Best of Indoor Picture-Taking '74

Photographic highlights from a 200+ page, square bound Kodak Photo Book from 1974, featuring hilarious little kids and sexy 70's babes doing what they do best-- LOOKING GOOD! The rest of the book is mostly just quick tips on how to take a good pic, choosing film, flash use, etc.

 

 

JET X

The weather is really getting nice in these parts, I guess it's time to do some stuff I hate, like finally washing the crummy car! But here's a cool ad from an early 70's magazine (featuring some neato teeny illustrations I blew up) --it's the multi-purpose, spray-on / wash-off, 5-minute wash at home, pressure washer, --aka JET X! Clean's all kinds of dirty stuff, even your girlfriend!

Betsy McCall Bakes Some Cookies

Speaking of cookies, (and from the same great booklet as our last post), in 5 easy steps, lil Betsy McCall is here to show you how it's done! My oh my, isn't she a doll!

The Cookie Collection Art of Luciana

Things have been pretty spookie around here for awhile-- now it's time to get COOKIE! McCall's Cookie Collection booklet from 1974 is 60+ pages of AWESOME CUTENESS. Yeah, the recipes are tasty and adventurous, but OMG look at these stunningly colored illustrations that grace the pages by Luciana! If you're not squealing and falling on the floor from 100% pure adorable overload, then lard help you! Anyway, lots more McCall's squeal-inducers comin' atchas all this month --I do promise to mix it up in the variety department too! :)

My Gorey Birthday!

My friend Sheila suggested I have a "gory" birthday today, and I thought that sounded like a splendid idea. Taking it to a more artistic level, I thought I'd share some frontispiece, interior, and cover illustrations by one of my heroes, Sir Edward Gorey from great books of horror and mystery by John Bellairs. Enjoy this eerie sampling of highlights from a half dozen or so titles including: The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull, The Eyes of the Killer Robot, The Dark Secret of Weathered, The Hand of the Necromancer, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, and more! (And thanks again to Drazen Kozjan for assistance in helping me further expand both my Gorey and Bellairs collections :)