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There are images and text almost every single day at Modern Mechanix that I have to restrain myself from grabbing and reposting.
This one (from a February, 1933 Popular Science) isn't the funniest or most charming, but the fact that the intervening decades have made the headline prove - unintentionally - its own point struck me bemused:
Also interesting, if you read the fine print in this article by Gaylord Johnson (and what happened to that christian name, huh?), which may be more visible at the original page on Modern Mechanix, is that you get to see that Internet-style abbreviations are nothing new -- ham radio operators were using them 75 years ago!
Meanwhile in France (and thanks to Modern Art Notes for the pointer), the Barbara Kruger aesthetic is considered appropriate for a presidential candidate (I like the comment someone made, asking what artists could you consider appropriate for the current crop of USA hopefuls - any ideas?).
This one (from a February, 1933 Popular Science) isn't the funniest or most charming, but the fact that the intervening decades have made the headline prove - unintentionally - its own point struck me bemused:
Also interesting, if you read the fine print in this article by Gaylord Johnson (and what happened to that christian name, huh?), which may be more visible at the original page on Modern Mechanix, is that you get to see that Internet-style abbreviations are nothing new -- ham radio operators were using them 75 years ago!
Meanwhile in France (and thanks to Modern Art Notes for the pointer), the Barbara Kruger aesthetic is considered appropriate for a presidential candidate (I like the comment someone made, asking what artists could you consider appropriate for the current crop of USA hopefuls - any ideas?).
