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Re: Historical Fragments

Post by Catoptric » Thu Nov 07, 2024 1:58 am

A brilliant and overrlooked artist:

The Genius of Jules Bastien-Lepage
https://www.musings-on-art.org/blogs/ar ... ien-lepage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Bastien-Lepage




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Bartitsu - Self-defense with the hooked walking stick


So the walking stick also moonlights as a trusted friend to lean on, after leaving the bar for the night; while also being a reliable assistant when confronting those you happen to piss off on the occasion?


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While looking up the filming locations for the 2005 movie Hostel, I came across some interesting 360 degree images.

https://www.360cities.net/es/image/pols ... lac-glowny

Ogrodzieniec Castle – ruins of a medieval castle located in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, built in the 14th-15th century by the Włodków Sulimczyk family, later rebuilt.

Apparently, the movie itself had an abandoned Psychiatric hospital, which had a portion abandoned since 1918, which was used to film the torture scene.

Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic (with a pretty neat 1 minute video)
https://www.mcgeesghosttours.com/psychi ... -cemetery/








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Terezin - Nazi's converted fortress for Jewish Ghetto concentration camp



One of the people in that ghetto was later transported to Auschwitz, where he died. A book from his time there:

'The Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941-1942' by Jonathan Foer

While looking up a decaying barrack and the effort to restore it, down below the article, I noticed a photo of an Astronaut holding up a drawing by Petr, titled, the 'Moon Landscape.' He would escape the environment through his imagination.

https://holocaustremembrance.com/news/s ... n-barracks

Longer tour (fast forward) of the camp
https://youtu.be/bPVoLRgmmU0


Another concentration camp in Ukraine (against Poland.)



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Piazza San Marco and Doge palace in Venice, Italy, 360 VR
https://www.360cities.net/video/2016071 ... rnervr-mp4



Disney Epcot WorldKey "fake internet" interactive video database at the park.

Something that wasn't there around 2000, but was still kind of cool even by those standards (though it definitely looks circa early 1980s.)





Timothy Dexter





Early New England Lighthouses
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com ... sidential/
Societal egress and ennui
Hello / Goodbye / Just a moment / Nothing / Cosmic / Man / Dream / Civilization / Open / Contact / Tremble / Gas / Memory / Transcend / ^2

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