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Nico ([personal profile] vilakins) wrote2012-02-01 07:04 pm
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I tell you, the Retronaut site is almost as good at eating up my time as TV Tropes because each page has more tempting links to follow and it's hard to break off and surface.

Here, in no particular order, are some favourites.

Black Cat Auditions - lots and lots of Sebastians! I'm not sure which film they were auditioning for but at the end you can see some stills of the cat who was cast going out a window and being induced down a roof.

Screen Sirens from the 20s - gorgeous, gorgeous photos.

Ziegfeld Follies, 1920s - more stunning portraits of beautiful women.

Star Wars Vintage Travel Posters - Cruise the galaxy aboard an Imperial Star Destroyer, and more. Very WPA.

Victorian Star Trek - some very nice manips.

History of SF - A fascinating zoomable image you can enlarge and explore like a sort of Google map.

Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1935-1958 - posted before by others but still very cool. I think a couple of those book covers are later than that (60s?) though, surely.

The Soviet Hobbit - woodcut illos from the book published in 1976.

A Victorian artificial arm - oddly beautiful and rather steampunk looking.

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gwendraith: (inka)

[personal profile] gwendraith 2012-02-01 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
What a great site Retronaut is and just look at all those black kitties like my India and Inka :)
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[personal profile] vilakins 2012-02-01 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Aren't they lovely! I'm beginning to suspect that black cats are a breed apart with their gentle natures (like torties being feisty).
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[personal profile] pebblerocker 2012-02-02 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
I love the Victorian Star Trek! And omg prosthetic arm, WANT.
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[personal profile] vilakins 2012-02-02 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
If I needed one, I'd want one like that.
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[personal profile] kernezelda 2012-02-02 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Those are such neat links! The sirens, the Star Trek, the black cats! Thanks for sharing your discoveries. :D
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[personal profile] vilakins 2012-02-02 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
We black cat owners know how wonderful they are. :-) I really think they're a special breed: so sweet and gentle and friendly.

I'm sure there's heaps more I haven't found yet.

[identity profile] ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
These are fascinating.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2012-02-02 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
I just had to stop or I'd have gone all day.

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
OH, I love those travel posters... :)

[identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com 2012-02-02 09:12 am (UTC)(link)
I gave Sis the url for that site (found some Shackleton pictures, she ADORES old exploration pictures) and she is busy browsing and thanks you as well...

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2012-02-02 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
It ate one of Greg's days last weekend.

[identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds fascinating. I won't look at your links right now, though, not having a couple of hours to spare.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It might be more than a couple of hours once you get in there. :-)
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[identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
omg, I've been spending time there too--I'll never get through all the posts that sound interesting :D

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I know! It's a time sink!

[identity profile] entropy-house.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
This comment was under the Blake... erm... Black cat auditions & it's what I would have guessed, too, since Vincent Price & Peter Lorre were in the photos.

They were auditioning for ‘The Black Cat’, one part in a trilogy of films that made up the film Tales of Terror by Roger Corman.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2012-02-02 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, no wonder I didn't know the film; I avoid horror.

[identity profile] executrix.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I predict a "Prunes? Never Again!" icon will soon be appearing on my LJ/DW....

[identity profile] entropy-house.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Great links! I am PULLING myself away. :^)

[identity profile] azdak.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
The Hobbit illustrations are WONDERFUL (though I find the hairy legs extremely creepy - I'm sure Tolkien only mentioned furry feet, but perhaps Russians, like Austrians, use the same word for both).

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I have an idea from Russian night classes that they do. I thought Bilbo also looked very Russian with that face.

[identity profile] communicator.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I like 'em, thanks for posting

[identity profile] vjezkova.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear, I love them all, brilliant! Thank you very much. I can´t stop browsing there! This ST TOS crew...splendid!

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2012-02-01 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's hard to pull yourself away, isn't it!

[identity profile] jaxomsride.livejournal.com 2012-02-02 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, a time warping site.

That artificial arm is a work of art.

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2012-02-02 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
If I ever need one, I'm going that route. :-)
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