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Fully Assimilated
Assemblages made from FOUND OBJECTS, at the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, November 2012.(Okay, slightly off-remit, but there is summat MEGASTRUCTURAL about the one above, eh?)More HERE
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Ctepeo
Charity shop find.1972 (sez Discogs) stereo test record, manufactured in the USSR, with the usual instructions - in English - for optimising your stereo listening experience.There just *has* to be a...
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Play-Time
Something Magrittey / Monty Python-esque about this scene.More from 'Inside Information', a look at the UK's services and institutions immediately after WWII, at Boring Old Books
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Scarfolk
Scarfolk is well worth a visit: Council of Scarfolk CouncilI must have been there at some point because some of those images are strangelyfamiliar...
View ArticleTHE terrifying maSSive SHARD of DEATH
"A quest to discover and expose the chilling truth behind one of london's biggest newest shiniest buildings.what you will see are FACTS"More here.
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The Methuen Phonic Workshop
Methuen published these sets of phonics workbooks in partnership with Price Milburn of New Zealand in 1979. They are full of jolly photographs, such as the set of minging brushes, and feature a...
View ArticleThings That Exist
Presenting Things That Exist - a brand new blog all about things that exist! If you're interested in contributing, do get in touch.
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British Public Library Buildings
Published 1966, after (during?) a period when many new public libraries were built in the UK.Imagine it - new libraries!I think the picture at the top is of the Central Library in Luton. Anyone...
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Cine World Music for your Movies
Sometime ago I posted some copies of the wonderful Amateur Cine World magazine onto Found Objects. Last week I popped into a newly opened charity shop to have a very swift browse, and found this copy...
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Meet Mr. Bomb
1983.This came out in the UK but it was adapted from a US version (tell-tale traces remain here and there). Anyone remember seeing it? I've no idea how or where it was distributed, or even how I got...
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Filthy Jazz.
For no reason other than that I like them, and already had them scanned for another blog post that never came together, here are some illustrations by Wally ‘Trog’ Fawkes, from George Melly’s highly...
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At Work in the Fields of the Bomb
1987. A look at the nuclear weapons industry, by Robert Del Tredici, who took the photographs.The 'Amber Waves of Grain' installation in the 2nd picture was created by Barbara Donachy, sez the...
View ArticleMayday
So what did you all think of Mayday?Worth a watch if you can still catch it. Half-way between The Killing and a very 70s BBC vibe.
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March of the Synthesizers
1974.Here's "March of the Synthesizers", arranged (and I'm guessing performed) by L. Muller:
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Old Things
Urban renewal in Sheffield. There are some posters in here. Some of them are very old. Formerly The Works, formerly something else, formerly Freeman Hardy Willis. Safe as houses. Traffic cone family.
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For one week only. This week as it happens.
Hello, what's this? Another special week of posts over at the FO sister blog Mounds & Circles?Is it full of unnecessary sleazy British smut?Yes, yes it is.'Night After Night After Night' is a film...
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A Love Affair with Northampton is a Journey Into Space
Advert for "expanding Northampton", masterminded by yer actual Northampton Development Corporation.Contemporary local news story here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfTT6xOcbdoNo year attached, so whaddya...
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