A car as big as a bar.
Exchequer Street, Dublin, this lunch time.
Name that jammer, anyone?
UPDATE: Trevor adds:
There my Dodge Dart sport that was in town today ;)
Tag Archives: vintage
The Internet Arcade – a repository of hundreds of downloadable and/or browser-playable arcade video game titles from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Firefox is recommended. Productivity is hampered.
(H/T: Lisa O’Brien)
Pol writes:
From the Conde Nast Traveler Top Friendliest Cities. Dublin made it at number 5 but look at the photo they chose to use.
The Beast
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Nisan Greenwich writes:
This beast (Cinemeccanica Victoria 8 dual gauge 35/70mm 6 track mag surround sound) will be screening Quest for Fire (1981) on 70mm film tomorrow at the IFI! First time in Ireland in this format. Probably last!?
A short documentary interview uploaded back in March featuring images from the late 60s and early 70s by photographer, naturalist and Coombe-born, Mick Brown.
Mick, who has lived in Pembrokeshire, West Wales for more than forty years, recalls his childhood and the street life of the Liberties in Dublin – an accompaniment to his book ‘Mick Brown’s Dublin: The Past has a Great Future’ .
(H/T: Liam Phelan)
The Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture (‘Little Belt Railway’) in Paris, built in 1852, largely abandoned since 1935 (aside from one increasingly underused section), lovingly documented since 2011 by photographer Pierre Folk.
As local developers eyeball the land for new apartments and office blocks, Parisian railway enthusiasts want it preserved, possibly transformed into a series of urban parkways like the nearby Promenade Plantée which inspired New York’s High Line.
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Vintage photos deftly remixed (Terry Gillam style, but no less worthy for that) into hilarious gifs by Brooklyn artist and animator Cari Vander Yacht, who acquires the random shots in thrift shops, then scans and converts them. Sez she:
At a certain point, one must justify their creepy acquisition of other people’s pasts. Either you make up stories about how you’re related to the people in the pictures or you animate them.
Batman 66, Issue 13 (redux) by illustrator Joe Quinnone, for an upcoming series by DC Comics of 1966 Batman variant covers.
Aye, there’s the rub.
A mere pencil-sketch of the nostalgic chromolithographic delights on offer at SPLAT Action Transfers – a massive pictorial database of Letraset Action Transfers that may or may not be a madeleine of your own temps perdu.
