Monthly Archives: March 2007

Mondo Urania

Published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since October 10, 1952, the Italian magazine Urania is the longest life science fiction series published in Italy. The site Mondo Urania has an amazing collection with tons of Urania covers, resumes and and its … Continue reading

Posted in pulp, vintage | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Triumph of the Will

Thanks to politics of Germany in the 1930′s and 1940′s, and the Nazi dislike for independent thought, Germany lost a huge number of intellectuals, artists and scientists to other countries, specially the U.S.. In cinema, the list of directors, actors … Continue reading

Posted in cinema, video | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Arthur Lavine

A beautiful retrospective with photographs from 7 decades (1940 – 2000) by the American photographer Arthur Lavine. It’s also very interesting as a registry of American cities through those decades. (via coisas do arco da velha) Lavine’s approach in photography … Continue reading

Posted in photography | Tagged , , | Comments Off

AnimaBoom Winners

The winners of AniBOOM Awards 2006 were announced weeks ago. Among the 1,700 entries from 70 countries submitted to the contest there are many so-so works and there are also some little pearls that worth the visit. A good way … Continue reading

Posted in animation, fun, video | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Comics Before Comics

The on-line exhibition from the Bibliotèque nationale de France Comics Before Comics (La BD avant la BD) presents precious panorama of the comics beginning. The visual travel begins with the ancient illustrated bibles made for Kings and the aristocracy’s books, … Continue reading

Posted in books, comics, History | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Make your own Dalek

From time to time this blog receives visits of people searching for Daleks. Those incredible extraterrestrial mutant creatures from Doctor Who series are much more popular that I imagined. The first time I made a post about the Daleks I … Continue reading

Posted in craft, food, geek, toys | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Junkoseven

The toy junkie, web designer and “amateur” photographer Charmaine Noellie, aka Junko Natsumi, shows her excellent work which joins her two passions at Junkoseven. Presenting her photographic works, there are three series: The Pony Project, Urban Medium & Spider, and … Continue reading

Posted in craft, photography, toys | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Tony Price

Tony Price, aka “Atomic Artist”, was a multi-artist and antinuclear activist. Among his several creations, his most remarkable work are the sculptures, specially the group of primitive-inspired masks created out of scrap metal, many of them based on Hopi kachinas. … Continue reading

Posted in art | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

SpiderBuns (Spiderman) 1 and 2

The Angry Alien bunnies attacked again. This time the “victim” was the last two Spider-Man films with Tobey Maguire as the main character. Maguire is good, but not so good as the bunnies that had only 30 seconds to re-enact … Continue reading

Posted in animation, cinema, fun | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Doblando Papeles

Doblando Papeles is a fantastic new papercraft blog, or I must say origami blog. Created by Miguel, a Spanish that lives in Barcelona, the blog has beautiful creations with paper. There are “just” with the images of his last creations, … Continue reading

Posted in blogs, craft, geek | Tagged , , , | Comments Off