Winker's World of Smashin' Things

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26.3.11

14.3.11

The Horror! The Horror!

It was then the decision was taken not to continue

with Radium as a Nicotine substitute.

Early '50s horror comic covers from here...

5.3.11

Hey Babe!

via lp cover lover

Looked up the movie and it sounds like a classic, you can watch the trailer here.

The animated sequence the cover is based on is quite funny.

"An exploitation pot-boiler, posing as an anthropology art-film, and supposedly filmed by seventeen different cameraman in Africa, Malaya, India, Ceylon, Bali, New Guinea and New Hebrides...The art-house aspects and come-on was that it depicted strange love-rites in strange lands, even if some of them were re-enactments in color, in places of the black-and-white stock footage that had been serving in several reincarnations over the years" IMDb

4.3.11

Saul Bass - Better by Design

With a cool name like Saul Bass,

I Guess.....

He couldn't be Anything Less.

(1920-1996)

The man who designed the movies...
"Until then, the lists of cast and crew members which passed for movie titles were so dull that projectionists only pulled back the curtains to reveal the screen once they’d finished....Saul Bass reinvented the movie title as an art form. By the end of his life, he had created over 50 title sequences for Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Frankenheimer and Martin Scorsese."

Ocean's Eleven (1960)

28.2.11

Les Paul & Mary Ford - The World is Waiting for the Sunrise

Les never let the alzheimers get in the way of his guitar pickings ...

22.2.11

I fight! I love! I conquer......like a Barbarian!

Just finished watching this film - it has to be watched because it is SO bad! Epic for all the wrong reasons.

John Wayne in the mongol version of 'blacked up' with 'slanty eye' make up and a fu manchu moustache delivering the cheesiest dialogue I have ever heard in his finest western drawl.

Looked it up and not only did the film bomb, they filmed the exteriors one year after and 140 miles away from the site of 'extensive above ground nuclear weapons testing'.

Then director Dick Powell arranged to have 60 tons of presumably irradiated soil shipped back to Hollywood for the studio re-shoots.

Turns out this movie might have literally killed Wayne, the film's director and a number of other members of the cast and crew.

21.2.11

The Flora Cycle of Life

Jim Flora a true design legend

Smashin' Things

O'Hare didn't have any souveniers. Almost everybody else did. I had a ceremonial Luftwaffe sabre,..Paul Lazzaro...had about a quart of diamonds and emeralds and rubies and so on. He had taken these from dead people in the cellars of Dresden. So it goes

An idiotic Englishman, who had lost all his teeth somewhere, had his souvenier in a canvas bag. The bag was resting on my insteps. He would peek into the bag every now and then, and he would roll his eyes and swivel his scrawny neck, trying to catch people looking covetously at his bag. And he would bounce the bag on my insteps.

I thought this bouncing was accidental. But I was mistaken. He had to show somebody what was in the bag, and he had decided he could trust me. He caught my eye, winked, opened the bag. There was a plaster model of the Eiffel Tower in there. It was painted gold. It had a clock in it.

"There's a smashin' thing," he said.

Slaughterhouse5 - Kurt Vonnegut