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June 2022 gallery

03.06.2022

Here are June 2022’s images—aides-mémoires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items. I append to this gallery through the month.

Ursula Andress and the SEAT 133 (bootlid open)

Simon, Jack and Nicholas outside Leon in Old Spitalfields Market, 2015

Revlon Charlie advertisement with Shelley Hack

Alexa Breit photographed by Pascal André Heimlicher

Notes
Most of these are self-explanatory, though the Göteborgs-Posten newspaper page with Panos Papadopoulos gets a mention. Panos name-drops me about his autobiography.

Tags: 1960s, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1970s, 1977, 1979, 1980s, 1982, 1985, 1987, 2015, 2022, actress, advertisement, airline, AMC, beauty, book, Brexit, car, celebrity, England, film, Ford, Germany, Göteborg, Göteborgs-Posten, humour, Instagram, James Bond, London, marketing, media, Medinge Group, modelling, modernism, newspaper, Nissan, Panos Papadopoulos, Philips, retro, Robert Brownjohn, Roger Moore, Sean Connery, sexism, Sweden, TV, Twitter, UK, USA
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May 2021 gallery

01.05.2021

Here are May 2021’s images—aides-mémoires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items. I append to this gallery through the month.

Jannike Björling for Panos Emporio (one-piece)

Matt Lucas as Boris Johnson in The Great British Bake-Off

Amira M. Aly photographed by Christoph Gellert

Sources
Viki Odintcova, via Instagram.
Alexa Breit, photographed by Weniamin Schmidt, via Instagram.
Vickery Electrical advertisement: something I asked my Dad to photocopy for me in the 1980s. Briefly we had one of those Apple II portables, on loan from a colleague of Dad. I can’t recall if it had one disk drive or two, but it was a fun little unit to have in my bedroom for that period. Dad was prepared to buy it if I wanted to keep it, but I didn’t have much software to run, plus I already had the Commodore 64 for schoolwork.
Lucire issue 43 cover, photographed by Damien Carney, creative direction and fashion styling by Nikko Kefalas, make-up by Joanne Gair, hair by Kirsten Brooke Anderson, and assisted by Rachel Bell, and modelled by Elena Sartison. Find out more here.
Drew Barrymore quotation from Elephant Journal on Twitter.
I still have plenty of old stamps, which I tend to save for family (though I’m less discerning about those discounted Christmas ones, which I always used to buy in bulk). This is going to my cousin’s daughter and her husband, and their family.
Comments after an article on Buzzfeed News. Business as usual for Facebook.
Happy birthday to our niece Esme!
Tania Dawson promotes Rabbit Borrows, from Instagram.
Bizarre that the only car with a manual transmission on sale at Archibalds is from the 1950s. I’m sure New Zealand was majority-manual into the first decade of this century.
More on the 1982–94 Chevrolet Cavalier at Autocade.
Citroën C5 X, as covered in Lucire.
Amira Aly (Mrs Oliver Pocher) photographed by Christoph Gellert, reposted from Instagram.
Gaza statistics, sourced from Twitter.
Even after 44½ years of living in the occident, I find certain western customs very strange. From Twitter.
Number crunching from Private Eye, reposted from Twitter.
Evaporated milk, reposted from Twitter.
Triumph Herald advertisement from the Car Factoids on Twitter.
Cadillac tailfins, reposted from Tumblr.
This photo of Sophia Loren was captioned ‘© David Hurn | Sophia Loren, Inglaterra, 1965’ on Tumblr. I wonder if she is on the set of Stanley Donen’s Arabesque. Reposted from Tumblr.
I had the pleasure of watching Peggy Sue Got Married again a few weeks ago. This was a nice scene at the end, that seemed to suggest that Peggy Sue had travelled back in time. John Barry’s score is sublime.
The Murdoch method: reposted from my old NewTumbl account.
Alexa Breit photographed by Sagaj, reposted from Instagram.

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Helvetica in metal, 1985

03.03.2021

This was the back of Mum’s 1985 tax assessment slip from the IRD. Helvetica, in metal. The bold looks a bit narrow: a condensed cut, or just a compromised version because of the machinery used?
Not often seen, since by this time phototypesetting was the norm, though one reason Car magazine was a good read was its use of metal typesetting until very late in the game. I know there are many reasons the more modern forms of typesetting are superior, least of all fidelity to the designed forms, but there’s a literal depth to this that makes me nostalgic.

