grit

Geoffrey Jones, Snow. 1963. Found via evencleveland.

This is mesmerising! Manual labor and tweed jackets.  Talk about grit.

Rumba Abierta (1960)

Marcia Moore, 1965

Upside Down Day

An ode to those times when everything seems backwards.

Upside Down Day (public library), 1968
Illustrations by artist Kelly Oechsli and written by Julian Scheer (the head of NASA’s Public Affairs Office, responsible for enchanting Americans with the space program)
If you like this then check out  Weight and Weightlessness, another spacetastic illustrated gem from the same era, and the story of how Scheer and his team marketed the moon.

(Found via brainpickings)

Rain Making

(Image found here)

Rhythm and Soul

Northern Soul

Tom Frost, Royal Robbins and Yvon Chouinard in bivy sacks in the black cave during the first ascent of El Capitan, Yosemite, 1964.

Click here for more El Capitan history.