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In preparation for an upcoming project based on the '50's iconic American "Atomic Family" I wanted to practice editing some TV-like images. For this shot I used an old photo of a TV statue taken in Seattle's Freedemont District and blended in a recent photo of model Dede Brenner from a recent desert shoot.
Another psycho-selfie.
Strobist info: 1 SB26 & 1 SB800 @ 1/16 through umbrellas from close left and right, 1 SB-600 @ 1/1 with red gel behind my back pointing @ the wall. Triggered by the built in flash (@ 1/2 power through DIY diffusor)
Self portrait based on the cover of Playtime Books "Atomic Blonde" with original artwork by Robert Bonfils.
variations on a theme- atomic coffee machines manufactured in Italy, Austria, Hungary, The United Kingdom, India, China: c. 1946-2009.
The Atomic Coffee Maker was designed by Mr Giordano Robbiati of Milan, Italy around 1946. Over the years various manufacturers in separate countries produced coffee machines based on Robbiati's patented designs and also labeled as 'Atomic' machines. Over time the Atomic trademark became the descriptive name of the distinctive shape/design of the machine- in the same manner as the trademarks 'escalator', 'bakelite' and 'hoover' became generic descriptive terms through common use in everyday language. Obviously in the case of the Atomic coffee maker the product is far more obscure than the ubiquitous 'escalator' however the trademark principles are identical. This process is called 'genericisation'.
Trade mark owners seek to avoid using or allowing others to use a trademark in a purely descriptive way, an example of this would be Johnson & Johnsons's ongoing defense of the 'Band Aid' trade mark. By encouraging other manufacturers to use the term 'sticking plaster' instead of 'band aid' J&J have managed to prevent their mark being declared generic and invalid in the USA by constantly threatening to litigate any company that describes their 'sticking plasters' as 'band-aids'.
Ensuring a trademark does not become the generic name of the goods it is applied to is especially important when an inventor creates a new device: he or she should take special care to create a new name that describes the invention alongside a separate trade name (trademark) which signifies the origin of the device. In the case of the Atomic coffee maker this did not happen: the Atomic trademark was used as the name for the novel invention as well as a trademark for the manufacturer. This was further compounded by separate manufacturers using the same name to describe/trademark their ATOMIC machines.
For a trademark to be valid it must be distinctive of a particular source or manufacturer- this is why in law a trademark is known as a 'badge of origin'. Registration of a trademark does not guarantee validity under law: it is up to the owner of the mark to pursue any alleged infringements. In such a case the validity of a mark can be called into question and the mark can be de-resgistered. In addition use of the trademark in a descriptive manner is not use of the mark as a trademark and does not constitute infringement.
In print and other media most of the coffee machines pictured above are almost universally described as ATOMIC coffee makers (and nothing else), regardless of the manufacturer. Today the ATOMIC name cannot act as a 'badge of origin' as it does not indicate a particular source- and therefore it cannot act as a legitimate trademark in relation to coffee machines of this (atomic) design. No trader should be granted a perpetual monopoly on the descriptive name of this type of distinctive coffee maker.
A good example of this reality is the Otto/Otso machine pictured above: this machine has never been labeled as an Atomic coffee machine by the manufacturer, and it is a product of the 21st Century- not the Twentieth. Unlike all the other machines pictured here it is made of steel not alloy. Yet upon its release into the market around 2009 it was immediately described as an 'atomic coffee maker' by ordinary people- all over the world- using the Atomic word to signify the shape and form of the machine. That is to say: using ATOMIC as a name, and never as a 'badge of origin'. And it is no wonder why: the Otso machine clearly belongs in this collection of Atomic Type Coffee Machines- if it does not look just like an Atomic: what on Earth does it look like?
The Ikon Exports Collection, 2011
Signs for the iconic mid century motel on the edge of Death Valley and near the U.S. atomic proving grounds.
Catalog #: 10_0016020
Title: Atomic Bomb Test
Date: 1946
Additional Information: Bikini Island
Tags: Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Island, 1946
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Also known as Hiroshima Peace memorial, this is one of the few buildings surviving the atomic blast. Standing 160m from the hypocenter it was destroyed in seconds.
Stands there to remind the world of the terrible consequences of atomic bombing.
More information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_Peace_Memorial
Catalog #: 10_0016023
Title: Atomic Bomb Test
Date: 1946
Additional Information: Bikini Island
Tags: Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini Island, 1946
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Picture taken at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima Japan. This was taken in one of the memorials at the Peace Park and gives you a visual representation of the terrible destruction caused by the atomic blast in Hiroshima.
Las Vegas, NV. September 3, 2017. Shot on a Hasselblad Xpan II and Kodak Portra 400. Developed and scanned by The Darkroom.
From the Archives: The Black Hole - a seller of atomic era surplus equipment from the Los Alamos National Laboratories; sadly closed down in 2018. Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2008
The year: 1952. The place: Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The subject: one Grimelda Spellington, a potion-making, broomstick-riding, cauldron-owning old school witch. Miss Spellington decides she's tired of being persecuted by the community and having everyone in the neighborhood refer to her home as "that haunted house on the end of the block that's dragging all the property values down."
So she did what everyone did in the Fifties-- she conformed. She ditched the pointed hat and black robes, bought a new wardrobe, got her hair permed and started wearing pearls around the house.
Did it work? Let's just say the neighborhood Bridge Club was never the same after that year.
When I first sketched Grimelda I drew her wearing a neck scarf, bobby socks, Oxford shoes and a poodle skirt (except the skirt had a black cat on it instead of a dog. Com-O-Dee!) because that was an outfit in the 1950s. But then I realized that that's what teens wore, not adults. So I had to look up ladies' outfits from the 1950s until I found something suitably June Cleaver-ish.
Drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.
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A picture that I took near Ularu, Australia. I remember getting up at about 5am to set up for this shot! This is one of the shots from my Oz trip that I recently had converted.
There is one store and one bar in Atomic City; the store no longer sells gasoline, due to new laws pertaining to its underground gas tanks. Most of the people who were raised in the town have now passed on, and many of the current residents are retired. There is an RV park on the south end of town with full hook-ups, and stock car races are held in the summer.pop.25
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The Atomic Arrow is an extremely fast speeder bike named after its dart-like shape and neon-green glow. Equipped with a gamma fusion engine, hard-light stabilizer wings, and powerful thrusters, this lean, mean, racing machine was built for speed! You can see it here racing down the Nightline City Raceway at breakneck speeds piloted by its rider Jade Lightning.
This is my Nightline City entry for the Lego Speeder Bikes Racing League contest.