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  Love is in the air. And as thoughts turn to Valentine’s Day, we look at a great album of snapshots of people getting naked, getting cosy and having barrels of fun – in wooden barrels, once used for booze, grain and oil ever since Pennsylvania oilmen collected the substance in whiskey barrels after striking their first gushers. Photograph collector Robert E. Jackson sees love in these terrific snapshots. And we agree. So let’s hitch up our skirts and sing along to the Škoda lásky, also known as The Barrel Polka, Rosamunde and Roll Out the Barrel, the 1927 polka that became a wartime drinking song of good cheer, foxhole camaraderie and hope: Roll out the barrel, we’ll have a barrel of fun Roll out the barrel, we’ve got the blues on the run Zing boom tararrel, ring out a song of good cheer Now’s the time to roll the barrel, for the gang’s all here     “T is sweet to win, no matter how, one’s laurels, By blood or ink; ‘t is sweet to put an end To strife; ‘t is sometimes sweet to have our quarrels, Particularly with a tiresome friend: Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels; Dear is the helpless creature we defend Against the world; and dear the schoolboy spot We ne’er forget, though there we are forgot. But sweeter still than this, than these, than all, Is first and passionate Love—it stands alone… — Lord Byron, Don Juan     “Then, all to once, it gave a jump and it seemed to me it went like a streak of lightning. It must have shot 15-20 feet out and I went into an eddy or a pool where I went round, just like that. The barrel nearly stood up, and that is the place where things go down and disappear forever” – Annie Edson Taylor recalls becoming the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901     In Trinidad, one dollar buy Papaya juice, banana pie, Six coconut, one female goat, An’ plenty fish to fill de boat. One bushel bread, one barrel wine, An’ all de town, she come to dine. But here is bad, one dollar buy Cup of coffee, ham on rye. Me throat she sick from necktie, Me feet hurt from shoes. Me pocket full of empty, I got Calypso blues. – Calypso Blues     Mother phoned up last night, she was going spare She was in a temper, pulling out her hair Your sister’s courtin’ a scruffy looking Ted Father don’t give a monkey’s and this is what he said I don’t care, I don’t care I don’t care if he comes ’round here I got my beer in the sideboard here Let mother sort it out if he comes ’round here –  Chas ‘n’ Dave, The Sideboard Song        Spurred by demand for lamp fuel as whale blubber grew scarce, derricks popped up all over Pennsylvania’s oil region in the 1860s–although subsequent overproduction drove prices so far down that at one point, a wooden barrel was worth twice as much as the oil it contained… – Kate Pickert, Time     Funny glasses with a little piece of ice Anything that comes with lemon and a slice Fancy cocktails that are shaken and not stirred Drinks with cherries in that make you absurd With you finger cocked to leave your friends impressed Anything that ain’t a pint of Courage Best Mine’s pint of best… – Chas ‘n’ Dave, Getcha! for Courage Best Bitter     “It became a game that I took to with immense gusto: to see how much I could remember about dandelions themselves, or picking wild grapes with my father and brother, rediscovering the mosquito-breeding ground rain barrel by the side bay window, or searching out the smell of the gold-fuzzed bees that hung around our back porch grape arbor. Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” — Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine     We’ve lots more from Robert E. Jackson on the site. And you can follow him here for more great stuff. The post 23 Fabulous Vintage Snapshots of People In Barrels appeared first on Flashbak.