Tags: 1980s, 1985, Aotearoa, family, government, Helvetica, magazine, New Zealand, retro, technology, typeface, typesetting, typography
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December 2020 gallery

01.12.2020

Here are the images that have piqued my interest for December 2020. For November’s gallery, click here (all gallery posts are here). And for why I started this, here’s my earlier post on this blog, and also here and here on NewTumbl.

Amber Peebles, photographed by Jack Yan, 2003

Alexa Breit with Peggell mask, December 7

Volkswagen Käfer advertisement from France

Auckland Central Library opening centre spread

Sources
Auckland City Library opening, via Auckland City Council Residents’ Group on Twitter.
Jono Barber scanned the Aston Martin DB5 story from newspaper clippings he recently found.
From the Instagram of hairstylist extraordinaire, my friend Adrian Gutierrez. Photographed by Steve Yu, hair by Adrian Gutierrez, make-up by Meri, modelled by Chanel Margaux.
Volkswagen Käfer advertisement from the Car Factoids on Twitter.
Star Trek–Star Wars series from Alex on NewTumbl.
Manawatū Guardian front page relates to this Tweet.
Alexa Breit promotes masks by Peggell, via Instagram.
Amber Peebles photographed by me in 2003 on a Voigtländer Bessamatic Deluxe.
Google Forms’ 419 scam relates to this Toot.
Peugeot 504 advertisement from the Car Factoids on Twitter.
Triumph TR7 brochure cover from the Car Factoids on Twitter.
Katharina Mazepa photograph from her Instagram.
More about the JAC Jiayue A5 (JAC J7 for export) at Autocade.
Tardis image from Alex on NewTumbl.
More information on the Toyota Yaris Cross at Autocade.

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Why I ran

24.04.2014

In two elections, I told people some blarney on why I decided to run.
In 2010: ‘I was working at Lew’s Diner and this guy had been picked on. I told him, “Stand tall, boy, show some respect for yourself. Do you think I’m going to spend the rest of my life in this slop house? No, sir, I’m going to night school. I’m going to make something of myself.” Some weird guy sitting next to him in a life preserver chimes up, points and me, and says, “That’s right, he’s going to be Mayor!” And that’s when I got the idea. Mr Carruthers did say, “A coloured mayor, that’ll be the day,” but it didn’t deter me.’

jenna-louise-coleman-clara-oswin

In 2013: ‘I was wondering whether to stand again and decided to chill out and watch Doctor Who. In that episode, Jenna Coleman turns to the screen and says directly to me, “Run, you clever boy, and remember.” So I did.’
You have to admit these are better answers than the stock politicians’ ones.
With that, ladies and gentlemen, have a blessed Anzac Day.

Tags: 1980s, 1985, 2010, 2012, 2013, Aotearoa, Back to the Future, BBC, culture, Doctor Who, film, Hollywood, humour, mayoralty, New Zealand, politics, TV, UK, USA, Wellington, Whanganui-a-Tara
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Wellington’s most dangerous intersection (in ﬁction)

13.11.2010

While chatting about the movie Shaker Run with one of our Lucire team (who was not born when the ﬁlm was made), I noticed that the intersection at Courtenay Place–Taranaki Street–Dixon Street was rather treacherous in 1980s’ ﬁction (start at 1’56”):

Fast forward to 1986 and the Hong Kong ﬁlm 最佳拍檔千里救差婆 (marketed as Aces Go Places IV). Watch from 28″ on:

When I still had a blog on Vox, I noted that the car chase in this ﬁlm played extreme liberties with New Zealand geography: you turn from the Auckland Harbour Bridge on to Willis Street, Wellington; and ﬂy in a Holden Torana from a Viaduct rooftop, leaving the Lombard car park in Wellington, and landing in a Ford Cortina on a soundstage in Hong Kong.

Tags: 1980s, 1985, 1986, Aotearoa, film, Hong Kong, humour, Jack Yan, New Zealand, retro, Wellington, Whanganui-a-Tara
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