Here are May 2022ās imagesāaides-mĆ©moires, photos of interest, and miscellaneous items. I append to this gallery through the month.
Posts tagged ‘1986’
May 2022 gallery
02.05.2022
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May 2021 gallery
01.05.2021Here are May 2021ās imagesāaides-mĆ©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. Iām sure New Zealand was majority-manual into the first decade of this century.
More on the 1982ā94 Chevrolet Cavalier at Autocade.
Citroƫn 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 44Ā½ 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 ‘Ā© David Hurn | Sophia Loren, Inglaterra, 1965ā 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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From my desk, 1986
24.01.2021Before this gets recycled, I thought Iād scan it as a memento: a 1986 printout off our Riteman dot matrix printer (which I still have, with spare cartridges), hooked up to a Commodore 64. I forget the printer interface. The image isnāt mine: I only imagine that 14-year-old me was claiming copyright over the layout and text. To me this was all amazing. Dad bought a box of the line-flow paper from the computer store, I believe, a place called Einstein, run by a really nice guy called Raju Badiani (who also sold the computer system). Anything seemed possible, and by the summer of 1986ā7 I was hacking the bits and bytes and creating my own bitmap fonts on the 64, trying to make it all look like Eurostile. Nothing as sophisticated as Emigre. The 5Ā¼-inch floppies are still around somewhere!
Tags: 1980s, 1986, Aotearoa, Commodore, computing, New Zealand, retro, Riteman, technology, typography, Wellington, Whanganui-a-Tara
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January 2021 gallery
01.01.2021Let’s kick off January’s images right here!
Click here for all months (or hit ‘Gallery’ at the top of the screen, if you’re on the desktop), here for December, and here for November. This post explains why I wound up doing the gallery here.
I append to this entry through the month.
Sources
Changan Uni-T, more at Autocade.
Cartoon from Textile Cartoons on NewTumbl.
Twenty seventeen newspaper clipping with Donald Trump from The Herald.
BMW image from Kolbenkopp on Twitter (more at this post).
Bestune B70 Mk III, more at Autocade.
Bridal gown by Luna Novias, and featured in Lucire.
Citroƫn AX-330 advertisement from 1970 sourced from here.
Chilean Peugeot 404 advertisement sourced from here.
Ford US full line from 1972 from Consumer Guide.
Xpeng P7, more at Autocade.
More on the Lancia Beta Monte-Carlo in Autocade.
Clarins model from the Lucire archives.
Ford Cortina Mk III by Hyundai advertisement from the Car Factoids on Twitter.
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Forget the stereotypes: how immigrants write with English as their second language
12.09.2020How interesting to find a photocopy of a letter my Dad wrote to the Department of Social Welfare in 1986, to apply for National Superannuation on behalf of his parents.
We had been here less than a decade, but, frankly, Dadās correspondence was always like this. The whole idea of immigrants coming to Aotearoa with limited English always smacked of racism and intolerance to me, and this letter illustrates that it might actually be our linguistic superiority in mastering another tongue that has racists and xenophobes worried.
There are some minor errors here, and he could have used a few commas instead of full stops, but itās on a par with period correspondence from native Anglophones.
I still have this Underwood typewriter.
Tags: 1980s, 1986, Aotearoa, correspondence, family, government, immigration, New Zealand, Wellington, Whanganui-a-Tara
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Wellington’s most dangerous intersection (in fiction)
13.11.2010While 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 PlaceāTaranaki StreetāDixon Street was rather treacherous in 1980sā fiction (start at 1’56”):
Fast forward to 1986 and the Hong Kong film ęä½³ęęŖåéęå·®å© (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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