I have picked some images of three artist I really appreciate. Check out also the unurth. The website is featuring many street artists from around the globe. artist: Delavega, Ephemera + Lascarr
Berlin
CAPACOCHA IS a one-man Electro-Rock band from the Netherlands. He has been playing lately from the smallest underground venues to big festivals around the country. You can check him out on myspace.
Cigarette Pack Holder, 1955 Smoking a pack at once seemed probably a good idea back in the 50’s.
This must be the favorite invention of the tabaco industry. Photo: Jacobsen/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1955
Cigarette Pack Holder, 1955
Photo: Jacobsen/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1955
Baby Cage, 1937 this suspended baby cage can be attached to the outside of a building. Photo: Reg Speller/Getty Images
Jun 23, 1937
Finnish Portable Sauna, 1962 Some research showed me that you can oder one this right away for as little as $32.00 new. Or the image above as a poster for $69.99. Photo: Yale Joel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1962
Fast Shooting Robot, 1960
And this isn’t a still from a dusty hollywood movie but a real fast shooting robot. Photo: J. R. Eyerman./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Jun 01, 1960
The Dog Restrainer, 1940
This is another brilliant invention of the 40’s Photo: BIPS/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1940
you can find the 30 Dumb Inventions gallery from Life.com here
A post war trauma, influences from aerodynamics and aircraft industry all combined with a little bit of space travel dreams of that time resulted in this futuristic and sometimes even in a bit weird shapes. I think it’s absolutely fascinating!
The Bocar was produced between 1957-1961 by Bob Carnes. There are just couple of survivors. Today the car would qualify as near-super car ranking as based on performance according to wikipedia.
1964 CD Panhard LM64
1964 CD Panhard LM64
is a rare race car prototype designed by Charles Deutsch, French aerodynamics engineer.
Lancia Stratos HF prototype
1956 GM Firebird-II Concept
Cadillac LaSalle II – 1955
Ford La Tosca – 1955
Lincoln Futura – 1955
1956 Dodge Dart
Oldsmobile Golden Rocket – 1956
Pontiac Club De Mer – 1956
Ford X 2000 – 1958
Cadillac Cyclone – 1959
Ford Gyron – 1961
Pontiac Cirrus – 1969
“Rizk Auto RA” might look like one from the 50’s but it’s from 2009. The body is made of some space materials. So it makes it suitable for this post