The Internet Archive's blog made a special post to celebrate the International Talk Like a Pirate Day: Pirates!. The post points to films, animations, audio archives and books with pirates on Archive's collection. Nice suggestions, specially the animations: Felix the Cat: The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg and Peg-Leg Pedro.

On the Felix the cat cartoon The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, from 1936, Felix's goose, who lays golden eggs, is goose-napped by none other than Captain Kidd. The seven-minutes video is one of the finest Felix available on Archive. You can watch below, on the Internet Archive page, Google Video or at Videos with Bibi, with other Felix cartoons.

The cartoon Peg Leg Pedro from 1938, isn't really a cartoon, it's an advertisement for Chevrolet commercial, where A boy and girl on a trip are attacked by pirates while looking for treasure. It isn't so good as Felix cartoon, but it still amusing. You can watch it at the same places: Internet Archive, Google Video, or Videos with Bibi, and enjoy to watch more Chevrolet cartoons.

Related posts:
Felix The Cat
Vintage Chevrolet Cartoons
Talk Like a Pirate Day 2007

Posted by Bibi on September 20, 2007 04:05 AM in Animation, Audio, Books ||

As I said a while ago, it isn't easy find good sites about vintage Brazilian culture and ephemera. Happily this has been changing in the last years and many sites to preserve this memory appeared. A very good example of this kind of site was Nostalgia do Terror, a dedicated site to preserve the memory of vintage horror Brazilian comics.

Now, my interest is pointed to ephemera: the vintage advertising. The Museu da Propaganda (Museum of Advertising) is a Brazilian site devoted to preserve the memory of the old times of advertising, specially those from the state of Pará, as the Paraenses (= from Pará) page shows.

The site contains around thirty four ads, published between 1915 and the middle of 1960's, and nineteen Jingles in mp3 format. The images aren't big enough for my taste, however the additional information that goes with them makes the site worth it. The Museu da Propaganda is maintained by Arthur Tamer Vasques, and this is the kind of initiative must be stimulated.

The Clube do Carro Antigo de Londrina (Antique Car's Club of Londrina) has a some a lot of information about vintage cars, pictures, prints, and a very nice session with many images of vintage ads. Those ads were originally published in Brazilian magazines in the 1960's and 1970's.

And of course there is a blog devoted to the vintage Brazilian ads: Propagandas Antigas. It has tons of ads published in 1958 at the magazine Seleções do Reader's Digest (Reader's Digest Selections). However, that's not all. Javé - the blogger - created more blogs to host those pretty ephemeral images: propagandas antigas 1, propagandas antigas 2, propagandas antigas 3 and Propagandas antigas - anos 40, with vintage ads published at the Seleções do Reader's Digest in 1942.

After all those blogs I tough that he had stop there, until I finding his Flickr page with more 184 scanned images. And since we are talking about Flickr, I would like to say that I also have some images of vintage ads from 1950's to 1970's in my Vintage Brazilian Ads set. The images were sent by a friend, a while ago, to a mailing list, so I have no idea about the date when they were published.

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Como já disse algum tempo atrás, não é fácil achar bons sites sobre coisas antigas da cultura brasileira em geral e coisas efêmeras. Felizmente isso tem mudado nos últimos anos e vários sites dedicados a preservar essa memória apareceram. Um bom example é o Nostalgia do Terror, um site dedicado à memória de quadrinhos de terror antigos publicados no Brasil.

Agora meu interesse está voltado para coisas efêmeras: anúncios antigos. O Museu da Propaganda é um site brasileiro dedicado a preservar a memória dos velhos tempos da propaganda, especialmente as Paraenses.

Há em torno de trinta e quatro anúncios no site, publicados entre 1915 e o meio dos anos sessenta, e dezenove jingles em formato mp3. As images não são lá grandes o bastante para o meu gosto, mas as informações adicionais que as acompanham fazem o site valer a pena. O Museu da Propaganda é mantido por Arthur Tamer Vasques, e este é o tipo de iniciativa que deve ser estimulada por aqui.

