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Vintage Movie Poster
That’s where his popularity emanates from. Brand recognition.
Philip Morris & Co. (now Altria) had originally introduced the Marlboro brand as a woman’s cigarette in 1924. Starting in the early 1950s, the cigarette industry began to focus on promoting filtered cigarettes, as a response to the emerging scientific data about harmful effects of smoking. Marlboro, as well as other brands, started to be [...]
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Image via Wikipedia Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi; 1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books – that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the [...]
Ok first off, I can travel at light speed. That’s like a time traveler but it isn’t. Not only do I travel at light speed, but time slows down for me. So it feels like I am having a casual jog or reading the paper, meanwhile, my feet are moving so fast you can hear me coming from Madrid while I am already gotten to Madurai.
What would you do if you could travel back in time? Assassinate Marilyn Monroe? Go on a date with Hitler? Obviously. But here’s what I’d do after that: grab all the modern technology I could find, take it to the late 70′s, superficially redesign it all to blend in, start a consumer electronics company to [...]
The unsettling part is that so much time has gone by.
Image via Wikipedia A $300,000 watch? Luxury. A $300,000 watch that doesn’t tell time - and that sells out? Pure genius. According to several news reports flagged by my friends at Luxist, Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome just launched the “Day&Night” watch. The watch won’t tell you what time it is. That’s so yesterday. But it [...]