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MSX Laserdisc Game: Starfighters (1984 ASCII/Laserdisc Corp)

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Grotesque Figure, Park of Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, Italy photo by Herbert List, 1952

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First Spaceship on Venus (via Retro Sci-fi Image Repository of Greater Boston)

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Biplanes Over Portland, 1920

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Mount Vesuvius as it was before the eruption of 1767, Plate IX in Sir William Hamilton, Campi Phlegraei, 1776

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Urban målare / Jacob Elbfas, The Sun Dog Painting, (1535-1636)

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Reginald Southey with human and monkey skeleton

Albumen photograph by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (nom de plume Lewis Caroll, author of Alice in Wonderland), 1857.

Reginald Southey was an English physician who invented a specialized cannula (tube) for draining the excess fluid from limbs suffering from edema (dropsy). He also apparently served on England’s “Lunacy Commission” so…there’s that. Southey was lifelong friends with Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and was the one who encouraged him to take up photography.

The pensive expression on Southey’s face betrays the fact that he’s standing with his arm around a skeleton rather than a live human. The composition of the photograph and the portrayal of the abnormal as mundane strikes me as incredibly reminiscent of the worlds Dodgson created in his writings.

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The Cimitero Monumentale dei Padri Cappuccini is a crypt below the Church of Santa Maria della Concezione that has been adorned with the bones and skeletal remains of 4,000 Capuchin monks.  A plaque in the chapel reads: “What you are now, we used to be. What we are now, you will be.”

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Tron is a 1982 American science fiction film released by Walt Disney Productions. The film was scripted and directed by Steven Lisberger, based on a story by Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird. The film stars Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner,David Warner, Cindy Morgan, and Barnard Hughes. A computer programmer is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer, where he interacts with various programs in his attempt to get back out. +

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René Magritte (1898-1967)

The Fanatics, N/D

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Moira Shearer in The Tales of Hoffmann, 1951

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Palazzo Pitti

Grotte de Buonatalenti aménagée en 1583 pour François de medicis

Palazzo Pitti by mfdudu on Flickr

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Apollo and Minerva welcomes a Visitor. 1817. Barthelemy Joseph Fulcran Roger. French 1767-1841. stipple engraving.

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Joseph Wright of Derby, Virgil’s Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming 1779