One of Australia’s most high-profile models has fainted at a fashion show while wearing an “incredibly tight” corset. Abbey Lee Kershaw began to feel weak after being squeezed into the brown garment at Paris Fashion Week. “As she was coming off the catwalk she began to take tiny steps as she felt she was going to faint and she did just as she came off,” said her agent.
Redneck fire alarm
Oct 01
A beautiful ink drawing from Virgil Finlay.
Sep 30
Take an Our Gang comedy short, splice into it an old 1950s Sex Education classroom film, and watch the hilarious results.
Sep 26
The music video of “Me and Julio Down By The School Yard” by Paul Simon, with a guest appearance by Yankees great Mickey Mantle.
Sep 23
A cover illustration gem from a 1951 issue of the EC comic Weird Science.
Sep 17
I have no idea what this is supposed to be — looks like ugly Japanese guys in bad disguises awakening young women, maybe Japanese pop stars — but it’s not any worse or less interesting than American reality TV.
Here’s a vintage TV commercial for that little tube of mysterious chemicals known as Space Food Sticks. My brothers and I ate these by the boxful back in the 1960s.
