Jason Kottke hooked me up... check it out -

[scottobear]

These color photographs of circa-1915 Tsarist Russia by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii are amazing (particularly these two).

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[ckirkman.livejournal.com]

Those are from 1915 and before?! They're absolutely amazing!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Yeah... I saw a post a while ago about how mummy2 was unrealistic because of color photography in the 20's-30's... I rebutted with info about amateaur color cameras were around as early as 1907.... mr eastman and mr kodak were smarties!!

ps... Channelling ancient dog-headed armies from the underworld is ok, but color photography is unrealistic?

[ckirkman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it amazes me what some people will walk into a movie and accept and dismiss. And it's always the little details that people notice, too.... Giant scorpion with the head of a pro wrestler is fine, but I'll be damned if they'll believe that there were blimps back then (I actually overheard a girl say this to her boyfriend at the showing I went to the other day - "Oh, c'mon, they didn't have balloons back then!").

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

*laughs...

Hey...I wonder if I still have the stats for the supersonic zeppelin I built for an old GURPS super...

[ckirkman.livejournal.com]

oooooh, supersonic zepellin. Cool!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Yeah baby... the front and back were open, with a bank of jet engines....

Fast, safe, and roomy for that superscientist mobile lab.

[krussell.livejournal.com]

wowza. those took my breath away. thank you, scott.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think some of the new machines are going to get some fresh wallpaper.

quite welcome!

[recalcitrant.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that. Or shoudl I say (spelling completely wrong, I'm sure)
Spassiba (oops i hope i havent' sworn or soemthign)

I have wanted to go to Russia for ages, ever since I did Russian history in high school, its on top of my list. Those pics are amazing. Very fairytale like, etc.

[dorkgirl.livejournal.com]

Those are simply phenomenal. Thanks so much for sharing, Scott! I see new wallpaper in the future for the computers at work... =)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

quite welcome... I'm glad you enjoy them as much as I do.