Let's Commoditize!

Pop art depicting six women posing in multicolored dresses.

by George Markendorff. Depicts a 1900s race between 3 cars (each with a driver plus a mechanic) probably reaching the breakneck speed of 25 miles per hour.

A painting by Ramón Casas (Spanish, 1866 – 1932). It depicts two people wearing fur coats in an open antique car.

A 1920s ad for the new Stutz 4-door. Seen here cruising through what looks like a national park in the western US.

Thurston the Magician makes a Willys-Overland automobile vanish. Promotional poster ca 1920.

the original fujifilm logo from the 1930s.

A young couple canoodle on a rocking chair in this English photo from the late 1800s.

In socialism is liberation, a poster for the Marxist Unifivation Workers' Party (Partit Obrer d'Unificacio Marxista, or POUM)

A WWII poster. We beat them before, we'll beat them again!

Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States

Yay for the team thing where sweaty people run around and "score"!

Yay for the team thing where sweaty people run around and "score"!

Yay for the team thing where sweaty people run around and "score"!

The words the authorities scream when things are going sideways.

The thing the authorities scream in the middle of a disaster.

A man stands guard at the door of a palace.

A couple stroll down a rain-slicked street in Paris. Painted in 1877.

A NASA make-believe travel poster

You touch my stuff, I'll kill ya. One of the many memorable lines in the Ivan Reitman movie, "Stripes".

A WWII poster to encourage citizens to shut up about things; you never know if the enemy is listening!

A 1950's housewife seems to be delighted about her new garbage disposal while her pipe-smoking hubby smirks.

A retro representation of a nice thought expressed by the gang while sitting in front of the vegetable stand somewhere in Ontario.

Poster for a '30s movie featuring the story of Clelie, the Love-hungry child of the tropics.

A favorite sound clip from the stern show. I could mention the organization that’s being quoted but I’m sure that wouldn’t go over very well.

A snippet of a Talking Heads song

Everyone’s favorite OCD doctor!

You know you've thought this a million times, so here it is in a cheerful script!

a detail from Still Life with Flowers in a Wan-li Vase, Ambrosius Bosschaert, 1619.

A closeup of Still Life with Flowers, Balthasar van der Ast, c. 1625 - c. 1630

And the young lady has wedding ring. From the painting, William II, Prince of Orange, and his Bride, Mary Stuart, Anthony van Dyck, 1641.

A lovely detail from The Virgin and Child with Four Holy Virgins, Master of the Virgo inter Virgines, c. 1495 - c. 1500.

Jack Reacher's old outfit, back when he was in the Army.

The cover of Puck magazine, Christmas 1902. Santa is ambushed coming in the window by two pretty ladies.

Everybody's favorite dancers!

A winding path up a steep cliff. From an antique book by William T. Horton.

"Hands up!" photomechanical print showing a santa claus pointing a handgun at the viewer (1912) by Will Crawford (1869-1944).