to
Zambesi. It's a feast of
all kinds of other vintage maritime images, including
ports, docks,
ferries, harbors,
paintings, canals,
rivers, maritime scenes,
onboard pictures,
shipboard menus, lots of
great postcards and other
old historical nautical memorabilia (even
the ship's cat).
[more inside]
posted by nickyskye
on Aug 24, 2012 -
13 comments
The Art of Vogue Covers details the illustrated covers of British Vogue from 1909 through 1940, including the entire collection of covers between 1920-1930. Most of the work showcased is by seasoned Vogue illustrators Helen Dryden, Georges Lepap, Harriett Maserol, George Plank and Eduardo Benito amongst others. Look for continuing additions at the
Flickr set. This is literally just the tip of the iceberg.
posted by netbros
on Aug 21, 2012 -
11 comments
In my unending search for just the right vintage images for our articles, I have looked through thousands of photographs of men from the last century or so. One of the things that I have found most fascinating about many of these images, is the ease, familiarity, and intimacy, which men used to exhibit in photographs with their friends and compadres. Male Affection: A Photographic History Tour
posted by byanyothername
on Aug 13, 2012 -
41 comments
RetroWebMatic provides real-time vintage photo effects for websites, with five presets: toasted, lo-brow, tool shed, parchment and vinaigrette. If you'd like to stick with filtering photos,
Pixlr's O-Matic does just that, with tons of preset filters, photo "aging" effects, and frames. If you have Photoshop handy,
here are 16 tutorials, two tutorial videos, 14 vintage/grunge texture packs, and 16 action packs.
posted by filthy light thief
on Jun 13, 2012 -
11 comments
Moscow of 1931 is a collection of hand-tinted lantern slides by Branson DeCou, an American photographer and travelogue lecturer who traveled the world for 30 years before his death in 1941. You can view more of the DeCou corpus online at the
Branson Decou Archive at the University of California, Santa Cruz where they've been attempting to sort, preserve, identify and digitize 10,000 DeCou slides received in 1971, a gift referred to the university chancellor by photographer Ansel Adams.
[more inside]
posted by taz
on Apr 14, 2012 -
16 comments
The Passion of Dave Stevens — The work of the late, great Dave Stevens is known to comic book aficionados in the form of his enduring creation, The Rocketeer, and to art collectors and illustration enthusiasts for his reverently retro yet brilliantly modern renditions of vintage pulp characters, science fiction adventurers and iconic superheroes. But as dedicated Stevens fans know, the artist's true passion and inspiration manifests in his seemingly countless and unfailingly exquisite renderings of the female form, most typically in the classic pinup and "good girl art" style at which he became one of the very best. [nsfw comic art]
posted by netbros
on Mar 2, 2012 -
11 comments
