Portland-based artist Mike King has been creating gig posters for bands since the mid 1970s. What began as a means of promoting his own bands’ shows turned into a prolific career. He gets paid now, but to begin he worked “in exchange for tickets to the shows, and for beers”. King has worked on posters … Continue reading "REM, Nirvana and More From ‘America’s Poster Champion’ Mike King" The post REM, Nirvana and More From ‘America’s Poster Champion’ Mike King appeared first...| Flashbak
Beginning in 1979, Camilo José Vergara has been returning year after year to take photographs of Fern Street in Camden, New Jersey. We’ve shared more from his project to create a visual archaeology of the USA with his pictures of Vyse Street in New York City’s South Bronx and 65 East 125th Street in Harlem. Now … Continue reading "The View West Along Fern Street Camden, New Jersey – 1979-2019" The post The View West Along Fern Street Camden, New Jersey – 1979-2019 appeared first o...| Flashbak
Released in 1981, Computer World was the eighth studio album from German band Kraftwerk. Back in the early 1980s, pocket computers were very new and experimental. But the band foresaw what was the come and understood their then present, using the Casio fx-501P programmable calculator as an instrument for the first single from Computer World: … Continue reading "Kraftwerk Music for the Casio VL-80 Pocket Calculator, 1981" The post Kraftwerk Music for the Casio VL-80 Pocket Calculator, 1981 a...| Flashbak
“Some photos become instantly ‘iconic’ and this sums up the 80s for me. The zenith of pop culture captured in a frame.” – David Koppel on being at London’s The Limelight nightclub In 1985, around 100 years after the Welsh Presbyterian church opened on Shaftesbury Avenue, just off Cambridge Circus, the place hosted … Continue reading "Star Spotting At The Limelight Nightclub in the 1980s" The post Star Spotting At The Limelight Nightclub in the 1980s appeared first on Flash...| Flashbak
The Beatles: Their Story In Pictures was published in 1982 by the TV Times and Look-in magazines. Drawn by comic book illustrator Arthur Ranson with a story by the writer Angus Allan (22 July 1936 – 16 July 2007), the book was based on the Look-in comic strip of the same name. Ranson … Continue reading "The Beatles: Their Story In Pictures, 1982" The post The Beatles: Their Story In Pictures, 1982 appeared first on Flashbak.| Flashbak
Rats: Night of Terror is a 1984 Italian post-apocalyptic sci-fi horror film directed by Bruno Mattei (Shocking Dark; Hell of the Living Dead; et al) and Claudio Fragasso. Plot: After a … The post RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR Bruno Mattei’s trash classic – review and free online appeared first on MOVIES & MANIA.| MOVIES & MANIA
GhostHouse is a 1988 horror film produced by exploitation auteur Joe D’Amato and directed by veteran Umberto Lenzi (Knife of Ice; Free Hand for a Tough Cop; Nightmare City; Cannibal Ferox). Plot: A group …| MOVIES & MANIA
Which books/covers/authors intrigue you? Which have you read? Disliked? Enjoyed? I apologize for the photos of my copies instead of my normal hi-res scans. My scanner died suddenly. Goodbye Dutiful and Dedicated Recorder of the SF Volumes. 1. Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin (1985) From the back cover: “Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always … Continue reading Updates: Recent Science Fiction and Fantasy Purchases No. CCCXLV (Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Garner, Burt Cole, and a Cyberpunk Anthology)| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
How do you define "Beatle"?| GOOD
An exhibition on Lambeth’s council housing between 1965 and 1980 is taking place this month at the Lambeth Archives (16 Brixton Hill, London, SW2 1ET). I’m very pleased to feature this …| Municipal Dreams
Editor’s note: This is part four of a series on the Rural STEP program and the ongoing conundrum of rural depopulation. Read part one, part two and part three. It’s 1984. The trial of an 18-year-old farm boy from Minnesota makes the pages of the New York Times. Steven Todd Jenkins is accused of working The post In the shadow of the ’80s appeared first on Manitoba Co-operator.| Manitoba Co-operatorFeatures & Farming Articles - Manitoba Co-operator
The decade of excess was all about blockbusters like 'Top Gun' and franchises like 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.' Which sounds familiar.| Mental Floss
Coming towards the end of A Book A Day In May, I’ve read a couple of books that weren’t particularly bad, but left me pretty underwhelmed. So let’s race through them. One Writer’s Beginnings (1984) by Eudora Welty I’ve only| Stuck in a Book
I was away for the weekend with my church, and so I thought what better what to efficiently cover off three titles for A Book A Day In May than with a trilogy in one paperback? I was also chatting| Stuck in a Book
Did you own a personal computer 40 years ago? How many teachers and students had access to computers in 1983. What if I told you that a 400-page book focused on teaching computer programming to children sold more than 100,000 copies way back then? Well, it’s true. Former engineer, elementary school teacher, and member of […] The post Classic Book Now Available Online (free) appeared first on The Daily Papert.| The Daily Papert
The book celebrates the 50th anniversary of a seminal paper by Cynthia Solomon and Seymour Papert. Published in 1971, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer, set the course of education for the next fifty years and beyond. I created the new book, Twenty Things to Do with a Computer Forward 50, to honor the vision set forth by Papert and Solomon a half-century ago. Four dozen experts from around the world invite us to consider the original provocations, reflect on their implementation, and ch...| The Daily Papert
Photo of Chukwunonso Ezeiyoke’s Nigerian Speculative Fiction: The Evolution (2025) Over the last few years, I have highlighted a smattering of the vast range of spectacular scholarship on sci…| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
American Gothic is a 1987 Canadian-British horror film written by Burt Wetanson and Michael Vines and directed by John Hough.| MOVIES & MANIA
