The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2010)

SO YOU THINK you have some crazy or outrageous people in your family?

Well, if you want to feel like your blood relatives maybe aren’t so bad – and perhaps feel better about yourself as well – come with me to Boone County, West Virginia…

A great documentary about one of the last true outlaw families in the USA. This documentary by (jackass) Johnny Knoxville and  Julien Nitzberg shows struggles of the White's family. You might know them from listening to HankIII's 2006 release "Straight to Hell" with the song "D Ray White which talks about the life of grand-dad of the White's family. A famous hillbilly tab dancer who unfortunately got shot like so many in his family tree...

Co-produced by Jackass’ Johnny Knoxville, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia follows the extended, rowdy White family – led by matriarch Mamie and her brother Jesco (who was the subject of his own documentary, The Dancing Outlaw, in 1991). For one year, director Julien Nitzberg follows White family members with names like Bertie Mae, Sue Bob, mother and son Bo and Derek (yep, Bo-Derek), Brandon Poe, Annie Mae, Mousie, Poney, and Little Man. Half of the family are in early graves, while the other half live for the moment – drinkin’, smokin', snortin’, and cussin’ their way through each day.

Shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing , drug dealing, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing - what do these all have in common? These are just a few of the parts of being a member of the Wild and Wonderful White Family. The legendary family is as known for their wild, excessive criminal ways as they are for their famous mountain dancing members, including Jesco White, the star of the cult classic documentary, Dancing Outlaw. Exploring both the comic and tragic sides of life on the other side of the law, this stylish, fast-paced family portrait exposes the powerful forces of corruption, poverty, and West Virginia's environmentally and culturally devastating coal mining culture that helped shape the White family, a dying breed of outlaws preserving a dying form of dance.

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"Big Daddy" Ed Roth (March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001)

"Big Daddy" Ed Roth (March 4, 1932 – April 4, 2001) was an artist and cartoonist who created the hot-rod icon Rat Fink and other extreme characters. As a custom car builder, Roth was a key figure in Southern California's Kustom Kulture and hot-rod movement of the 1960s. He grew up in Bell, California, attending Bell High School, where his classes included auto shop and art.

Roth is best known for his grotesque caricatures — typified by Rat Fink — depicting imaginative, out-sized monstrosities driving representations of the hot rods that he and his contemporaries built. Although Detroit native Stanley Mouse (Miller) is credited with creating the so-called "Monster Hot Rod" art form, Roth is certainly the individual who popularized it. Roth is less well known for his innovative work in turning hot rodding from crude backyard engineering, where performance was the bottom line, into a refined art form where aesthetics were equally important, breaking new ground with fiberglass bodywork.

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Bekende en minder bekende Rosie the Riveter "spin off's"...

 

 

Kris Jenner has teamed up with the Poise brand’s “Great Women In History” campaign in this great shot of her dressed up as Rosie the Riveter.

Canadian Rosie

Veronica “Ronnie” Foster poses with a Bren gun she just finished making at the John Inglis factory in Toronto.  She doesn’t look so glamorous in this publicity photo, but Ronnie was attractive and her image was used as a morale booster in Canadian factories during the Second World War — a Canadian version of Rosie the Riveter.  Up until then, the idea of women working on the line alongside the men was unthinkable.  Curiously, they also photographed women workers doing more normal things, like hanging around the beach or going to a club for drinks.

World War Two, while horrific in terms of casualties, did have an upside.  It turned Canada, America and most of the Commonwealth into industrial powerhouses, ones where women became respected, not only as mothers, but as skilled industrial labourers, eventually even as soldiers.  Factory worker or Captain, they all need to be remembered too.

1940's Bombshell's - Women on Top

Rosie the Riveter History

First things first: What is a "riveter," anyway? A riveter is someone who operates a riveting gun, a necessary tool in the manufacturing industry. Many of the women who were inspired to join the work force by Rosie the Riveter actually did very little (if any) riveting, simply because their jobs didn't require it. In fact, the number of women who filled manufacturing roles never exceeded 10 percent of the overall women's working class, which numbered some 19 million [source: PBS].

The Rosie phenomenon came about following the beginning of United States involvement in World War II in 1941. A song titled "Rosie the Riveter," written by John Jacob Loeb and Redd Evans, was released in the early months of 1943. The lyrics described exactly the type of role the government was hoping women would fill during wartime: "She's a part of the assembly line, she's making history, working for victory, Rosie the Riveter."

On May 29, 1943, Rockwell's  depiction of Rosie appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. At the time, Rockwell had a reputation as the most popular illustrator in the country, so his cover reached a massive audience, bringing Rosie's unique and groundbreaking image to the forefront of attention [source: Library of Congress]. Rockwell sought 19-year-old Mary Doyle to serve as a model for Rosie, although he made some drastic changes to her natural appearance by adding a muscular physique [source: Rosie the Riveter].