finishingschoolbooks:

Oh, how the skies have changed! In my day, one could take one’s balloon transport for a float on a summer night and not worry about cannon fire or being kidnapped by men in full evening attire.

Do be careful up there, students. And remember, being captured by sky pirates is a poor excuse for missing classes.

It is 150 years since the world’s first underground railway system was created. These posters are from the London Transport Museum’s exhibition titled Poster Art 150: London Underground’s Greatest Designs. (via Brain Picker)

(Source: applesandibexes)

kaijusaurus:

Weekly Film Focus: Poster for Columbia’s 1960 release of Ishiro Honda’s BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE.

70
VIA bourbonwar
ORIGINALLY kaijusaurus

shortformblog:

Alert: Awesome new Arrested Development posters, straight from Netflix, over this way.

finishingschoolbooks:

Parasol manipulation is only one of several real world skills debuts can expect to learn from Professor Braithwope aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy.

Are you interested in finishing?

Submit your “application” here. 

In two weeks time our faculty will post the most commendable efforts and reward them with an advanced reading copy of Gail Carriger’s novel chronicling the second year of finishing school.

Good luck, my dears! And remember, if there are admissions officers to be blackmailed, blackmail them.

betype:

A poster inspired by the accents and dialects that make up the United Kingdom

6640
VIA ladybols
ORIGINALLY betype