Atomic Cake

From left: U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, his wife, and Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry cut a cake made in the shape of a mushroom cloud at a reception for Operation Crossroads, November 6, 1946. More atomic culture here and here.

Christian Marclay's LP album-cover collages

More here.

‎3D Zoetrope Bead Spirals (by Retchy)

‎3D Zoetrope Bead Spirals from Retchy on Vimeo.

Retchy website here.

'Che si chiama planispherio'

Daniele Barbaro, Perspective (1568). Double-purloined from BibliOdyssey, an incredible blogsite of visual relics. Main site here.

"They sent one into space, but there are tons on planet Earth!"

Golden Records, eclectic music updated often, connected with Peaking Lights...
Also: Gorilla vs. Bear.

A wheel within a wheel, with rims full of eyes all around

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Twin Portal from Konx-om-Pax on Vimeo.

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Slot Hum from Sculpture on Vimeo.

Plus one more from the same source:


Demonstration Reel from Sculpture on Vimeo.

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From 20 Jazz-Funk Greats, with a taste of their entertaining sci-fi commentary:

"Adult. were that blinding beacon of paranoia awaiting at home after a cocaine-fuelled night in the Electroclah Babylon. The half glimpsed hallucination of a Bauhaus tiger with stroboscopic eyes snarling from your surgical looking chaise longue.

"Their greatness, never doubted, hit us again while we were picking some tunes for the most excellent T O N G U E S night a couple of weeks ago. It is a testament to the madness of the early noughts that they were considered a ‘party band’, when in all honesty they were cartographers of a geography of serrated edges, autobahns of modernity built on a regolith of psychosis and future shock."

Jodocus Frisch (1714-1787) - Visions of the End of the World

More from this incredible portfolio of 18th century end-of-the-world visionary etchings here.