Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Believe it or not, in the 1950s there was a brief period when skiing was cool, and in that fleeting moment wherever skiing was spotted being cool it was inevitably in conjunction with a Porsche...

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

GoPros look really silly, but before they were invented things were even more strange, like Formula 1 legend Jackie Stewart here, styling it out with a movie camera and a can of spam strapped to his head. Let's take a quick look at some of the incredible predecessors of the GoPro...

Thursday, June 5, 2014

To fulfil our strange need to tidy up the internet by grouping things together, this week we've created a collection of the finest vintage ski movie posters. What we've learned from this is that ski movies fall into 4 distinct groups; war, romance, frolics and porn...

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Featuring the best monoski invention you'll see this week...

Thursday, November 28, 2013

A few weeks ago we took a look at some eye-watering vintage ski fashion. Even amongst that bewildering array of heinous gear there was one designer that really stood out. Please allow me to introduce you to the work of Pucci...

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Here's a bunch of incredible pictures, mostly from the Pinterest board by Poppy Gall showing some of skiing's most incredible fashions of yesteryear...

Thursday, October 24, 2013

As I was cruising through Chelsea the other day the Pullman Editions store caught my attention. I immediately ordered my driver to pull over the Rolls so I could take a closer look, because I was a little surprised at how familiar they looked...

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

A couple of weeks ago we shared some impressive vintage car ads that two guys produced for Pontiac, that featured some awesome cars and lecherous blokes. Since then we found a site called Vintage Ad Browser and another batch of ski-inspired vintage car ads from the 20s onwards (skip to the end if you just want to get drunk). Things start of well with some seriously high-class vehicles, but by the 70s the options had seriously deteriorated...

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Here's a little trend in poster design we found with three talented artists getting in on the action...

Thursday, August 29, 2013

It's sunny, not the time to write about snowboarding, here's a look at vintage powered surfboards...

Friday, August 23, 2013

Here's a look at the method of snow clearance that comes directly out of the sledgehammer school of walnut freeing...