"Mr. Franklin, of what use is this hot air balloon contraption?"
"You can take ladies up in it with a bottle of wine and a blanket and you know, they can’t refuse, because of the implication. Think about it. She's floating up in the middle of the sky with some dude she barely knows. You know, she looks around, and what does she see? Nothing but open air. 'Ahhhh! There’s nowhere for me to run. What am I gonna do, say ‘no?’"
From LIFE Magazine, June 19, 1939
From LIFE Magazine, June 19, 1939, by famous pinup artist George Petty
From LIFE Magazine, June 19, 1939
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Prompt used for this image
Atompunk space age full-page advertisement realistic illustration 1950s America of a man in a retrofuturistic astronaut spacesuit smiling and holding up a tall glass of foamy beer
Theme
The future, a place where all of us will live! New technologies will continue to improve life for all, as we master the atom, the electroradio wave, and the magnetic storage tape! And wherever we go on Earth, OR BEYOND, we will bring the marvels of capitalism, and the wondrous products it provides!
Capture the golden age of advertising and the atomic age. The technology of the fifties and sixties, extrapolated into the future, and used to sell you something you may or may not need.
Good luck, and most importantly, have fun!
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Voting and final scoring will be done in a separate post. Scores At the end of the challenge the image with the most votes, wins! It’s that simple :) The winner gets to pick the next theme. As always, have fun everyone!
Morpheus from The Matrix holds two options, in the Red Pill / Blue Pill scene. On the left is a sign which reads "Fragile Unstable Top." On the right is a sign which reads "Support Bottom."
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them — little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
Isaac Asimov, a very intelligent person, wrote a lengthy essay to the effect that he had no idea what intelligence was. He talked about how society would generally consider him more intelligent than the nearly illiterate man who repaired his car, and yet whenever something went wrong with his car he would go to his mechanic and listen to his advice as if it was being handed down from the mountaintop by Moses himself, because Isaac Asimov knew fuck all about car repair. He talked about how he thought that supposedly objective IQ tests were generally a series of gates designed by people already considered intelligent to keep themselves in power, and that they totally disregarded huge swaths of indispensable human knowledge and talent. Isaac Asimov, who has been published in literally every section of the Dewey Decimal System, concluded that he had no firm idea as to what exactly "intelligence" even was.
In short, how could one even define "the dumbest 50%"?
And that's why Thanos should have made everybody half as large as they once were.
This book
was a lifesaver for me fresh out of college and not knowing what the hell to do in the kitchen.