EASIER READ THAN DONE

 

From 'How To Make Dinosaurs' by Eve Barwell (Studio Vista, 1974).

UNIDENTIFIED THINGS

 

'How To Make Flying Things', by Michael Bond (Studio Vista, 1975)

It is estimated that around 70% of all UFO sightings can be attributed to use /misuse of this book. Was the author inadvertently irresponsible or being deliberately subversive? Either way, you'd expect more from the bloke who came up with Paddington. 

VISTAMATIC

 

VISTAMATIC

I've always had a soft spot for Studio Vista / Dutton Picturebacks: the 'comprehensive pictorial surveys written by experts for laymen' on a wide range of topics: cinema, art, crafts, antiques, architecture, ballet, cars, cybernetics, guns, etc. so I thought I'd share some of my (far from complete) collection. Yeah, it's no problem, really, please don't mention it.

This pictureback covers Andy Warhol (his paintings, films and everything else) and was published in 1971, a great time to review the career of an artist who had been both brilliantly creative and incredibly influential in the sixties, but whose subsequent work was far less daring in comparison for all sorts of reasons, including being shot and nearly dying, then, later, totally dying.