tag: art
Lights, Camera, Action Figures!
https://www.inquirer.com/sports/inq2/wrestlemania-40-wwe-rock-roman-reigns-becky-lynch-cody-rhodes-20240404.html [www.inquirer.com]
2024-04-04 16:23
From The People’s Elbow to The Manhandle Slam, here are five finishing moves you might see at WrestleMania 40 — performed in stop motion.
How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned What Life Would Look Like in the Year 2000
https://www.openculture.com/2024/02/how-french-artists-in-1899-envisioned-what-life-would-look-like-in-the-year-2000.html [www.openculture.com]
2024-03-04 05:20
And yet it’s Asimov who apparently owned the only set of postcards of En L’An 2000, a set of 87 (or so) collectible artist cards that first appeared as inserts in cigar boxes in 1899, right in time for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. Translated as “France in the 21st Century,” the cards feature Jean-Marc Côté and other illustrators’ interpretations of the way we’d be living... well, 23 years ago.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-19th-century-vision-of-the-year-2000/
source: HN