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Faux advertisements, kaiju style, at Ganso Kaiju Sakaba, Osaka.

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“Use your gifts and your talents to greatest possible effect while you can. Spread joy wherever possible. Laugh at jokes. Tell jokes. Make puns and bugger the embuggerances. Read books. Read my books. You might like them. You might find something else you like even more than them. Look for these things in life.

Question authority. Champion good causes. Speak out against injustice. Do not tolerate bullies or bigots or racists or anti-intellectuals or the narrow-minded. Use your education to challenge them. Broaden their perspectives. Make the world you interface with a happier place.

These are your choices. Choices you have been fortunate to have been given, so don’t waste them while you have them. Don’t look back in years to come and wish you had grasped a fleeting opportunity. Grasp it now with both hands, Live. Strive. Love.”

from A Little Advice for Life taken from ‘Terry Pratchett: from birth to death, a writer.’

—Sir Terry Pratchett; April 28, 1948 – March 12, 2015

One of the greatest compliments I've ever received is that I resemble Sam Vimes.

Mind how you go.

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More Victor Haboush (1924-2009) The Iron Giant Concept Art Group of 3 (Warner Brothers, 1999) Source

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Isabeli Fontana by Kenneth Willardt for New York Magazine

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Saturn Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction Oct 1957

artist unknown

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In early 1950, John Godfrey Morris, editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal, wanted to change the studio poses of its cover photographs to reflect a more liberated postwar woman. He invited photographers to submit ideas and promised $2,000 for each shot chosen, plus $500 for the model.

Ruth Orkin, the daughter of a silent film actor, was then 29. She had been making her way as a photographer in New York ever since she had cycled to the city in an epic two-wheel road trip from Los Angeles 12 years earlier, taking pictures as she went. She knew exactly the kind of picture that Morris was looking for. “I had not only just photographed a beautiful girl who was not a model, but she was doing something that all his female readers could identify with,” Orkin later recalled. The woman was a New York City housewife called Geraldine Dent and Orkin had photographed her at a greengrocer with a bursting bag of fruit, and a bitten strawberry to match her lipstick, scarf, and beret. The magazine with Orkin’s cover sold out its 4m print run as soon as it hit the news stands.

Click to enlarge.

Photo: Ruth Orkin via the Guardian Text: Tim Adams in the Guardian

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Ornella Muti anni sessanta

Fotografia Elio Sorci

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Sucks that “sleeping together” refers to sex. Sometimes a fella just wants to snooze with a pal.

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given all the shit going on we all have to deal with, a sweet $50k just appearing in our bank accounts would go a small way to making a lot of lives better. I could get my teeth fixed and help put some money towards my sister being able to put together a deposit on a home, and I could get my cat Pikelet some of the fancy cat food as a treat

$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

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1124. Toyokazu Watanabe /// Oppai House (Toguchi House) /// Hirakata, Osaka, Japan /// 1982-84

OfHouses presents: Japanese Fields OfHouses, part IV. (Photos: © Mitsuo Matsuoka. Source: ‘Jutakutokushu’ 02/1986.) — This project will be published in our upcoming book: ’Japanese Fields | OfHouses.’

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Animation techniques and effects from the classic era. For more vintage movie geekery, check out my Old Hollywood Special Effects, and my Early Color Film Processes posts! (And while you’re at it, take a look at my art blog, why don’t ya?)