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Do you have a collection of the vintage B&W photos of wacky sci-fi and home TV inventions that strap to your head, etc…? I’d love to get a few to frame and display in my Home Theater. Thanks!
I could do a whole post that’s nothing but headgear worn by Hugo Gernsback. He created the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, primarily as an advertisement for his radio parts company for electronic enthusiasts. This is why the line between science fiction fan and science/radio enthusiast was extremely blurry. Most early scifi fans of the First Fandom (anyone active in scifi prior to 1939) were also technical tinkerers.
More than that, Gernsback created the first letters page, where people wrote in their comments, and encouraged people to write to each other and become friends, which started off the first known generation of Fandom in the US, First Fandom. The first convention, Worldcon in 1939, started by the connections made in the letters pages of this magazine. In other words, “geek culture” as we know it today started off because this one man in 1928 wanted to sell radio parts to weirdos.
Here’s one of his isolator device, which was designed to encourage productivity.
It’s one of those very Silcon Valley ideas in that, in theory, it might increase productivity but completely misses the point of what it is to be a human being. People don’t want to drink soylent protein drinks in lieu of eating good old ham and eggs in the morning (most people find Jetsons style nutrition in pill form to be hideous) and people certainly don’t want to wear diving bells to get work done.
Ok but I really love how the LOTR films use colors/costume design to show Denethor’s power over the other characters
Like: every character in LOTR has their own set of Characteristic Colors™. Denethor’s Characteristic Colors™ are desaturated black and grey:
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These aren’t necessarily Gondor’s colors (I’ll get to that in a minute) but they’re definitely his. In The Two Towers’ flashback scene, Gondor’s soldiers are dressed in Denethor’s black/grey, including Boromir:
But when Boromir leaves Gondor– and is free from needing to carefully Perform in front of his father– he starts wearing his own Characteristic Colors™ instead. These colors are royal red, gold and blue:
(Literally wearing your true colors)
Meanwhile Faramir, unlike Boromir, doesn’t wear Denethor’s colors in the flashback. He wears his own Characteristic Colors™, which are brown/green, bc Faramir does not do what Denethor wants him to do…
….until ROTK, when Faramir surrenders to his father’s will and exchanges his characteristic brown/green armor for black/grey armor. It’s like his identity is stripped away
Similarly, Pippin’s Characteristic Colors™ are blue/green:
But when he enters Denethor’s service:
No individual expression allowed
“But black and grey with no accents are Gondor’s colors–” Nahhh I don’t buy Denethor’s anti-color propaganda. When Aragorn replaces Denethor, the first thing he brings back is colorful fashion
Aragorn doesn’t wear black and grey, like Denethor did. He wears things that merge the black/white of Gondor with the sort of royal red/blue/gold of Boromir’s characteristic colors
And so at last the tyranny of Denethor’s drab fashion sense was ended
#firstly the lotr art directors knew what the FUCK they were doing#and secondly you think for a second that aragorn son of arathorn would be caught dead in some ugly ass drab grey#even his rugged ranger outfit had tasteful splashes of colour#the man was raised by elves is all im saying