O Clube do Carro Antigo de Londrina tem um bocado de informações interessantes sobre carros antigos, fotos, publicações e uma ótima sessão com diversas images de propagandas antigas. Esse anúncios foram originalmente publicados nas décadas de sessenta e setenta em revistas brasileiras.

E como era de se esperar há também um blog dedicado às propagandas brasileiras antigas: Propagandas Antigas. O site tem dezenas de anúncios publicados nas edições de 1958 da revista Seleções do Reader's Digest. Mas isso não é tudo. Javé, o criador do site, criou outros blogs para hospedar sua coleção de belas imagens efêmeras: propagandas antigas 1, propagandas antigas 2, propagandas antigas 3 e Propagandas antigas - anos 40, que como diz o nome, tem propagandas publicadas nas edições da Seleções do Reader's Digest em 1942.

Após todos esses blogs eu achei que ele tivesse parado por aí, até eu achar a página dele no Flickr com mais 184 imagens digitalizadas. E uma vez que estamos falandos sobre o Flickr, gostaria de dizer que eu também tenho algumas imagens antigas de propagandas dos anos cinqënta até os anos setenta reunidas em um set chamado Vintage Brazilian Ads. As imagens foram enviadas há alguns tempo atrás para uma lista de discussão por um amigo, e por isso eu não faço idéia da data exata de publicação delas.

Posted by Bibi on February 26, 2007 04:05 PM in Audio, Culture, Vintage ||

To celebrate Martin Luther King Day the blog of Internet Archive did a selection of videos and audio recordings with him. The FlickrBlog also made a homage, pointing to the photos in the Martin Luther King clusters.

Posted by Bibi on January 15, 2007 11:18 PM in Audio, Flickr, People, People, Politics, Politics, Video ||

Finally, the most loved day of the year (for some) arrived: Christmas Eve. Is everything ready for this night? The tree? Food? Gifts? Cookies for Santa? Your Christmas spirit? Well, I hope that everything is fine. Nevertheless, if you need of something to get in the mood of Christmas I made a list with some suggestions for this night with recipes, music, the history about Christmas, some Christmas papercraft for the children and for you, games and more fun stuff. Here is the first part of my suggestions. I hope you enjoy it!

Audio

Christmas songs are great, but how about hearing some stories about Christmas or radio programs about it before the Christmas Eve midnight supper?

Among the tons of audio files that you will find at Internet Archive, I selected five audio versions books, texts and even classic carols provided by LibriVox: A Christmas Carol, from the classic of Charles Dickens; Christmas Carol Collection 2006, a collection of traditional Christmas carols; The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry; 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, poetry by Clement C. Moore; Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus.

An Occulterati Christmas episode 5: A special Yuletide treat from Irreality.net, and a panel discussion of the meaning of the season. (via Gpod)

Santa’s Journal. Santa's Journal? Yes, Santa has a blog, and a podcast! - that's why the link is here. So even if you were a naughty boy or a naughty girl you can hear the wise words of Santa before and after Christmas. Have fun kids!

Storynory is a fantastic place to find audio versions of books and short stories for children. For Christmas they have A Christmas Carol, A Visit From St. Nicholas, The First Christmas, Tim Learns About Father Christmas and more. Make the most of it and subscribe the podcast to your kids.

With 8 channels, at Radio Nostalgia Network there is a big probability that you find something you like. They did some special programs for Christmas, like Ye Old Christmas Radio, with 13 episodes, Christmas Special #2... The Revenge!, at their film score podcast, Big Band Serenade 79 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra Christmas Eve in the War Years and Radio Journeys ... Christmas Special ... Commemorating Reginald Fessenden. Take a look thre for much more.

And if you are English, or lives in UK, don't miss the latest 'episode' of the Royal Podcast, that will be The Christmas Broadcast (The Queen's speech), which will be available from 1500 GMT on Christmas Day 2006. I don't live there and I won't miss it; this sounds very curious to me.

Food

What is Christmas without all the food? For me, the delicious food made at Christmas is the best part of it - maybe I shouldn't have say that. Anyway, here are some recipes to delicious supper.

