Drew a lil jacket decal for a friends OC!

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[Originally posted July 11, 2017: Jayne wearing some 1950s-ish clothes. I didn't want to copy the picnic table plaid look so I kept the shirt red
The pose and clothing were taken from reference

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Local Cat Guy Stands Forebodingly In A Doorway, More At 11

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Since L.A. Noire is back in people's minds, I'd just like to take this opportunity to ask for another game in the series... specifically, one with Jack Kelso as the protagonist working as a freelance detective in a 1950s-era San Francisco.

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Suddenly, Last Summer ('59)
⭐⭐⭐½
Based on play & directed by - & star in this mystery that deals w/ mental illness. Oscar nods for the leading ladies.

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Back at it with new old Ads!

1952, Jantzen Underwear

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The Fallout series is retrofuturism inspired by 1950s era nuclear panic but still set in the future. Like the Great War happens in 2077 and the first game takes place in 2161. And that's something casual fans tend to forget that it's not retro but retrofuturism.

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Bus Stop ('56)
⭐⭐⭐
A loud and frustrating romance with annoying, boisterous characters that had just enough appeal to keep me interested. The worst film I've seen so far, but contains one of her most versatile performances.

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When Christer Strömholm traveled to Paris in late 1950s, he left with a captivating portrait of the trans women who made a living in the city's red-light district.

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no thoughts in head, only Carlisle and Esme from Twilight in the 1950s

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What do you think? Photo restoration of a 1950s sun-bleached photo, tons of glue stains and nearly no detail or colour left. And here it is now after hours of meticulous work. Want to learn how to restore old photos? Start here: https://t.co/7cSjeKk5v2

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The Short SA.4 Sperrin (named after the Sperrin Mountains) was a British jet bomber design of the early 1950s. It was a conventional design, intended to be used as a 'fall-back' in case any of the more 'radical' V-Bombers failed to enter production. Only two Sperrins were built.

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i know that a lot of images were often painted over to get a certain “ideal look” and i can’t really find the exact terminology used for this technique but ive seen it called “1950s photoshop” and it was HEAVILY used in pinup photography:

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Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 paintings that she made over her career.

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The papers here, while not designed for would make wonderful folded pieces. From the "Specimens of the Curwen Pattern Papers", each sheet shown is designed by an artist (1920s-1950s) specifically for the Curwen Press. Each piece is 1/12 of a whole sheet.

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Villages of the future (in the 1950s)

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Modelsheets of "simplified" Peter Pan characters designed by Tom Oreb. These were for Disney's TV commercial division during the mid-1950s. The Peter Pan ads were for Peter Pan peanut butter, natch.

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The worlds first jet flying boat fighter certainly inspired commercial artists of the early 1950s.
Here, an advert, a post card and a comic book centre spread cutaway, all feature the Saunders Roe A1; a type who's role was by-passed by history and technology in a few short years.

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Happy Birthday to the great French artist and cartoonist André François, born André Farkas in Romania 1915. André François contributed scores of illustrations, cartoons and covers to PUNCH in the 1950s and 1960s. Here are some more!

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