The Masque of the Red Death is a 1989 horror film about a female photographer who sneaks into a party at a Bavarian castle. Free online| MOVIES & MANIA
Blue Monkey is a 1987 Canadian science-fiction horror film about a giant, monstrous insect that is eating people in a quarantined hospital.| MOVIES & MANIA
As Cumberland Terrace’s days wind down, this post will mix old and new material about a complex that sometimes felt lost in time. The Nicest Way From Yonge to Bay for the Holidays Originally …| Jamie Bradburn's Tales of Toronto
Near the end of its life, legendary toy manufacturer Takatoku Toys approached ARTMIC and essentially asked, “Got any cool robots?”| ZIMMERIT - Anime | Manga | Garage Kits | Doujin
‘You’ll laugh all the way to the blood bank!’ Transylvania Twist is a 1989 American comedy horror film directed by Jim Wynorski (CobraGator; The Wasp Woman; Chopping Mall; et al) from …| MOVIES & MANIA
‘A frightening movie with a sense of fun!’ Alligator is a 1980 American horror film directed by Lewis Teague (Cujo; Cat’s Eye) from a screenplay written by John Sayles (Piranha). The movie …| MOVIES & MANIA
‘In your dreams, no-one can hear you scream’ Nightwish is a 1989 American paranormal horror film written and directed by Bruce R. Cook. The movie stars Clayton Rohner, Alisha Das, …| MOVIES & MANIA
NightBeast is a 1982 sci-fi horror film about a creature from outer space that crash lands near a small town and starts killing people.| MOVIES & MANIA
Midnight is a 1982 American horror film written and directed by Night of the Living Dead co-writer John A. Russo... free on YouTube| MOVIES & MANIA
The Woman in Black is a 1989 British TV movie and is the first adaptation of the Susan Hill novel that is better known as the source for the hugely …| MOVIES & MANIA
I. Often I find myself nostalgic for things that haven’t disappeared yet. This feeling is enhanced by the strange conviction that once I stop looking at these things, I will never see them again, that I am living in the last moment of looking. This is sense is strongest for me in the interiors of buildings perhaps because, like items of clothing, they are of a fashionable nature, in other words, more impermanent than they probably should be. As I get older, to stumble on something truly dat...| McMansion Hell
What do “Top Gun,” “Tombstone” and “The Doors” all have in common? They all star Val Kilmer. Kilmer started his acting career in stage theatre before landing the lead role in 1984’s| The Lance
Southern Indiana, 1982 Mesham Kissell and Anson Cannon sat on the edge of a three-foot high encloser composed of bricks that contained several tropical plants. It was a Saturday night and the two teenaged boys were at the Westland shopping mall in Evansville, Indiana. While Mesham scoped out the various flocks of girls that passed […]| The Brophisticate
Bigger and better than our earlier efforts, this one is all about the design studio behind Mospeada and Bubblegum Crisis.| ZIMMERIT - Anime | Manga | Garage Kits | Doujin
Forbidden World is a 1982 sci-fi horror film in which a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a mutant...| moviesandmania.com
Returning to my roots in a way, I picked up two Second World War M-1 helmets a week apart from each other. I hadn't found a decent WW2 era M-1 in the wild for a couple years, so this was a good break in the drought.| The Houndstooth Kid
New Item: HP Integral Personal Computer I am trying to avoid buying any old computer, but a friend of mine and I made an exception in this case and bought this together. Somebody in Prague offered a non-working HP Integral Personal Computer (1985) for $420. It was just 15 minutes of traveling from my friend’s home, so he visited the seller and told him that he would buy it if he could look into it, measure voltages and check for corrosion (either from caps or a leaked battery). The seller a...| 80-90s Computing
Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 batteries still alive Last summer, I put new set of alkaline batteries in this portable beauty as I needed it for a photoshoot. A few months later, I used the machine also during a vintage computer event and (both times) I forgot to remove them. The stand-by energy consumption is apparently so low that nine months, the computer still holds the data in its RAM disk. (original article with hi-res photo)| 80-90s Computing
One of the greatest movies of the 80s, and some would say, of all time, is now available to stream without a subscription.| GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT
Portrait of me with my cousin, Brandon, in 1986. He was not quite a year old when this photograph was taken. I was a sophomore at Wofford College at the time. My look hasn’t changed a lot …| Thrift Store Preppy
by Judy Freespirit, Common Lives / Lesbian Lives Issue 20, 1986 The post Doing Donahue (1986) appeared first on Fat Liberation Archive.| Fat Liberation Archive
by Sheena Ann Lawrence, Common Lives / Lesbian Lives 6, 1982 The post From a Fat Dyke…(1982) appeared first on Fat Liberation Archive.| Fat Liberation Archive
by Kelly, from Common Lives / Lesbian Lives, Issue #1, 1981 The post THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL US (but it’s for our own good) (1981) appeared first on Fat Liberation Archive.| Fat Liberation Archive
If you’re a Generation X’er (or older), you may remember that golden age of horror during the 1970s and 1980s, when cheesy paperbacks with titles in red metallic fonts and lurid cover a…| Shannon Turlington
It will be a sad day when I run out of late 70's-early 80's made-for-tv movies (that I haven't already seen) to watch, but then I will most likely just watch my favorite ones over and over like I do with everything else. One such gem is a forgotten 1980 "science fiction" classic, The Girl, The Gold| Rabbit's Foot
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“Minari” is a happy smile of a movie about a Korean-American family (mom, dad, young boy and girl) moving to Arkansas in the 1980s to try farming. There’s potential for a lot of major drama — the boy has a heart murmur; grandma comes to live with them; how do Arkansans feel about foreigners? — […]| EricDSnider.com
I'm excited to introduce my first interior design project outside of my own home: Nine Pines.| Wit & Delight | Designing a Life Well-Lived
