Category:
1990s

Gnaw by Janine Antoni

Gnawed chocolate and lard as art. From the artist's website:

Gnaw comprises two 600-pound cubes – one of chocolate, the other of lard – and a three-paneled, mirrored cosmetic display case. Using her mouth as a tool, Antoni nibbled the corners of both cubes, leaving visible teeth marks in the material. The chocolate fragments, blended with spit, were melted down and cast into 27 heart-shaped packages for chocolates, while the lard residue was combined with wax and bright red pigment to create 135 tubes of lipstick.

She gnawed it in 1992.

Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 01, 2023 - Comments (0)
Category: Art, Chocolate, 1990s

Woops!

A comedy about life after nuclear Armageddon.

Fox cancelled the series in late November. At the time, it was ranked 105th out of 108 weekly shows [54]. Only 10 of the 13 produced episodes were aired; the last was broadcast on December 6th.


Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 01, 2023 - Comments (5)
Category: Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Television, War, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1990s

I Dream of Madonna

Thirty years ago, Madonna seemed to be invading the psychic spaces of sleepers. The phenomenon was recorded in I DREAM OF MADONNA, which may be read here, at the Internet Archive.

One wonders if today those dreams might tend towards the disturbing.

Read a contemporary review here.



Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 20, 2023 - Comments (0)
Category: Celebrities, Dreams and Nightmares, Music, Books, 1990s

Brief Intro to PRESTEL

This kind of tech will never catch on!

Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 04, 2023 - Comments (2)
Category: PSA’s, Technology, 1990s, United Kingdom

Shoes with Hinged Soles

There must be a good reason why, for millennia now, all shoes have come with unibody-construction soles. But Robert M. Lyden thought differently.

Full patent here.







Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 17, 2023 - Comments (4)
Category: Body, Inventions, Patents, Shoes, 1990s

Survival on Mayonnaise Alone

Never mind that Eiichi Urata managed to survive for 15 days on mayonnaise alone. What seems stranger to me is that he decided to climb a mountain and took only two jumbo squeeze-tubes of mayonnaise as his food.

Tampa Bay Times - May 27, 1999

Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 23, 2022 - Comments (3)
Category: Mayonnaise, 1990s

Inflatable Woman’s Bathing Suit Top

We've all seen those famous vintage ads that show inflatable bras.



But I had not realized that the gimmick had been applied also to bikinis. I cannot find any such currently for sale, however, which seems to show the idea was...a bust!

Source of article: The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) 30 Jul 1992, Thu Page 11



Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 20, 2022 - Comments (9)
Category: Fashion, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1990s

Harley-Davidson Perfume

Classic business failure: "Hot Road," an eau de toilette released by Harley-Davidson in the mid-1990s and quietly discontinued a year or two later. It wasn't exactly an "on brand" product.

More info: Milwaukee Magazine



image source: parfumo.net

Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 18, 2022 - Comments (0)
Category: Business, Products, Success & Failure, 1990s, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents

Six drown trying to save chicken

Actually, only one of them jumped into the well trying to save a chicken. The others were trying to save humans. But still, it was a mass tragedy apparently started by an attempt to save a chicken.

Edmonton Journal - Aug 2, 1995

Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 04, 2022 - Comments (1)
Category: Animals, Death, 1990s

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