Flea Market Montgomery was a furniture flea market store in Montgomery, Alabama. Despite their closure in 2009, the store created one of the most famous (local) television adverts in history. This video was filmed in 2006, and almost instantly became a viral hit across the internet. I think this is the source of inspiration for Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire furniture store in the Kane Parsons’ Backrooms movie.
Posts Tagged → vintage
lookcaitlin
This Tumblr blog hosts a crazy good selection of images pulled from Internet Archive (circa 1977 – 1997).
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Occasional updates
A really cool website full of old Casio wrist camera photos taken more than 20 years ago:
“It’s an amazing thing that looks just like a normal watch, but has a nifty little built-in digital camera that lets you take lots of photos on the quiet – and then beam them to your computer! Expect occasional updates documenting my travels and drunken nights…“
Winamp Skin Museum
Reading the Media
Founded by a collective of radical media makers in 1981, Paper Tiger Television pioneered edutainment. Broadcast on public access television, the collective took a grassroots, DIY approach to media production that showcased how television was made through television, while critiquing corporate media and attempting to build a more equitable form of moving image. As one of the founders put it: “It is one thing to critique the mass media and rail against their abuses. It is quite another to create viable alternatives.”
Nostalgy stuff
Lilie
Wilhelm Weimar, Lilie, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
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[found here]
Edwardian Lolcats
“Over a hundred years before Icanhascheezburger.com and lolcats.com, there was Brighton, England photographer Harry Pointer and his ‘Brighton cats’ series.”
[via dangerousminds]
How the internet worked in 1995
[via kottke]
Literal Atari Game Covers
10 million bytes
Retrotv: Yves Klein
Stars love computers
Scary food
Eccezionale questa galleria di pubblicità vintage. Piccoli indemoniati a tavola (e non solo)…
[via boing boing]
Pare normale…
Non una ma addirittura due mostre americane parlano del rapporto tra tecnologia e occulto. Tra visibile e invisibile, tra normale e paranormale. The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult al Metropolitan Museum e Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal al Center for Art and Visual Culture (UMBC). Dalle fotografie ottocentesche alle visioni contemporanee. Una buona occasione per mettere in discussione, ancora una volta, la presunta affidabilità della ripresa meccanica e le pretese di realismo di ogni mezzo.
[via newsgrist]