, , , , ,

Galaga Pin Up

This is one of my earliest pin ups. I recently looked at it with fresh eyes and realized it needed a few tweaks. So we'll call this "Galaga Girl" Version 2.0. Its formal name is "Single Credit Galaga Queen". This dark but colorful pin up art…
, ,

Fashion Square Mall Sears Ads

Fashion Square Mall Sears is closing. This is Sears on East Colonial Drive. Today was the last day. Soon, it'll be demolished to make way for something new. I'll always have a soft spot for Sears and Roebuck. My mom took me there often when…
, , , , ,

Vintage Airbrushed Video Game Art

Sometimes it's hard to believe there was a time when the Adobe Creative Suite didn't exist. Prior to the late 1980s, if you were creating an advertisement or illustration for a magazine, cover art for a video game cartridge, a movie poster or…
, ,

"The Flying Saucer" (1950) Review

Greetings popcorn nerds, Jetpack Jason here. This is a first installment of a series of Golden Age Sci-Fi Cinema Reviews. Today, I’m reviewing “The Flying Saucer”, released in 1950 and produced by Colonial Productions. For the time being,…
, ,

Artificial Christmas Trees! A Vintage Catalog Extravaganza!

In this entry to the Christmas Catalog Extravaganza series, I give you Artificial Christmas Trees! I really thought this was a rather recent invention, but a little research proved me entirely wrong. Check out Wikipedia for the full history.…
, , ,

Christmas Hard Candy! A Vintage Catalog Extravaganza!

Hard candy. Boiled sweets. Teeth Crackers. Call them whatever you like, these colorful, iron hard confections remind us of Christmas at Granny's house. Whether they be fruit or mint flavored, drops or ribbons, tinned or jarred, we kept going…