Crawling Chaos has some nice artwork (especially the backgrounds) and, umm, stuff.
If you’re too hip for that, Exploding Dog has cool pictures in a more cynical bent.
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The Platonic Solids
Israel mentioned last night that the five Platonic Solids were associated with five elements. We were discussing the superiority of the d12, but the idea of five elements does have an appeal to me, since our campaign featured a pantheon with five branches.
Here’s a nice page about the Platonic Solids from the book (or/and course) Geometry in Art and Architecture, dealing with the history of the Platonic Solids. Anders Sandberg writes in Spiritweb about Platonic Solids and Their Symmetries, covering their mystical correspondances.
Sort-of related are the Chinese Five Elements, which also have their own correspondances.
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Have the Commies won?
A list of 45 goals of the Communist Party that were exposed 40 years ago in “The Naked Communist” by Cleon Skousen, who was head of communications at the FBI for 16 years. Includes such highlights as:
23. Control art critics and directors of museums. “Plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and violation of free speech and free press.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
40. Discredit the “family” as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
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The Master Race
Here’s a complete online version of a classic comics story from 1955, Master Race by Bernie Krigstein, which is groundbreaking both artistically and for its unflinching treatment of its subject matter, the Holocaust and the Nazi death camps.
[ Link from Robot Wisdom ]
Best In Show Graphics by China Road has some very nice background textures/images. Now, if only it would be simpler to use these in Photoshop…