Sunday, April 9, 2017

Space, the Communist Frontier

I cannot lie: the Soviet Union kinda fascinates me. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't wanna live there, but the whole Soviet Superscience aesthetic...

Anyway, I stumbled across these artworks today. First one's really cute, little girl playing with a rocketship while looking at an old propaganda poster. At first I thought she was actually on a space station, watching multiple Soviet rockets take to the heavens, but no. Interesting detail that the ground is wet - it rained recently - and the poster's muddied. "Our dream, our reality."

Second one is - HEY, DON'T STAND THAT CLOSE TO A ROCKET LAUNCH YOU WILL LITERALLY DIE OF A HEART ATTACK where was I? Also, don't we know better than to launch rockets in the cold? Ah, but you underestimate the Russians, both their engineering capabilities and their willingness to give their lives for the cause, Comrade!

Third one's just stark and awful. Also, those trees are getting, what, two hours of sunlight a day?

Post-Craig Review: Dr. No

 Back to the very beginning. This is a lie. "The beginning" would surely be a review of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel Casino Royale...