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Old 26th November 2007, 10:47 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Retro-futuristic artwork (1930s-70s)

Dark Roasted Blend: Retro-Future: To The Stars!

Some beautiful images. Enjoy.


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Old 26th November 2007, 10:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Retro-futuristic artwork (1930s-70s)

Amazing!

Wow! A very nice find
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Old 26th November 2007, 10:54 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Retro-futuristic artwork (1930s-70s)

any idea who the artist of the second one is,Harps?

beautiful fanciful spacecraft
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Old 26th November 2007, 11:01 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Retro-futuristic artwork (1930s-70s)

"First Contact", by Nikolai Nedbailo


This is by him too:


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Old 26th November 2007, 11:03 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Retro-futuristic artwork (1930s-70s)

it figures
the exotic shapes

'American' spacecraft looked more

uh plausible
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Old 27th November 2007, 12:12 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Retro-futuristic artwork (1930s-70s)

Awesome. The Soviets were really turned on by space. I read that Korolev blatantly lied to the politburo in order to get a man launched into space. He didn't care for politics, he just loved the idea of space.
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Old 19th April 2008, 03:17 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Retro-futuristic artwork (1930s-70s)

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Awesome. The Soviets were really turned on by space. I read that Korolev blatantly lied to the politburo in order to get a man launched into space. He didn't care for politics, he just loved the idea of space.
heck a lot of what the german scientist were telling hitler and the nazis whats bs to get thier projects funded.
maybe that is the problem w=ith NASA they don't have the bs skills to get the money they need.
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Old 23rd April 2008, 09:25 PM   #8 (permalink)
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nah...they just take themselves too seriously.
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