At Flickr I found this fantastic photoset: Building a Gingerbread House - step by step. I have to try it one day, maybe soon I hope.

Expert Village has a collection of videos of Classic Christmas Cooking with 5 traditional recipes for the season. How about try Traditional Eggnog Recipe? I won't try this today. May I do this tomorrow? Is that ok? Let me know about it, because I never had it.

I tried this one today and it really works: Chocolate chip perfection. It's easy and the cookies will be delicious. Santa will be very happy if you make some to him. (via digg)

More cookies recipes, this time with a video and instructions of Santa Claus. To be sincere I used Santa's method with the first recipes of chocolate cookies.

Slashfood posted many recipes and links to Christmas' recipes. Among all I liked of this one: Vanilla Cutout Cookies. It looks very easy to do and the pictures with suggestions to decorate the cookies look great.

This is not part of the recipes, but it's food: The Christmas Tree all made with chocolate by La Maison du chocolat. This is definitely the best Christmas Tree I've ever seen! It's a pity that I don't live in London, Paris or New York, because they don't send it over here. (via Slashfood)

The blog The Old Foodie did a special post with Vintage Christmas Recipes. There are recipes of pudding, pies, Christmas Cake and drinks. I'm not so sure if the ingredients are easy to find, since I didn't check all, but it's always an inspiration to create new recipes. (via Plep)

And, if you speak French, try one or a few recipes for Christmas from Blog appétit.

Funny stuff

What is Christmas without some funny stuff? Some people have fun cooking, other buying presents, and other entertaining the family with amusing and funny stories. But while you are there, in front of your computer, spread some happiness (or must I say silliness?) with this collection of cool internet sites, or just take a look at them to amuse yourself.

Buy Nothing Christmas isn't part of the silliness, however it fits better in this session as the "spread the word" links. It's a new way to see and enjoy the Christmas: without all the stress and all the shopping stuff. They propose to you give something that you made, offer coupons for free massages - my boyfriend would love that - or desserts, or try something of their catalogue.

Does your browser need to be more festive? Try one of those themes for your Firefox: Tinseltown - I'm using this one and if you have many icons at your navigation bar it may get a little hard to see them; X-Mas and X-Mas (Light) - the difference is the CPU usage of the normal version, since it "creates" some snow to you.

Elf Yourself does what it says: it helps you to do an elfamorphosis! It has also an option to send your elf version dancing with a message - you must see it. And just in case of some of you ask, yes, I tried this silly stuff. (via Micro Persuasion)

I should have posted this earlier, but you can try it tonight or find the toys that Santa hid in Google Earth: Track Santa in Google Earth. Today, December 24th, Santa will load his sleigh, take the reins and soar into the skies, delivering presents to good children all over the world. And now you can follow his fabled flight in real-time. (via
Official Google Blog)

Mix-Mas: World Greeting Chain. It's a kind of social site where you creates an avatar with a message and spread it to your friends. In the site you will find the avatar and the messages of other people from around the world. We hope this greeting chain will spread the holiday spirit beyond country and culture. Well, I put a little message there yesterday.
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More stuff from Google to your Google desktop: Holiday Gadgets. There is a Christmas tree, a countdown to New Year, a Christmas frame and more.

Simon Sez Santa 2.0 has the same principle of Virtual Bartender and the Subservient Chicken. Just type and order, expression or word and see what happens. Try: insult me, yodel, sex, kiss, hug, dance, run, destroy, milk, cookies, book and sleep - I had more suggestions but I forgot all the words that I tried. (via Unscathed Corpse)

There are other options if you don't want to be an elf. Try PikiPimp and pimp your pictures. I'm suggesting it, because it has holidays and Christmas options to get a new life to your old portraits, like turn yourself into Santa Claus.

This is one of my favourites: Enlighten Holiday Party Excuse Generator. This is very useful if you were invited to some boring party or to visit a friend or a relative that you don't like very much. You choose the kind of party it is, what are your feelings about the host, how badly do you want to avoid the party, the tone of your excuse and how believable your excuse looks like.That's all: your excuse is read, just copy or send it to whoever invited you.

