Pies Fabric (via fabric.com)

Rocker woman

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Inner Cover

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 Photo of "IAN DURY - New Boots and Panties Portugal" Album's Inner Cover 

Alive

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Who remembers the original Five Alive?

LOVED this stuff when I was a kid!

Sugar, Sugar

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Lower right corner says:

"Note to Mothers: Exhaustion may be dangerous – especially to children who haven’t learned to avoid it by pacing themselves. Exhaustion opens the door a little wider to bugs and ailments that are always lying in wait. Sugar puts back energy fast – offsets exhaustion. Synthetic sweeteners put back nothing. Energy is the first requirement of life. Play safe with your young ones – make sure they get sugar every day."

Monday Robert hotness

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Let's start this week off right by worshiping the golden GOD that is Robert Plant. 

 

*moment of silence*

 

AHHHH, Don't you feel better now? I do. ;)  ♥

Happy 4th of July!

Have a Safe, Happy, Fun, Relaxing, 4th of July Holiday and weekend.

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Fear is stupid

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Alfons Maria Mucha

Alfons Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 – Prague, 14 July 1939), often known in English and French as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs.

About Christmas 1894, Mucha happened to go into a print shop where there was a sudden and unexpected need for a new advertising poster for a play featuring Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress in Paris, at the Théâtre de la Renaissance on the Boulevard Saint-Martin. Mucha volunteered to produce a lithographed poster within two weeks, and on 1 January 1895, the advertisement for the play Gismonda by Victorien Sardou was posted in the city, where it attracted much attention. Bernhardt was so satisfied with the success of this first poster that she began a six-year contract with Mucha.

Mucha produced a flurry of paintings, posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewellery, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets in what was termed initially The Mucha Style but became known as Art Nouveau. Mucha's works frequently featured beautiful young women in flowing, vaguely Neoclassical-looking robes, often surrounded by lush flowers which sometimes formed halos behind their heads. In contrast with contemporary poster makers he used pale pastel colours. Mucha's style was given international exposure by the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris, of which Mucha said, "I think [the Exposition Universelle] made some contribution toward bringing aesthetic values into arts and crafts."

He decorated the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion and collaborated with decorating the Austrian Pavilion. His Art Nouveau style was often imitated. The Art Nouveau style however, was one that Mucha attempted to disassociate himself from throughout his life; he always insisted that rather than maintaining any fashionable stylistic form, his paintings were entirely a product of himself and Czech art. He declared that art existed only to communicate a spiritual message, and nothing more; hence his frustration at the fame he gained by his commercial art, when he most wanted to concentrate on more artistic projects.

Mucha considered his publication Le Pater to be his printed masterpiece, and referred to it in The Sun of 5 January 1900 as what he had "put [his] soul into". Printed on 20 December 1899, Le Pater was Mucha's occult examination of the themes of The Lord's Prayer and only 510 copies were produced.

The rising tide of fascism during the late 1930's resulted in Mucha's works, as well as his Slavic nationalism, being denounced in the press as 'reactionary'. When German troops moved into Czechoslovakia during the spring of 1939, Mucha was among the first persons to be arrested by the Gestapo. During his interrogation, the ageing artist became ill with pneumonia. Though released eventually, he may have been weakened by this event. He died in Prague on 14 July 1939, due to lung infection, and was interred there in the Vyšehrad cemetery.

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Julanne Johnston (1924)

Julanne Johnston (May 1, 1900 - December 26, 1988) was an American silent film actress born in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Lilly Christine - burlesque dancer, 1950's.

Saturday Happy Song - Knocking At The Door - Julia Haltigan

Saturday Happy Song - Lucky & Wild Josie Kreuzer

Happy Halloween!

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The Apple's full of speed

Oh my freaking GAWD! Came across this on channel 5.2 here in L.A. or "This."

The Movie is Called The Apple, 1980, directed by Menahem Golan, chorographed by, get this: Nigel Lythgoe! (from So You Think You Can Dance. I dance, so I watch.) Set in the distant future year of 1994! 1994 people! No one actually dressed like Jem in 1994! That was all over by like, 1986....

So for the now really late Saturday Happy Song, just in time for 4th of July, America is on Speed! Yippeee, we're all gonna die!

That doll

This is New York Dolls frontman David Johansen. I'm not really sure where or when this was...the slide is stamped March 1974, but it could have been earlier cause dad sometimes couldn't develop his film in a timely manner due to financial restraints. I'll ask him what show this was and get back to you.

Iggy

Taken in the living room of the apartment I grew up in Venice Ca. (long before I got there) in about 1974. Iggy Pop lived in my parents garage during the early 1970s.