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kekwcomics · 2 years

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THE GODS HATE KANSAS (1964)

Art: Jack Thurston

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undergroundrockpress · 1 year

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Analog, June 1962 - art by John Schoenherr

#John Schoenherr #analog #60s science fiction #1962 #1960s

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thedepartmentofdiscoveries · 2 years

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R.I.P. to Nichelle Nichols aka Lt. Nyota Uhura: December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022. 🖖❤️🌌

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station451 · 2 years

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I may not be a young people but I do love this Tempo Books edition of Chilling Stories From Rod Serling’s the Twilight Zone!

Open the book, read the pages, and enter The Twilight Zone IF YOU DARE!

Stories by Walter B. Gibson and Serling himself; cover artist unknown.

#mine #rod serling #the twilight zone #walter b. gibson #chilling stories from Rod serling’s the twilight zone #vintage paperback #vintage sci fi #science fiction #sci fi #vintage books #twilight zone #tempo books #1960s paperback #1960s sci fi #60s science fiction #60s sci fi #bookblr #book collection #book collector

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schlock-luster-video · 1 year

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On April 15, 1965, Crack in the World debuted in the United States.

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mondonguita · 2 years

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Was Sonny Chiba's costume from Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961) the inspiration for Gohan Great Saiyaman costume?

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marginalia-music · 1 year

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The British seemed to have gotten the head-start on bedroom pop. If you believe Todd in the Shadows, it came from the DIY, lofi but tight and catchy Your Woman by White Town (1997). But by sifting through the historical record, Solid Space seems like a solid antecedent a full fifteen years prior.

Formed in 1980 by childhood friends Dan Goldstein (keyboards, vocals) and Maf Vosburgh (guitar, bass, keyboards, vocals), they released their only album, Space Museum, in 1982 through In Phaze Records. While bootlegs have circulated throughout the years, Space Museum finally got its first official vinyl release in 2017 by reissue label Dark Entries.

What I’ve always loved about digging through any early obscurities of a particular genre is seeing how it places itself within the genre’s history, at the fork in the road between an (older) genre and a newly-emergent one. Space Museum is right at the apex between late 70s post-punk and synth-inspired new wave. It’s far too dark and dreary to be new wave, but too experimental to be firmly rooted in the more recognized post-punk scene of the time. It sounds like nothing; a hazy dream, intoxicated by BBC reruns and pubescent troubles finally etched into the physical world. It’s not hard for me to imagine Dan & Maf on a gloomy, rainy day messing around with their Wasp synthesizer and Casio MT-30 in their room, seeing what sounds would come out and trying to replicate what they had just seen on the TV.

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It’s bedroom pop at its weirdest, creating eerie, cold, and lonely landscapes paired with monotone vocals, representing their sci-fi source material in a wholly transformative way. Destination Moon and Tenth Planet are the real stars of the record: the former encapsulating the loneliness and ennui of space travel, and the latter duly recounting the plot of a Doctor Who episode of the same name where the narrator destroys an entire species and their planet but “didn’t really care”. I also really love Radio France. It’s less gloomy and electronic than the rest of the album, being a more grounded stab at a post-punk song. It talks about getting over a cruel ex-girlfriend, but still featuring fun synth rhythms, being reminiscent of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop at times. The opening track, Afghan Dance, is also really interesting, being “warmer” than many of the tracks on the album. There’s still some distance though, each note awkwardly jerking from the last in a mysterious, alien rhythm, unable to decipher the music’s source. (I would love to know if this is actually based on a traditional Afghan song.)

Defining “pop” is a difficult challenge. Is two guys’ weird experimental album that only ever got circulated on a couple hundred cassettes really “pop”? I’d say so. The DIY, lofi aesthetics of Space Museum are equally reminiscent of old 60s sci-fi shows, 70s-80s punks, and 2010s lofi indie musicians. It’s punk filtered through the BBC Radiophonic; two guys reliving 60s sci-fi right when such works were becoming old enough to be seen as “classic”. It mends a fracture in time, with the original “spirit of 76” punk fading out in favor of its offspring, going off in a million wild directions. (You can see more photos & vids on the Instagram)

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howslifeinabiggerprison · 1 year

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Artist - Mike Noble

#star trek #60s #sixties #70s #seventies #comic art #retro art #retro comics #classic comics #retrofuture #60s science fiction

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atomic-chronoscaph · 3 months

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The War of the Worlds - art by Edward Gorey (1960)

#edward gorey #the war of the worlds #h. g. wells #book illustrations #60s sci-fi art #sci-fi novels #science-fiction #martians #1898 #sixties #1960

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retrofuturisticrobot · 1 year

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Watched the 1964 First Men in the Moon over the weekend. Funny seeing this story made in a time before the first real moon landing told so close to the real thing.

The opening scene made me think it was going to be a modernised take on Wells' story, with 60s era astronauts pretty fun idea to have them stumble upon the Union Jack and note referencing Queen Victoria before flashing back to the time period of the original for the remainder. Of course the 'modern' scenes are now just as outdated.

Interesting that they imagined the landing would have astronauts from US, USSR and Uk etc. working together in the 60s Cold War era for a UN space programme, rather than a specific national government, aswell as presuming the flag and note from Wells' heroes are a prank to prop up the 'legacy of Empire'.

As always Harryhausen's effects are great.

#h.g. wells #scifi #retro scifi #ray harryhausen #60s movies #60s film #60s #60s science fiction #selenite #moon

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technicallyclassyperfection · 1 month

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