Retro Future Collection
Promover o "sentimento de admiração" e intensa exploração do nosso mundo e além, descaradamente cinismo e niilismo-livre, "Dark Roasted Blend" tem o prazer de oferecer aos nossos leitores. Como uma espécie de visão geral, mas principalmente tentando destacar os temas e artigos de 2010 que você pode ter perdido, aqui está um resumo dos posts mais populares e interessantes sobre DRB (organizadas por meses).
Você tem que apreciar as linhas da "Primeira nave de Vênus"(do filme de 1960 da Alemanha Oriental / Polónia):
Confira as cenas de um filme russo cult "Nebo Zovyot", 1960 (refeito por Roger Corman como "Battle Beyond the Sun"):
Life inside the space station, do filme Russo "Road To The Stars", 1957
"UFO" series; "Land of the Giants"
Screenshot from "Space 1999"; right: from "Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun"
Screenshot from "Space 1999"; right: from "Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun
Scenes from the Russian movie "Planeta Bur: The Storm Planet"
Russian magazine covers from the 1950s and 1960s
Grandes projetos, vintage, da capa do romance de Hunt Collins "Amanhã e amanhã" (Collins Hunt é um pseudônimo de Evan Hunter, mais conhecido como Ed McBain) - imagem à esquerda. Uma plataforma espacial, de formato curioso, da capa de "Weird", Outubro 1971.
German rare sci-fi editions yield a peek inside a space port, spaceship maintenance and repair:
(intense planetary exploration scene from "Operation Future" (ed. by Groff Conklin, 1961) cover - left. Right: "The Space Frontiers", novel by Roger Lee Vernon)
Construction of the space dome on Mars (from "Dan Dare's Space Book", 1954) - below left. And pretty ugly space suits (1952 model) shown on the right:
Floating in a pretty crowded space, 1950s style:
(fragment of the cover of "The War Against The Rull" by A. E. Van Vogt
(images from the Vols Interplantaires, French space exploration futuristic edition)
Perils of the Spaceways:
(art by Alex Schomburg)
(art by Ed Cartier, illustration to "Tradition" by J. McIntosh, Other Worlds, April 1952)
Vintage Japanese movies also depicted pretty intense space exploration:
Outrageous water-to-air launch jet from Gerry Anderson's UFO series
Great minimalist art from the Russian vintage book "The Flight To The Moon", 1954, showing the Moon Base:
Here is another busy Russian Moon Base (from 1961) -
Rare and gorgeous visions of space exploration from the Russian 1950 book "The Rocket":
Pretty detailed art by Jack Coggins from "Rockets, Jets, Guided Missiles and Space Ships" (1951) -
Fragment of the Grosset & Dunlap 1950 "Book of Model Spaceships": there is something from the vintage Westerns in this scene -
"The Next 50 Years on the Moon" (by Erik Bergaust, 1974) states that sometime between 1980 and 1990 we will have a permanent Lunar colony:
(German book covers in the 1960s-1970s)
Here is his "City on Mars", 1940, and "The Golden City on Titan", 1941:
(images credit: Frank R. Paul)
