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Via Tony Tye's 2-Tone website:
It would be cool to see this.
Related link: Wikipedia definition of Two-Tone.
I posted The Specials: "Message To You Rudy" music video on this blog a few days ago. It really belongs in this entry so I'm moving it over here.
Eddie has a few of the DADDY ROTH and WEIRD-OHS kits back in Sydney, but wow... check out this FRANTICS set by HAWK. Looks really cool and I'd love to have it! I'm getting 3 of these! whee....
Box Art by Bill Campbell
Via ComicBookResources:
As for the Weird-Ohs (which the gremlins in this issue’s cover-story closely resemble, these hot rod monsters first appeared as a series of plastic model kits issued by the Hawk Model Company. An attempt to compete with Revell’s line of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth’s bug-eyed “finks” (led by the iconic “Rat Fink”) and Monogram’s model kits of Stanley Mouse!’s “Fred Flypogger” and friends, the Weird-Ohs were created and designed by illustrator Bill Campbell in 1963. The original trio of Weird-Ohs consisted of Davey (a biker), Digger (a drag racer) and Daddy (a suburban commuter), who were eventually joined by such plastic “car-icky-tures” as Leaky Boat Louie, Freddy Flameout, Endsville Eddie, Drag Hag, Wade A. Minit, Francis The Foul, Huey’s Hut Rod, Sling Rave Curvette, Killer McBash and others. These led to Hawk’s similar lines of “Frantics” and “Silly Surfers”. The model kits themselves were designed and engineered by Hawk/Testor’s bigshot John (Zawicki) Andrews. In 1993, Testor’s re-released many of the original Weird-Ohs. A few years later, Mainframe Entertainment produced the, CGI-animated TV series starring the WEIRD-OHS, which premiered on FoxKids Network on October 9, 1999 (and released to home video in 2000) but it failed to capture the appealingly manic quality of the original kits.
Somewhat related link: Our character designs for Endsville.
There is a lot of information on Rude Boys and Teddy Boys (eg, Dick Hebdige), but rarely do you read about or see Rude Girls and Teddy Girls on the web or in books. Coincidentally, this week we found two interesting websites...
RUDE GIRLS: www.getupedina.com
TEDDY GIRLS: www.teddygirls.co.uk
Essay and photoseries by Ken Russell. Gallery HERE.
"Yet, just as much as the boys, the Teddy Girl was creating a new world for herself. It may be that the Teddy Girl was difficult to see because fashion was naturally considered a female sphere. Working class boys suddenly wearing their own distinctive but rapidly changing fashions were noticeable, but girls changing styles was simply taken for granted. The Teddy Girl, however, is clearly not simply following a male fashion for Edwardian garb. Instead, she wore a variety of personal styles. Cameo brooches and other accessories hark back, but the fact that these girls wear trousers is very interesting. Most surprisingly the younger girls even wear jeans. As the boys look back for inspiration to a bygone era, the girls seem to be looking forward to modernity, out towards the future." (essay)
Musical Prototypes Via Ektopia:
[Notewriter]
[Old School Portable Beat Machine]
For the Real Deal, some cool online galleries:
--> Audio Playground Keyboard Museum
--> IEEE Virtual Museum - Songs In The Key of E
--> Raymond Scott Studio Pictures
--> Oddmusic Gallery
This is not to say that I personally have any idea how these work or what makes them historically/conceptually special. They just look very cool.
[Fairlight]
[Stylophone]
[Wall of Sound]
[classic theremin]
