Romantically Apocalyptic is an unusual site with some sharp post apocalyptic comic with a bit of sardonic humour. Illustrated by Toronto Artist Vitaly S Alexius, Romantically Apocalyptic tells the story of Captain and his squad in a post nuclear holocaust.
update 2020 Aug 16: Sadly, this resource has been deleted by Google.
Happy Pola New Year all.
I hope that everyone is going well. I spent most of my spare time during the holidays changing this site template and also Polaroid Beginners Guide. It sums up everything that I’ve learned from using polaroid film, mistakes I’ve made, tips and tricks I’ve learned.
Here’s a strange little story about a UFO hoax that took place in Georgia, USA during the 1950’s. A dead, exfoliated and tail-docked monkey was used to play a practical joke on gullible UFO believers.
At the height of UFO hysteria then sweeping the nation, two young barbers and a butcher took a dead monkey in 1953, lopped off its tail and applied a liberal dose of hair remover and some green coloring to the carcass.
Then they left the primate on an isolated road north of Atlanta in the pre-dawn hours of July 8, 1953, burning a circle into the pavement with a blowtorch before a police officer came around the curve in his patrol car.
“If we had been five minutes earlier, we would have caught ’em in the act,” said Sherley Brown, the officer who happened on the scene.
The barbers, Edward Watters and Tom Wilson, and the butcher, Arnold “Buddy” Payne, told the policeman they came upon a red, saucer-shaped object in the road that night. They said several 2-foot-tall creatures were scurrying about and the trio hit one with their pickup before the other creatures jumped back in the saucer and blasted skyward — leaving the highway scorched.
I’ve recently found the Post Apocalyptic movie “On the Beach” in the bargain dvd bin of my local discount store. I’ve heard about this movie for years, so for $5 I thought I would give it go.
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
Here’s another little gem, its a Melbourne Newsreel which talks about how they cleared the streets of Melbourne to shoot the film:
I’ve taken my 600SE out for a spin today (Christmas Day) to test my Hoya Diopters (they are like magnifying lens for you ‘camera lens’). These where shot F5.6/125 on FP-100c film with a +2 Diopter, about 15 inches from the subject. It was a bit difficult to judge the framing effect of the Magnolias with a range finder. However the depth of field looks quite good, even for F5.6.
