Friday Ephemera
San Zhi, Taiwan. Forgotten houses of the future. // Tales of Tomorrow. Leslie Nielsen mines Martian uranium. (1952) // More boomerangs in space. // The Beast in Space. Cheesy sci-fi porno. (sfw) // Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four. Crap, redefined. // Superhero fashion. Gas masks, girdles, a jaunty hat. // Cutie Honey. She fights crime, I think. // Ophelia Benson on God, types 1 and 2. // Mary Jackson on Boris Johnson. // Charles Murray on educational romanticism. // Deogolwulf on the sound of one hand slapping. // Slow motion raspberry. And. // More robotic exoskeletons. // The android keyboardist. (1985) // The Spirit. // Bomb shelters of Nazi Germany. // Smoking tourism. (h/t, 1+1=3.) // San Francisco panoramas. Sunset, dawn and twilight. // Lamps made from sheep stomach. // The Anatomical Theatre. Morbidity and wax. // Tulip farms. // Plant rights now! Two legs bad, no legs good. // The Internationale in 40 languages. Sing, comrades, sing. // Design for despots. (h/t, Things.) // Retro design. // The Virtual Museum of Vintage VCRs. (h/t, Coudal.) // Wooden shortwave radio. Mp3 compatible. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s the Reverend Robert Wilkins.
re: Superhero Fashion,
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/wp-content/2008/05/IMG_4181.jpg
I had to wonder at the utility of the codpiece-with-hose outfit. Is it for the on-the-go super-fashionista with no time to duck into a public restroom, or is it for some other purpose?
I assumed it was some kind of weapon. Much like the wig on the left.
I can’t see the wig being much use in battle.
Oh, I don’t know. It appears to defy gravity and the styling is deadly.
Re: slow-motion raspberry — eew. EEWWW! 🙂
Re: vintage VCRs – I used to have one of these: http://www.totalrewind.org/vhs/H_3300.htm Memories! Thanks.
Speaking of wigs… http://misc.qti.com/staff/greg/img/photos/fat_wonder_woman.jpg
Is the date on that ‘Fantastic Four’ trailer accurate? Looks more like something made in the late 70s/early 80s…!
Julia – “An unreleased low-budget feature film completed in 1994. Created to secure copyright to the property, the producers never intended it for release — although the director and other creators were not informed of this fact.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Four_(film)
If anyone is sufficiently… intrigued, a bootleg can be bought online.
http://www.antimattermultiverse.com/products/the-fantastic-four-1994-dvd
Anyone for Superman: the Musical? David Hasselhoff as Nick Fury? Or Turkey’s evil Spider-Man…?
http://www.antimattermultiverse.com/products/3-dev-adam-dvd
It’s a whole new realm of trash.
LOL Amazing.
Vegetable rights? Whatever next – The Vegetable Liberation Front (VLF)? Identify politics gone raving mad. Whoops, looks like the VLF might just exist:
http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/3652/
and my, they don’t like vegans! (I’m open the the possiblity that this might be satire).
I’m guessing it’s as authentic as the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
re: veggie rights, I just remembered this:
http://unix-spiders.blogspot.com/2007/12/making-music-with-veg.html
VLF’s nightmare?