Thursday, 27 February 2025

I bought hundreds of Cold War-era military slides on eBay

quote [ An overview of Soviet ICBM placements, with elegant glowing orange text on a solid black mass of Russia, reminds me of the Vignelli subway map. Then you remember these were basically the onboarding materials for a violent imperial hegemon at the height of its 20th century superpower, and you start feeling weird looking at the slides so much and put them away for a little. ]

Interesting story on art and power and hoarding and whatnot. You can browse the full collection here.

Via a post on Beautiful Public Data
[SFW] [art] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@6:35amGMT]

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