Since Amanda's "Week In Sex" columns on this blog seem to be taking a
bit of a hiatus, maybe I can fill the void a bit: my friend Coye alerted me to a delightfuly surreal limerick/photo boob book he discovered in his late brother's bedroom, entitled Treasure Chests.
It was created in 1967 by two people named Mel Norman and Arthur
Benwood, and published by the Alexicon Corporation (who specialized in
sex/humor ephemera during the 60's, 70's and 80's). He handed it over
to a friend at the awesomely preposterous LandOfTuh.com,
who scanned the entire thing from cover to cover. Hallucinatory, goofy
cleavage from yore anyone? Why not. Coye felt that one of it's
strongest points of interest was that it was created in the days before
Photoshop (although that never stopped Man Ray... or Russ Meyer or
Benny Hill, for that matter). You can see the whole thing starting here. Kinda NSFW I suppose.
This is utterly bizarre, and amusing, but I'm still skeptical. Here's my thinking: While you're right that 1967 is pre-photoshop, 2006 isn't. How do we know this is what it purports to be?
Posted by: MarkMark | December 26, 2006 at 11:55 PM
Photos could manipulated before computers and Photoshop, A bit harder to do, but I don't see any reason to believe the photos had to be Photoshopped. I've seen novelty '60s stuff with wildly altered photos before.
Posted by: Max the drunken severed head | December 28, 2006 at 03:02 AM
despite the fact that it belonged to my dead brother, holding that book in my hand was both amazingly cool and creepy in a way.
Posted by: coye | January 30, 2007 at 03:28 PM
I HATE BOSS HOGG
Posted by: John White | January 30, 2007 at 09:11 PM