(Mayflower Pictures, 1968)

Among those who love low-budget and exploitation films, Chicago’s Herschell Gordon Lewis will forever be known as the Godfather of Gore, having created -- with his expansive partner David F. Friedman -- the first real “gore” picture. That was  1963’s Blood Feast, a ground-breaking, stomach-churning splatterfest featuring a deranged Egyptian caterer named Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) who uses the body parts of women to create his specialty, “Egyptian Feasts.”... continue reading

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Falcons, the fastest creature on Earth: When stooping, the peregrine flies at speeds varying from 160-440 kmh (99-273 mph)...

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JD Salinger has died, aged 91. Here is an excellent obituary from The New York Times... continue reading

(American International Pictures,1967)
Noteworthy chiefly as one of the quick-and-cheap indulgences that helped prepare Dennis Hopper for the cheap but slow-burning Easy Rider (1969), director Anthony Lanza's The Glory Stompers also boasts one of the more colorful titles in the biker-flick canon, as well as a colorful cast that includes former movie Tarzan Jock Mahoney and radio’s famed Mr. Top 40 Countdown, Casey Kasem, as a character named, appropriately enough, Mouth. Story-wise, The Glory Stompers carries a ring of the perpetual struggle of the sacred vs. the profane, with a bracing suggestion that the profane might even be winning... continue reading

Falcon Motorcycles will be launching their new series of vintage and modern Café racer motorcycles. Check: www.caferacers.com for regular updates and to find out more!
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The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings today for parts of Downtown Los Angeles, an unusual development for normally sunny Southern California that prompted orders for several motorcycle shops to keep employees and interns indoors until the threat passed... continue reading

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A fabled Vincent Black Shadow, hand-built and produced by Vincent HRD in January 1951, has found it's way to the Falcon Motorcycles workshop in December 2009, ready to become the "Black Falcon"... continue reading

Ian Barry and Falcon are on the cover of Los Angeles Magazine's December 2009 issue: Made in LA. We have moved back into our shop now after the construction and are moving forward full steam ahead - will be back to posting blogs in no time, stay tuned...! continue reading

Please excuse the lack in blog postings ... we are undergoing MAJOR construction.. and will be back soon with much better blog postings than the quickies that we were posting for a while, trying to keep it up. Look forward to getting back to it ... Ian & Amaryllis continue reading

Designed  as a wall hanging unit,  Henry Studley's tool cabinet is a magnificent thing to behold.  Built within an oak shell,  the chest is inlaid with walnut, ebony, mahogany, rosewood, and beset with mother of pearl inlays, the chest contained over 300 tools that were "generic" to a cabinet maker of the day ... but there were also countless tools that are still to this day unidentifiable and specific to a piano/organ maker, Studley's primary job... continue reading

(American International Pictures, 1967)
Film fans and historians tend to see biker movies as not much more than an impersonal mass of machinery and muscle, fueled with twangy power-chord rock `n` roll and garnished with cheesecake glamour. But even such a monolithic genre has its outcroppings of individualistic style and attitude, and they usually occur where least expected --- like the third entry in American International Pictures’ array of cyclists-vs.-the-System pictures. That’s Born Losers, whose acquisition served to free famed cheap-film mogul Roger Corman’s stable of artists for other pursuits by allowing star player Tom Laughlin the additional responsibilities of producing, directing, and writing... continue reading

Given three wishes I’m sure we would all want an Aston Martin DB5, a house on Lake Como and World Peace. However, the freedom I would like to discuss today is of a nature much closer to home. It’s an issue that has had men in a bind since the not so swinging sixties... continue reading