[Found here.]
1968 Pontiac Firebird With The 9-Foot Tall Escort Option.
[Found here.]
Tag: illustration
We Wish You All A Very Happy Thanksgiving.
Top image found here, and it’s apparently the artwork of Nicolo Sturiano, aka H. Hargrove. The produce stand doesn’t cast a shadow, and there’s something hinky with the General Store windows, but I like the style.
Hear the crickets in the background of the JC video? That’s my ringtone and I never turn it off. Never, because I never have to. I just look around the baseboards and then continue with the important stuff like nothing happened. Like going back to consuming massive quantities of animals, vegetables, tubers, fruits and nuts… at least on Thanksgiving.
Johann Friedrich Fleischer’s Contribution to the World: Lunar Humidity Distiller
“I will tell you this much however, that the rays of the Sun and Moon and Dew must be collected in a clean Jar or Vessel, separated from Rain and dirt, stench, smoke, and also from flying and wandering animals. The ways of attraction are many, but it is as well at home, as in an open place in the wind. As also a most fit and convenient Receptacle.”
Alchemist Johann Friedrich Fleischer‘s invention is described in his paper Chemical Moonshine, published in 1739. A subsequent publication in 1797 included the illustration above, by Sigismund Bacstrom, for its frontispiece
[Image found here.]
Jumping the Shark in 1974
[Found here.]
1930 Zukunftsphantasien
The Mountain Path
Yeah. I recobanize that one [via].
The Best VW Repair Manual Ever: “How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot”
This predates the “For Dummies” books, and although it focuses on VWs, it’s also a primer on how all the systems in a gasoline-powered car work, how to maintain them, how to diagnose trouble and how to fix it. It’s written as if your Uncle Joe was coaching you, and the diagrams (and comics) are hand-drawn in Robert Crumb style. I learned a lot from it when I was in my 20s, and the book is still in print via Amazon here.
Even if you don’t own an old VW, get a copy and read it just for fun, enjoy the illustrations, and pass it on to your favorite teenage greasemonkey like I did. (It’s the perfect Christmas gift for someone with a VW, an adjustable wrench, a hammer and a couple of screwdrivers.)
Oh, and click on the image to see the big picture.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 318 – Friendly Cliffs, Chinese Tea House & Japanese Rain
[1st & 3rd .gifs found here and here. The second is my own from this image, because I liked the screaming color morphiness of it all.]
Only Because I Recognize It
[Found here via 1966.]
Great Calamary 1873
[Image found here; we also have a nice collection of cephalopodia.]
Tacky Raccoons 