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Vintage New Year’s Card by ElectroSpark on Flickr.
Trailer for Kathryn Bigelow's film
In 1995, one of my favorite films was released. Set on NYE 1999, turning to 2000. A lone con men, dealing in black market sensory logs, stumbles across a police conspiracy that could rip the city apart.
Police militarization, open gun play in the streets, and mind reading technology. Well, two out of three are on the evening news every night.
Strange Days
Astronauts’ view on their return home from the ISS, at speeds of 17,000+ mph.
Edward Gorey Illustrations from a 1960 edition of War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, published by Looking Glass Library.
Yes. That’s right, you heard me right the first time.
"The Man Who Murdered Santa Claus!" - art by Nick Cardy (1974)
I want this to be real.
Decohe by Marko-Djurdjevic
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode.The stars died so that you could be here today.” 🌟🌟
Luke Cage was created in 1972. Four years earlier, in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed. Five years before that, in 1963, Medgar Evers was shot and killed. Eight years before that, in 1955, a young Black man named Emmett Till was tortured, then shot and killed. These events, and numerous others with frightening similarity, happened in a line, and in the early years of the first decade to reap the social benefits of the Civil Rights Movement, Marvel Comics gives the fans (and the world) a Black male superhero whose primary superhuman aspect… is that he’s bulletproof. Not flight, or super speed, or a power ring. The superhuman ability of being impervious to bullets. Superheroes. Action heroes. Fantasy heroes. Power fantasies. Is there any doubt the power fantasy of the Black man in the years following multiple assassinations of his leaders and children by way of the gun would be superhuman resistance to bullets? In American society, the Black man has come a long way from the terrors of the past handful of centuries, only to crash right into the terrors of the 21st century. Some of those terrors being the same exact ones their grandparents had to face and survive — or not. There are Black men who are wealthy, powerful, formidable and/or dangerous. They can affect change undreamt of by their parents, and their parents’ parents. Their children will be able to change the world in ways we can intuit and others we can barely begin to try and predict. But a bullet can rip through their flesh and their future with no effort whatsoever. And so we look at Luke Cage, a man who gets shot on a regular basis, whose body language is such that he is expecting to be shot at, prepared for the impact — because he knows he can take it. And maybe, in the subconscious of the uni-mind of Marvel Comics, is the understanding that Luke Cage may unfortunately always be a relevant fantasy idea for the Black man. 2012 – Trayvon Martin is shot and killed. 2013 – Jonathan Ferrell is shot and killed. 2014 – Michael Brown is shot and killed. 2015/2016 – Luke Cage premieres on Netflix. I look forward to seeing if the Luke Cage of that show will have a true understanding of his power and what he symbolizes.
Real Life Proves Why Luke Cage Endures (via comicberks)
Reading that was like getting kicked in the gut. And yet it feels like that’s not enough.
(via optimysticals)
Some classic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons over the years. Via.
I watch the parade every year.
Don’t forget to watch the parade!
I still have all of these.
Star Wars action figures, 1978
Star Wars Revenge of the Jedi teaser before the film was re-titled to Return of the Jedi.
Marvel Two-In-One #51, May 1979, cover by George Perez and Joe Sinnott
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has completed principal photography.
The Star Wars Holiday Special
For 1953, this was pretty amazing.
The Monster #2, 1953, cover by Maurice Whitman
Just in case anyone was wondering.
The Headless Horseman. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Star Wars #24, June 1979, cover by Carmine Infantino and Bob Wiacek
Famed Disney Imagineer Yale Gracey with his ghostly special effects creations, including the most famous in Haunted Mansion lore, the Hatbox Ghost.
Thank a Masshole
Watch Marriage Equality Go From Minority Issue To Majority Right In Just A Few Years
Get the full story here.
One of my all time favorite comic issues.
Swamp Thing #46, March 1986, cover by Stephen Bissette and John Totleben
Doctor Solar Man Of The Atom #15, December 1965, cover by George Wilson
Tales Of Suspense #80, August 1966, cover by Jack Kirby, Don Heck, and Stan Goldberg.
Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis #3, July 1991, cover by Dave Dorman
Nearly 100 years old, an amazing film
Robert Wiene. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. 1920.
My all-time favorite Kirby cover: The Demon #13 where the title character straight up challenges the reader. CAN YOU TAKE IT?