An Andy Warhol animatronic. I’m reading Warhol’s diaries now—when he mentioned in a 1981 entry that an animatronic of him was being made, I knew I could count on the Cybernetic Zoo to have images of it.
The intention was to have the animatronic perform a “No-Man Show”, where it would quote Warholisms and lines from Warhol’s book, Popism, among other things. As these things go, the project was never realized. All we have is this thing, which one day might become sentient.
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The spidery contraptions of English cartoonist/kinetic artist, Rowland Emett (1906-1990). (Emett also designed those whimsical inventions of Caractacus Potts in CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968).)
Posts are a little sparse—things will pick up again eventually!
Sci-fi horror, PHASE IV (1974). Directed by graphic designer Saul Bass—his only feature—and starring, among others, Nigel Davenport and Lynne Frederick.
Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill around the time they were shooting THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
Belgian symbolist painter, Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946).
A gallery of mid-century blues album covers (and a little bit of jazz). Art by Abner Graboff, David Stone Martin, Milton Glaser, Burt Goldblatt, and others.
Psychedelic poster art by Bonnie MacLean (1939-2020).
Fashion illustrator, René Gruau (1909-2004).
WOW! NOW! KAPOW! Fashion spreads from the late 1960s by Jay Scott Pike. (These appeared in magazines such as YOUNG LOVE, FALLING IN LOVE, GIRLS’ ROMANCES, etc.)
British horror anthology, DEAD OF NIGHT (1945).
gollylag asked:
Could you talk a little about BB and Serge Gainsborough? I know they recorded Bonnie and Clyde together and that they were involved, but I never see pictures of them together. They were both so famous so I don't know how their relationship wasn't on the public radar!
Will do. I’ll do a post on their relationship; the story is interesting for several reasons. I don’t have much time this month—hence the lack of posts—but I’ll get to it soon.
