Category Cool

Mar 22 2012

The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, Early TV Pilot Aimed at Adults

In 1975, a half-hour variety show titled The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence piloted on ABC television but it was going after an older audience. According to Muppet Wiki, it was a “parody the proliferation of sex and violence on television”. There’s a lot of interesting things going on in the pilot (I believe I see a Jim Henson-looking Muppet playing the banjo in the end credits) and definitely worth checking out. It is not truly an early version of the The Muppet Show but it definitely shares elements and might be considered more of a first draft. The Onion’s AV Club goes into more details about this pilot and the other similar pilot, The Muppets Valentine Show.

 

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Mar 15 2012

The Book Tank

Raul Lemesoff converted a 1979 Ford Falcon into an awesome open-air tank bookmobile. He drives around Buenos Aires offering books to anyone who wants them. The Weapon of Mass Instruction, as Lemesoff calls it, promotes “peace through literature.” Lemesoff has already driven it to remote regions of Argentina and hopes to expand the project into other nations.

Mar 12 2012

Old Book Art

Old Book Art provides and facilitates access to free illustrations: pictures, drawings, maps and other images scanned from antiquarian, public-domain books and other old documents. They have over 4,700 images in their gallery with more added regularly, all at no cost and most available at very high resolution.

 

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