Posts under ‘Retro’

Any­one who has an inter­est in adver­tis­ing, cul­ture or his­tory, should check out the amaz­ing col­lec­tion of tele­vi­sion adver­tis­ing archived by Duke Uni­ver­sity Library. The col­lec­tion is called AdViews: A Dig­i­tal Archive of Vin­tage Tele­vi­sion Com­mer­cials, and is well worth a look. These fine Amer­i­can com­mer­cials date from the 1950’s through the 1980’s and con­tain (as […]

It is very fit­ting that I saw an arti­cle on Boing Boing about a new issue of Steam­punk Mag­a­zine being released after my last post on the work of Bruce McCall. Noth­ing says Faux-Nostalgia like Steam Punk; that is the achingly sen­ti­men­tal yearn­ing for a future that never hap­pened. In case you don’t know Steampunk […]

Bruce McCall says in this hilar­i­ous and very inter­est­ing TED pre­sen­ta­tion that Nos­tal­gia is the most utterly use­less human emo­tion. I don’t totally agree but I see the point. Nos­tal­gia if taken to extreme becomes a mild case of depres­sion and self-deception. The past is never as great or as bad as it seems and […]