Lentacular!

Hi Guys! 

 

So Me and Billy put our heads together to bring you some really cool stuff!  Actually it's mostly Billy's show, but I'm gonna give you my two cents' worth anyhow!

 

Ever seen these weird postcards before?  What really grabs me is the 3-D effect!  I mean, check it out; you can almost feel the fuzz, even on that pig!  

 

I guess these are what they call lenticular images, meaning that what you've really got here are cards made up of two or more pictures that have been harmonized with a special lens and then interlaced on a two-dimensional substrate to create a stereoscopic illusion!  

 

Man, that's a lot of ten-dollar words, huh?  Well, don't worry about it!  Just enjoy the weirdness ahead!

 

I see that Andy is pushing lenticular postcards on our sophisticated, discerning readers because he dreamed about them or something.  Hummph.  I shall post something order to offset this 3 dimensional AM vintage high tech.  Andy is probably jacked on coffee and is as busy as a, well, bee.  

Volk from the Russian animated cartoon Nu Pogodi! about a wolf, Volk, who tries and fails to catch a rabbit, Zayets.  This is every bit as funny as it sounds.

Whoa, Billy!  This is a trip!  What's that wolf doing with Thumbelina and her buddy?  And why do his fingers look like big gray sausages? 

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The sign reads 'Start'.  Why an English word would be written in Cyrillic is worthy of wonder, perhaps the Soviets thought that subliminal Slav influence would bring on a mass defection of children into the Russian camp.  It worked in Clockwork Orange.

 

That's definitely strange!  But not as strange as the glam-hair lion with the lace cravat and the red pistol!  Hey Billy, isn't that what they call a ponce!? 

 

Of course, it's always the rabbits that get rendered in pastel colors.  I have no idea what this is or where it came from.  The bear is listening to a red thing and soon he will impart wisdom to his furry audience, even though common sense should tell him that pink, yellow, and blue rabbits are not to be trusted and probably work best as lunch.

 

I think those rabbits are actually inflatable toys!  The blue one looks kinda deflated.   I bet that bear sits on it a lot!

The rapacious capitalist wolf is coming by to see if he can foreclose on the Pig Brothers loan so he will own the enterprise and can sell the pigs to Armour, right next door.

 

Everyone knows that Armour was built on Pig Alley.

 

Well, yeah!  Those Soviets mighta been off about a few things, but hey, everyone loves bacon!  Right Billy?

Disney, 1967.

 

Ha ha!  That's pretty cool!  It's Shere Khan and that freaky snake, Kaa, from the Jungle Book!  I wonder if Kaa will do that weird-ass hypnotism thing with his eyes!?  Better not look at this card too closely!

 

Leo the Turtle.  Soviet.

 

Got some sloppy registration here!  That's why this one looks blurry!  You got to love the turtle's shell, though.  Faberge couldn'a done better!

 

Cat with guitar, Russian.

 

I'm lookin' real hard, but I can't see where the cat's helmet is wired to the lobotomy machine! 

 September First, Knowledge Day.  Traditional start of the Russian schoolyear.

 

That's a hella depressing card to get in the mail, for sure!  "OK, Johnny, school's started so get your backside off the beach and get back to work!"  

Wolf and calf.  Soviet, huge surprise there.

 

This one just doesn't feel right!  That wolf looks super sketchy... and there's those gray sausage fingers again!  Run away, little guy!  It ain't too late!

Bear family outing, origin unknown.  Adorable.  Remember this picture in particular as a reminder that the forces of evil are everywhere.  And the bee will be fine. He really is a good guy.

What?  Oh yeah, Billy!  I'm cool!  It's just that you can't look at too many of these cards at one time, 'cause they mess with your mind after a while! 

If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness

When everything is as it was in my childhood

Violent, vivid, and of infinite possibility:

That the sun and the moon broke over my head.

Stunningly apropos quote from the Richard Eberhart poem, If I Could  Only Live At The Pitch That Is Near Madness.

 

Hey Billy!  You can live that way all the time!  You just gotta make sure that you never grow up!

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