History

The history of Christmas is always good to entertain the kids, to refresh your memory of what is all about of just to amuse you. So, why not read about Christmas before, to get the spirit, or after open the presents, so you won't need to talk about the last news or embarrassing things to you?

Let's start with the basic, with Wikipedia. It has a very good article that explains what is Christmas. I won't say that you will find everything you always wanted to know about Christmas, but it will keep you busy for some time. The best part: the article is available, not all of it, in many other languages.

From the Herbert Hoover Museum, An American Christmas Exhibit: How We Came to Celebrate Christmas as a National Holiday. The text starts in 1840, with The Origins of the "Christmas Tree".

Salon has a nice article about Santa: The man in the red suit - An endearing enigma in a scarlet fur-trimmed jacket, Santa has spent the past 150 years spreading joy -- and shilling for Macy's, Maxwell House and Dewar's scotch. BTW, you must watch a short ad before read anything at Salon, if you don't subscribe to it.

The Library of Congress is a fantastic place to find material about the history of American culture. That's why they also have a small page about Santa Claus, called Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus. It's a kind of guide to know more about him, with links to help you to explore the site. Don't forget to check Santa Claus hides in your phonograph, an old recording made by the Thomas Edison Company in 1922,

The site from The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum, The Legends of Christmas, explains the traditions and customs, like Caroling, Santa, stockings, and gingerbread, that came from Europe, and other elements that are part of the Christmas in many countries, like the elves, the cards, the music and other subjects related with it, like the classic Dickens novel, the Nutcracker and even Rudolph.

How-to

Here Comes Santa Claus: Holiday Tips from the North Pole. Santa Claus explains How to wrap a Christmas present, How to build a toy boat and he gives a guitar lesson. There are seven videos available with Santa's tips. (via Making Light)

Lifehacker always have great suggestions to make your life a bit easier. They made a contest for holidays suggestions and those are my favourite: The giant wreath and The Advent calendar - that won the contest.

Is the camera ready for the Christmas pictures? So, before you begin, take a look at this helpful guide: 16 Digital Photography Tips for Christmas. (via Lifehacker)

Will It Blend? has many crazy videos about what it can be blended with the powerfull blender of Blendtec. I will die for it, specially because I could do some snow with it. Remember, I live in the tropical part of globe and it's too hot to have any snow here - with a lot of luck there is snow in southern Brazil (but not at this time of the year). So, if you also want some snow, and have that blender, make your own snow.

More

More about Christmas tomorrow and at Christmas Linkdump, A Christmas Carol, Cats Cards, Christmas BlogCard, Christmas Music Linkdump, Christmas Trees, Holidays without CATastrophes, Santa Claus!, Santa Santa Santa and Top 11 Ways Geeks Celebrate Christmas.

Posted by Bibi on December 24, 2006 09:21 PM in Audio, Events, Firefox, Food, Food, Fun, Fun, Internet, Tools ||

To celebrate the end of my French course - until August - here it is a gift to my readers that speak French: the audio book of L'étranger, read by Albert Camus in 1954. The files will be available for a seven days at You Send it (zip 1, zip 2 and zip 3), or Send me file (zip1, zip 2, zip 3 and zip 4), or at my eSnips folder as mp3 files (if you don't have a broadband connection). The book is fantastic and I highly recommend to you buy it, and the audio CDs of it too.

Update: sorry, but time is over. The files are no longer available on those links to download. However, the CDs are available in many places to buy, as Amazon.

Posted by Bibi on July 1, 2006 02:18 PM in Audio, Literature ||

Here are six stupendous reasons why I love Datajunkie: "O" is for Orson!, "W" is for Welles!, "C" is for Campbell Playhouse!, "H" is for Harry Lime!, "M" is for Mercury Theater on the Air and "Z" is for Zither!. I love Orson Welles and those vintage radio recordings and songs sounds like music to my ears. He had the perfect voice, he knew how to use it and he was clever enough to choose the right texts for it. It's a pity that the stupid-bitch-Hearst didn't like Citizen Kane and helped a lot to destroy Welles' career. Anyway, he was brilliant at the radio too.

