mnmlist: free of advertising
Every nook of our lives is filled with advertising these days. It’s so pervasive that we have come to accept it as a fact of life, and it cannot help but have an effect on our minds.
Advertising is highly effective — we might not realize it, but it works on our subconscious so that we want to buy things. It plants desires in our minds, and creates a mindset that, whatever our problem, buying something is the solution. It creates the mindset that buying is the norm, and there’s no other choice.
And it’s everywhere. Watch TV, advertising screams at you all day long. Read a newspaper or magazine, go to a website, and it’s in every crevice. It’s on our Facebook and Twitter pages, in our email, on billboards, on buses, in sports events, in public outdoor spaces, on people’s clothing, in 5K races, on blimps in the sky, in podcasts, in iTunes, before a movie starts, subtly (or not so subtly) placed products inside of movies … everywhere. On websites, it’s seen as inevitable, and a site without ads is almost unheard of (very different from the web of 15 years ago, when ads were rare).
But it doesn’t have to be a fact of life, having advertising everywhere. More and more, the future seems to hold more invasive advertising, more personalized so that it will target our minds more effectively (probably streaming directly into our retinas or frontal cortex). But it hasn’t always been like this, and we can decide not to participate in this.
Just a century ago, advertising wasn’t nearly so intrusive. A century before that, it didn’t really exist (at least not the way we normally recognize it). Sure, there have always been people calling out their wares, but it’s become a whole different order of magnitude — many many orders.
We don’t have to submit. There are other ways of doing things. We don’t have to let corporations control our minds and our lives.
What’s the alternative? First, we must get out of the consumerist mindset — think about what’s really essential, rather than needing to buy all the time. Second, we must imagine other possibilities. It’s hard to do that when we’ve been trained to think in terms of buying and selling, in terms of commerce instead of people. Yes, we need to make a living, but making a living doesn’t mean selling — it means living. We’ve forgotten that, and it’s time to start remembering.
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Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers (1928-1968), was a popular Cleveland radio personality and radio DJ in the late 50s and 60s, and a major pioneer in rock history. This beatnik-styled flop is his only record done under the alias "The Joker" in 1959. The flip side of Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers' sole 45. The mad daddy of Cleveland horror movie hosts, Pete Myers, in action here in a commercial spot on his hugely popular radio show back in the late 1950's. He was an unmistakable influence on Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson (who had worked with Myers) when Ernie began hosting horror movies himself in 1963. Moving to New York, his Mad Daddy persona eventually fell out of favor, and he took his own life in 1968. From Feb. 12, 1967, here is a phone interview between two Cleveland DJ's - Dick Liberatore, who was doing his "Big Beat" Oldies show on WERE-FM at the time, made a phone call to Cleveland 50s legend Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers, who was working in New York at that time. "Mad Daddy" had a wild and wacky radio show on both WJW and WHK in Cleveland. Only old-timers and radio buffs know of "Mad Daddy," and this phone interview is truly a piece of radio history!! I put some recent pix of Dick Liberatore, who is now living in Las Vegas, on her just to have some visuals with this audio clip. And, along with the interview, you'll hear Dick talking and reading some live commercials. Sadly, Pete Myers took his own life in September of 1968. Dehumidifier- Immaculate Conception Record Hop - The Mad Daddy
Record Rendezvous Ads - Mad Daddy
Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers - What Is a Fisteris?
Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers - I Love a Good Practical Joke
Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers - Zoomeratin Alphabet
"Mad Daddy" Pete Myers
Dick Liberatore's 1967 Phone Interview with "Mad Daddy" - in 2 parts
Christmas Tree (Andy Warhol- 1958)
rastasanta
A Christmas Carol
from Mark at Down Underground blog
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Serpents (and a mutt) 
Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi wish you a merry christmas.
Betty Grable has some pressies for us.
He Sees You When You’re Sleeping. He Knows When You’re Awake.
fingers crossed this year - hopefully it has a compass in the stock
Merry Christmas, God Jul, to all you out there!!!
Clara Bow “Pity the poor flapper on Christmas Eve!”
Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus –
This terra cotta inkstand c1500 from Colle Val d'Elsa is pictured in the superb coffee table book published to celebrate the opening of the new V & A Medieval & Renaissance Art gallery in December 2009.
This predella panel from the front side of Duccio's Maestà (c1310) is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. The bulk of the work is where it belongs, in Siena.
This is a roof boss from the nave ceiling of York Minster (Yorkshire), the largest of Britain's medieval cathedrals.
This photo was taken from "Ghirlandaio" by Andreas Quermann - an out of print Könemann monograph which is still around second hand. Domenico Ghirlandaio's 1480s Nativity with himself as shepherd number one opposite a drop dead gorgeous Mary, and Joseph distracted by the clatter of the Magi and their retainers riding over to join in. This is in the tourist free Sassetti Chapel in SSTrinita in Florence, where Ghirlandaio also included Lorenzo de'Medici (twice) and his family plus another self portrait amongst a series of Franciscan episodes.
