Blur awesomeness

Oasis killed it short term, but failed to match Morning Glory's greatness. Ever.
Blur went long term and Damon Albarn got diverse, their place in rock folklore assured.
What do you do now?
Shit, you get the band back together, film it in HD and release the hell out of it.
Cue slow-mo, orchestral arrangement of classic song and Albarn with arms outstretched over a see of people.
If this trailer doesn't stir the cockles of your heart I don't know what will.
Universal never sounded as good as this.

Wedge Cars. Pt 2.

As the American auto industry began it's slow and steady progression into irrelevance with poorly built and even worse designed vehicles, this gem, straight from Malaise Era Chevrolet was earmarked to be the next Corvette. A mid-engined stunner and essentially a second stab at a design from three years earlier was canned because the new layout would be too costly and too difficult to re-engineer from the existing front engined platform.
Wedge cars were all the rage and the Aerovette represents a pretty decent attempt at a halo car and a way out of the malaise.
At least in spirit.

Pininfarina for Chevrolet '63

I understand that it gets a little car heavy around these parts but I make no apologies for that.
This one is a beautiful early, optimistic piece of Pininfarina design. This gorgeous rear engined Corvair Coupe Speciale was a sleek one off from the Italian House. The road going version, was still a lovely looking car but with the accountants in charge, there were cut-corners and cut-pricing which resulted in Ralph Nader's strong consumer warning piece Unsafe at Any Speed. This led to major reforms in safety and regulations, changing design and engineering forever. A significant car any way you look at it and went on to sell one and a half million variants of the Corvair name.

The year 2000, the year 2000

This is straight from Jalopnik and if you've got a spare 8:47 take a look at what Disney proposed for the future of highways in a George Jetson-esque year 2000. Granted our energy sources are finite and until we get those pesky quirks and kinks sorted out on the nuclear fusion thing, we haven't got a hope in hell of air-conditioning our roads for the desert.
Still, enjoy for the ultra-cool Arts and Architecture type graphics and ponder their predictions. Some are remarkably accurate and others, while in graphic form seem cool are absolutely shocking. Environmental concerns are so real year 2000 and don't make for cool animations but roads through the Acropolis and The Sphinx are no problem.
But for all their futurist fortune telling black magic (Rear-view T.V. and GPS anyone?) they couldn't of predicted just how trick the new Range Rover's dashboard treatment would be.
Take that 1950's animator.

Supersonic Flight. Check. Cool Jazz. Check.

This comes straight from the Central Office of Information for the Air Ministry (circa 1960's) and courtesy of the Guardian U.K. from a couple of years ago. It's an amazing piece of English history when throwing in a little cool jazz with your propaganda was, well, cool.
Pour yourself a scotch and check it out.

Trainspotting Porsches

In the course of the 356's lifespan (and only on the export to America models) Porsche introduced a unique badging response to the New World's uncertainty of where this small sports car came from.
The answer would be found on the front quarter panel behind the front wheels.
They stopped this after about 18 months. I guess they worked out it wasn't coming from Detroit.

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