Gregory's ServerThis 1957 photo from the construction site of the Atomium looks like a still from the greatest sci-fi film never made…
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  > After his damning second feature "The Devil" equated the Polish government to an imp whispering vile conspiracy in the ear of a shell-shocked prisoner, director Żuławski was cordially invited to get the hell out of Poland and never come back. lmao   I was going to say Simon Stalenhag vibes, too. It's a pity his account seems to be inactive:  @jack alt text: Black and White photo of a construction worker’s silhouette in front of the under-construction Atomium in Brussels (large balls connected by struts) visible in the hazy bright background. @esther 🙏 I thought I had put alt text, but apparently flubbed it. Thanks for letting me know!    @jack Great photo, I just sent it to several friends. It's deliberately deceptive: because of the low camera angle: the Atomium looks to be about 2-300 meters tall and about half a kilometer away, but is really 100 meters tall and a few hundred meters away. (That's a good thing, very dramatic!)  @jack Here's a good link to reference the artist and context of the image: https://geheugen.delpher.nl/nl/geheugen/view/opbouw-wereldtentoonstelling-expo-brussel-belgi--kruger-dolf?coll=ngvn&maxperpage=36&page=1&query=atomium&identifier=NFA07%3ADKR-1468-8     @jack Fallout: Brussels vibe. Makes me wonder how a Fallout game set in retro-future postwar Europe would be like. @jack I saw this picture in Atomium before it was modernised, many years ago and I think about it often. What a shot! @jack Front 242 video for Headhunter was filmed there in the 80s, same vibe.  Ferd made his way toward the emerging transmission tower. “The Midway” they called it, although until that moment he had no idea how far (and fast) things were moving along. Within the year, the new government would transform its citizenry. Ferd felt a stirring in his core as he strode forward, shifting the steel beam on his shoulder that had nothing to do with its weight. @jack I visited the Atomium when I was a kid and fell in love with it. Seeing this picture just now I've fallen in love with it all over again. Amazed I've never seen it before. Thanks for sharing!    @jack not like the finished building is any less extraordinary under the right lens  @jack @onepict I was about to ask "is this photo even legal!?" but apparently I missed the 2016 update to that saga. Cool! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomium#Worldwide_copyright_claims @jima whew! I had no idea about the photo thing at all and they didn't stop anyone from taking photos when I visited. I've had this on my feed here for a few months. https://files.layer8.space/media_attachments/files/109/817/462/290/982/698/original/ac885f702728b81d.jpg @jack @onepict @chillicampari OK! I'd guess they probably gave up after 2016, thank goodness. @jack @onepict @chillicampari @jima @jack @onepict   @jack There is a very old (70s) encyclopedia for kids in Spanish called "Se Todo" which I collected and absolutely love. One of the fascicles has a nice drawing of this building on the cover:   |
@jack Have you ever watched On A Silver Globe? Part of it is set in the Wieliczka salt mines and it's a phenomenal look for a sci-fi film