‘Daisy’, sometimes known as ‘Daisy Girl’ or ‘Peace, Little Girl’, was a controversial political advertisement aired on television during the 1964 United States presidential election by incumbent president Lyndon B Johnson’s campaign. Though only aired once (by the campaign), it is considered a factor in Johnson’s landslide victory over Barry Goldwater and an important turning point in political and advertising history. It was created by Tony Schwartz of Doyle Dane Bernbach. It remains one of the most controversial political advertisements ever made [wiki]

Monique Corzilius
is the Daisy Girl

and here’s more of her work

MORE!!!

&

and this is what she looks like today

MUCH MORE!!

• MEET THE REAL DAISY GIRL: MONIQUE CORZILIUS

• PICKING THE WRONG DAISY: A CONELRAD CORRECTION

• DAISY GIRL EXHIBIT SERIES A: New Jersey Courier Article

• SERIES B: Time Magazine Letter

• SERIES C: DNC LETTER

• SERIES D: Monique Corzilius Portfolio Selections

• SERIES E: EUE Pay Slip / Screen Gems Tax Document

• F: Modeling Payments and Miscellaneous Evidence

oh, and

nice try Mondale!!!

DOES ANYBODY HERE REMEMBER VERA LYNN?

remember how she said that we would meet again, some sunny day…

happy birthday VL!!

apparently war wasn’t too kind to Gustav Klimt.  below are four of his paintings that were destroyed in May of 1945, as retreating German SS forces set fire to the Schloss Immendorf castle to prevent it falling into enemy hands.  At least 11 more were destroyed in the same fire.  f$&king Nazis!!!

even mo Lost Art: Masterpieces Destroyed in War [via FTU]

This sticker was celebrating the fact that on January 28, 1986, Christa McAuliffe would be the first civillian teacher to ‘go into space’ aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger [flickr via Glaspoppy]

(for no particular reason) a brief chronology of 70s bleeps & colors & patterns & fun & games & lames…

1974 – Atari’s Touch Me Touches Down In Video Arcades

Atari releases Touch Me, a screen-less arcade game where you have to remember sound patterns and push buttons to prove you remembered the sound patters.  Gamers say BLEEP THIS, and no one ends up touching it all that much

November 16th, 1977 – Humans Tone Home in Close Encounters of The Third Kind

Steven Spielberg, John Williams & François Truffaut communicate with aliens thru the use of 5 tones.  these ‘wild signals’ obviously do the job cause the aliens remove Richard Dreyfuss from earth 9ever!!

May 15, 1978 – Milton Bradley says Simon

Ralph H Baer encounters Atari’s Touch Me at a trade show in 1976 and thought ‘Nice gameplay. Terrible execution. Visually boring. Miserable, rasping sounds.’  Then he thought up Simon and Milton Bradley got all bleepin’ rich and stuff.  So they basically ripped off Atari AND the sweet sounds of John Williams!!

The launch of Simon was hactually held at Studio 54(!!!), where a four-foot model of the game hung suspended over the dance floor!!!!  Would probably donate our penis to science if someone could find pictures of a bunch of coked-up nekkid people dancing underneath a giant Simon at Studio 54!!!

1978 – Atari Gets Handy & Touchy Again with Touch Me

Atari releases ‘a little product called Touch Me, which was a hand-held version of Milton Bradley’s Simon, which was Milton Bradley’s version of Atari’s coin-op Touch Me.’ - Dennis Koble

Obviously no one really touched this product either, and so Atari’s Electronics Games division scrapped their plans for handheld versions of Space Invaders and Breakout.  Atari waited 11 years before releasing their next handheld system - 1989’s Lynx!!

1978 & beyond – The Copy Cats Meow

Simon‘s popularity brings on a rash of imitators.  One of them was Tiger Electronics’ Copy Cat, although it was probably more like Copy Crap!!

the one we played with as a child, was the Simon-esque Merlin by Parker Bros

remember kids, Parker Bros before hos!