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Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Wonders of Space Travel (1954)
SOURCE Dreams of Space - Click here to go to original post
A re-run again. I mentioned this one briefly about a year ago but thought I would share some more scans with you.
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/03/scientific-wonders-1953-wonders-of.html
These were booklets that were enclosed as extras in Lion magazine. This 1954 one reused a lot of the Bonestell and Freeman illustrations from the Collier's magazine series.
Some were re-paintings of famous images.
A lot of very beautiful art for such a small booklet. It even had this great color "center-fold".
I apologize for the lack of posts. there have been a lot less new items in my collection and I haven't had time to do more scans of some of the older ones. Maybe summer will re-inspire me. Here are a couple more pages:
Really beautiful images even if re-printed from another source.
A re-run again. I mentioned this one briefly about a year ago but thought I would share some more scans with you.
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/03/scientific-wonders-1953-wonders-of.html
These were booklets that were enclosed as extras in Lion magazine. This 1954 one reused a lot of the Bonestell and Freeman illustrations from the Collier's magazine series.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
3-D Spacescapes (1964)
SOURCE Dreams of Space - Click here to go to original post
This is a spectacular book of punch-outs of the surfaces of other planets. It takes the space art and makes it 3-D. Because the book itself is 15" x 10" some of the images are harder to share. Also since I did not want to assemble this beauty you can only get part of the effect. What blows me away about this book is the impressionistic approach to showing the surface of these other planets.
Some of my favorite images include these of a moonbase and a lunar lander.
As you see each page is huge with lots of images so I scanned part of the page so you can see some of the spaceflight vehicles and plans.
It is part of the Hammond "Construct-o-kit" books. Hammond was a map and atlas company that as their part of the space age created a number of spaceflight images as to be used in introductions to atlases and as maps.
Construct-o-kit 3-D spacescapes. By Sonya Rubin Fish. C. S. Hammond, Inc. 1965-02-18 (in notice: 1964)
Other uses of the Hammond images are found in these blog posts:
Construct-o-kit 3-D spacescapes. By Sonya Rubin Fish. C. S. Hammond, Inc. 1965-02-18 (in notice: 1964)
Other uses of the Hammond images are found in these blog posts:
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-holidays-from-my-room.html (the poster in the background)
There is almost no text in this book except this information page. Like other punch-out books this one encourages a child to imagine what the future might bring.
Monday, May 16, 2011
First Vacation on the Moon / Premieres Vacances Sur La Lune (1967)
First Vacation on the Moon / Premieres Vacances Sur La Lune (1967)
OK as promised your "First Vacation on the Moon". This is a very interesting French book that seems to have been published using photographs from a space flight movie of the time. I will welcome any corrections to my guesses since my French is very poor.
What makes it especially interesting to me is the photographs of a child visiting the Moon. This is very much like 'You Will Go to the Moon (1959) but with photographs of the Moon.
The other topic of interest is the Moonbase they visit. This is probably just the design from the film but it gives the book the sense of it being a visit to a real place.
I have not been able to find out very much about the book but did find this quote:
'In 1967, Mark Heimer, inspired by images from the film 'Luna' the Lennaoutchfilm, imagine the holidays out of the ordinary for a small boy in the 'First Holiday on the Moon' "
I have tried to find out more about 'Luna'. It may be the 1965 Russian film that was released in Europe as 'La Lune'
Having never seen the film I really like the models and details they used for the moonbase.
As a collector I get kind of blasé about having found all the books out there. I have dabbled in finding original books from other countries but having poor language skills has limited me to tripping across them. This one is an astrofuturism classic.
I also like some of the details shown like the hydroponics room:
There is also what looks like a monorail and an electromagnetic launching system for return to orbit:
This book is a visual treat. It even has the classic image of how when you walk on the Moon gravity lets you do some fun tricks.
It happily crosses that line between what is fantasy and what might be reality one day.
Heimer, Marc. Premières Vacances Sur La Lune. Paris: Presses de la Cité, #2 p., 32 cm. 1967
'In 1967, Mark Heimer, inspired by images from the film 'Luna' the Lennaoutchfilm, imagine the holidays out of the ordinary for a small boy in the 'First Holiday on the Moon' "
I have tried to find out more about 'Luna'. It may be the 1965 Russian film that was released in Europe as 'La Lune'
Having never seen the film I really like the models and details they used for the moonbase.
