Pinup Poster Girls from the Fifties

Prominent Pin-Up artists include:

• Al Buell                           (1910-1996)
• Joseph F. DeMartini *       (1927-      )
• Freeman Elliot *               (1922-      )
• Gil Elvgren                      (1914-1980)
• Art Frahm                       (1907-1981)
• Pearl Frush                      (1907-1986)
• Earl MacPherson *            (1910-      )
• Al Moore *                       (1912-1991)
• Knute “KO” Munson *       (1900-1967)
• Edward Runci *                (1921-1986)
• Alberto Vargas                 (1896-1982)
• Fritz Willis *                    (1907-1979)

* not listed amongst the 70 most prolific names in the genre.

For a brief look at artists in a similar vein, see this Flickr photostream

Another interesting article: side-by-side paintings and the photo references

Gil Elvgren published over 500 paintings - available to buy in book form… here’s a list.

Gil Elvgren Unidentified

Gil Elvgren, “’That Low-Down Feeling”, 1957

Gil Elvgren, “The Finishing Touch”, 1960 

Gil Elvgren, “I’m Not Shy, I’m Just Retiring”, 1948 

Gil Elvgren, “’It’s Up To You”, 1958

Unknown  Unknown

Alberto Vargas

Harry Ekman

Gil Elvgren Unidentified

Gil Elvgren

Gil Elvgren

Gil Elvgren ‘He Thinks I’m too Good to be True’ 1947

Gil Elvgren ‘I Must be Going to Waist’ 1946

Gil Elvgren, “No You Don’t”, 1956

Gil Elvgren Unidentified

Gil Elvgren, “Gentlemen Prefer?”, 1963

Gil Elvgren Unidentified

Gil Elvgren, “Spotty Performance (Occupational Hazard; Stenographer)”, 1962

Gil Elvgren, “Wrong Nail”, 1964

Gil Elvgren, “Cold Feed”, 1958

Runci and Clough

Unknown Unknown

Alberto Vargas

Alberto Vargas

Fritz Willis

Fritz Willis

Disclaimer: If copyright exists with these images, none is specified, although it's safe to assume that commercial usage is prohibited. 
The next article in this series will be Pinup Girls Riding Bombs

Space Ghost presents... SPACEBOOK!

Aren't you tired of Fakebook?

SpaceBook! Now with Spages!

I mean, there's the online you and the real you.This is almost universal.

Here's my attempt at the same thing:

Hah! That gives me an idea. There's no better way for a semihero to be more relevant than to host a social portal that lets you be you and not some watered-down generally agreeable version of you. I mean, look at what you're wearing! Have you any idea how good Spandex feels? If you did... well anyway...

I think Space Ghost should launch... SPACEBOOK!

 

SPACEBOOK propoganda! Hooray!

Before we get into shameless promotion, subliminal suggestion and other devious (yet worthwhile) marketing gimmicks, we should have a look at how SPACEBOOK came to be.

A Brief History of Spacebook by T. Ghostal

Spacebook started out in the sixties as a means of brainwashing young humans into trusting Space Ghost as the Protector of the Universe. This is a pretty important job and can be quite tiring, so the more people were prepared to donate, the better the Universe could be looked after.

Notice "Protectors of the Universe" caption.

For those unable to read, television personalities were bribed into reading long passages out loud. They were encouraged to read from SpaceBook in a low, dull monotone, so as not to attract too much attention.

Old people are more trustworthy

SpaceBook, the Future and YOU

Why spend countless hours on MyFace or CaseBook when you could have a splendid personal place IN THE COSMOS which, as you already know, is looked after by Space Ghost. Who you gonna call?

Space Ghost is Great!

Of course, not just everyone is automatically assigned a space in Spacebook. The best spots are reserved for superheroes, semiheroes, people who have done good deeds like superheroes, people who say they'll do something good one day, people who say they're superheroes, people dressed like superheroes, cosplayers, people who want to be superheroes and, of course, spacebabes. Spacebabes are typically girls, women or, in general, female.

I don't know who this is but she has my clothes

I don't know who this is either but with a console like that...

If you interview SpaceBook you'll find some superheroes, or similar, are already on SpaceBook and might want to be your friend.

The logo pops up on the screen

The logo pops up on another screen

Right! That should convince you SpaceBook is the best. Coz it's endorsed by the Protector of the Universe, and there aren't many in higher authority I don't think.

Look heroic with SPACEBOOK!

Flipping the bird

Following my Space Ghost drawing, some examples of the more unusual instances where birds have been flipped.

Good-days wash yu mi brodder

Sarah once wrote this in a birthday card and I'd love to know the origin...

Good days wash yu mi brodder

a-mek peace possess yu

an love enlighten yu

a-mek yu given be good

an yu evermore be everybody

a-mek Allness affec yu always

an yu meetin of eye to eye be vision

an all yu word

dem be word of wondament 

CERN think matter matters. LHC switch on: No-one's listening for the squeak.

 

Dark matter is doesn't matter. CERN disagree.

Aha! I may get that Nobel after all.

News via BBC is that my postulate of dark matter renaming to doesn't matter might matter, which CERN want to find out when they switch the LHC back on after 2 years of polishing the brassware and trying to think of some way to follow on now that Higgs has shown the world that matter is now allowed to have mass.

That was a blow to weight watchers but otherwise it was expected. One may wonder what is next on the expected list and the answer there is nothing. So why switch the LHC back on? Because something is the matter, we just don't know yet what that may be.

Best they can come up with to justify the expense is the vague outside possibility that evidence may emerge showing what we know and have proven correct, is wrong.
They say dark matter matters, because if it didn't, the LHC could happily stay off. And, of course, they'd all have to find jobs. Not everyone has such charm and wit as Prof. Brian Cox, OBE.

So yeah, my former post on dark matter, anti-matter, matter and doesn't matter suddenly today had a resonance of relevance. In a curious quirk (quark?), this post is almost anti-LHC. So I can't go there, what with mutual annihilation and all that.

Here's the article...

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31162725

Antimatter: missing altogether

Even within the 5% of the universe that we do know about, there is a baffling imbalance. The Big Bang ought to have produced two flavours of particle - matter and antimatter - in equal amounts.
When those two types of particle collide, they "annihilate" each other. A lot of that sort of annihilation went on, physicists say, and everything we can see in the universe is just the scraps left behind.

But puzzlingly, nearly all of those scraps are of one flavour: matter.
"You just don't get antimatter in the universe," says Prof Shears. "You get it in sci-fi and you get it when things decay radioactively, but there are no good deposits of it around."
This glaring absence is "one of the biggest mysteries we have", she adds. And it is the primary target of the LHCb experiment.

There, a series of slab-shaped detectors is waiting to try and pinpoint the difference between the particles and anti-particles that pop out of the proton collisions. Run One did reveal some of those differences - but nothing that could explain the drastic tipping of the universal scales towards matter. 

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Squeak Theory

In my post I also mentioned that a billion universes evaporated without so much as a squeak. 

 See? Nobody mentions the squeak, possibility of or lack thereof. Am I the only one thinking that microwave radiation background is found, but nobody is listening for the remnants of the squeak. It may not be there, fair enough, it it equally may. If I can locate it for sure the Nobel is mine. Like Penzias and Wilson, you don't have to be a physicist or for that matter (!) know what you're doing to land the Nobel for Physics. 


Not that it matters.

Contact can have consequences.

Related:

• Existence of anti-matter
• Release of energy on annihilation
• Several billion universes then converted to pure energy simultaneously
• Progression of anti-logic to the point where applied logic requires seriously advanced mathematics to be valid, and deductive reasoning or intuition will not apply.