Browse Items (29 total)

Screen Shot 2021-03-30 at 10.15.05 AM.png
The image shows the 1980s MTV video logo that was broadcasted and shown when you changed the channel to MTV. New Wave music is a pop music movement that consisted of the aggressive nature of punk with the addition of keyboards and dance beats. New…

Macintosh.jpg
Released in 1984 by Steve Jobs and Apple, the Macintosh (or Mac) was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a graphical interface instead of rather than the command-line interface of its predecessors. The Mac's production was…

atari_3 (1).jpg
The posterchild for the second generation of home video game consoles, the Atari 2600 helped introduce interchangeable cartridge-based consoles to American households, replacing from fixed single-game devices. Originally released in 1977, the 2600…

DavidLynch.jpeg
A photo of director David Lynch seen shooting Wild at Heart, a 1990 movie starring Laura Dern and Nicholas Cage...Which is all that will be said regarding that film. While Lynch's presence as a household name today comes from his episodic Twin Peaks,…

yt1s.com - John Lewis  Loren Carpenter  Vol Libre_360p.mp4
The first short film that uses fractals to generate 3D graphics. Created by Loren Carpenter of Boeing in 1980, the short film represented a revolution in imaging software, and Carpenter would go on to work for Lucasfilm ILM and later Pixar.

KubrikKam.jpg
A photo of a camera used by Kubrick, most likely from the 1975 movie Barry Lyndon. Kubrick is responsible for many iconic movies which have found their way into pop culture today. The most prevalent of all being The Shining, a horror movie starring…

soul-man-original-640x360.jpg
This terrible Steve Miner(known for bad sequels to iconic horror films) flick is a "light-hearted" romantic comedy in which actor C Thomas Howell dawns blackface to attend Harvard. The main joke of the movie seems to be centered around affirmative…

NES-Console-Set.jpg
Released in 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System was the most popular of the third generation of video game consoles. The NES helped revitalize the industry of home gaming after the Video Game Crash of 1983. Nintendo marketed the system as a toy…

Gameboy.jpg
The Game Boy was Nintendo's first entry into the market of handheld video games. Released in 1989, the Game Boy was an 8 bit gaming system that was both wireless and portable. The Game Boy was incredibly popular, selling over 118 Million units over…

FerrisBuller.jpg
The 80s saw the creation of titans within the coming to age genre, and much of that comes from John Hughes. From writing on National Lampoon's to directing the Breakfast Club(And Ferris Buellers Day Off of course), much in the same vein as Rebel…
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2