It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
… of what is past, or passing, or to come.
I’ve started a new blog (as if I need more things to do in my free time!) called Goldenbird Sings, or “In the year 1920…”. To save space here, I’ll post all kinds of Goldenbird-related research material over there instead. This blog will focus on the [...]
Great illustrated article about the entertainment industry, sensationalist media and censorship in the 1920’s:
http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/Vanities/
Featuring: Ziegfeld Follies, chorus girls, Nita Naldi, bathing beauties, Louise Brooks, “Anything Goes”, Buster Keaton, Tarzan and the Sheik, cocaine, murder, Woodbury’s soap, American Intelligence vs. Anglo-Saxon Civilization.
See also: The E Pluribus Unum Project
I was thinking about Commedia dell’arte, and then something weird happened. I don’t know why I made this. Look for yourself. Carnival insanity.
Portrait of an Ardito (Italian elite troops) from WW1. I think he’s more handsome than Ettore, though. Another photo, with the Bersagliere bike. Interestingly, the article mentions the Fiume incident, but this young war veteran did not participate in it (although he was among the ‘liberators’ of Trieste in 1918). Instead, he returned to America, [...]
Humu-Heikki was a Finnish sailor and adventurer in Piirtopalat, the first 100% Finnish comic magazine in the 1940’s. With his Norwegian friend Hans he got into all kinds of trouble in South American ports, leading mutinies, smuggling arms, rebelling against dictators and being rescued by the seductive Lola. In a 1977 article in Sarjainfo, some [...]