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M.A. D.
"Mutual Assured Destruction" is a doctrine of military strategy in which full-scale use of nuclear weapons by opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. The phrase is from the Cold War theory of deterrence.
@Secret_of_Julia aha! you're right!!! There he is! "Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) - Ukrainian poet, writer, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer"
(5) Another "War Of The Worlds" illustration by Henrique Alvim Corrêa for HG Wells masterpiece (1906).
Corrêa died of tuberculosis at age thirty-four, only a few years after the illustrations were published.
(4) Another "War Of The Worlds" illustration by Henrique Alvim Corrêa for HG Wells masterpiece (1906).
Corrêa died of tuberculosis at age thirty-four, only a few years after the illustrations were published.
Monkey Before Skeleton (1900)
Monkeys are often depicted in Gabriel von Max's late paintings, until the artist's death in 1915. Von Max kept a group of monkeys in his own house - he studied their behaviour & their cognitive progress, exploring boundaries between humans & animals
For all Blade Runner obsessives - like me - did you know that the "White Dragon Cut" is coming out in Nov 2022? Using graphics (I think) it recreates scenes that were in the script (February 23, 1981) but deleted. It also brings some of Syd Mead's Concept Art to life.
1984?
Another deeply inappropriate book jacket for 1984 by George Orwell - this time implying that the plot is about sexual voyeurism! From a German edition.
Visions of a Virtual Reality addicted dystopia - in the art of Simon Stålenhag.
People dying with their VR headsets on.
These images are from his excellent book The Electric State.
How many people did God kill?
"A total of 2,821,364 deaths are specifically enumerated in scripture as either directly orchestrated by God, or carried out with his assistance or approval. Satan, on the other hand, notches up only 10 kills."
image: J.Martin
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was famed for his paintings of contorted human figures, but it is much less well known that he was also a very fine landscape painter.
Schiele died three days after his wife, at age 28, during "the Spanish flu pandemic".