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The Persuader
My personal blog, started in 2006. No paid or guest posts, no link sales.
Posts tagged ‘1985’
01.05.2021
Here are May 2021âs imagesâaides-mĂ©moires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items. I append to this gallery through the month.
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. Iâm sure New Zealand was majority-manual into the first decade of this century.
More on the 1982â94 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 44œ 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, 1965â 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.
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1955, 1960s, 1965, 1967, 1980s, 1985, 1986, 1990s, 2021, actress, advertisement, advertising, Aotearoa, Apple, Autocade, business, Cadillac, car, celebrity, Channel 4, Chevrolet, Christchurch, Citroën, computing, COVID-19, Damien Carney, design, England, Facebook, family, fashion, fashion magazine, film, France, Germany, GM, humour, India, Instagram, Joanne Gair, John Barry, JY&A Media, Köln, Leyland, London, Lucire, magazine, Matt Lucas, media, MG, modelling, New York, New Zealand, New Zealand Post, NewTumbl, Nikko Kefalas, NY, Palestine, Peugeot, philately, photography, PSA, publishing, retro, Russia, social media, Stanley Donen, statistics, Stellantis, Tania Dawson, technology, trend, Triumph, UK, USA, Wellington, Whanganui-a-Tara
Posted in business, cars, design, France, gallery, humour, India, interests, internet, marketing, media, New Zealand, politics, publishing, TV, UK, USA, Wellington | No Comments »
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
Posted in design, New Zealand, typography, Wellington | No Comments »
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.
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 KĂ€fer advertisement from the Car Factoids on Twitter.
Star TrekâStar Wars series from Alex on NewTumbl.
Manawatƫ Guardian front page relates to this Tweet.
Alexa Breit promotes masks by Peggell, via Instagram.
Amber Peebles photographed by me in 2003 on a VoigtlÀnder 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.
Tags: 1970s, 1971, 1980s, 1985, 2020, advertisement, Aotearoa, Aston Martin, Auckland, Australia, Autocade, BBC, car, car design, celebrity, censorship, China, design, Doctor Who, fashion, film, Ford, Germany, GM, Grundig, Instagram, internet, JAC, James Bond, ManawatĆ«, modelling, New Zealand, newspaper, NewTumbl, NZME, Palmerston North, Peugeot, photography, Pontiac, social media, spam, TÄmaki Makaurau, Toyota, TV, Twitter, UK, USA, VoigtlĂ€nder
Posted in cars, China, design, gallery, interests, internet, media, TV, UK, USA | 1 Comment »
24.04.2014
In two elections, I told people some blarney on why I decided to run.
In 2010: âI was working at Lewâs Diner and this guy had been picked on. I told him, âStand tall, boy, show some respect for yourself. Do you think Iâm going to spend the rest of my life in this slop house? No, sir, Iâm going to night school. Iâm going to make something of myself.â Some weird guy sitting next to him in a life preserver chimes up, points and me, and says, âThatâs right, heâs going to be Mayor!â And thatâs when I got the idea. Mr Carruthers did say, âA coloured mayor, thatâll be the day,â but it didnât deter me.â
In 2013: âI 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, âRun, you clever boy, and remember.â So I did.â
You have to admit these are better answers than the stock politiciansâ 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
Posted in culture, New Zealand, politics, TV, UK, USA, Wellington | 2 Comments »
13.11.2010
Tags: 1980s, 1985, 1986, Aotearoa, film, Hong Kong, humour, Jack Yan, New Zealand, retro, Wellington, Whanganui-a-Tara
Posted in cars, culture, humour, interests, New Zealand, Wellington | 3 Comments »
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