A History of Star Trek Title Logos

Okay, I'll admit it. I'm a Trekker (Original Series only, though). I love this.

THE REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER (1956)

THE REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER at IMDB

First of all, I like Jane Russell (although not all of her politics). I've especially liked her since I read an anecdote from Lee Server in his biography of Robert Mitchum. On the set of one of the films Mitchum and Russell appeared in, Russell was being interviewed by a writer for one of the big movie magazines. The reporter had heard that Jane and her husband were quite religious folk and was having trouble justifying that in his mind with Ms. Russell's lusty screen image. When asked about it, the great Jane just looked at him and smiled. "Hey, buddy," she told him, "Christians have big breasts, too."

The earthy Ms. Russell is the best thing about THE REVOLT OF MAMIE STOVER. Despite having a name sounding like someone who manufactures candy, Mamie Stover is one of those prostitutes who are cinematically euphemistically called "dance hall girls". At the opening of the film, our heroine is being escorted out of San Francisco by the police (as a native San Franciscan, I can't imagine what you have to do to get kicked out of that town). She meets well-to-do writer Richard Egan on the ship headed for Honolulu. He takes what he says is a writer's interest in her story and after a short shipboard affair, Egan is met at the dock by his respectable girlfriend played by Joan Leslie.

Mamie heads for her new job at the "dance hall" run by a bleached blond and butch Agnes Moorehead and her sidekick, sadistic sleazeball Michael Pate. Mamie and the writer meet periodically and things develop, interrupted suddenly by the attack on Pearl Harbor, the aftermath of which Mamie finds as a money making opportunity.

Worth seeing for the technicolor, Jane Russell, and Agnes Moorehead's brief but unforgettable performance.

The 1983 iPhone

Yes, it's from Apple, and it's a phone!

From Apartment Therapy: Unplugged

http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/look/look-the-1983-iphone-design-ahead-of-its-time-077295
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This image was found by Marc Esslinger, the son of Hartmut Esslinger who designed the famous Apple IIc. If you don't remember, the Apple IIc was the first portable computer from 1984. We featured the image back in 2007 when the article came out, but we never really expanded on the ideas that this image represents.

It's quite amazing to see that this iPhone also had touchscreen capabilities, even though it was corded. Still, the basic premise existed far in the past of Apple. No wonder that the iPhone currently works so well. It's been something that has been studied for quite a while. It was a design that was way ahead of its time. You can read more about Marc's personal Apple story over at Fudder. However, the article is in German. Click here for a translated version! [via Hello Bauldoff] Translated original story

THE ATOMIC CITY (1952)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044382/

It was 1952, and the "Atomic Age" had just begun. If there was anything cooler than having a rumpus room decorated with bullfight posters or bongo drums, it was anything "atomic".

The daily life of those who live and work in Los Alamos, New Mexico seems strange and exotic. There are fenced in areas everywhere, Dad gets thoroughly checked by geiger counters every morning on his way into work, and a co-worker on a perfectly ordinary day gets sent to the hospital with severe burns from radioactivity overexposure. Mom wants to move away because her little son has stopped saying, "When I grow up..." and has started to say "IF I grow up...". This is a big time company town. During a school trip, the son is kidnapped and held for ransom; not money, but nuclear secrets.

Basically a police procedural, THE ATOMIC CITY is crisply directed by Jerry Hopper (whose credits include THE PRIVATE WAR OF MAJ. BENSON, a rare comedy from Charlton Heston), with a very tense chase through the New Mexico hills comprising the final third of the film.

Gene Barry and Milburn Stone star, a couple of years ahead of their TV western fame. Young Lee Aaker deserves special credit as the best performance. He would go on in the next year to play "Red Chief" in the "Ransom of Red Chief" episode of O'HENRY'S FULL HOUSE.

I'd bet that the FBI field phone in the pic above (taken off the TV screen — please excuse the quality) triggered lots of oohs and aahs from an audience in 1952.

Steve Jobs as THE NEW YORKER's Eustace Tilley

the forbidden fruit by ~capitanicopor on deviantART

Impatient for Spring

Photo taken in Madison Square Park in April of last year.

History of the Internet in animation

The complete history of the internet in eight minutes of beautiful animation.