[Found here.]
British WWI Body Armor
[Found here.]
Category: Retro & Vintage
Saturday Matinee – Red Skelton, David Byrne & SRV
Classic presentation of The Pledge Of Allegiance eloquently delivered by Red Skelton.
“This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” is classic David Byrne.
Let’s wrap it up with Stevie Ray Vaughan from 1983 with a killer version of “Texas Flood.”
Have a great Independence Day weekend, folks.
Messerschmitt KR200 1956-1964
Hot Links From The Valley Of The Jolly
Back Up Truck P0rn. Watch the whole thing. Awesome happens at about 07:42.
Much retroness found here. I remember some of the stuff.
It’s pronounced “tchar-leenah.”
One of the greatest movie soundtracks ever.
Out of isometric graph paper? Here you go. [Found here.]
Play God. Create an island [via].
Hey, buddy. Got a light?
What surprised 18 3rd World immigrants once they immigrated to 1st World Nations. (Yeah, there appear to be a couple of trolls, but the others are interesting).
Top image: The Vibraniques (?).
Saturday Matinee – Bunk Struttin’ With Some Barbecue
Here’s Louis Armstrong from1953, “Struttin’ With Some Barbecue.” He recorded the song in 1927 with his first band, The Hot Five. (If that link don’t shine, try this.)
Ray McKinley with Bobby Nichols (cornet) and Lennie Hambro (clarinet) circa 1960.
Pete Fountain has his own take, too.
The Marsalis Family did their own take of the classic, circa 2009.
That should do for now. Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll be back here tomorrow whether you like it or not.
The .Gif Friday Post No.336 – 10 Graphic Digits, The Otter Song & Stockholm Stereograph
Charles W. Oldreive’s New Tricycle, circa 1882
Bet that thing could move, and if you leaned over either way you’d get a clean shave, too. Now about those unforeseen potholes…
[Found here.]
Guess Who
[Found here.]
Vendredi le treizième
[Found here, NSFK.]
Heat The Drum Slowly.
Evenk shamaness heating her drum over fire. Photo by A. Slapins, 1975
Heating the drum before use was necessary because the heat tightened the drum skin and changed its pitch. Basically, the shaman used the fire for tuning his/her drum.
The Evenks are native to Asia, particularly southern Siberia, and their culture predates Russia – it’s been traced to neolithic times.
[Image & description found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 