Posted by admin They may not be around any longer but their posters remain in perpetuity for us all to admire. TWA, once the glamour-pusses of the airline world, were flying here, there and everywhere and their ad campaigns...
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As the enfant terrible of the 1960s New York art scene and the man who almost single-handedly defined pop art Andy Warhol’s career is the stuff of legend. To us here he also gets VoEA bonus points for coining...
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Putting such minor practicalities as potholes, speed humps, going round corners, record storage, changing them whilst on the move and the fact that they only played 45s aside, we think the concept of a dashboard...
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We recently featured the work of Syd Mead – a man who creates futuristic space-age artistic impressions but here we take a more practical, down-to-earth look at how futurologists (not sure whether they...
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As links go this is pretty tenuous but our regular readers will know we are big fans of the aural medium known as vinyl and it just so happens we are also big fans of notably attractive European actresses...
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In the UK, Europe and the US at the moment there’s been quite a bit of resurgence in the popularity of cycling which, unless you’re Jeremy Clarkson, can only be seen as a good thing for everyone. Fewer...
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Al 'Jazzbeaux' Collins was a DJ and Broadcaster specialising in jazz, and an early pioneer of hipster speak along with the likes of Lord Buckley who we have featured before. He worked for a stack of radio...
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Far be it for us to say who is The World’s Greatest Male Model but according to James Bama, an American ‘Western’ illustrator who created the Doc Savage paperback covers, Steve Holland earned that...
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Time to get your popcorn ready as we take a look at some cinemas from the past and worldwide - from Israel (Above) to Sunset Boulevard, California in 1966. The pictures are mainly of postcards, and show...
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As we've mentioned before in our Play Misty For Me post, sitting in the audience of the first ever Monterey Jazz Festival in 1958 is a young man called Clint Eastwood. He loved the festival so much...
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