Soviet Boardgames
Retronaut has a gallery of Soviet Era children’s board games. (via @wfmu)
Jack Kirby’s Collage
Imprint Magazine puts Jack Kirby’s collage in an art history context.
Russian Avante-Garde Design
Abebooks has a gorgeous gallery of Russian Avant Garde book cover illustration from the end of the Czarist era through the 1930s.
Red Skies: Soviet Science Fiction
A thorough and well-illustrated look at Soviet science fiction, from the 1920s through the 1980s. (via SF Signal)
Is Boring Bad?
Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott defend the slow and the boring film, giving as examples, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Dargis sees them giving space for thought. Scott sees “protests against the deep…[as] mask[ing] another agenda, which is a […]
The People’s Mario
Mario is a hero of the Proletariat.
The Cultural Gutter 