A tip for the fans of Oscar Peterson.

This isn’t Jazz at the Philharmonic, but the feeling is much the same. A loose jam session of familiar standards (plus two ringers, of which more later) played by some of the best. The veterans, having done this many times before, look at each other and then proceed to give the people what they came to see. You hear challenges, actions and reactions, beauty and energy, all in this reissue of the 2-LP set.

Live at the Northsea Jazz Festival, 1980

I found a collection of over 200 35mm Kodachrome slides of travel and marketing posters from the 1950's and 1960's.. There are some real gems in here!

I've done my best to identify them however quite a number are in languages I can't translate. If you see any you recognize add a note to improve the record!

Unfortunately they don't have high-resolution images.

Classic Posters

Following on the [citation needed] tip:

Undisclosed sources for contents are rarely a good sign in a British meat product. This book suggests that much the same rule pertains to collections of criticism.

(This book is not recommended, but I found the quote amusing.)

Review of 'The Rough Guide to Film'

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To Eyestones, Laura incarnates the vacuity of contemporary America: “Her trains of thought had no cabooses.”

Laura Warholic: Briefly Noted: The New Yorker

From the New Yorker, July 14, 1951:

The most encouraging word we have so far had about television came from a grade-school principal we encountered the other afternoon.

"They say it's going to bring back vaudeville," he said, "but I think it's going to bring back the book."

...

It's only a question of time, our principal felt, before the new literacy of the television audience reaches the point where whole books can be held up to the screen and all their pages slowly turned.

Anticipating the Kindle, I suppose. (Once it goes color, the Kindle may do well selling comic books.)

Great moments in predicting the future, television edition

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You never forget your first concert or your first urinal. And here at the Nassau Coliseum on Friday night, where some men’s rooms had been turned into emergency women’s rooms, at least a few girls saw both.

A Girls’ Night Out to Remember

The fact of the matter is basic and ineluctable: we need these lists. The year would not be complete without them. The year would not make sense without them.

Americans love gumption. We believe that stupid ideas become brilliant ones if you just keep working on them with bullish tenacity.

The real reason to wear the mask is to spare others the discomfort of seeing your facial expression ... To make it possible to see without seeing.

After the war, we were not so much disillusioned by our prospects as giddily illusioned by them.

... He was free to be less than perfect, which is more interesting than perfect.

It is more important for a critic to be interesting than to be right.

It's sad to think there was a time when people lined up around the block to see Bergman movies… and how unimaginable that is now.

Want to predict the future of innovation? Simply predict the future of attractiveness, effectiveness, and desirability. Then act accordingly.

Annual budget of Miami's police department, expressed as a percentage of the production cost of the film "Miami Vice": 83

The avant-garde isn't what it used to be.

Perhaps there is something reassuring about exhibiting the quaint beliefs of previous eras.

The Internet ... plays to [a] powerful force in modern America and one that undermines the movies: narcissism.

The formula is simple: two people, a few instruments, 88 minutes and not a single false note.

It is, I suspect, a film to return to, like a country waiting to be explored: a maze of dead ends and new life.

They were dense and crisp and precise but also full of character: his mouse conveys something fundamentally mouse-ish, his ant has an essential ant-ness. His insects were especially beautiful.

The Rest Is Noise is cultural history the way cultural history should be written: a single strong narrative operating on many levels at once. What more do you want from a book? That it be intelligently, artfully, and lucidly written? It’s those things, too.

Babies aged between eight and sixteen months know on average six to eight fewer words for every hour of baby DVDs and videos they watch daily.

Indeed, only 63 words ... are needed to make up half of everything said on TV.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

We are sliding towards an irreversible obsession with totally visual communication.

The eye has been trained to scan, and to receive, and less and less to read.
More and more, Americans don't have the time to think, let alone to read.

If there is no common culture, no common standards, then each group becomes an island; metaphorical sharks are perceived to cruise between the islands, so they have less and less to do with one another, and diversity becomes its opposite.

We all have a long, imaginary shelf of masterpieces we have not read.

There is more than one way not to read, the most radical of which is not to open a book at all.

Turn to page 69 of any book and read it. If you like that page, buy the book.

To many readers, Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is the most intimidating of literary monuments. It is there, like a vast, unexplored continent, and all sorts of daunting rumors circulate about life in the interior. But once you cross the border, you discover that the world of “War and Peace” is more familiar and at the same time more surprising than the rumors suggested.

What does it mean to be a writer?
Constant self-monitoring to see if a thought is actually an idea.