Astronaut!
SOURCE Sci-Fi-O-Rama - Click here to go to original post
More than a hint of Babarella here with this kitsch Photo/Montage, taken from a feature than ran in “Harper’s Magazine” - some time ago by the looks of it!
Image originally featured here via Flickr User: Lady Detektive plenty of other interesting vintage illustrations & photography in her Paper Fetish Set.
More than a hint of Babarella here with this kitsch Photo/Montage, taken from a feature than ran in “Harper’s Magazine” - some time ago by the looks of it!
Image originally featured here via Flickr User: Lady Detektive plenty of other interesting vintage illustrations & photography in her Paper Fetish Set.
We love the Future
SOURCE Signal Noise - Click here to go to original post
Here is a bunch of images plucked from the growing library over at Vintage Future, a great link that my pal Shelby White fired over to me. A lot of the work I do is based on this strange pocket of researching the past’s interpretation of the future. Ever since we could dream we’ve been trying to design how we think the future may look, but inevitably we draw upon the now so the designs are rooted in the time they were created. Strange paradox.
I just love this stuff. The optimistic outlook, the bits of past technology, the desaturated color palette, the little rips and wrinkles. It all comes together in a perfect representation of what kids back in the 60s were looking at in magazines while dreaming of the future. Great stuff.
Be sure to check out Vintage Future for more.
Here is a bunch of images plucked from the growing library over at Vintage Future, a great link that my pal Shelby White fired over to me. A lot of the work I do is based on this strange pocket of researching the past’s interpretation of the future. Ever since we could dream we’ve been trying to design how we think the future may look, but inevitably we draw upon the now so the designs are rooted in the time they were created. Strange paradox.
I just love this stuff. The optimistic outlook, the bits of past technology, the desaturated color palette, the little rips and wrinkles. It all comes together in a perfect representation of what kids back in the 60s were looking at in magazines while dreaming of the future. Great stuff.
Be sure to check out Vintage Future for more.
3-D Spacescapes (1964)
SOURCE Dreams of Space - Click here to go to original post
This is a spectacular book of punch-outs of the surfaces of other planets. It takes the space art and makes it 3-D. Because the book itself is 15" x 10" some of the images are harder to share. Also since I did not want to assemble this beauty you can only get part of the effect. What blows me away about this book is the impressionistic approach to showing the surface of these other planets.
It is part of the Hammond "Construct-o-kit" books. Hammond was a map and atlas company that as their part of the space age created a number of spaceflight images as to be used in introductions to atlases and as maps.
Construct-o-kit 3-D spacescapes. By Sonya Rubin Fish. C. S. Hammond, Inc. 1965-02-18 (in notice: 1964)
Other uses of the Hammond images are found in these blog posts:
Some of my favorite images include these of a moonbase and a lunar lander.
There is almost no text in this book except this information page. Like other punch-out books this one encourages a child to imagine what the future might bring.
This is a spectacular book of punch-outs of the surfaces of other planets. It takes the space art and makes it 3-D. Because the book itself is 15" x 10" some of the images are harder to share. Also since I did not want to assemble this beauty you can only get part of the effect. What blows me away about this book is the impressionistic approach to showing the surface of these other planets.
As you see each page is huge with lots of images so I scanned part of the page so you can see some of the spaceflight vehicles and plans.
It is part of the Hammond "Construct-o-kit" books. Hammond was a map and atlas company that as their part of the space age created a number of spaceflight images as to be used in introductions to atlases and as maps.
Construct-o-kit 3-D spacescapes. By Sonya Rubin Fish. C. S. Hammond, Inc. 1965-02-18 (in notice: 1964)
Other uses of the Hammond images are found in these blog posts:
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-holidays-from-my-room.html (the poster in the background)
Some of my favorite images include these of a moonbase and a lunar lander.
There is almost no text in this book except this information page. Like other punch-out books this one encourages a child to imagine what the future might bring.
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