There are more great stuff there: the audio version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven by the superb Vincent Price I think ( I didn't listen it yet) and Horror Stars on OTR!: radio lectures of horror and mystery (or suspense) stories read by Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Peter Lorre and Vincent Price.

More Welles: From Zombies to Orson Welles, The Shadow knows, Orson Welles and his early movies, The Mercury Theatre on the Air and Trailers of movies remakes and War of the Worlds.

Update: Datajunkie made a new Orson Welles post "T" is for The Third Man!.

Posted by Bibi on June 22, 2006 12:39 PM in Audio, Vintage ||

Whitney Music Box: a musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book "Digital Harmony".The thirteen variations of the music box are the result of Whitney's idea of harmonic relationships, based on audio, graphics and programming.

The animation and the music were composed by Jim Bumgardner. He has more info about it at KrazyDad: While Whitney was interested in turning musical ideas into motion graphics, I’m doing the inverse — turning one of his key animation ideas back into music. Here is what Whitney said about it:

An early intuition about how to control total dynamics led me to activate all graphic elements through a motion function that advances each element differentially. For example, if one element were set to move at a given rate, the next element might be moved at two times that rate. Then the third would move at three times that rate and so on. Each element would move at a different rate and in a different direction within the field of action. So long as all elements obey a rule of direction and rate, and none drifts aimlessly or randomly, then pattern configurations form and reform. This is harmonic resonance, and it echoes musical harmony, stated in explicit terms. I tried this procedure in several films, and was gratified by the consistency of the confirmation it demonstrated.
– John Whitney, “Digital Harmony”, pp. 38

(via Hoemro)

Posted by Bibi on May 31, 2006 11:54 AM in Animation, Audio, Music ||

Two episodes of "Clan of the Fiery Cross" from the Adventures of Superman at Radio Nostalgia Network, from the 40's. This will take us up through episode 12 of 16 in this series that attacks hatred and racism.

More Superman at Superman Cartoons.

Posted by Bibi on May 30, 2006 10:43 AM in Audio ||

At the Kiddie Records of this week the Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado. Dramatized by the actor Sidney Greenstreet, as the madman, Montresor, who holds a grudge against his friend, Fortunato. His plan is murder and winds up inflicting a horrible death upon him. You can read the original short-story here or download it here. (via The Crime in your Coffee)

Posted by Bibi on May 28, 2006 04:45 AM in Audio, Literature ||

Google made a very nice logo to celebrate the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with thousands of links to you visit. I have some suggestions of links about him too, in this and this post. More cool stuff in public domain or free to download:

- Episodes available at Radio Nostalgia Network: The Final Adventure, 2 Episodes, A Scandal In Bohemia Intro, A Scandal In Bohemia Part 1, A Scandal In Bohemia Part 2, The Speckled Band Intro, The Speckled Band Part 1, The Speckled Band Part 2 and Sherlock Holmes.

- Films available at Internet Archive: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon and Dressed To Kill.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's e-books available to download or read on-line at the Project Gutenberg.

- "The Ring of Thoth" - audiobook available at Internet Archive.

Posted by Bibi on May 23, 2006 01:03 AM in Audio, Cinema, Google, Literature, People, People ||

There is Illustration Friday, Photo Friday, Science Friday, Friday Ark and the classic Friday Cat Blogging. So why not a Friday Sex Blogging? Ok, this is just an idea, or an excuse to put all the links about sex and erotica, that I collected in the last few weeks, on a single post. The result is the list below, and most of the links are NSFW.

Adult magazine covers: a collection with lots of vintage covers of girly magazines at Sexblo.gs. It's over the session The Condensed History of Humankind that has more collections of vintage images.

