The King and Queen of America - Eurythmics (1990)

The King and Queen of America is a song by the UK combo Eurythmics.  In the video band members Annie Lennox and David Stewart are seen dressed up in  a variety of costumes and settings that parody American pop culture. And here's just one of them.

Steve

Invitation to Hell (1984)

Invitation to Hell is a made for TV horror film from 1984.  I've personally never seen it but believe it to be something of a cult treat.  The charms of such things, I've decided, lay entirely on the age of the viewer at the time of the viewing.  So I'll probably let this one slide by unseen.  That said I have watched just a little bit in order to bring you these images.  Enjoy.

Steve

Starflight One (1983)

Starflight: The Plane That Couldn’t Land (re-released on video and given a cinema release in the United Kingdom as Starflight One, also referenced as Airport 85) is a 1983 television movie starring Lee Majors and Hal Linden.

The first hypersonic transport is leaving for its inaugural flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia, a two-hour flight through the stratosphere.  What could possibly go wrong?

 

Steve

Stranded (2001)

 

Stranded is a 2001 film about the first manned mission to Mars. It stars Vincent Gallo and Maria de Medeiros, and was directed by Spanish filmmaker and actress María Lidón, with screenplay by Spanish science fiction author Juan Miguel Aguilera. Lidón won the "Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver", and Gallo and de Medeiros were named best actors at the 2002 Fantafestival in Rome.  Which all sounds rather interesting.  I'd quite like to see this one.

 

Steve

Lotto NZ advert (2014)

 

 

 

Cheers for the find Tim.

 

 

Steve

John Harris (????)

A couple of paintings by John Harris.

If anyone can pin a date on them or where they were used I would be most grateful and will of course update the blog accordingly.

Here's a interesting update following Michel Van's comment that the bottom images was used as the cover of Inherit The Stars by James P Hogan.  Now this is curious because that's exactly what the image reminded me of when I first saw it...

...but I never once thought that the same book might have two such similar covers.  However, there it is...

...the proof in the publishing.  The first was by Darrell K Sweet which I had previously blogged as being from 1977 so I'm going to take a punt on that being the original as Michel Van dates the John Harris cover at 1989.....unless anyone knows different?

 

Cheers for that.

 

 

Steve

Lynx Axe Apollo Spacestaion Advert (2013)

There's a lot more of Kelly Brook in this TV advert before we get to this point but I'd be hard pressed to justify showing those images in a blog that's meant to be about spacesuits.  So we'll simply set the scene with Kelly about to welcome her boyfriend back aboard the old homestead.... Of course I'm assuming it's her boyfriend, it could be another girly under all that outer space clobber!  Now there's a thought.

 

  

Steve