to move up and down
the Dark Cossack Rises
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Brice Bischoff used a 4×5 large format camera and some very large sheets of colored paper. He then used long exposure times to paint colorful blurs into the photographs by waving the papers around. The caves are actually manmade, and have often been used for shooting Hollywood movies. Bischoff says his goal was to create sculptural, photographic objects that interact with the history and architecture of the caves.
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Aliens by Mike Mignola
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by Sam Chivers
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by Kenneth Smith
by Kevin Cooley
Kagemusha (影武者, “Shadow Warrior”, 1980) dir. Akira Kurosawa
Austria, Ski Lodge in the Alps by 20x200 Artist Fund
Today’s 20x200 Artist Fund work, Austria, Ski Lodge in the Alps, invites you to take deep, clean lungfuls of cold mountain air direct from the Austrian Alps. This Art Deco 1937 travel poster by designer Erich von Wunschheim depicts a scene of almost holy calm.
The idyllic image belies the tumultuous Austrian politics happening below the mountain peaks at that time: Less than a year later in 1938, the disarrayed Austrian government succumbed to its Nazi party and was annexed to Germany. Yet this picture’s enthralling quality speaks to a more eternal truth about Austrians: how its citizenry have always been transfixed by the Alps, a fascination that altered in tenor over the decades but never fundamentally changed. Keep reading.