Art by Greg Harrison Everyone knows the song “Happy Birthday to You“–the Guinness Book of World Records says it’s the most recognized song in English. Most of us sing it several times a year, for free. So it may surprise you that Warner Chappel music owns the rights to the song and charges thousands of…
Veteran Rocker Bob Mould’s 2011 See A Little Light Concert DVD
In November 2011 legendary rocker Bob Mould played a show in LA with some friends. Now a year later there’s a Kickstarter to fund a DVD of that concert. The funding deadline is Saturday December 22. The venue was The Walt Disney Concert Hall and these are the friends who 2000+ lucky people got to…
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades Through the Years
This Newsreel of the 1965 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade features cast members from The Munsters and their custom “Munster Koach” hot rod built by George Barris. The “Koach” was a modified 1926 Ford Model T with a custom hearse body. It cost nearly $20,000 (a lot of money back then). Thus continued, with a little…
The Long Now Foundation Salon Redesign and Limited Edition Spirits
The Long Now Foundation is building a new event space at the site of their current museum / store in San Francisco’s historic Fort Mason. Their Help us build it… video announces details of the project including design by Because We Can, a fundraising distillation collaboration with St George Spirits and unique bottles by Adams…
Who’s Who & What’s What in the Books of Dr. Seuss (2000)
Who’s Who & What’s What in the Books of Dr. Seuss is an index from A (Letter of the alphabet central to a question–in The Cat’s Quizzer) to zZZ (Sound made by Grand Duke Wilfred’s arrows–in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins) to the works of Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Geisel). Published by Dartmouth College…
Fast Striptease by Burlesque Dancer Georgia Sothern, The Human Dynamo (1942)
Burlesque dancer Georgia Sothern, nicknamed “The Human Dynamo”, performs her signature frenetic dancing striptease which seems a bit awkward today but was probably much more titillating back in 1942. More from Pin Curl magazine: Born in Atlanta, Georgia picked her name on the spot in Phil Rosenberg’s office and in her nervousness, forgot the ‘u’…
Dr. Seuss’ World War II Malaria Awareness Pamphlet and Newsmap
We posted recently about Theodor Geisel’s advertising work in the early 1940s. But the artist better known as Dr. Seuss also made art while serving as a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II. He worked on training films and informative documents like this pamphlet to educate GIs about malaria, which features the…
The Remixed Collision Art of Thomas Robson
“Art Remixer” Thomas Robson says he “develops collision art to confront received aesthetics & critically re-appraise imagery in a visually saturated world.” Whatever he says, the stuff is freaking cool. He has worked in graphic design and in interactive design for the web & TV for the BBC. But it seems like he’s more interested…