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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Rare & Beautiful Vintage Visions of the Future

Soviet and Eastern Bloc "popular tech & science" magazines, German, Italian, British fantastic illustrations and promotional literature - all from the Golden Age of Rare & Beautiful Vintage Retro-Future (from 1930s to 1970s).

(source: TM-1970, Russia)

("Galactic Manoeuvre", by Nikolai Nedbailo)

(source: TM-1953, Russia)

(source: TM-1956, Russia)

(image credit: retro-futurismus.de)

Space never looked better... and perhaps never will

Retro-futuristic art, in a way, can be called a double-fantasy: imaginary future wrapped in imaginary past. Which makes this style doubly interesting, if not doubly obsolete... In this part we will showcase rarely seen art, done in 1930s to 1970s, mostly from "Teknika Molodezhi" (TM), "Yuny Tekhnik", "DetGiz" (Russia) and German retro-future sites.

Earth's Orbit:

(TM cover, Russia, 1950)

(images credit: Klaus Burgle)

"Breaking a Space Traffic Jam" by Frank Tinsley, 1959 (image via Plan59)

To the Moon!

(art by Noel Sickles for the "Rocket to the Moon", 1949)

"To Other Worlds!", Detgiz, Russia, 1939

"Lunar Unicycle" by Frank Tinsley, 1959 (image via Plan59)

(image credit: Klaus Burgle)

(TM cover, Russia 1953)

(source: TM, Russia)

"Nuclear Rocketship" by Frank Tinsley, 1959 (image via Plan59)

"Destination Moon" rare art, 1950
(image credit: Erik Theodor Lässig, Germany)

Bigger Moon base:

(source: TM, Russia)

(original unknown)

(images credit: Kurt Röschl, right - art by Ed Emshwiller)

To Mars!

(TM cover, Russia 1966; right - art by Andrey Sokolov)

"Mars Snooper" by Frank Tinsley, 1959 (image via Plan59)

To Venus!

Battling off the Communist astronaut invasion!

(Perry Rhodan, Jan. 1962)

Interesting Planetary Vehicle: very strange flip-flop caterpillar style of moving -

(source: TM, Russia 1966)

To Saturn and Beyond:

(TM cover, Russia 1954)

Other Worlds

Screens from the Russian science fiction movie "Planeta Bur" (The Planet of Storms) - 1959:

(images via woodmal)

This is a collage made from various promotional art from this movie, created by Vladimir:

(image credit: o-vladimir)

(image credit: Klaus Burgle)

(art by Andrey Sokolov)

(art by Nikolai Nedbailo)

("First Contact", by Nikolai Nedbailo)

Space Lift Concept:

(source: TM, Russia 1970)

Detailed Chart of Starships:

(source: TM, Russia 1955)

Socialist Space Workers by Gennady Golobokov, 1973 -

(source: TM, Russia 1973)

Photon Starships in Deep Space:

(art by Andrey Sokolov)

Friday, May 28, 2010

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Creative haircuts of Shanghai World Expo

A big fun of the Shanghai World Expo. (Photo: CFP)

A child bears the Chinese characters for June 1 on his hair. (Photo: CFP)

It's March 15. (Photo: CFP)

In memroy of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. (Photo: CFP)

In memory of the National Day (Photo: CFP)

Superheroes break World record in Melbourne

Melbourne Superheroes entered the Guinness Book of Records. The city's Federation Square saw 1245 people break the world record for the most number of people dressed in superhero costume, in one place at one time.

The CBD was no place for bad guys on Saturday with Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman, the Green Lantern and other comic book heroes portrayed hundreds of times over by people of all ages, genders, shapes and sizes.

The managing director of Warner Bros. Consumer Products in Australia, Preston Lewis, shouted triumphantly in his American accent: "We did it, we broke the record my brother.

"To see all those people, young and old, families, babies in Fed Square was great, they were so enthusiastic," he told AAP.

"Whenever you were born, people have a connection with those characters and grew up with them."

The world-record attempt was part of the 75th anniversary celebrations for DC Comics, which began publishing in 1935.

The new world record beats the old one by less than a week, after 1091 superheroes turned up at a rugby tournament at Twickenham Stadium in London last weekend.

The record before that was set last year in the US with 1017 people dressed as superheroes, but Mr Lewis says he is sure no one will try and break Saturday's record for a while.