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Fabulous prints of British kids in the 1980s
For many in the UK the 1980s was a time of turmoil and upheaval. Unemployment and economic instability led to widespread disquiet which culminated in public shows of resistance. Dave Sinclair to...
Abandoned Places: Photographs of Glasgow during Lockdown
Like the rest of the country, Glasgow was declared a place to avid on 23rd March 2020, when British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a national Lockdown. Only essential businesses were to s...
Brilliant prints of Liverpool in the 1980s
Photographer Dave Sinclair photographed Britain at a time of social unrest. As official photographer for The Militant, Dave saw first hand the turmoil in his native Liverpool, Belfast and Lond...
Photos: Naked man chases wild boar who stole his laptop in Berlin park
Adele Landauer took this photograph of a nudist chasing a wild boar making off with his laptop. “Nature strikes back,” says Adele. “I showed the man the photos, he laughed heartily and gav...
8 of the most seductive radishes
Which one is the most seductive radish you’ll ever see? Spotter: Sad And Useless
A Print of George Mayerle’s International Eye Test Chart from 1907
George Mayerle’s international eye test chart was produced around 1907. It offered eye tests for global customers. Mayerle was a German-born optometrist working in San Francisco when he made...
Kodachrome Prints for sale at Flashbak – the web’s best prints shop
For anyone bored of the walls in their isolation stations, a lovely ray of hope. At Flashbak’s new print shop you can now buy prints on the highest-quality, museum standard archival paper. Flas...
Beat Coronavirus Covid-19 with these Japanese health posters from 1918
In 1918, Japan’s Central Sanitary Bureau (JCSB) published a 445-page manual instructing people in ways to recognise and prevent Spanish Flu (Supein kaze). The campaign to fight the mass killer ...
See the cosmos on the day you were born
Nasa’s has a lovely feature that allows you to see the state of the cosmos on your birthday . Images were taken by the now 30-year-old Hubble Telescope. Researchers have honed the masses of ima...
Crowds of New York City – Photos
New York City has been hit hard by the coronavirus. Streets normally thronged with people are near empty. Traffic is lighter than a Joe Biden kiss . Over on Flashbak , gorgeous views of what the ...
Jim Downie’s snapshots create a biography in time
When Jim Downie’s Mother died he inherited all of her family photographs. Among them were snapshots taken on holidays to Kinghorn, Fife. He tells Flashbak : > My family, all of my famil...
Artist adds monsters to thrift shop art
To the charity shop with Chris McMahon . He’s on the hunt for paintings he can add painted monsters to. Chris uses acrylics or oil paints to give the original art a new lease of life.
March 31 1990: the Poll Tax riot
On 31 March 1990, the poll tax riots erupted in London’s Trafalgar Square. The story goes that police attacked 200,000 demonstrators. The riots were a catalyst for more sedate opposition to the...
Coronavirus does The Shining
Spotter: Flashbak
3D artist Filip Hoda makes fossilised skulls of famous cartoon characters
Artist Filip Hodas has created ta great archive of Cartoon Fossils , in which he presents the fossilised remains of such cartoon favourites as Popeye, Minnie Mouse, Spongebob and Tweety Bird...
The Crescents speak: Graffiti in Hulme Manchester in the 1980s
Photographer Richard Davis moved from Birmingham to Manchester in the 1980s. He set up a studio in rent-free flat in The Crescents, a series of badly-built, ignorantly designed, neglected neo-Geo...
Love Is Walking Hand In Hand
Charlie Brown yearned for love. So too Lucy van Pelt, the Peanuts character saw it her duty to remind Charlie Brown that however ready to are to go get ’em, something will always let you down. ...
Artist transport subjects from classical paintings to the modern world
Alexey Kondakov takes characters in classical paintings and transports them though space and time to the modern world. Via: Flashbak and Alexey Kondakov on Instagram .
Artist paints sleeping giants on rooftops
Artist Ella & Pitr brightens up the view from above by painting sleeping giants on rooftops. One huge painting sits on the Paris Parc Expo features an elderly women snoozing by a busy motorway...
I Like You by Sandol Warburg and Jacqueline Chwast
These illustrations by Jacqueline Chwast appear in Sandol Stoddard’s 1965 book I Like You . > “I have a very distinct memory of my joy and excitement at the age > of f...
Artist Olan Ventura clever updates on 17th Century Still Lifes
Philippino artist Olan Ventura paints still life with energy. Using acrylics, Ventura provides twists on the old masters’ works, such as Jan Davidsz de Heem’s Vase of Flowers (c. 1660)....
Porn tapestries – artist knits her own sex scenes
Philadelphia artist Erin M. Riley turns racy photographs she finds on the web into tapestries. When the UK porn ban kicks in, knitting your own porn will be an option for many enthusiasts not...
Japanese artist makes hats for cats from their own hair
Japanese photographer Ryo Yamazaki with his wife Hiromi make cat hats from the cats own hair. The hats are sported by cat models Nyaa, Mar and Mugi. Spotter: Ryo Yamazaki
The world’s oldest aerial photograph – Boston 1860
This picture of Boston shows us the city from 2,000 feet in 1860. Taken from a hot air balloon, the image is the oldest surviving aerial photo. The Met : > Best known for his photogr...
Great photos of the Rolling Stones at home in 1965
When the Rolling Stones toured Germany in September 1965, the only photographer they’d allow to follow them was Bent Rej. “Bent’s a member of the family,” they said. In 1965, the Danis...