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quantumaniac:

Soviet Science Propaganda Posters

Science and communism are inseparable! That is the basic message of this amazing collection of Soviet space propaganda posters that will be auctioned off on Apr. 22.

Featuring Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov, the first and second humans to reach space, along with Krushchev, and of course Lenin, these posters glorify the the Soviet Union’s technological prowess and importance in the world, and in the universe. Many of the posters focus on the role the workers played in the space race, and the ordinary citizen’s duty to feel immensely proud of Mother Russia’s accomplishments.

The posters have messages such as “Comrades! Soviet Land Has From Now On Become the Shore of the Universe!” or “The Tenth Planet Symbolizes the Victory of Communism!” and “Be Proud, Soviet, You Opened a Path from the Earth to the Stars!” One of my favorites is “Lenin Is With Us, Immortal and Majestic, the Thoughts, Words and Deeds of Ilyich Are Propagating Through the Universe.”

Source Wired

Reblogged from quantumaniac

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staceythinx:

Chris Fraser creates dazzling light installations by turning a dark enclosed room into variation on a camera obscura. A precursor to the camera, the camera obscura is “a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced, upside-down, but with color and perspective preserved.”

Fraser on his project:

My light installations use the ‘camera obscura’ as a point of departure. They are immersive optical environments, idealized spaces with discreet openings. In translating the outside world into moving fields of light and color, the projections make an argument for unfixed notion of sight.

(via proofmathisbeautiful)

Source triangulationblog.com

Reblogged from staceythinx

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historical-nonfiction: Goya’s The Third of May 1808 shows a Napoleonic firing squad killing terrified Spanish resistance fighters. It is gritty, and unheroic, and almost a cliche. But here’s the thing: no one had done this before. Before Goya, all the painting about war celebrated its parades and glory and honor. They looked like they were done by someone who had never seen a fistfight, let alone a battlefield. Goya put an end to the noble practice of whitewashing war with one painting.

historical-nonfiction:

Goya’s The Third of May 1808 shows a Napoleonic firing squad killing terrified Spanish resistance fighters. It is gritty, and unheroic, and almost a cliche. But here’s the thing: no one had done this before. Before Goya, all the painting about war celebrated its parades and glory and honor. They looked like they were done by someone who had never seen a fistfight, let alone a battlefield. Goya put an end to the noble practice of whitewashing war with one painting.

Source toptenz.net

Reblogged from historical-nonfiction