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Commented on Props of Mad Men
I watch the show religiously, and I agree with Anonymous. The "fainting couch" is set dressing, and is the province of set design, not props. Furniture is not a prop....
Commented on Mitch Horowitz on Occult New York
I hope you'll include the fabulous Masonic building on the uptown side of 73rd Street between West End and Broadway. I love that building. I think it's called the Level Club. Fabulous. http://www.flickr.com/photos/klg19/3557964694/in/set-72157618686013038/...
Commented on Photos of NYC in the 1940s
If you really want to see fantastic photos of NYC through the decades, check out Flickr user Straatis' collection: http://www.flickr.com/photos/40045986@N00/sets/ Hundreds of photos, broken down by decade from the Aughts through the 1960s. It's beautiful to see buildings long gone,...
Commented on Michael Jackson's everlasting death spectacle and "Paedogeddon"
To those maintaining he was acquitted of all charges--he was acquitted of the charges that went to trial. Read the Bob Herbert piece mentioned above and linked again here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/opinion/04herbert.html?_r=1 Skim down to the sentence that reads "One case of...
Commented on Sarlaac pillow
Er, I'm with Darren Garrison in #2. "Sarlaac" was definitely NOT the first thing that sprang to my mind....
Commented on Mathematically modelling phantom traffic jams
My brother coined a great term for traffic jams that, when one reaches the front, seem to have had no cause. He calls them "immaculate congestion."...
Commented on Rosie Hardy (photography)
It's amazing to think that the UK made it through decades of IRA terrorism with little more than signs asking people to report abandoned bags. The entire world seems to have gone insane....
Commented on Hullabaloo salute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul
Ouch. Those Vegas-style horns are painful....
Commented on The Mother of All Potato Cannons
I guess I'm kind of a dick for thinking about how all those potatoes you shot our of your machine-gun potato cannon could have gone to, like, a homeless shelter or something, huh? Does my thinking this is a sinful...
Commented on Knife Throwers Just Want a Little Respect
Oh, man, The Unknown is one crazy fabulous film. The very young and fabulously sultry Joan Crawford co-stars as Estrellita. As in many of Chaney's films, his character is deeply twisted right down to the core. You can Netflix it....
Commented on Candid Camera: 5 Decades of Smiles
I never liked CC growing up. But then I've never been a fan of practical jokes, or the humor of humiliation (Ben Stiller makes me ILL). But it had nothing to do with the color of the show. My family,...
Commented on Bob Graham's much-scoffed-at little notebooks are more reliable than the CIA's records
Stephen Colbert broke this story on The Colbert Report on May 20th: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/228298/may-20-2009/she-said--cia-said---bob-graham...
Commented on Video from 1956 of Eames Lounge chair introduction
I love the music in the assembly video! My parents had two large Eames molded plywood chairs and a matching round coffee table when I was growing up in the '60s. Then we moved from a house in Michigan to...
Commented on Music video: Les Ballets Jackson "Fiesta Hippie"
Actually, the costumes seemed less Roger Vadim and more Rudi Gernreich....
Commented on Blinds made from Card Catalog cards
No fear, Anonymous#9: I'm here to tell you that the card catalog is alive and well, and still of great use (we've only rendered about 98% of the cards into electronic records, which still leaves a fair number of volumes...
Commented on Raquel Welch (On Cross)
A shame you didn't post this on Good Friday. Ahem. No? Too soon?...
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webmonkees commented on Props of Mad Men
It's also a bit fun to play propmaster/time warp at home; Slowly building a mid-70s office with a vintage electric typewriter, Texas Instruments LED calculator, etc. Side benefit is that it's both cheap (thrift shop) and durable (built better). Sure, there's ebay, but that takes the fun out of discovery at the dollar table or flea market. At worst, a day's worth of teardown and cleanup and it's good as new. And very fun to use a real stand mixer with metal mixing bowls. Just set that thing in motion and it's both kinetic and culinary entertainment....
jfrancis commented on Props of Mad Men
Wow, mad props! :D...
Tdawwg commented on Props of Mad Men
that is because the couch is set dressing, and the interview is with the Prop Master. If the interview was with the Set Designer, they might talk about that fainting couch. Incorrect. It's a prop if an actor interacts with it. Fail. tdawwg- you can bet there was a "discussion" in the production meeting about which department was going to have to find/make the vagina couch. If Buckwald didn't discuss it, he won. And by "win" I mean that couch did not have to come out of his budget or be found by his crew. No one argues to have...
theturtle commented on Props of Mad Men
In that time period it was much more likely you'd have had either manual Royals or, if it was IBM, an IBM Executive, which was a conventional type-bar unit. Selectrics were expensive and didn't replace manual typewriters completely until well into the 1970s....
IMSA12 commented on Props of Mad Men
My father was a talented designer of consumer products for Corning Glass Works in the early 1960's and 70's. I've seen his now-iconic work appear in some movies that depict mid/upper class kitchens of the time, and now his designs appear in the Draper kitchen (last season) and on the stove of Don's girlfriend this season. I really enjoy all of the design/artistic references that get included in the whole Mad Men scene, but I wonder if any of the ad agencies of the time really were cool enough to be hanging the likes of Marc Rothko on their office...

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