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  1. MikeKardec

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    I've always wondered if the entire post war era wasn't all about one decade, the mid 50s to the mid 60s, then the mid 60s to the mid 70s, etc, over reacting to the one before it ... either acting in opposition (60s counter culture reaction to the 50s) or by diving in so deep it couldn't see out...
  2. MikeKardec

    How accurate is Mad Men with regard to the early '60s?

    In my limited opinion, Mad Men started out as a sort of a send up of an era, an ironic (sometimes wonderfully ironic) revisionist entertainment that used elements of the reality of the time to contrast with the story of an ad man who was living multiple lies. Content and theme complimented one...
  3. MikeKardec

    Old gas stations

    On a recent trip to Germany I was wandering around an open air museum of classic (sometimes ancient) Westphalian architecture ... reconstructed towns, farms and windmills many hundreds and hundreds of years old ... This sort of stuff -- and then, out of nowhere, I came upon this classic...
  4. MikeKardec

    Waratah Homes

    Those are very, very, cool. I love the architecture AND the Queensland countryside! Back in the early 2000s I was working on films in Qld and the exchange rate was crazy low with the US dollar nearly double its value in Oz (thus there were lots of Hollywood films being shot there). We looked...
  5. MikeKardec

    Brad Pitt's WWII Tank movie, "FURY"

    Another Tank Movie that has some interesting material is The Beast directed by Kevin Reynolds. Adapted from a play (of all things) by William Mastrosimone it deals with a Soviet Tank crew in Afghanistan. Though it veered off into some strange terrain, I did like the bits where the Afghans are...
  7. MikeKardec

    James Bond -Generational Gap question

    My Dad read all the Bond books and saw all the movies up until his death in the 1980s. I wouldn't call him a "fan" but he certainly enjoyed them. He was born in 1908 and served in WWII. Bond, as silly as some of the movies have been, kind of gets me misty eyed. I think it's the longevity of...
  8. MikeKardec

    The WPA

    It would be a good idea in many locations TODAY!
  9. MikeKardec

    The WPA

    I think that was also done with the wonderful, now restored, 360 degree mural in the Pan Am seaplane terminal at La Guardia. No one is sure if it was considered "communistic" but it was painted over by the Port Authority in the 1950s ... highly suspicious! Though today people tend to...
  10. MikeKardec

    Weekend duffel

    Frost River. They make a "narrow" gladstone-ish bag. Get the larger one, the smaller is pretty limited. Duffles are also good but, because of their width, you have to strain to carry them further from your body.
  11. MikeKardec

    What is the Golden Era to you?

    I always feel like it's more of a golden era of a certain sort of aesthetics, rather than a time I'd like to live in or think of nostalgically. Fashion, design, art, fiction, film, science, politics and even religion(!) all had a rough modernist energy. It could be a reaction to the era before...
  13. MikeKardec

    Oilfield Dodge................

    I can remember being very proud of myself arriving at the top of Kennebec Pass in the La Plata Mts of southern Colorado. It hadn't been a hard core four wheeling experience but I was still happy with my Jeep's performance. I get up to the trail head and there is an early 1970s Plymouth station...
  14. MikeKardec

    Oilfield Dodge................

    Roads are such strange things. We very rarely drive off-road vehicles actually "off road, in a lot of places it's illegal and, of course, very slow going with a certain amount of retracing your steps. But ROADS because of the erosion they cause, can often be more impassible than "off road" and...
  15. MikeKardec

    Oilfield Dodge................

    Yeah, there is that sort of tension between rally drivers and rock crawlers. Personally, as a on an off Land Rover owner (and lover), I think that there have been no better "multi use" vehicles made than the Model T and the Bug. They were the perfect compromise for the world as it existed in...
  16. MikeKardec

    WWII aviation artist - favourite picture?

    Getting published has never been easier. Writing is as hard as ever! Never be afraid of rewriting, it is your truest friend but NEVER do it until you are done with your first draft (you must get to the end, you MUST get to the end). Get done. Put it aside for a month or two, you'll see it...
  17. MikeKardec

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    That's it! My Mom actually knew him ... much earlier than when I was in Junior High though. I have always loved the look of his designs but on close examination a great many of the houses seemed to have used such light construction (not the school!) that they seemed fragile or cheap. It seems...
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    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    All the WPA era schools I went to had steam heat. Very nice in the winter but not very responsive to the cool mornings/hot afternoons of the Southern California spring and fall ... less now that it's so much hotter. Luckily the ceilings were really high with floor to ceiling windows that all...
  20. MikeKardec

    Audio History

    I finally did sell the Lansing but before it left my garage I found the new owner a field coil and we hooked it up and played it, powering it from a 1959 Fischer amp. The speaker probably hadn't been used in 30 or 40 years. For the first five minutes we made a lot of comments like "pretty damn...
  21. MikeKardec

    Mr. Moto gets a boxed set

    I can't recommend the Moto books highly enough. With the occasional exception of overusing the "foppish and innocent young hero" trope so popular at the time they are very good. A little eerie, in fact, when you realize what happened not too long after they were published. There is definitely...
  22. MikeKardec

    World War I-Themed Christmas Advert

    Here's a couple of links of an artist I used to work with, Greg Manchess, talking about doing a campaign on the same subject. http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-07-24T02:00:00-04:00&max-results=20&start=18&by-date=false...
  23. MikeKardec

    WWII aviation artist - favourite picture?

    Hopefully your ego and dreams of cover art will keep you writing when lack of creative drive or too much insecurity threaten ... really, just keep going, don't ever be afraid to be bad ... that's what rewriting is for! The biggest secret in the business is "don't stop." I'm guessing that...

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