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    Retro future to the stars.

    Related Flickr set here
    • CommentAuthorharchangel
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2007
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    These are awesome. That fourth one looks a bit like the bubble thing in The Fountain.
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      CommentAuthormrkvm
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2007
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    Oooo....great stuff. I'm loving the one wth the Bubble thing.
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      CommentAuthorFerburton
    • CommentTimeNov 30th 2007
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    The first "To the Moon" cover, the guys in the space suits in Black & White, remind me of the black & white Doktor Sleepless covers. Very good stuff.
    • CommentAuthorDRomigh
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2007
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    "Come, comrade space worker! Help crush the imperialist American pigdogs wearing their blue jeans and listening to their rock and roll while we strive to increase production on our vaguely Giger-esque bubble living quarters!"
    • CommentAuthorStefanJ
    • CommentTimeDec 1st 2007
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    I totally love this:

    Soviet era Happy New Year card

    A Ukranian friend says it reads "Happy New Year." The Santa-ish fellow is Grandfather Frost. The woodland animals are visiting from an episode of "South Park," and have terrible plans for the little cosmonaut.
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      CommentAuthorIan Mayor
    • CommentTimeDec 3rd 2007
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    Oh I say.

    I'd love some prints of those.
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      CommentAuthorCOMTE
    • CommentTimeDec 3rd 2007
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    The woodland animals are visiting from an episode of "South Park," and have terrible plans for the little cosmonaut

    I don't know, it looks to me like that lil' Cosmonaut is eyeing the fluffy bunny in a very suspicious manner.

    What's the Russian equivalent of "hassenpfeffer"?
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      CommentAuthorLuke
    • CommentTimeDec 4th 2007
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    Thanks helloMuller, I've always loved the Soviet prints and the 50s era "SCIENCE Our Friend of the FUTURE!" vibe, so this combination is a conflation of awesome things custom made for me.

    Thanks, Muller! Thanks, Internet!
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      CommentAuthorAlan Tyson
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2007
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    That just became my new Christmas card.
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      CommentAuthorunderdog
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2007
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    This picture here reminds me of the gun marvin the martian had pointed at the earth...no where do I put my Uranium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator...
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    It's fascinating how most of those Russian pics - minus the occasional Red Star and Cyrillic lettering - could have come straight out of an American or British sf magazine of the same era.
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    Soviet-era art has a certain sad innocence to it.

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