Osamu Sato is a talented polymath artist from Japan, known for his psychedelic video game scores and his pioneering work on computer graphics.
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Tag: Old school
The 1970s called and they want their proto-McMansions back!
The latest installment of the always-delightful McMansion Hell (previously) departs from the usual format of mercilessly skewering the tasteless custom homes of the contemporary super-rich and instead delves into their historic precedent, the 1970s-vintage “proto-McMansion,” AKA the “Styled Ranch.”
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To do in LA, Jan 18: a special screening of Charlie Chaplain’s “The Gold Rush” with live, improvised piano accompaniment
Heather sends us a notice of “a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece The Gold Rush, with live musical accompaniment at Hollywood’s stunning new venue: The American Legion Theater on Highland Avenue.”
Open Memory Box: hundreds of hours of East German home movies, 1947-1990
149 families’ home movies are archived on Open Memory Box, a massive archive of 415 hours of footage from the former East German, shot from 1947-1990. The video is indexed and searchable by 2700 search-terms, and makes for fascinating browsing as well. (via Kottke)
1941 film shows striking animators brandishing a working guillotine at the Disney studio gates
The 1941 Disney animator’s strike was bitterly fought, as Walt Disney refused to grant the concessions that all the other animation studios had agreed to, and instead grew paranoid and accusatory, convinced the “Communist infiltrators” had turned his animators against him.
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Coop’s tribute to Randotti Skulls, from the golden age of Haunted Mansion merchandise
alt.interoperability.adversarial
Today, we are told that the bigness of Big Tech giants was inevitable: the result of “network effects.” For example, once everyone you want to talk to is on Facebook, you can’t be convinced to use another, superior service, because all the people you’d use that service to talk to are still on Facebook. And of course, those people also can’t leave Facebook, because you’re still there.
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A visual history of Soviet anti-religious artwork
Inspired by Marx’s aphorism that “Religion is the opium of the people,” the USSR commissioned a wealth of anti-religious artwork, much of it very clever and striking. A new book called Godless Utopia: Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda, edited by Roland Elliott Brown, Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell collects the most striking examples of the form. The Guardian has a tremendous gallery of excerpts from the book.
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Samuel Delany’s 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male?
Samuel Delany (previously) is one of science fiction’s titans, a pioneer who was the first openly gay writer in the field, as well as one of the first Black science fiction writers to attain prominence.
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