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SodaStream, a status symbol amongst children of the seventies and eighties, is making a comeback. Environmentally-friendly, economical, and fun(ish), these home carbonation contraptions have had a complete overhaul.
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Where would I be without the mighty Dan? This is a band that I listen to almost daily. Every time I do, I hear something new. Sure, they’re clever East Coast jazz-rockers, with a laid back West Coast sound. But read that again: they’re clever! What’s not to love about that? Maybe being English and [...]
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If you were born in the late 70s or early 80s, you probably remember Super-Soakers, Mr. Wizard, and Darkwing Duck with great fondness. I’m Remembering takes you down Gen Y memory lane with pictures and links to both your favorite and the long-forgotten toys, TV-shows, and snacks from your childhood.
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The humble ice cube tray. You might not think that little block of plastic sitting in your freezer leaves much room for innovation, but think again. The designers over at Fred and Friends have been having a field day with it, dreaming up all sorts of funky variations to the traditional cube. Check out Ice [...]
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It would be great to be able to call Aussie band Dropbears‘ one hit wonders for this slippery pop song from 1982. But they weren’t even that. Instead, outside of a few Australian loyalists, this killer track — Fun Lovin’ — slipped into obscurity, only resurrected in its full finery on backward looking culture blogs. [...]
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The heavily political, provocative, and pornographic themes and images in French artist Maldo Nollimerg’s collages remind me of awesome punk album covers from the early 80s, but with a slightly more baroque quality to them.
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As artist Christopher Locke attests, there will come a day very, very soon, when we will look back on the modern technology of today and laugh at it’s antiquatedness. In fact, that moment may have already arrived given the tone of Locke’s foreboding series of modern technology fossils, which celebrate the once usefulness, now obsolescence, of ubiquitous contemporary inventions.
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What’s not to love about the idea of taking classic 1980s album covers (The Breakfast Club soundtrack, for instance) and reinterpreting them using characters from famous comic book series’. Illustrator Cliff Chiang has done just that. And he’s done it very well, with his takes on Jennifer Beals from Flashdancing as Electra and Duran Duran as Vampirella, among others.
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Baltimore synth-pop band Future Islands have been busy lately. Along with In The Fall, a 12″ EP of b-sides released earlier this month, their Thrill Jockey debut In Evening Air is due out May 4, right at the start of a month-and-a-half-long tour. Gerrit Welmers lays down dance-y New Wave rhythms and William Cashion slams [...]
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Illustrator Steve Thomas has recently posted some great propaganda art based on classic video games. My favorite is the one he did for Frogger not only because it’s a really striking design, but also because Frogger wouldn’t be so obvious a choice to make propaganda art out of compared to a game like say Space Invaders.
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I adore the band Health and am left fascinated by this glamorously bouncy We Are Water remix by Canadian duo Azari & III, who have taken it to outer house-space. It’s pure 80s late night disco at its finest. Ghost Buster meets Short Circuit, anyone? [audio:http://gimmetinnitus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/WE%20ARE%20WATER%20(AZARI%20&%20III%20REMIX).mp3]
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We’re not shy about our love of all things 80s, and Goldfrapp’s Rocket clip has taken us right back to a cloudy pastel world of big hair, synth optimism and glittering disco. We might just stay here for a while. Who’s in?
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Remember Fade To Grey, that seminal new romantic dance hit from 1980s. Well, neither do we. But regardless, we checked in with Rusty Egan from the group Visage and asked him about the music that is inspiring him some 30 years after Visage’s sublime moment on glory. He started with the Deadmau5 track, Faxing Berlin [...]
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For the man who has everything comes these 1980s arcade game themed ties, featuring Asteroids, Pong, Tetris and Space Invaders.
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You gotta love the 80s, especially now that we can look back on it with rose-tinted glasses. Which is what it takes to comprehend the saccharine sweet naivety behind this ad created to explain, and justify, the bizarre decision by then President Ronald Reagan to launch a missile defense system based in the heavens. Ah, [...]
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