Dear Apple,
Thank you for the following improvements in Tiger:
Everything else looks kinda cool, but I like these best right now
LAist frets over restaurant pagers and the curse of being out of range when your number comes up. Rather old news though, I tested this once with a pager from the Arclight’s cafe which still worked inside the Border’s Books a couple blocks down Sunset Blvd. I’d like to test those against a frequency counter and see what comes up.
Go directly to this Flickr photoset of advertisements from 1969/1970 issues of the German graphic design mag Gebrauchsgraphik. Do it now, I’ll wait.
I’ve been working a lot the past couple of weeks and haven’t had a chance to check out some new places. My pho craving finally reached the breaking point today and with the day off (and a quick consult of the Pho-King blog) I finally made it over to Bo Vang in El Toro. Ordered the basic beef pho and good grief it was yummy.
It’s rare enough to see a one-time “car of the future”, especially when it’s just parked down the street, but I’ve been driving past this Lagonda every day for a couple months now and can’t help but smile.
The first time I saw one was at the LA car show in 1976 or so and I instantly wanted one. OK, so I was eleven years old and it looked a lot like a Hot Wheels car as designed by Derek Meddings. In practice though, the futurism wasn’t quite as reliable as people thought and it eventually just became a big car. Still awesome-looking though.
Still chugging along through cover art for the ILMiXor series. Here’s art for Volume 2, subtitled “Pop Top 40 From Another World.”
That cover image came from Dmitry Popov’s terrific “Drive Back In Time” photograph series. Worth checking out when you have the time.
I posted a photo of iconic Figueroa car dealership Felix Chevrolet awhile back and Franklin Avenue links to a LA Times story about it. I had no idea that dealership has been around since 1928.
Thirty years ago I was addicted to the game Mastermind. The game itself was great, but it was the box cover that added to the overall allure. Who’s the guy and the girl? Secret agent and boss? Crime lord and assassin? Fast forward to 2003 and the true story of the Mastermind box.
And don’t miss one of the best ILX threads ever.
1. The retrofuturism of Tales Of Future Past.
2. The ABC Movie Of The Week. Specially the opening graphics.
3. Italian Police Lamborghinis
4. The Motor Racing Programme Covers Project
5. Penny Postcards. There are lots of vintage post card sites on the web, this is one of the better ones.
6. The 1947 Project blog which is a day by by account of crime, vice, and free-floating hostility in 1947 Los Angeles.
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