Retro Camping & Lodging Forget expensive gadgets--it's time to return to the good old days of campouts THE WHOLE THING may have gone too far. Around the country there is evidence of a return to good old-fashioned low-tech camping. Retro campers have realized that they don't really need a sleeping bag that allows them to survive temperatures equivalent to those of deep space. What they need is solid, long-lasting gear that doesn't cost a mosquito-bitten arm and a leg, but that evokes an atmosphere of family fun and outdoor plushness. Many of these implements hearken back to the good old days of camping--the '50s. This was the decade that spawned the matching two-toned car and camper, the VW bus with the foldout table and chairs, and the inflatable beach float. Car and camper camping became an entire lifestyle--one that meant you could take your jello with you anywhere, in comfort. Throughout the United States, there are entire organizations committed to this lifestyle. There are websites dedicated to old Airstreams, Teardrops, Spartans, pop-top VWs and Apaches, all lovingly maintained. But you don't have to own a behemoth camper to enjoy the retro-camping lifestyle. Plenty of equipment makers are bringing back the plush camping aesthetic, and antique stores abound with retro fixtures. Go forth, conquer and sleep in comfort beneath the stars.
70s Cinema: Porns and it’s music, Kung Fu, & Blaxploitation
As a movie genre, blaxploitation refers to a series of films in which African-American characters and their lifestyles are presented in a manner that reinforces often negative stereotypes. Many critics of 70s blaxploitation films believed these movies pandered to the lowest of black so called "ghetto" images, while borrowing heavily from mainstream Hollywood genres no longer used. There were black westerns, sci-fi fantasies and movies like Blacula a horror variation of Dracula.. Blaxploitation even had its own kung-fu flicks. But despite lackluster performances by the actors and shoestring budgets, the hip talk, sex appeal, and messages of black power made blaxploitation movies instant hits with black audiences.
1973 marked the beginning of the one-two combination of Blaxploitation and kung fu. It happened when taekwondo champion Jim Kelly appeared in Bruce Lee's penultimate film Enter the Dragon. Kelly proved to be a popular character actor that he would sign with Warner Brothers for a few more action film, thus creating the first crossing over of these two prolific genres. Both types of film were regularly shown on double bills to young audiences, and martial arts continued to form aprt of ghetto subculture until the 1990s, by which time the musical accompaniment was rap and hip hop. Blaxploitation films are riding the same '70s retro wave that has awakened disco from its grave. Modern audiences, turned on to the genre thanks to the success of Pulp Fiction, are rediscovering Blaxploitation's fun ky music, groovy fashions, and nonstop action.
Vixen 1. A female fox. 2. A woman regarded as quarrelsome, shrewish, or malicious. n : a malicious fierce-tempered woman [syn: harpy, hellcat] Meyer's Pulp In Meyer's world, broad comedy and playful impulses predominate, and these early riot grrls are no exception. They spend the first few minutes of the film romping through the desert, insulting each other, talking really loud, racing around in their miniature sports cars, jumping fully clothed into a lake, and roughhousing. But leader Varla's demand for "ACTION!" eventually supersedes these frolics, and they corner a very straight, handsome Joe Blow and taunt him into racing with them. Of course he can't know that Varla is not only an expert racer, but an ultra-powerful judo expert whose hobbies include murder. In a brilliantly shot sequence, Varla kills him with her bare hands and the three go-go dancers kidnap his sniveling girlfriend Bunny (Susan Bernard) and take it on the lam. For good measure, they shovel sleeping pills down Bunny's throat and laughingly concoct a plan to palm her off as a rich girl in trouble that they're "escorting."
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Japanese Kitsch Revisit (Inspire by Japanese take on American cultures and Japanese toy, candy, food, graphic design packaging) Derived from the German verkitschen etwas, kitsch means to 'knock something off'. Today it is synonymous with objects of bad taste that are so bad they're good in an ironic way. In the fifties and sixties kitsch was -and still is - highly collectable. Contemporary images of Japan are images of the future. In a relationship which began in the film Bladerunner, Science Fiction images of the future and images of Japan have fused into one. References to Japan have become important signifiers of coolness in the packaging of youth culture. Western youth have become extremely receptive to ideas and images which first flourished in Japan. In the 1990s, weakness, dependence, passivity, and childlikeness, have been key themes in Western youth culture and fashion. They are new themes in Western youth culture which have a strong connection and similarity to the themes of Japanese youth culture from the mid 1970s.
Digital Propagnda Graphic Designer/Motion Designer using their graphic design software and the internet as new media to express there thoughts and attitude. Playing with tyypography, lines, shapes, negative space and pop culture. .....