“In the coldest regions of space, the monstrous entities Ogdru Jahad - the Seven Gods of Chaos - slumber in their crystal prison, waiting to reclaim Earth… and burn the heavens.”
Tommy Lee Jones’s Japanese commercials are really moving to me this morning– he looks sadder than he was at the end of No Country for Old Men. Here’s nearly 9 minutes of them, where he is also a space alien. I don’t think I’ve ever been this sad in my entire life.
The single greatest and most fascinating “futurist” architecture movement in the world right now is happening in Bolivia, where national prosperity and a dedication to works for the poor and public housing led to an explosion of colorful styles inspired by Aymara Indian art. There should be more articles about this, the interiors are just as amazing. Incidentally, most of these buildings are not for the rich or in trendy neighborhoods, but are public housing. I’ve heard this style referred to as “Neo-Andean” but like most currently thriving styles it doesn’t have a universally agreed on name yet.
On this day, 3 January 1925 anti-Nazi resistance martyr Juliana Matveevna Gromova was born in the village of Pervomaysky in Ukraine. Aged just 17 when the Nazis occupied her home province, she organised a local underground resistance group of young people in her village. Tragically, she was arrested the following year during a mass roundup of suspected partisans. Attempting to learn the names of her comrades the Nazis brutally tortured her: she was whipped with metal, burned with hot irons, had skin and body parts cut off with salt rubbed in the wounds, her arm and ribs were broken and her hair was torn out but she refused to disclose a single name. And she gave cheer to her fellow prisoners by reciting poetry. She was executed in 1943 and thrown down a mine. After the war her body was recovered, buried with other partisans and she was posthumous the awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
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