Scanned B&W Negs Found in Dusty File from the 70's

My dear old chum Tony Eve and his boys in Alsager , near Stoke on Trent. 1973/ 4 playing with train set and messing about in the garden. Happy daze!

I Demonstrate a Lag of Meat Consumption

1970, "prepared by Arthur Marwick".  Not so heavy on the illustrations, but a cool cover and some interesting text.

The New Architecture of Europe

Found this superb book at a Car Boot sale recently. Picked it up for the grand sum of 20p. There were many other books (Pelican & Penguin) but the seagulls had managed to empty out all over them, and this was the only book left unsoiled. Luck I say, it was meant to be.

future dance

Me and my old pal Paul Oldfield were discussing attempts to imagine the music of the future in cinema - of which there are surprisingly few examples - and he mentioned this Czechoslovakian s.f. film from the early Sixties: Ikari XB-1. 

Says Paul, "This film has a great party sequence that begins with contact-free almost somnambule dancing -- like Last Year in Marienbad but in deep space. Later they move on to a kind of minimalistic mambo. I like the idea of interstellar travel being so civilised ..."


Starts about a minute in...

Concrete Society Award

Spotted on the Mancunian Way on Saturday on a visit to the MMU degree shows.

Waves in the Ocean of Air

Life Science Library: Sound and Hearing.

This edition 1971, first published 1965.

Click to enlarge - this one really deserves it

Strongly reminiscent of the film 'Fantastic Planet' aka 'Planet Sauvage'

Scanner's knackered again.  Mind you, I think taking and editing photos is *mildly* less tedious.