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Looking for something stylish for your kid's wall? This On The Move print by Corinne Welch might be just the ticket.  The design is composed of 12 three-colour woodblock print, showing various methods of transport, ranging from the conventional such as trains and buses to more unusual methods of transportation, like rocket ships and elephants. Bristol-based Welch has been inspired by 1950s children's illustrations for these designs, and this comes through in the gentle charm of the piece.  Priced at £100, it's a limited edition of 8. There are three currently in stock at Boxbird so, if you like it, you're advised to snap it up swiftly. 

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Via Dangerous Minds: Hear a rare 1970 acoustic jam between Frank Zappa and then-whiz kid musician Shuggie Otis.Otis has a new, coupled with an old classic, out now.-----Three of the Brady kids reunited at a Cincinnati amusement park last weekend to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a "Brady Bunch" episode filmed there.Barry Williams (Greg), Christopher Knight (Peter) and Susan Olsen (Cindy) met with fans, shared memories from the show and introduced clips from the sitcom.-----Via "Kid" Robson: Vintage Dalek transfers!\-----Beatles biographer Hunter Davies has donated John Lennon's handwritten lyrics to "Strawberry Fields Forever," "She Said, She Said," and "In My Life" to the British Museum.The manuscripts and other Beatles rarities were donated to the Library by Hunter Davies, The Beatles’ biographer, under the new Cultural Gifts Scheme.The scheme allows individuals or companies to donate “pre-eminent” items to the nation during their lifetime in return for a reduction in their UK tax liability.Davies, who had loaned The Beatles items to the Library in the past, said: “I want my Beatles collection to be kept together, in one place, and on public display, and the British Library is the perfect home for it."

A movie tie-in book. Love collecting these. Pointless, but always fun to find one. So how would you feel to have gotten a part in the movie, your image on the cover of the book, but then no information given as to who you are? People in the movie who aren't on the cover got credit, but the lone fellow on the right is left out. I'm a guessin' he's thikin' somethin' along the lines of, "I think I'd better talk to my agent." Click on images to see them larger.

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I know the company selling this do a number of reproduction design classics in their range, but this 1960s Robin Day Leo Chair and Ottoman is an officially licensed reissue. It's a British made reissue of a 1965 Robin Day design, featured in early James Bond movies, most notably in You Only Live Twice, which is where the still below is from. It's a design very much of its era, although its straight modernist lines would still work well as a lounger in a modern home, as well as a retro setting. There are a variety of leather finishes to choose from or you can opt for something bespoke.As you would expect from an officially licensed piece, it isn't cheap, selling from £2,644. But it's certainly a cool thing to own.Find out more at the Iconic Interiors website

I really enjoyed the first two Critter movies when they came out, don’t think I’ve seen parts 3 &4 but the first two were really fun and unique. I thought the bounty hunters were so awesome!

Another piece of value design on eBay, with this 1970s Herda space age ceiling light not necessarily having the high end brand name, but certainly packing the look. The lamp is based around a chrome bar with two aluminium tubes, where the reflector bulbs go. All of that is surrounded by a brown plastic shade, very much the colour of the era (if you discount orange).The shade apparently has some scratches from use over the years, but 'you don’t see them because of the gloss of the shade'. The price right now is just 66 pence.Find out more at the eBay website

The rumbling and crumbling of the 55th seal of the Roboplastic Apocalypse is the sound of over 30,000 convention goers in Ottawa stampeding the Ernst & Young convention center for Ottawa ComicCon 2013! And among those in attendance was our robotastic correspondent Colin of Fairplaythings.com, looking for a chance to meet his favorite stars of sci-fi movies and television shows (many of