Art or porn?: a safe and funny test from Guardian Unlimited with ten options to check if you know the different between a vintage film of art and a vintage soft porn. Apparently i have dirty mind and chose most of them as porn. (via ponchorama)

Audrey Kawasaki: paintings, illustrations, studies and doodles. Her oil and ink paintings in the wood of languid girls with pleasure expressions are great, they remind me of Mucha's works. Even her sketchbooks are very nice. She has a weblog with few more works and info about current works. (via Por fin es viernesss)

Danielle Emerick: We Shoot Bad Girls. Naughty and famous pin-up models in sexy pictures. Galleries with pictures of Bernie Dexter, Masuimi Max, Dita Von Teese, Julie Strain and more gorgeous women.

Desinées: a French blog about heroines of comics, pin-ups and nude art. There is a huge archive of erotic illustrations for almost all tastes. BTW, when the pop up appears click at the "OK" button (that's an advice of the material of the site and about the age). (via Foire à tout)

Diodsex: ok, it's safe for work and maybe isn't fair post it here, but It's about sex. Or do you think those resistor-LED-capacitor-inductor creatures making Kama Sutra poses are indecent? Can I call this geek erotica? Will you match your impedance with mine?

Edwardian Delights: vintage risqué, erotic and nude postcards. The postcards are categorized into four sections: Lingerie / Bathing Belles (Risqué), which includes décolleté & lingerie studies, Nudes, Erotica, which may include cards that are perhaps more erotic than the standard nude but does not contain any pornography and Ethnic Nudes.

Few podcasts about sex: Open Source Sex with Violet Blue, MXL: everything sexy, Sex Talk Straight and Gay, Sex With Emily: A Talk Radio Show and Whorecast: a work in sex.

Gay Artists Galleries: a page with many links to galleries of gay and lesbian art. Between the artists there are painters, photographers and comics painters. Don't forget to visit the virtual art gallery of Irit Rabinowits an check a look at her naive paintings. (via Sex?).

Jean Jacques André Photography. Beautiful black and white pictures of nudes and art works of oil pastels, mixed media and ink, divided in six galleries. (via Art Nudes)

Making love in 1976: 16 scan of pictures of Making Love. How to be your own sex therapist. It's a self help about sexual education or something like that. You can feel the 70's kitsch and innocent atmosphere through the retro images. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think we had a Brazilian version of that book, with big pictures and explanations.

Morgana Femme Couture custom made original corset designs, fetish and pvc corsets. They made custom corsets for each client, but you can take a look at the design page to choose a pretty model. (via Otomano)

My Secret Life by Walter: The Sex Diary of a Victorian Gentleman. It was first published between 1888-1894 in 11 volumes in Amsterdam by the Belgian-born bookseller/publisher Auguste Brancart. Considered obscene and pornographic, the book was banned for nearly 100 Years. Choose a chapter, a suggested word or make a search to read the content. (via nonist )

Oh Wicked Wanda! is an erotic illustrated comic that ran in the back pages of Penthouse magazine from 1973 through 1980.The story of OWW, creators info, sample pictures, scanned images of the covers, faq, the characters and the stories. The cheesecake comics makes a mix of sexual escapades and political satire. (via sexblo.gs)

R.I.T.Z.E.: a collection of lobbycards of sexploitation films, maybe from 60's and 70's. Some of the "great" titles: "Sweet Bippy Blue", Housewives on Call", "Pain and Pleasure" and "Infidelity American-Style". (via happy palace)

Rare Erotica - Scarce Erotic Material From the Past. It's a daily weblog with texts, pictures, drawings, memorabilia and more vintage erotic stuff. (via Drawn!)

Retro Pics: a giant directory with thousands fo vintage erotica images divided in 30 galleries. Pictures, photo series, magazine covers, advertising and tons of Betty Page pictures. (via a best truth)

The Erotic Coloring Book was published in 1975 by Berlin & Associates with illustrations by Craig Berlin. The images, almost funny nowadays, reflect the psychedelic 70's influence, but they can be much better following Jmorrison advice: go grab some crayons and get to work.