Circa 1961, Newfoundland, Canada — Marine Pfc. Bob Kamineki dances the twist with Jayne Mansfield at the U.S. Naval Station Argentia. Mansfield traveled to the Arctic base with other Hollywood celebrities as part of the Bob Hope Christmas Show. 
Jayne Mansfield decorating the tree.
Circa 1942, Hollywood — Ida Lupino, Warner Brothers star, delivers a few wallops to Santa Claus’ spankable rear extremity for, although you would never guess it, that jolly spirit of Christmas is 1,600 years old this December. Miss Lupino, however, just gives him a few for good-measure.
Circa 1947, London — Diana Dors, British film player, holds a Christmas greeting in French. — Images by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1940's Greetings: Waitin' for Santa! - I hope Santa brings you something good!
Lab Partners
Humphrey Bogart in “The Return of Dr. X” (Warner Brothers, 1939) via Heritage Auctions
Special License Plates Tag Careless Drivers Special license plates for traffic violators are being considered as a safety measure by Cliff Davis, commissioner of public safety in Memphis, Tenn. If the measure is adopted motorists who persistently break traffic laws will be required to run in their regular licence plates for special tags, similar to that shown in the photograph above, bearing a skull and the words “traffic-law violator.” - Popular Science Mar, 1939 
Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943)
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Monster Public Service Announcements by Rob Kelly http://robkellyillustration.blogspot.com/
Jalacy Hawkins, best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins (July 18, 1929 – February 12, 2000) was an African-American musician, singer, and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You" and "Constipation Blues," Hawkins sometimes used macabre props onstage, probably making him the first shock rocker. From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screamin%27_Jay_Hawkins
Maria Montez aka “The Queen of Technicolor”, in black and white. They named an airport after her in the Dominican Republic, you know. Maria Montez International Airport. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Montez
Dali ~ Barcelona Sphinx
Robert Mapplethorpe Louise Nevelson 1986
Ad for a widow
Hannes Bok, Mambaloa, 1947. Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Woodard (July 2, 1914–April 11, 1964), was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds of black and white interior illustrations. Bok's work graced the pages of calendars and early fanzines, as well as dust jackets from specialty book publishers like Arkham House, Llewellyn, Shasta, and Fantasy Press. His paintings achieved a luminous quality through the use of an arduous glazing process, which was learned from his mentor, Maxfield Parrish. Bok was the first artist to win a Hugo Award. - from Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Bok
Cocorico était un journal bi-mensuel humoristique, littéraire et artistique. "Artistique" c'est peu dire lorsque les signataires des couvertures ont des noms prestigieux ; Mucha, Kupka, Widhopff, Steinlen, Grün, Wély, Roubille, Wilette, Kienerk...
Members of The New York Dolls stroll up theChamps Elysées toward the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, November 1973. © Alain Dister. Rock n' roll photo ops trump traffic regulations and common courtesy. That's covered in Rock Entitlement 203. This Dister shot was probably staged like a 1000 other shots on the Champs, but when I was holed up in the Hotel Astrid down at the end of avenue Carnot (off camera to the right) back in '06, it never occurred to *me* to do such a thing. I mean negotiating the traffic around and approaching the Arc is not for the faint of heart.
Audrey hepburn chopping wood.
Koo Koo The Bird Girl (via a Contessa)
arthur brown via gocontinental.com
Treading the Boards #3-Photos of Bela Lugosi (then Bela Lugossy) in The Passion Play, 1909.
Ghost Breakers #2, December 1948
Ezra Pound by Richard Avedon.
Yinka Shonibare
Photographed by Jadeeey from CRAPPY TAXIDERMY (I think the cat is unstuffed & alive)
straus
Check out this Octopus pin that was an addition to the Syd Barrett Opel fanzine. The button was only available to the subscribers of the Syd Barrett 'OPEL' Fanzine. The year of this was 1984. The name 'OPEL' came from the name of an unreleased song from the Madcap Sessions. The button has the Octopus logo from the song of the same name released 11/14/1969 on the Harvest label.
George Sterling The San Francisco poet who wrote about "My cool, grey city of love." If you're looking for a precursor of the psychedelics, look for his long poem "A Wine of Wizardry." Killed himself at the Bohemian Club in 1926. There is a nice website dedicated to him: http://www.george-sterling.org/
Iceberg, Antarctica — Joan Myers, 2001
Mojo Bag Ad (via learning2share)
Gottfried Helnwein Charles Bukowski 1991
House of Kostabi - NYC (10/19/09 at 11:43am EST)
The Runaways in Creem
If I used "emoticons" I would have a sad face right......HERE...
