Racheaissance

FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR: THE HOTEL!

The UFO room at Sweden’s Treehotel, which was awarded the Swedish Grand Tourism Prize for 2011 just the other day.

9:37 am • 6 November 2011 • 6,518 notes

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818 by Caspar David Friedrich. Re-imagined through Booooooom’s ‘Remake’ project.

10:34 am • 30 October 2011 • 10 notes

todaysdocument:

Cranks, Crack-pots, and Martians
On October 30, 1938, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) broadcast an adaptation of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. The hour-long radio program began with an announcer introducing a musical performance and moments later interrupting with a special news bulletin describing the landing of Martians in New Jersey and their subsequent attacks with death rays. Although CBS made four announcements during the broadcast identifying it as a dramatic performance, millions of Americans who heard it were scared into some sort of action, many wrote letters. The newly created Federal Communications Commission received more than 600 letters about the broadcast, including the one featured here.

Cranks, Crack-pots, and Martians

On October 30, 1938, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) broadcast an adaptation of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. The hour-long radio program began with an announcer introducing a musical performance and moments later interrupting with a special news bulletin describing the landing of Martians in New Jersey and their subsequent attacks with death rays. Although CBS made four announcements during the broadcast identifying it as a dramatic performance, millions of Americans who heard it were scared into some sort of action, many wrote letters. The newly created Federal Communications Commission received more than 600 letters about the broadcast, including the one featured here.

9:45 am • 30 October 2011 • 155 notes

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On the movie set of Capra’s Lost Horizon, 1937

5:22 pm • 25 August 2011 • 62 notes