Dara Puspita

Dara Puspita
The all-girl, Indonesian rock band of the '60s and '70s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Puspita
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/dara-puspita/5940464

Three English authors

Three English authors whose work inspired Japanese film-maker and artist Hayao Miyazaki.

Diana Wynne Jones

Books: Howl's Moving Castle, Dark Lord of Derkholm

http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/

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

Rosemary Sutcliff

Books: The Lantern Bearers, The Sword and the Circle

http://rosemarysutcliff.com/

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

Philippa Pearce

Books: Tom's Midnight Garden

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

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/02/guardianobituaries.booksforchildrenandteenagers

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Digital brushes

Ray Frenden
Brushes: http://frenden.myshopify.com/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/rayfrenden/videos
Blog: http://frenden.com/

Kyle T Webster
https://gumroad.com/kyletwebster
http://www.kyletwebster.com/portfolio/brushes/

Dmark
http://dmark.se/2013/photoshop-brushes/

Various brushes
http://digitalbrushes.tumblr.com/

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Zokko

Zokko
Zokko was a BBC television programme for children that ran on Saturday mornings between 1968 and 1970. It was devised by veteran children's TV producer Molly Cox, and featured a mixture of animations, film clips, magic and narrated cartoons. The show was named after its "presenter", a talking pinball machine (designed by Mike Ellis, the father of Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis, and grandfather of singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor) which introduced the clips and then scored them in its robotic voice e.g. "Zokko, Score 7". (wiki)

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

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Mix Media Artists

Danita
http://danitaart.blogspot.com.au/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danitaart
http://www.pinterest.com/danitaart/

Tascha Parkinson
http://www.timewithtascha.blogspot.com.au/
https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/tascha

Megan Suarez
http://meganscreativebliss.blogspot.com.au/
http://www.youtube.com/user/mycreativebliss
http://www.pinterest.com/mycreativebliss/

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Joseph W. Sarno

Joseph W. Sarno
One of the most prolific and distinctive auteurs to emerge from the proto-pornographic sexploitation film genre of the 1960s, Joe Sarno had written and directed approximately 75 theatrically released feature films in the sexploitation, softcore and hardcore genres as well as a number of shot-on-video features for the '80s hardcore video market. (wiki)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_W._Sarno

Hector Garrido

American illustrator Hector Garrido
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Garrido
http://pulpcovers.com/tag/hectorgarrido/
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Shimokitazawa

Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, Japan

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

http://hellosandwich.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/shimokitazawa.html

http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/what-Japan-would-be-like-if-hipsters-ran-it

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The Touchables

The Touchables (1968)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063709/

Trailer: http://youtu.be/fMC5PL2R73g

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Joan Colom

Joan Colom - Spanish photographer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Colom
http://emirco.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/on-joan-colom.html
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Kaiju movie books

Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men by Peter H. Brothers

A book about Japanese monster film Ishiro Honda

http://encinostalgia.webs.com/

http://technicolordreams70.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/cine-tome-mushroom-clouds-and-mushroom-men/

Monsters are Attacking Tokyo by Stuart Galbraith

http://stuartgalbraithiv.wordpress.com/

Interview with Peter H. Brothers and Stuart Galbraith

http://projection-booth.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/episode-90-mothra.html

Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters By August Ragone

http://augustragone.blogspot.com.au/

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Frank McCarthy

Frank McCarthy

Prolific American artist and realist painter renowned for advertisements, magazine artwork, paperback covers, film posters, and paintings of the American West. (wiki)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McCarthy_(artist)
http://www.americanartarchives.com/mccarthy,f.htm
http://www.frankmccarthy.com/

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In Their Own Words

In Their Own Words, British novelists

Series looking at the story of the British novel in the 20th century, told by those who know it best, the authors themselves.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tjqh0

Episode 2: The Age of Anxiety 1945-1969

J. R. R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim

William Golding - Lord of the Files

Iris Murdoch - Under the net

The Angry Young Men

John Braine - Room at the top

Alan Sillitoe - Saturday night, Sunday morning

Kenneth Tynan

The Windrush Generation

George Lamming - The Emigrants

Sam Selvon - The lonely Londoner

Colin MacInnes - Absolute beginners

John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids

Anthony Burgess - A clockwork orange

JG Ballard - The Drowned World

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook

Margaret Drabble - The Millstone

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Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan (1935 – 1984) Poet

http://www.brautigan.net/

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/richard-brautigan

Two poems from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1968)

A Boat

O beautiful

was the werewolf   

in his evil forest.   

We took him

to the carnival   

and he started   

   crying

when he saw

the Ferris wheel.   

Electric

green and red tears   

flowed down

his furry cheeks.   

He looked

like a boat

out on the dark   

water.

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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

I like to think (and

the sooner the better!)

of a cybernetic meadow

where mammals and computers

live together in mutually

programming harmony

like pure water

touching clear sky. 

I like to think

     (right now please!)

of a cybernetic forest

filled with pines and electronics

where deer stroll peacefully

past computers

as if they were flowers

with spinning blossoms. 

I like to think

     (it has to be!)

of a cybernetic ecology

where we are free of our labors

and joined back to nature,

returned to our mammal

brothers and sisters,

and all watched over

by machines of loving grace.

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Boyamba Belgique

Boyamba Belgique

The day before the Congo gained independence, the saber of the Belgian king Baudouin was stolen by a young Congolese. Half a century later we embark on a quest for the sword and the thief and discover the deeper meaning of the symbolic act.

http://icarusfilms.com/new2011/bb.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839422/

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Ron Gans

Ron Gans (Ron Kennedy)

Actor and voiceover artist.

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

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304532/

http://youtu.be/wYmgvyZbPeM

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Blossom Wong

Blossom Wong

Police officer Wong escorted Robert F. Kennedy during his visit to Malaysia in 1964. A real life Jane Bond?

http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/i-caught-criminals-in-a-cheongsam-1.120548

http://bit.ly/PUG1dx

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The Kim Sisters

The Kim Sisters

A South Korean female trio who made their career in U.S. during 1950s and 60s. They were Sue (Sook-ja), Aija (Ai-ja) and their cousin Mia Kim. (Wiki)

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

http://stereofat.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/kim-sisters.html

http://youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com/the-kim-sisters/

Korean Kittens

Korean Kittens - 1960's vocal group from Korea.

Singing "Can't Buy Me Love" on the Beeb (1964) 

http://youtu.be/YnbtmH95Ncw

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8242654.stm

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Juliane Koepcke

Juliane Koepcke - When I Fell From the Sky

She was 17-years-old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm. A strike of lightning left the plane incinerated and Juliane Diller (Koepcke) still strapped to her plane seat falling through the night air two miles above the Earth.Her survival is unexplainable and considered a modern day miracle. Her mother was among the 91 dead and Juliane the sole survivor. For eleven days she crawls and walks alone through the jungle, fighting for her survival again with hunger and despair her only companions as maggots eat their way into her wounds. Juliane ultimately survives and goes on to live an inspiring life as a scientist continually drawn back to the terrain that threatened to take her. On the 40th anniversary she shares not only the private moments of her survival and rescue but her life in the wake of the disaster. (Amazon)


http://www.amazon.com/When-I-Fell-From-Sky/dp/0983754705

Interview

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/fell-from-the-sky/4120410

Werner Herzog - Wings of Hope (2000) 

http://youtu.be/szH3vaPzUXQ

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