Here’s a great spherical (360° x 360°) photograph of a beautiful coral reef in the pacific ocean.

via Boing Boing

Skateboard Sense is a safety film. The skating is stylish bankriding and nose wheelies and it’s just a great window into a time before skating was becoming more radical. So the action here could be from the sixties with a little shorter hair and clay wheels. Amazingly the music selection fits the skating style perfectly, the movie even starts with a nifty cool surf-instrumental that I didn’t know before. It’s a very competendly crafted tune. The other music is blues rock and slapstick/silent-movies oldtime music. A Sid Davis Production.

link to the page at the Prelinger Archives

More Sid Davis Productions:

• Summer of ’63 (1972)
• ‘LSD’: Trip or Trap! (1967)
• The Cool Hot Rod (1953)
• The Dropout (1962)
• Gang Boy (1954)

For lack of another common tag I had these stored for years under the Cool banner in my personal browser – so it’s high time to let you participate!!!

Movies

Brian’s Drive-In Theater
Prelinger Archives
Robby’s Super-8

Entertainment

Hulaboogie.co.uk
Bardot A Go Go
Meissoun – Raqs Sharqi – Bollywood Dance
Modern Drunkard Magazine

Fashion

Murray’s Pomade
Fez-O-Rama
Blackseapearl Handbags

Art, Design, Architecture

SuZanna Anna Gravel Art Mosaic Art
Tom’s World
m – m o d e r n
Hafenbasar! Hamburg
Googie Architecture
Los Angeles Conservancy Modern Committee
City In Space

Retro Themed

Beatsville Pad – Book
California Mod Scene
Dumb Angel Magazine
Retro Radar – Vintage Living at its Best!
fastfoodkids.de
Retrolounge
PCL LinkDump
ookworld – Observing Obscure Kulture
Billetproof Car Shows
Silver Line Boats
Pulp Fiction E-cards

Today I googled for Vincent Bell’s name because I couldn’t believe Danelectro didn’t mention him in their promo for the Coral Hornet re-issue now called Dead-On-67. He designed those in the sixties along with several other classic and unique models like the Bellzouki (first electric 12-string) and the Coral Sitar (electric guitar with 12 bordun strings and a sitar bridge). Anyway, so I came across this great page by Moe Thomas for the first time. He says he’s a long time friend of Mr. Bell and when he visited the legendary guitar player’s basement he took pictures of the sheer mass of historic and unique guitars and prototypes – many built by Vinnie himself. He’s a very inventive guy thinking up things like the first wahwah or his trademark underwater sound as heard on Moon Gas and apparently various practices and machinery used in guitar manufacturing – all while making a living as one of the east coast’s busiest studio session men.

Here are links to some highlights of the collection:

• photo of Sitar prototypes
• the sitar-shaped Bellzouki as portrayed on the back of Joe Harnell’s Bossa Now! album
• Vinnie Bell’s personal 6-string bass (who knows how many records we have heard this one on?!!!)
• one of a kind Coral Scorpio-style 12-string Sitar (a dream instrument of mine)
• Vinnie Bell model Stratocaster as presented to him by Fender Musical Instruments (note straight bridge pick-up)
• the banjo he played on Louis Armstrong’s recording Hello Dolly
• the mandolin Bell played on The Godfather-soundtracks

also visit www.vinniebell.com

Out of 38 bookmarks 20 still linked referred to valid pages.
A trend? No, a success!

1. Space Age Pop a go-go
2. Joseph Lanza: Elevator Music, University of Michigan Press
3. Spaced Out – the Enoch Light Website
4. Jeff Central  |  Exotica Research
5. “Audioquarium”: Zounds in cyber space
6. HYP RECORDS: Introduction
7. “Disquarium”: eXotica Releases Overview
8. galleryQuarium: LP cover scans & audio clips
9. Cocktail Music for Robots
10. Fisherman’s Burlesque
11. Collectors’ Choice Music
12. Exotica
13. Untitled Document
14. Tiki Central Forums – Tiki Music
15. The High Priest of Exotica
16. The Exotica Mailing List
17. The Exotic World of Les Baxter
18. WAITIKI: Classic Exotica & Tiki for Modern Listeners
19. www.spacebop.com
20. Exotica Info Page

The Hukilau
Tiki Madness Accessories
Remy C’s TIKI Moon Lounge
Tiki Magazine | Welcome
Pasifika Styles
Tiki Items
Seamus
Südsee-info
Velkommen til Kon-Tiki Museet!
Ryan-Polynesian Archaeology
vintagehawaiianshirt.net
Sam Gambino: Tiki Signs
TIKI NEWS WEBSITE
Oceania Ethnographica
South London Pacific
Hawaii Theme Christmas Cards, Ornaments, and Decorations
Googie, Space Age, Modernist, Inspired Art
Tiki Drinks & Indigo Firmaments

Crime

1. Lady in Cement
2. The Prisoner
3. Randall and Hopkirk Deceased
4. Duffy
5. Department S
6. The Saint
7. The Rockford files
8. La Polizia ordina: sparate a vista
9. The Avengers
10. The Baron
    
