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Happy Holidays from DRB! - 2015 Feel-Good Issue


"FEEL-GOOD SHOT" #25
Link - by Avi Abrams



Weird & wonderful - to infinity and beyond!

Welcome to our end-of-the-year collection of sheer "eye-candy", strange and funny images as we celebrate the Holidays and the New Year: have a good helping of joy and cheer for the year ahead!


right: Ann Rutherford


"Happy New Year" in a space exploration manner from the 1970s Soviet Union:



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STUNNING ART

"Winter Wonderland" times in old Russia:


art by Boris Kustodiev

Wonderful steampunk winter scene by Vadim Voitekhovitch, Germany - see more here:


(image credit: Vadim Voitekhovitch)


"Winter" by Latvian painter Vilhelms Purvitis (1872 - 1945):


(image via)


Lotus C-01 bike concept by Daniel Simon - see more here:


(image credit: Daniel Simon)


Derelict spaceships by Klaus Pillon:


(image credit: Klaus Pillon)

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Mixed fresh links for today:

Sci-Fi Concepts by Daniel Simon: "Timeless Racer" - [art, scroll down]
Wonderfully Moody Tokyo Nightride - [cool video]
View From The TOp of 432 Park Avenue - [$80 million unit]
Fluid-cooled Supercomputer Cluster: The future of data centers - [geek pic]
Maude White: click on "Paper Carvings"! - [wow art]
The Peacock Room at Sammezzano Castle in Italy - [architecture]
Almost-Alien Jellyfish by Alexander Semenov - [wow nature]
The Best Reverse GIF of the Year - [funny]
Fireworks Rocket in Thailand - [wow video]
Chaotic/Random Generation of Everything - [cool site]
Mesmerizing: Time-lapse of Russian Apartm. Renovation - [wow video]
Craziest Stunts in GTA V - [wow video]
Extremely Impressive Candle Making - [wow video]
Star Wars Holiday Lights Display - [wow video]
The Boxtrolls Discuss Metaphysics - [fun video]
Play "Transformice", a big hit - [gaming]

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FEEL-GOOD MUSIC

Paul McCartney - "Pipes of Peace" (great-sounding pop, 1983)
Roberto Pregadio - Theme from "Un Buco In Fronte" (great melody, 1968)
Tom Jones - "Lodi" (cool orchestral pop, 1970)
Shean & Jenkins - "Goofy Footer Ho-Dad" (fun surfing tune, 1965)
The Parade - "I Can See Love" (great sunshine pop, 1974)
The Starr Sisters - "No Time Like The Present Time" (romantic, 1958)
The Smoke (US group) - "Umbrella" (sunshine pop, 1967)
Francis Lai - Theme from "Bilitis" (romantic, France, 1978)
The Monkees - "Shades of Gray" (baroque pop, 1967)
Gilla & 75 Music - "Vadi Via (Geh Doch)" (German-Italian pop, 1975)
The Sapphire Thinkers - "Let Her Come In" (pop sych, 1969)
The Stereotypes - "Came To Say Hello" (great power pop, 1993)
The Beatles - "There's A Place" (Merseybeat, 1964)
The Chordettes - "Lonely Lips" (fun vocal group, 1956)
Ennio Morricone - "La Casa e la Giovinezza" from "Il Deserto del Tartari" (melody, 1975)
Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - "Remember" song from "Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinita" 1973
Daft Punk - "Contact" (trippy, epic space tune, France 2013)
Marcel De Van - "Spacesynth 2013" (spacesynth revival, Germany 2013)
Mark Wirtz & His Orchestra - "No Tears" (great melody, UK 1965)
Electric Light Orchestra - "Lucky Motel" (unreleased, UK 2000)
Tony Burrows - "Every Little Move She Makes" (sunshine pop, UK 1968)
The Five Americans - "Tell Ann I Love Her" (great ballad, 1968)



ABBA, 1974

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FEEL-GOOD GIRLS

BEAUTIFUL ACTRESSES: Tzeni Karezi, Gabrielle Drake, Macha Meril, Norma Shearer, etc:


Tzeni Karezi, Greece

Gabrielle Drake, mostly in the "U.F.O." series



Colleen Corby


Christine Carere, Jackie Lane

Ingrid Pitt


Macha Meril



Tatiana Dogileva, Russia

Larisa Golubkina, Russia



Giorgia Moll, Italy


Sally Field as Gidget, Britt Ekland

Dorothy Tutin, Delia Scala



"Crusher Joe" 1983 Japanese animated film:




Great 1950s sci-fi art by Bernard Krigstein for EC Comics, info:



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GREAT PHOTOGRAPHY

Nakhodka (Russian Far East) sunset photo by Valeriy Blazdyunya:


(image credit: Valeriy Blazdyunya)


Street art masterpiece by Natalia Rak in Boras, Sweden:



... and in Minsk, Belorus:


(image credit: Maxim Nikitka-Mirovich)


The Hohenzollern castle in the clouds, Germany:


(original unknown)


Winter scenes by Elena Cherepitzkaya, Russia:


(images credit: Elena Cherepitzkaya)

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Oh, no! -



(original unknown)


Snow art by Semen Bukharin, Izhevsk:




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