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Cover artwork for Avichi ~ The Devil’s Fractal

Woman against a giant sago palm. The feathers Kombai women wear as a sign of beauty include those of chickens and cockatoos. (The Kombai, Avaunt Magazine, by Oliver Steeds), photograph by Frédéric Lagrange

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It’s very seldom that my Google-Fu is so utterly defeated, that I’ve been reduced to this, but I need your help, gentle reader.

Does anyone remember the period of fast food architecture from the late 1980s to early to mid 1990s when nearly all fast food restaurants looked like greenhouses, with huge, sloping glass windows that filled them with light? They were wonderfully warm and futuristic. I’ve been trying to find images of the “greenhouse” era of fast food restaurants, easily the high point of fast food architecture, even including the mid-century designs. It was the most elegant era in fast food architecture ever, and it’s like nobody realized it happened. I can’t find any images to illustrate what I mean and boy, have I looked. Anyone with images would be appreciated.

Like all great American art, we created something wonderful, then ignored it and thought it had no value because it was closely tied to commerce and “low class culture,” and didn’t even realize we did it at all (there’s a reason “film noir” is a French term - they noticed this stuff wasn’t “junk” but a genre unto itself long after the genre ceased to exist).

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User @featherwurm had a strategy I hadn’t considered: use Google Street View and set it to as far back as possible, when a lot of the “greenhouse” fast food restaurants hadn’t remodeled yet. With it, he found an image of a San Diego Wendy’s from 2010. Not the most spectacular example of this kind of architecture, but good to illustrate what I mean by “greenhouse” Wendy’s. Thank you, @featherwurm!

A lot of the “greenhouse” fast food restaurants remodeled in the past 10 years. Smashed in, like they were trash and the owners probably didn’t think anything of it at all. It’s really a tragedy for a style to appear, then totally disappear and nobody noticed or cared.

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User @sweetsonofabitch suggested using the search terms “solarium” and “sunroom” to find these types of fast food architecture structures. This is great because this is a phenomenally slippery search term. With that, I was able to find these:

It’s also very nice to finally have a term to use to describe this instead of “greenhouse fast food.” “Solarium design” sounds like an article in an architectural magazine, although “Sunroom” sounds more…Yankee, and less pretentious, which fits.

When I started searching sunroom, a fascinating thing happened. I kept on finding upscale restaurants that, as a part of their architecture, use Solarium design or have sunrooms. This isn’t the first time some element of “low culture” is repackaged as expensive haute couture.

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sword of the stranger

micahulrichdraws

Double trouble.

deadwestart

Just awesome. 2 headed vulture is a great concept.

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Moomin Goes Wild West # 26

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wonderful last panel

Vektor - Pillars of Sand

#progressive #thrash #vekilince

Voivod - Thrashing Rage

#voivod #thrash #metal

It is likely that some troubles will befall us; but it is not a present fact. How often has the unexpected happened! How often has the expected never come to pass! And even though it is ordained to be, what does it avail to run out to meet your suffering? You will suffer soon enough, when it arrives; so look forward meanwhile to better things. What shall you gain by doing this? Time. There will be many happenings meanwhile which will serve to postpone, or end, or pass on to another person, the trials which are near or even in your very presence. A fire has opened the way to flight. Men have been let down softly by a catastrophe. Sometimes the sword has been checked even at the victim’s throat. Men have survived their own executioners. Even bad fortune is fickle. Perhaps it will come, perhaps not; in the meantime it is not. So look forward to better things.

Seneca of the Stoics

#stoicism #seneca #anxiety #depression #fear #survival #suffering

Svffer País a German Grindcore band that’s FUCKING SICK note: i do not normally like grindcore. I do not have a tolerance for it. computer generated blast beets and pig screams are not what this is.

this band is far, far above that realm. they’re so good i would say ‘grindcore’ is a misnomer, or maybe the style of grindcore i’m familiar with is terrible. “your preachments are evil and they are a direct threat to the survival of civilzation if you don’t consider me an enemy you don’t know an enemy when you see or hear one

Tracklist: 01 Venom 02 Cherish A Viper 03 Faint 04 Insomnia 05 Staub 06 Arrows 07 Orphan 08 Canvas 09 War Paint 10 Imbalance 11 Without Devotion 12 Draperies 13 Zivilisation

#svffer #grindcore #germany

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Mike Bryan original poster artwork for ROBOCOP (1987). The second image explains how it was made.

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back when people who cared about what they did were still doing big things. now we get people who are obsessed with making really tiny meticulous mindscapes for niche believers, while mass-scale culture stumbles blindly in the dark!

maybe the shit will come full-circle one day. maybe the weirdos will continue to delve into their own pits and collect in the shadows like cockroaches. maybe the times then and now really aren’t that different and in a few hundred years people won’t even be able to tell 'us’ apart, the way the nobody knows the difference between 1120AD and 1160AD.