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links for 2007-10-13: Delirious Moscow

Delirious Moscow Owen Hatherley frames the history of the USSR as space opera, and is noticed with approval by William Gibson. Who wouldn’t be pleased? (tags: architecture History movies scifi USSR)

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Leon Theremin

I’ve been browsing the Wonderland of Knowledge again — the twelve-volume children’s encyclopedia, published 1934 which was the source of the Two Stags image that I believe is still the most-visited post in this blog’s existence, and also of the … more…

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soviet gloss, design et typo

Another link from Plep again, already: this poster, from a collection of Soviet design from the 1920s, is of approximately the same vintage as the Chicago “L” poster from a couple of nights ago, and uses similar subject matter and … more…

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