Watch it : God’s Country

God’s Country (1986) a documentary directed by Louis Malle.Thank you to Bree Apperley for guiding me to God’s Country. Malle follows the small town residents of Glencoe, Minnesota in 1979 with a followup visit six years later. highlights : the 28 year old farmer & his family, the softball game, the polka dancing couple, play [...]

E S P R I T .

Is this not the most exciting & vibrant catalog & fashions of allllll time!?!1980s ESPRIT come back to us! or let’s make something this fun.  Black background, bright colors POP. Look at the patterns people! ESPRIT 1984-1986 catalog via Lady Greyer flickr my advice: open the scans at the original size & stare.I cropped some [...]

CAMEROON CRAFTS.

Weaving, beading, dancing, haircuts and more! Yesterday at Housing Works Bookstore I stumbled upon this wonder – Crafts and the arts of living in the Cameroon. Published in 1982 and curiously funded by Mobil Oil Cameroon. Photographs by Harri Peccinotti.

’85 SEATTLE.

Photographs by Michael Meglemre for the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle.via King County Snapshots

SELF HELP.

All ages art. Masks and beyond. Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc. is a non-profit organization and serves as an important cultural arts center that has encouraged and promoted Chicano art in the Los Angeles community and beyond. via Self-Help Graphics Archives & Art Archives via Online Archive of California  

TRAVEL PICS.

Retired scientist Galen Frysinger has traveled the world and seven seas. (172 independent countries plus 91 dependencies) Get lost in his intricate and dense photo archives. Wow.above: Greenland, Brazil, Greenland, Libya, Easter Island, Nauruvia Galen Frysinger      

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