The Star Wars Weather Forecast

What’s your day going to be like? Go here.

Nice type and image picks too.

Earthquake weather

With wishes for a wonderful day from steve and jeanne mehallo.


Soulful Strings: Jingle Bells

Image found via GIF Anime

SNL: Vincent Price’s Christmas Special


Christmas, 1954

From this past weekend, another find from the vault!

(Here’s the rest)

Santa Claus and his old lady

I had this single.

Dave was on the flip side. Really explains how Santa fits down chimneys, mann.

Classic Cheech & Chong.

A TV Funhouse Christmas

The Peanuts gang saves the day. Click the image to jump/watch.

Found via Videosift

It’s a Wonderful Life: The lost ending

A favorite. From 1986. Potter evocative of Dick Cheney, of course.

It’s a Wonderful Life: The typography

Over at CreativePro: Images of the type used in – and for promos – for Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).

Go here for more.

Found via Sabine Lenz

Greetings from CBS

1966 CBS on air Christmas card.

Designed by R.O. Blechman and animated by Willis Pyle. Music by Arnie Black.

Found via sfgirlbybay; bad banana blog

Brought to you by Coke

‘In perfect harmony’

Back when in the US, The Real Thing had Real Sugar in it. Coated one’s teeth like icing.

bonus!
Here’s the original I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing spot.

Brought to you by Norelco

Classic commercial, classic electric razor. No ‘gotchas,’ but razor burn that would not go away.

Holiday windows, NYC

It’s a shame that department stores nationwide have mostly converted to printed advertising posters in their store windows. Money’s tight, of course.

In NYC, the window display tradition lives on. Here’s a 2009 gallery of great visuals. Including an SNL 35 year tribute at Barneys.

Found via Ashley Simko


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