Quadrophenia

Quadrophenia
http://www.quadrophenia.net/
One of the great British youth films inspired by The Who album.

"Mod was not a revolutionary movement but a rebellious movement. They didn't want to get out of prison, they just wanted the top bunk".
Director Franc Roddam on Mods.

Look out for Toyah who plays Monkey in the film.

Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud
I first saw this artist's work at the Whitey Museum, Manhattan in 2001. (a few days after September 11)
Here's any interesting interview with him.
http://rozwoundup.typepad.com/roz_wound_up/2009/07/you-get-up-and-go-to-work-wayne-thiebaud.html

Pilot brush pen

Pilot pocket brush pen
http://www.jetpens.com/index.php/cPath/221_535

Dolls and Dames

The Dames, Dolls and Delinquents: A Collector's Guide to Sexy Pulp Fiction Paperbacks by Gary Lovisi

http://www.amazon.com/Dames-Dolls-Delinquents-Collectors-Paperbacks/dp/0896899683


More paperback covers can be found here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hangfirebooks/

Art links

Some great art links can be accessed from this site
http://illustrationisland.wordpress.com/

Dovima

Dovima
Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), best known as Dovima, was a model during the 1950s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovima
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/05/obituaries/dovima-a-regal-model-of-the-50-s-is-dead-at-63.html

Benjamin Zhang Bin

Benjamin Zhang Bin
http://conceptcentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/manuha-madness-artist-profile-benjamin.html

interview
http://www.guupress.com/magazine/interviews/benjamin/1.asp

via concept central
http://conceptcentral.blogspot.com/

Mollie Sugden

Mollie Sugden (pictured right)
21 July 1922 – 1 July 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollie_Sugden

Reiko Oshida

Reiko Oshida
Reiko Oshida (born September 10, 1948) is a Japanese actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in Toei's action/erotic "Pinky Violence" series, which the company designed to compete with the popular independent genre of movies known as "pink film."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiko_Oshida
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651898/

Foo fighter

Foo fighter
The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific Theater of Operations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter

Gliese 581c

Gliese 581c
Gliese 581c is a "Super-Earth", a large extrasolar terrestrial planet, orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_c
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581

Illustration podcasts

Podcasts about freelance illustration and comic art.
http://illustrationparty.blogspot.com/
http://www.cvcomics.com/artandstory/
http://www.chrisoatley.com/
http://ninjamountain.blogspot.com/
http://javilandblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.wippodcast.com/
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss45791.xml

Bianca Ryan

Bianca Ryan
Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1, 1994) is an American singer and guitarist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who won the debut season of NBC's America's Got Talent at age eleven.
http://www.biancaryan.com/
http://www.myspace.com/biancaryan

Baron von Lind

Baron von Lind
http://www.thepinupfiles.com/lind.html
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Baron-von-Lind-v/dp/0865621349

Horror movies

Splinter
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031280/


Mum & Dad
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1129428/


Eden Lake
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020530/


The Descent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent

Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett
(February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett

British movies

Hoffman (1969) staring Peter Sellers and Sinéad Cusack
A strange and touching love story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoffman_(film)


The Browning Version (1951)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Browning_Version_(1951_film)
http://www.criterion.com/films/873

Glenn Barr Elsewhere Show

Attended the opening night of the Glenn Barr's Elsewhere show at Outre gallery on 19th June. Always great to see the original paintings up close. Here are some photos from the night.
http://www.outregallery.com/browse.aspx?Category=166

Brandt Peters and Kathie Olivas

Brandt Peters
http://www.brandtpeters.com/
http://brandtpeters.blogspot.com/


Kathie Olivas
http://www.miserychildren.com/
http://www.kathieolivas.blogspot.com/

Tombow Mono 100 Professional Drawing Pencils

http://www.dickblick.com/products/tombow-mono-professional-drawing-pencils/

http://www.pencilthings.com/blog/tombow-mono-100-mono-r-and-mono-j-pencils-are-coming-to-pencilthingscom/

http://www.penciltalk.org/2006/09/top-japanese-pencils-the-mitsubishi-hi-uni-and-the-tombow-mono-100