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Curiously, in the 19th century William Crookes, noted for his involvement with Florence Cook and the spirit of “Katie King”, asked for his photographs in the séances to be destroyed after his death. Not all of them were, and the ones that remained clearly show the spirit was the medium. Peter Brookesmith has an excellent article on the fascinating story of Crookes and Cook.
Covering yourself in bed sheets may seem like a comical thing nowadays, but even to this day some still believe these can be the real thing. The saddest aspect is that such strong will to believe in the afterlife is often derived from personal tragedies and the ultimate will to believe beloved ones never really died. Hoaxers usually convince themselves they may be serving a greater good. (via forgetomori » Seeing is not believing)
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Ignorance, fanaticism and cruelty. The three prediluvian monsters - man’s soul eaters that, though slowly shrinking from the few and feeble attacks of poor humanity, still loom large over the entrance to the temple of human happiness. - A remarkable drawing - By J. M. de Aragon
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The face of atomic death just one second away from unleashing its absolute destruction. Only one millisecond after the bomb explodes, this 65.6-foot (20 meters) ball of fire appears in midair, with spikes that look like rotten teeth or stalactites of fire (called the rope trick effect). (via The First Millisecond of a Nuclear Explosion Is the True Face of Atomic Death)
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You may or may not have heard of Ted Serios, a Chicago bellhop who briefly came to prominence in the 1960s for his purported ability to psychically impress images onto Polaroid film. For a long time, I thought Serios had been thoroughly debunked. I believed this because I had read a convincing online explanation of how Serios faked his “thoughtographs.” (read more here: Let’s get Serios)
Ted Serious in Jule Eisenbud Experimentation.AVI (by TvBeYond)
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“Foo Fighters Are the Chuck norris of Music”
Foo Fighters - Bridge Burning (Live on Letterman) (by foofightersVEVO)
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This collection of 46 never-before-seen photos from the Beatles’ first concert in the U.S. went for more than $361,938 at auction in New York last night. Taken by a rookie 18-year-old photographer, the iconic images show the band at the start of their 1964 American invasion.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017281/Beatles-Never-seen-photos-1st-US-concert-fetch-360k.html#ixzz1SmXvHs4A
(via Beatles: Never-before-seen photos of 1st US concert fetch $360k | Mail Online)
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“There was a guy up on the stage wearing a checked shirt, looking pretty good singing a song I loved, the Del-Vikings’ Come Go With Me. He was filling in with blues lines, I thought that was good, and he was singing well.”
The Quarrymen. Saturday 6th July, 1957. St. Peter’s Church, Woolton, Liverpool.
Eric Griffiths - guitar, Colin Hanton - drums, Rod Davis - banjo, John Lennon - guitar, Len Garry - tea-chest bass, Pete Shotton - washboard.John Lennon’s band The Quarrymen (inspired by the name of John’s school ‘Quarry Bank High’), were playing in St. Peter’s Church field as part of the annual Woolton Fete on Saturday 6th July, 1957. In the audience was Paul McCartney, who had come along just to watch the band. John Lennon’s childhood pal Ivan Vaughan brought Paul to meet him. Lennon and McCartney later talked to each other about music, before The Quarrymen performed a second show in the Church Hall that evening.
Paul McCartney recalled: ‘There was a guy up on the stage wearing a checked shirt, looking pretty good singing a song I loved, the Del-Vikings’ Come Go With Me. He was filling in with blues lines, I thought that was good, and he was singing well.’ John Lennon recalled: ‘That was the day, the day I met Paul, that it started moving.’
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Michael Jackson et Freddie Mercury.
(Source : freshpics.blogspot.com)
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The Fabulous Wanda jackson on Town Hall Party in 1958, performing “Hard headed woman”.
“Keep your cotton-pickin’ fingers off my curly hair!”
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A remarkable achievement in late Victorian publishing, The Living Animals of the World was once the most thorough popular guide to global wildlife: a laivishly illustrated periodical that brought the world to the reading public at the rate of one dime for every 40 pages — and a half-dozen or so species. Today, it stands as a vital reminder of a time when the documentation of animals in their native habitat was mostly left to the men who had come to kill them. (via ‘These animals make a peculiarly plaintive cry when molested in any way’: 1901’s amazing, disturbing Living Animals of the World - Kansas City News - Plog)
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It’s here! Can’t you feel it? I’m part of it! Can’t you see it?
LSD Research (via crbriovi)
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T-bone Walker performs “Don’t throw your love on me so strong” from The American Folk Blues Festival collection. He was a pioneer of electric guitar, and he has influenced a lot of blues guitar players like Chuck Berry, Albert King, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, BB King or SRV and many more…
This was recorded in 1962 for the Horst Lippman’s TV show called “Jazz gehört & gesehen” (Jazz heard & seen) on the SWF ( German TV station located in Baden-Baden).T-Bone Walker- Don’t Throw Your Love On Me So Strong (via srvfan79)
