I’m just here to try and make you feel good, okay?
If you’re like me, you’re probably a sucker for this kind of stuff.
These pups are rushing into things. I always recommend waiting to marry until you’ve lived a little…at least until the age of five in dog years.
Evil Mad Science Laboratories has step-by-step instructions (and video) for a DIY Kraftwerk-inspired LED necktie.
The good news is that it’s actually easy to make one. And the starting point? A circuit with nine red LEDs and just the right spacing: our open-source Larson Scanner kit. With minor modifications—a software change and dumping the heavy 2xAA battery pack—it makes a pretty awesome tie. In what follows, we’ll show you how to build your own, complete with video.
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These iconic images of Marilyn Monroe were taken in June 1962, six weeks before her death.
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Our friends at the mighty Mod Cinema have released another of their high quality 2 DVD-set anthologies of French singers. You may recall me posting about their fantastic Françoise Hardy DVD compilation a few months ago, now gorgeous France Gall gets the Mod Cinema treatment:
Although she’s best-known as the pretty, perky teenager who won the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest, French pop singer France Gall has had a much longer and more varied career than that. Although only a cult figure in most of the rest of the world, Gall is a major star and beloved figure in her native country. The psychedelic-era found Gall, under the guidance of Serge Gainsbourg, singing increasingly strange songs, like “Teenie Weenie Boppie” (a bizarre tune about a deadly LSD trip that somehow involves Mick Jagger) set to some of Gainsbourg’s most out-there arrangements. This DVD compiles rare footage of France Gall performing on French & German TV. 79 songs spanning 2-discs including “Teenie Weenie Boppie”, “Bebe requin”, “Les sucettes”, “Avant la bagarre”, “Toi que je veux”, “La vieille fille”, “Computer No.3”, “Baci, Baci, Baci”, “Dancing disco”, as wells as duets with Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Dutronc, Michel Fugain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Francois, and more!
It’s interesting to note that Walt Disney himself wanted France Gall for a musical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, but the project was shelved with Uncle Walt’s death in 1966. Bernardo Bertolucci reportedly wanted her for the leading female role in his X-rated Last Tango in Paris opposite Marlon Brando. Can you imagine? No offense to the late Maria Schneider, but it’s too damned bad that didn’t happen!
Order a copy of The France Gall Collection (1964-1979) at Mod Cinema
Also, if you live in Los Angeles, there are still three more screenings of the new Gainsbourg and His Girls documentary at Cinefamily.
Below, France Gall sings Gainsbourg’s “Baci, Baci, Baci” on Musicolor in 1969.
“Maybe you, too, might fascinate me!”
NOOOOOOOO!
Who is this freakin’ Third World Billy Dee Williams anyway?
I love his chat up technique: “Shut up.”
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Rick Perry in 1972. Aryan superman, TexaSS division.
Thanks to Henry Baum for steering me to the Perry photo.
This lovely silk scarf from designer Rick Owens is from his summer 2011 collection.
“The scarf represents Rick’s dark ideology and sense of imagination, using a mixture of fine silk and hard-hitting, emotive imagery.”
Interested? You can buy one now while they’re on sale for a couple hundred bucks at Oki-ni.
Via Constant Siege.
In a few short minutes, the narrator slathers this documentary of Frederick’s Of Hollywood with a sticky patina of sleaze. Frederick Mellinger’s decadent department store may be to Victoria’s Secret what Depends are to crotchless panties, but it’s still a great place to visit and has been since 1947.
Actually, it’s much hipper than Victoria’s Secret. I just had to slip that Depends thing in.
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Freddie Mercury’s eyeball jumpsuit
Pop stars and their packages
Rock Stars and their Mustaches
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It’s 1970 and the TV moderator is railing against the boring look of uniforms worn by German soccer teams. Isn’t it about time these fashion-challenged jocks got hip? Wouldn’t it make the games more exciting? We need color, we need sexier silhouettes, we need nylon and Spandex! And we need Brazilian music and dancing! Yes, yes, yes!