Marylin Monroe 1952 Griffith Park Shoot in LIFE
Newly published photos...
http://www.life.com/image/88010853/in-gallery/27412/marilyn-neverpublished-photos
that's Marilyn, not Marylin - and 1950, not 1952 - did I get any part right? :D
Have you ever actually tried to put together an outfit like the one Dooley wears in the Dodie Stevens song, Pink Shoelaces?
Do you have any pictures?
:D
I'm still tinkering with it. I went to 32-bits
http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2009/03/technicolor_2-s.html
I think I get better control
http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2009/03/32-bit_composit.html
Here is a test I put together from a photo I took (I didn't have a photo with more vintage styling handy) that is meant to simulate what is often called the Technicolor Two-Strip Process. (Historically the two colors were actually recorded on one strip in alternating frames)
In the case above...
Oldest-ever British surveillance footage
BoingBoing links to the latest issue of the journal Surveillance and Society, including an article on the earliest use of film surveillance by British police, in 1935.
If you watch the clip, you can see a slice of casual, unstaged life from the...
The roundel logo first appeared on Underground station platforms in 1908. Over 100 years it became the unifying symbol of London's transport services and widely recognized as an icon of the city.
http://www.ltmcollection.org/roundel/index.html
The lost art of 'Beachobatics'
Bondi resident George Caddy was best known for his success as a jitterbug dancer. But it's these posthumously discovered photographs of 1930s 'Beachobatics' that's got Alan Davies from the State Library of NSW jumping for joy...
Toonami Digital Arsenal is closing out the year by posting the complete Fleischer/Famous Studios Superman Film Series - one episode per day until 2005!
In the early 1940s, this series raised the bar for theatrical shorts with its fluid animation and action-packed storylines. It remains a...
"World War ll has usually been seen in black and white, but our recent research has unearthed an abundance of superb color film that shows what it really looked like to those who were there. The Author presents mainly WW2 recently declassified and other previously unavailable material...
It redefined the way we look back at the decade.
They even coined the term 'Greaser' or 'Grease' as a term defining aspects of the 50's. Did you read that part about how one of the Columbia students (Sha Na Na was composed of all Ivy leaguers - I never knew) was reading the title of a...
In 1969, the Kingsmen, Columbia’s traditional a capella group, gambled on a new concept. At a Wollman concert, “The Glory That Was Grease,” the Kingsmen, outfitted in gold lame and sporting Elvis Presley hairdos, performed original dances while singing classic Fifties rock ’n’ roll. That led to...
Remember the Fifties?
For a certain generation, who could forget those golden innocent days as depicted in shows like Happy Days, Grease and the band Sha Na Na. But was that vision of the 50's largely invented by a group of Columbia U students around 1969...
Swiss watch sales were badly hit by the war, especially after Germany invaded unoccupied Vichy France in November 1942, and neutral Switzerland found itself completely encircled by Axis powers. Watch companies were cut off from their best customers, the British and Americans.
Rolex, however...
Yes, page 1 of the test has been posted here before. But now someone has found the rest of the test and programmed it into an online quiz
http://www.magatsu.net/maritaltest/
RIP Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse, the long-legged Texas beauty who danced with the Ballet Russe as a teenager and starred in MGM musicals with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, died Tuesday. She was 86.
Charisse was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Monday after suffering an apparent heart...
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