11. Columbo
12. Seven Golden Men
13. Cannon
14. Deadly Shots on Broadway
15. The Streets of San Francisco
16. Superargo

Comedy

1. Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
2. My Favorite Martian
3. Pink Panther

Intermission

1. No matter what shape your stomach is in

Animation

1. Menace from the Bottom of the World
2. Stingray
3. Rod Scribner Opening for UPA shorts
4. ?????????? ED
5. Ghost A Go-Go

Exploitation

1. The Cool Ones
2. Sor Yeye
3. The Mariners
4. American Graffiti

Spy

1. Assassination
2. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
3. Gerak Kilat
4. Where the Spies Are
5. Spy Today Die Tomorrow
6. Spy in Your Eye
7. Some Girls Do
8. From the Orient with Fury
9. Master Stroke
10. Mission Bloody Mary

Adventure

1. Daktari
2. The High Chaparral
3. Der Schatz im Silbersee
4. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
5. Robinson Crusoe

Romance

1. Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2. Arabesque
3. The Sandpiper

Tiki art by Moritz R (Berlin)

1. Velvet Glass Ernie Menehune Recordings
2. www.maitaionline.com
3. Tikiland
4. Tikiblog
5. TIKI SHARK
6. Tiki Talk
7. Sala Thai Restaurant
8. ooga-mooga.com
9. critiki.com
10. humuhumu.com
11. Tiki Bar TV
12. Arkiva Tropika
13. Eye of the Goof
14. Forbidden-Paradise
15. Gecko’s South Sea Arts
16. Hawaiian Host
17. Hawaiian Tikis
18. tikieurope.com
19. Chongolio’s Lost-Island
20. Polynesien – Wikipedia
21. RealKava.com
22. TIKI LINKS
23. tikiroom.com

1. Koo Mei – Movie MV
2. Jungle Book Opening
3. Arthur Lyman Clip
4. Arthur Lyman at the Makai Bar
5. Connie Francis – Misirlou (1965)
6. Debra Paget: Beauty and Glory in the South Pacific
7. Afro Mood
8. Desi Arnaz – Similau
9. Desi Arnaz – Tabu
10. Efialths (voodoo dance)
11. Hoton me aisi baat- Jewel Thief
12. Karle pyar karle
13. Korla Pandit
14. Leon Berry – Beast in the Basement
15. Criborn plays Polynesian Village disc
16. Ethel Smith Live The Breeze and I
17. Three Caballeros – Baía
18. Mambo Brazilero
19. 1954 (Mambo)
20. Josephine Siao movie 1/4-dance
21. clip 5/5
22. not in current char set
23. Thelonious Moog – Take 5, 6 &7 The Long Version!
24. Ukulele – After the Fox
25. Ukulele & Melodica – Tequila
26. The Raymond Scott Quintette – War Dance For Wooden Indians
27. Soy Cuba clip: floorshow
28. Setsuo Ohashi – Ebb Tide
29. Santo & Johnny- Moonlight Serenade
30. Stranger in Paradise – Violin Solo in stereo
31. Keroncong
32. Raquel Welch: Space-Girl Dance
33. Exotica in Space
34. Pagan Love Song
35. Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens
36. The Lawrence Welk Show: Hindustan
37. 196x
38. (not in current char set)
39. Misora Hibari in Shichihenge Tanukigoten (clip 2)
40. Nat King Cole – Caravan
41. Miserlou: an Egyptian girl conquers America, Greek Song Music
42. Martin Denny – Quiet Village (from Hawaii Calls)
43. Les Baxter Music of the 60’s
44. Les Baxter – Tahiti A Summer Night At Sea
45. The Tikiyaki Orchestra – Exotique
46. Movie MV
47. GeLan / Grace Chang
48. 1950s Dancing Hillbilly Boys – Vintage 8mm Home Movie
49. Blue Bossa vibes solo
50. KTown Heroes ft. Jake Shimabukuro – Bodysurfing (cover)
    
51. Ernie Kovacs Nairobi Trio (original music)

1. Dick Dale & his Del-Tones – Let’s Go Trippin’
2. Beloved Invaders Movie
3. Marlow Stewart & The Illusions
4. Jon and the Nightriders – The Wedge
5. The Beatles – Cayenne
6. Los Siderals – Virgenes del Sol
7. Bob Denver – Ho Daddy!
8. Dick Dale & his Del-Tones – Spanish Kiss
9. Dick Dale & his Del-Tones – Misirlou
10. Glasgow Tiki Shakers – He Never Came Back
11. The Beach Boys – Surfin’
12. Kevin Strange – Lonely Surfer
13. Los Belkings – La Playa
14. Los Termits – Juarez
15. Meshugga Beach Party – Hava Nagila / Miserlou
16. Southern Culture On The Skids – Meximelt
17. The Del-Reys – Paradise Lost
18. The Renegades – Kahuna
19. Sharon Marie – Summertime
20. Summer 1964 Vintage Home Movie
21. The Astronauts – Firewater
22. The Atlantics – The Crusher
23. The Boardwalkers – Vasquez Rocks Again
24. The Surfites – Surfville
25. The Rockers – Pipeline