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News report from 1981 – discussing a crazy new form of “electronic journalism”. This pre-internet technology is quite amusing. Still, I find it of poignant interest that this was already available to consumers in the year I was born. Apparently it took an entire two hours to download the electronic version of the newspaper over [...]

Wow, this was a random little find. I’m sure most of you remember the Ninja Turtles from the cartoons, or at least the blockbuster movie(s). Well if you were ever interested in how it all started – someones scanned in some complete comic books of the first couple of issues of the Teenage Mutant Ninja [...]

He’s back. The Muscles from Brussels. Jean-Claude Van Damme. In a movie that actually looks good. I’m serious, it actually looks good, check out the trailer above and decide for yourself. I like the willingness to take the piss out of himself coupled with some rather nice soul as the backing track. That and the [...]

Okay, I’m not the first one to call it out, but you know the 80′s retro fluro spastic-fantastic multicolour explosion has really hit the mainstream when rednecks people outside metropolitan areas are gearing up on it. Fox, normally known for its Motocross and related gear – has come out with a 2009 collection that is [...]

So what does everyone remember when someone mentions 80′s cartoons? Typically you’d hear twentysomethings mention Inspector Gadget, Ninja Turtles, He-Man and Transformers etc etc. But what about all those other weekday afternoon and saturday morning cartoons?? Those ones that you loved at the time, but probably rates so well and have gotten lost as we [...]

This whole 80′s fabulous thing is getting out of hand. I can see it’s place in fashion and music, but invading our home theatre setups? Granted, this subwoofer by ELAC is a novel way of bringing the 80′s aesthetic to your living room. But it does look pretty ridiculous. I don’t want it but I [...]

Our good friend M sent us the following: On September 6th, I am staging a large performance art piece that requires 6-8 hundred people recreating the parade scene from Ferris Bueller at the Deitch Art Parade in Soho. I am recruiting secret agents in the audience of the parade to mimic the extras in the [...]