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DRB Feel-Good Issue #15


"FEEL-GOOD SHOT" #11
Link - by Avi Abrams




Some joyful stuff to brighten up your day
Mixed images flow: cars, girls, etc.

Welcome to the new issue of Dark Roasted Blend's "Feel-Good" series: mostly bright and sweet collection of images designed to propel you along your day with a smile on your face.

Are you down? Are you sad? Then maybe this compilation would lift your spirits somewhat. We start from the "low" emotional point - this girl needs to listen to the 1964 song "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry Over You" by The Merseybeats (here is a video):


(original unknown)

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STUNNING ART

Antonio Canova: Cupid and Psyche immortalized in this immensely evocative sculpture "Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss", displayed at the Louvre Museum -


(image via)


More of the wonderful 1970s Soviet space art by Alexey Leonov and Andrei Sokolov:



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Hands-Free Gear Clock

Would be very difficult to tell minutes from this layout, wouldn't it? More info:


(image via)

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Mixed fresh links for today:

"Star Wars" Reimagined as Classic Western - [fascinating, art]
There is more! Scroll down to see every imaginable "Star Wars" - [geek fun]
Titanic in Color - [spectacular gallery of legendary ship]
Great read: how to hack dating sites - [true story]
Crystal Ball Harvests Light From The Sun, Moon and Clouds! - [wow science]
Really Fishy (Famous) Movies: Hilarious Posters - [funny]
Futuristic and Custom Wheel Chairs - [wow tech]
Incredible Recent Fireworks in Dubai - [wow video]
cute and Hilarious Pengiun Fails - [fun video]
This tank will HAVE TO Stop! - [wow video]
Unbelievable T-Rex Optical Illusion - [wow video]
Russian Super Truck Carries a Record Load - [wow video]
Funniest News Bloopers 2013! - [fun video]
Prehistoric Creatures That Still Exist - [compilation]
Let us explain: Schnallity! - [promotion idea]

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FEEL-GOOD CARS

This Talbot (Talbot Figoni & Falaschi 7-23 Faux Cabriolet) has really beautiful, sinuos forms. See a lot more classic beauties from Concours-de-Elegance on this page:


(image credit: Jesse)




Big 1970s muscle: Dodge Polara Custom, and 1971 Dodge Challenger with Kim Graham, Miss American Teenager:



(image via)

Long, long "land yacht" in front of other yachts:




Look at this cute 1956 DKW 3=6 Monza:




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BEAUTIFUL ACTRESSES

Jane Fonda, Wenche Myhre, Judi Bowker, Barbara Rush, Leslie Caron, Debbie Reynolds, and Jackie Lane:










Sweidsh actress Ulla Jacobsson (left) and French actress Jean Seberg (right):



American model Colleen Corby:




Firefox!.. No, not really, this is Italian actress Giorgia Moll with a real fox... and a black kitten:






So much true, deep emotion - in the eyes of Russian actress Lyudmila Savelieva, Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" epic movie, 1967:




Jenny Agutter is threatened in "Logan's Run" (1976):




GREAT ROMANCE:
Paul Maxwell and Terry Moore passionately embrace in City of Fear (1959)



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FEEL-GOOD MUSIC

Agnetha Faltskog and classic ABBA:





Big-eyes country music star Linda Ronstadt:




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Impressive Science Fiction Art

Michal Kus from Netherlands came up with this alternate-history Soviet "Hammer" robot walker abomination:


(image credit: Michal Kus)


See a lot more outrageous machines in his gallery, for example, this wild "Scorpion Tank"! -


(image credit: Michal Kus)


This 1970s sci-fi couple is trying to escape from a similarly sinister machine (this is a fragment from the poster to "Battletruck" (1982) movie):




Incredibly sophisticated art from the legendary graphic novel "Metabarons" (written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by Argentinian artist Juan Giménez):




And... "Five Star Stories" again; we seem to include this epic mecha art in every "Feel-Good" issue (click to enlarge):


(image credit: Mamoru Nagano)

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And we finish with a very, very intense-looking fox, courtesy Adele Morse:


(this is actually a stuffed toy, read info here)

It is probably looking at this:



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Until next time! Keep the sunshine, folks.


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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where's the post for Beautiful Actors?

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

Here it is! -
Cool Vintage Actors
(with second part in the works).

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