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‘Renowned French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and director Luc Besson just released ‘Home’ – a documentary on climate change . . .’ –Cult of Green
Narrated by Glen Close. Beautiful cinematography, like one of those 365 earth from above books. Shocking statistics, good solutions. Entire film available free on YouTube.
Click the above image to watch/jump.
Official website here. Watch it as a double feature with Avatar and this little ditty.
‘Only an expert can deal with the problem’
Laurie Anderson‘s spoken word performance on Letterman. From last Thursday.
Letterman
‘Stronger than silent e, able to leap capital T in a single bound’
Before David Letterman had a show, I used to watch Letterman.
Joan Rivers narrated the Letterman spots with Gene Wilder as the voice of the hero.
These shorts were from the original Electric Company (1972-77), which was the coolest childrens show ever. Even had Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno, Mel Brooks and Spider-man.
And
In an odd jump back to my childhood, Libby the Kid and The Electric Company ended up influencing some of the design stuff I’ve done for Normandie.
Chevron dinos
Hm.
In the 1970s, Chevron ran animated spots highlighting our good ‘friends’ the dinosaurs whose fossils power our vehicles. Here’s an ‘alternative energy’ spot (above) from 1978.
Chevron also used to employ really tiny mechanics that could climb inside and rubberize your car (below).
And
In 1960, we used to drive around in bubble-domed spaceships (powered by Chevron Surpreme, of course):
abcdefg . . . vw
One more.
Buzzzzzzzzz
Vintage VW Beetle spot.
Colorful bugs
Pick a flavor.
31
Also as a kid, I had a small stack of these flyers: The official Baskin-Robbins 31 flavors list, changed out monthly, available at the counter.
And Daiquiri Ice was my favorite. The allure of drinking without the drinking.
Found via So Much Pileup.
Libby the Kid
By far, these were the coolest tee vee dinners of the 1970s.
I used to be able to draw the Kid quite well and still have a 3D mug premium sitting around here somewhere.
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