During the ’80s and early ’90s, J.Crew was more than just a clothing mail-order business.
No other site in the world makes me happy like The Internet K-Hole does! This is the place where I go when I want to see photos that remind me what it was like to grow up in the mad wild 80’s. I have nothing but respect for the human behind this site, because it’s […]
The artist Eduardo Paolozzi once described the artist’s studio as a laboratory where experiments are carried out and chemicals react with each other to produce strange and unsteady alliances. A place where the artist’s personality spreads through the room’s collected detritus like some untreated fungal growth and creativity changes dramatically but generally for the better. The same observation can be said for the teenager’s bedroom which is a similar site of experimentation and chemical reaction towards a creative sense of self. The teenage bedroom is where the revolution usually first starts between slammed doors and “You don’t understand me,” to music blaring at all hours of the day-and-night and the unrelenting desires of puberty. These rooms tend to all end up looking the same with only the allegiances to content differing. The walls are usually decorated like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with a collage of posters featuring the fashionable pop star, movie actor, and sexy pin-up. While the books and albums which spread across shelf and floor suggest a search for taste and substance. This little selection of photos culled from here and there give a rather personal peek at the typical...
Suffice it to say, things have come a long way in just a short amount of time, and it’s a lot of fun to look back. So, let’s jump into Living With Computers by Patrick G. McKeown (1986)...
aesthetics for the zodiac signs [these aesthetics are subjective and based on my opinion]
A lot of us are obsessed with vintage stuff nowadays, from clothes to music to generally wishing we had grown up in the 60s. We often forget, however, that our dear old parents were the ones who started all those trends we now admire.
We’ve come to the last installment of Camp Kveller’s retro photo series. Here’s a look into summer camps in the 1970s and 1980s — a time of feathered hairstyles and shorter shorts. (You can see the past photo essays here: 1910s & 1920s, 1930s & 1940s, and 1950s & 1960s.) Summer camps in the ’70s […]