  Pulitzer Prize-winning comix artist Art Spiegelman wrote the graphic novel Maus, the self-published zine RAW. While working at Topps trading cards he co-created the Garbage Pail Kids (with Mark Newgarden) and in 1971 this set of Nasty Valentine Notes.     You’re always wearing bells and beads And asking “What’s your sign?” Most people think you’re out of sight You’re just out of your mind!     As Jay Lynch writes: Art Spiegelman did the art on the wrapper and box. He also did the finished art on some of the pieces themselves… and he wrote most of them and did roughs. So he is the main guy behind this series. Some of the final art on the pieces are by Ralph Reece and Wally Wood. The set of 30 cards lampoon yoga, hippies, fashion, sex and yoga. Sold in the same format as baseball cards, each satirical Valentine’s Day card needed to be unfolded three times to reveal the images and poem. If you enjoy these subversive cards, check out these ‘vinegar Valentines‘ from the Victoria era,   Original Nasty Valentine sketch by Wally Wood                 And finally…   The post Nasty Valentine Notes by Topps, 1971 appeared first on Flashbak.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who also serves as acting field director of the St Paul Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office.  A short while later, the White House posted the same photo – except that version had been digitally altered to darken Armstrong’s skin and rearrange her facial features to make it appear she was sobbing or distraught. The Guardian one of many media outlets to report on this image manipulation, created a handy slider graphic to help viewers see clearly how the photo had been changed.   This isn’t about “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world.  The New York Times reported it had run the two images through Resemble.AI, an A.I. detection system, which concluded Noem’s image was real but the White House’s version showed signs of manipulation. "The Times was able to create images nearly identical to the White House’s version by asking Gemini and Grok — generative A.I. tools from Google and Elon Musk’s xAI start-up — to alter Ms. Noem’s original image."  Most of us can agree that the government shouldn’t lie to its constituents. We can also agree that good government does not involve emphasizing cruelty or furthering racial biases. But this abuse of technology violates both those norms.  “Accuracy and truthfulness are core to the credibility of visual reporting,” the National Press Photographers Association said in a statement issued about this incident. “The integrity of photographic images is essential to public trust and to the historical record. Altering editorial content for any purpose that misrepresents subjects or events undermines that trust and is incompatible with professional practice.”  This isn’t about “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. Reworking an arrest photo to make the arrestee look more distraught not only is a lie, but it’s also a doubling-down on a “the cruelty is the point” manifesto. Using a manipulated image further humiliates the individual and perpetuate harmful biases, and the only reason to darken an arrestee’s skin would be to reinforce colorist stereotypes and stoke the flames of racial prejudice, particularly against dark-skinned people.   History is replete with cruel and racist images as propaganda: Think of Nazi Germany’s cartoons depicting Jewish people, or contemporaneously, U.S. cartoons depicting Japanese people as we placed Japanese-Americans in internment camps. Time magazine caught hell in 1994 for using an artificially darkened photo of O.J. Simpson on its cover, and several Republican politcal campaigns in recent years have been called out for similar manipulation in recent years.  But in an age when we can create or alter a photo with a few keyboard strokes, when we can alter what viewers think is reality so easily and convincingly, the danger of abuse by government is greater.    Had the Trump administration not ham-handedly released the retouched perp-walk photo after Noem had released the original, we might not have known the reality of that arrest at all. This dishonesty is all the more reason why Americans’ right to record law enforcement activities must be protected. Without independent records and documentation of what’s happening, there’s no way to contradict the government’s lies.  This incident raises the question of whether the Trump Administration feels emboldened to manipulate other photos for other propaganda purposes. Does it rework photos of the President to make him appear healthier, or more awake? Does it rework military or intelligence images to create pretexts for war? Does it rework photos of American citizens protesting or safeguarding their neighbors to justify a military deployment?  In this instance, like so much of today’s political trolling, there’s a good chance it’ll be counterproductive for the trolls: The New York Times correctly noted that the doctored photograph could hinder the Armstrong’s right to a fair trial. “As the case proceeds, her lawyers could use it to accuse the Trump administration of making what are known as improper extrajudicial statements. Most federal courts bar prosecutors from making any remarks about court filings or a legal proceeding outside of court in a way that could prejudice the pool of jurors who might ultimately hear the case.” They also could claim the doctored photo proves the Justice Department bore some sort of animus against Armstrong and charged her vindictively.  In the past, we've urged caution when analyzing proposals to regulate technologies that could be used to create false images. In those cases, we argued that any new regulation should rely on the established framework for addressing harms caused by other forms of harmful false information. But in this situation, it is the government itself that is misusing technology and propagating harmful falsehoods. This doesn't require new laws; the government can and should put an end to this practice on its own.  Any reputable journalism organization would fire an employee for manipulating a photo this way; many have done exactly that. It’s a shame our government can’t adhere to such a basic ethical and moral code too.