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digital media · pictures · videos · weird · interesting · the past · the present · the future · the arts · tipsJust got back from the Edinburgh Secret Society's secret celebratory seance (or did I? (Yes.)) It was held to mark the 100th anniversary - to the minute - of the death-by-fiery-theatre-collapsing-around-him of The Great Lafayette, the early 20th century's greatest, and most highly-paid, performer.
You can watch the webcast part of the seance. I'm the one in the white mask. All I can tell you is that the experience was truly terrifying.
Feeling nostalgic for my student days, when I used to potter about in charity shops, I headed down to Stockbridge to reminisce and maybe track down some unusual books, for Stockbridge is where they all seem to end up.
It was on the bottom shelf, hidden away among the usual charity shop junk, that I found one gem. Outwardly very plain, having lost its jacket, the spine simply read "Adventures in Space". Inside, though, was a different story - this late 1970s book of sci-fi stories for children was richly illustrated, in that inimitable "everyone has 1970s haircuts" style. Here are a few of my favourite pictures from the book.
First off, we have this, possibly the strangest scene depicted in the book. I haven't actually read the story, but from the accompanying illustrations, I gather people from the future mistakenly caused a dinosaur-based battle, where a gathering of human armies from across time was assembled in order to combat the accidental reptilian incursion.
