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Jasper
jasper.fidget at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 15:37:46 CDT 2007
Also a contra-jour.
David Morris wrote:
> Yes, it is a bit stripped-down Deco mixed with a bit of Cubism on its
> fringes. And Fritz Lang most definitely comes to mind, but more
> accurately Erich Kettelhut, his set designer:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/5555/metrop4l.jpg
>
> It does look like the cockpit view of a kamakaze attack, but I guess
> it's supposed to be the cockpit of the Inconvenience...
>
> David Morris
>
> On 9/17/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Tim writes:
>>
>>
>>> It kinda reminds me of the art deco images used for Fritz
>>> Lang's _Metropolis_.
>>>
>> Or, as ever when it comes to the World of Tomorrow American style, American
>> illustrator-architect Hugh Ferriss, our own Piranesi.
>>
>> Be thankful that Albert Speer didn't have him on staff.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ferriss
>> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery/da/ferriss.html (do check 'em
>> out)
>>
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