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Kiwias wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 12:59 am I would love to know the story behind this, assuming it is not totally staged (which it probably is).

A clear photoshop job.

Marylandolorian wrote: Sun Mar 06, 2022 12:41 pm

That's funny!

notfatcat wrote: Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:20 am

Kiwias wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 12:59 am I would love to know the story behind this, assuming it is not totally staged (which it probably is).

A clear photoshop job.

Actually not a photoshop. It was part of shooting a commercial, apparently.

https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/emi ... g-14574110

Kiwias wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:52 am

notfatcat wrote: Tue Mar 15, 2022 11:20 am

Kiwias wrote: Thu Mar 03, 2022 12:59 am I would love to know the story behind this, assuming it is not totally staged (which it probably is).

A clear photoshop job.

Actually not a photoshop. It was part of shooting a commercial, apparently.

https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/emi ... g-14574110

Fair play then, the photographer has got some stunning separation of the model and the street and the colour grading of each is different, although I guess this will be in part down to the re-touching.

Looking at a book from 1912, this image made me go "Ohhh noooo..."

The caption was something like "Why aren't you boys working?"

My on-going search for great illustrators came up with another WTF gem ... when I learned there were two called Charles Copeland.

The first I saw produced this ...


Nice! Want to see more of his work ... WHA!? That's some change in style ... oh, it's a different dude.



Interestingly, these things seemed to be very popular in men's pulp mags and books in the 60s and 70s, but it doesn't seem there were any movies? Or were there?

Niegs wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 7:33 pm
Interestingly, these things seemed to be very popular in men's pulp mags and books in the 60s and 70s, but it doesn't seem there were any movies? Or were there?

There was this Canadian film



Which attracted this wonderful review:

"Only the most dangerously sadistic mentalities will manage to sit voluntarily through more than ten minutes of Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, a graphic, stomach-churning catalogue of Nazi medical atrocities that makes Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like a Sunday picnic ... Theatres catering to the lowest possible grade of audience could make a bundle of dirty money. Others would be wise to forget it."

There were several others on a similar theme, such as

Lobby wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 7:55 pm
There was this Canadian film



Which attracted this wonderful review:

"Only the most dangerously sadistic mentalities will manage to sit voluntarily through more than ten minutes of Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, a graphic, stomach-churning catalogue of Nazi medical atrocities that makes Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like a Sunday picnic ... Theatres catering to the lowest possible grade of audience could make a bundle of dirty money. Others would be wise to forget it."

There were several others on a similar theme, such as

Um, well, I'm not talking sadistic, torture porn ... just a Bond or Tarantino or 60s Italian-style war film with more explosions, shooting, and tits!

Marylandolorian wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 8:42 pm

Lobby wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 7:55 pm
Which attracted this wonderful review:

"Only the most dangerously sadistic mentalities will manage to sit voluntarily through more than ten minutes of Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, a graphic, stomach-churning catalogue of Nazi medical atrocities that makes Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like a Sunday picnic ... Theatres catering to the lowest possible grade of audience could make a bundle of dirty money. Others would be wise to forget it."

There were several others on a similar theme, such as

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People loving these type of books/ movies should seek help, they are really mentally ill.

That bastion of the Liberal, Metropolitan Elite; The Irish Times, called Iain Banks first book, The Wasp Factory, a “work of unparalleled depravity”.

Banks, was so proud of that comment, that it's one of the reviews on the dust cover

Niegs wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 8:41 pm

Lobby wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 7:55 pm

Um, well, I'm not talking sadistic, torture porn ... just a Bond or Tarantino or 60s Italian-style war film with more explosions, shooting, and tits!

I think only the first one falls into the torture porn category. The second one was set in a brothel (not that I’ve seen either, I just remember reading about them).

Perhaps this might be more up your street.

Kamikaze Girl Island looks like my kinda place

Lobby wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 9:00 pm

I think only the first one falls into the torture porn category. The second one was set in a brothel (not that I’ve seen either, I just remember reading about them).

Perhaps this might be more up your street.

Bookmarked!

... huzzah! The whole thing is on youtube!

Looking at the cast, I imagine it's about as 'raunchy' as this non-raunchy film:



... which reminds me, "Anne Frank" grew into a stunner!

^ don't get me started on the Russian Air Force's inability to conduct SEAD operations.

Young Marx brothers

Huggin Molly seems nice (right click and open image in a new tab if you can't see/read, it's a large one)

Niegs wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 2:29 pm

About a decade old and a spoof

That's some tackle attempt, even if a staged photo!




From this article about an Aboriginal League team in 1946: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/redfe ... lacks-1946

Marylandolorian wrote: Fri Apr 15, 2022 12:52 pm

The Cliff House, a grand seven-story Victorian castle with turrets, decorative spires, fanciful roof dormers and an observation tower constructed in San Francisco in the late-1800s.

Kiwias wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 3:25 am The Cliff House, a grand seven-story Victorian castle with turrets, decorative spires, fanciful roof dormers and an observation tower constructed in San Francisco in the late-1800s.

Fun fact, despite what would seem to be a precarious position, it survived the 1906 earthquake ... but then burned to the ground in 1907. :(

They replaced it with this very boring (imo) neo-classical building, which is either looking for a new owner or is about to re-open.




There was a lot of that old Victoria architecture here that got replaced, sadly. Many small towns in my province had really impressive arenas and sports pavilions that maybe didn't last, but they didn't bother to replace with something as lovely, and in some cases they didn't replace them at all. Most sports grounds have no change rooms and just a shitty wood and metal or all metal set of bleachers.

This impressive building burned around the same time and. I think now all that occupies this massive space is a pre-wartime era school and post-60s bungalows.

Niegs wrote: Thu Apr 21, 2022 3:45 am

He actually looks like my Nephew as well - the crappy hair and neckbeard