The Spidergarden.net home of Shaalis the Sacred Androgyne and the Metal Spider Clan - an organic self-sustaining environment in which erotic experimentation is raised to an artistic level and the interplay of dominance and submission brings a new kind of freedom. Books, graphic novels, costume design, photography, tattoo and more art works by Michael Manning. (via stationsvakt)

Typewriter Erotica vintage pictures from 1920's and 1930's, most of the French, of secretaries in different stages of nudity in pictures ranging from innocent leg-shots to total nudes and beyond. They have safe images too. (via Sex?)

PS.: if you speak Portuguese there are two hilarious short animations about sex:

- Almas em Chamas - the story of a dangerous woman obsessed by a fireman with many kitsch dialogues (and that is the funnier part);

- Amassa Que Elas Gostam - a mix of claymation and film, it tells the story of a woman obsessed (yes, this one too) by a clay porn star.

Posted by Bibi on January 20, 2006 08:29 PM in Art, Audio, Blogs, Comics, Culture, Fashion, Photography, Photography, Pin-ups, Vintage ||

In homage of Flash Gordon birthday, a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, first published on January 7, 1934, Datajunkie made a post with scan of images of vintage editions of Flash Gordon and many episodes of the radio show. Were you a fan of the Flash Gordon series of the 40's? Internet Archive has twelve episodes available, go for it.

Posted by Bibi on January 6, 2006 07:01 PM in Audio, Comics, Video, Vintage ||

Oops, sorry, I forgot to check out on Internet Archive if there was something more about Christmas before finish my last post about it. And now I need to post about one of the movie's version of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol". The film is Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), a 1951 version directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns and Hermione Baddeley.

If you want the original, the book, there are many places where you can download it or read: Charles Dickens.org, Good Reading on Line, Literature, Project Gutenberg, Spark Notes and many others..

There are also audio versions of the "A Christmas Carol" on LibriVox, Project Gutenberg, part one, two and three (for children), The Penguin Podcast (available until the new year) and an old radio version at Radio Memories Network.

Some information about the book can be found at David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page, The Free Dictionary, The Victorian Web and Wikipedia.

Posted by Bibi on December 26, 2005 07:25 AM in Audio, Books, Cinema ||

Bad Bibi didn't make Christmas post, just one on Christmas Music. I know that Christmas is over, but I was collecting some links in the last few months and this is the result. I had a lot of work, so I won't leave these links, and they are fun at any time in the year. I divided them by subject so you can go directly to you favourite session, or not. If you want more images and links go to the fantastic Santa and Me! - Vintage photos with Santa, but there are more than just images. I hope you enjoy!

Animation

A Peanuts Christmas: The Peanuts gang discovers that they have magical powers.

Christmas Story in 30 seconds with the Bunnies.

It's a Wonderful Life in 30 seconds with bunnies.

Jacquo's Carol: It's Christmas time, and I'm a bum. It's obvious that I'm not having fun. (via Milk and Cookies)

Ornaments: is a computer-animated short about a mischievous, little Christmas decoration with a hunger for some milk and cookies.

The Spirit of Christmas was the 1995 animated short film that launched South Park. In 1992, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, then students at the University of Colorado, made Jesus vs. Frosty (also known as A Christmas Story), in which four young boys make a snowman which comes to life and begins to kill them off. Watch or download this animation on The Spirit of Christmas - Official Distribution Site, that also has Jesus vs. Frosty.

Art & illustration

An Old-Fashioned Christmas in Illustration and Decoration. (via scribblingwoman)

Bubblegumfink presents to you Christmas at comics: Superman and Santa Claus and Merry Christmas X-Man.

Cartoon-O-Rama presents some images of Huckleberry Hound and the Christmas Sleigh.

Christmas Noël: Christmas postcards images. (via Agence eureka)

Deviled Ham wish to us an evil Christmas, here, here, here and here. Don't miss the Satan Claus

Old Haunts - Creepy Christmas Santa's: Santa on the cover of Creepy comics.

Scrapiteria had a week with the theme Christmas. To see the fifteen works realised, just follow the links to down, from the last post Little Orphans in the Snow. My favourites are Naughty or Nice?, Scrapiteria: Christmas Card 2 and Sledjacking.

Sinterklaas: illustraties. Vintage book illustrations of Sint Nikolaas.

And fuc