Friday, 29 June 2018
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!
Sunday, 24 June 2018
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.
Friday, 22 June 2018
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.
Thursday, 21 June 2018
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...
Monday, 18 June 2018
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
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.