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Movie Poster Clichés

Thanks to the blog 101.es, we have discovered the great compilations made by Christophe Courtois: mosaics that collect the most common clichés when making posters for a film. As they say in the blog, their formulae are pretty basic and they quite a lot depend on the type and plot of the film...

David Bowie's SPACE ODDITY

There have been loads of comments about Space Oddity, latest David Bowie work, since it appeared in Badass Digest. For those who have not seen it yet, here you have it in Google Docs...

We hope you like it as much as we do! :)

We are having a sale at the store and a new contest.

We have the studio full of Kolibries, Tereshkovas, Vostoks and matrioshkas all itching to go out and breathe the air outside, go to the beach and travel... 

Tacky posters competition

After a hard pre-selection day around Cannes, here we have the candidates. From the last success by the renowned Takashi Miike to the most recent hiper-mega-productions such as The Asylum.Furthermore, some of them have really relevant figures such as David Hasselhof, Traci Lords,...

Habemus Victores Lomographicus

 

Just like we started informing you here, and we reminded you about here and we reminded you again here (you can't say we haven't given it hype...), The Cosmonaut team had the good idea of organizing, together with our friends of Lomospain, a lomographic contest. The aim of the contest was to be able to find the lomographies which best captured the universe described in The Cosmonaut script, in which a Soviet cosmonaut finds himself trapped in a desolate Earth.

First of all, here's our utter gratitude to all participants. Thanks to you, the call for entries has been a resounding success: we have received over 400 lomographies which will be under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. With your participation, you have contributed to enrich the universe surrounding the project and to give it an imagery which is now at the disposal of all of us. 

Et voilà... the party of the second part. As we informed you a few days ago, we have at last found enough courage to undertake the always difficult task of deciding the winners. Hey, we didn't even have the time to celebrate the INVI thing (may all of you get a guilty conscience). So, after the meeting between Pasquale Caprile (lomographic ambassador in Spain), Nicolás Alcalá (director of The Cosmonaut) and Carlos Martínez-Abarca (the one and only Mr. Arsenievich himself), this is the way things are...

User: chippo

User: traqueotomia

User: blanch7

User: chippo

User: veduka

IMPORTANT: Now it's your turn. You have to show your leg under the door, that is, you have to contact us (hola@elcosmonauta.es). And if you are in the commendations list, indicate which t-shirt and size you want. Also, the first three awards must send their negatives via traditional mail or take them to the Lomography Embassy Store Echegaray, to confirm that we can give those negatives to them at the ceremony award.

We are waiting for your reply... and you are waiting for the announcement of the fantabulous event in which the ceremony award will take place. We'll specify where in a few days. See you then!

BOOK SEEKS (USED TO) SPONSOR

            (or how to sponsor magnetised paradises in the pure entrails of Space)

If you have pried through the Cosmonaut's website you'll know many things about this Riot Cinema Collective project. For instance, that among the articles that you can acquire (and becoming a producer in this way), there's a book: Poetics for Cosmonauts, by Henry Pierrot. And you know that the film's script owes a lot to this book, almost as much as to the strange chance which led us to find it.

Since the first edition of this little gem is completely sold out, we thought it was time to reprint it. We decided to do it this time in an English-Spanish bilingual edition, with a prologue by Alberto Olmos and an epilogue written by an important person in the cinema world.
And you know how the film project works: anybody can become a producer.

Now there's a new way of doing it, and it's by funding the reprint of Poetics for Cosmonauts. A 500 copies print run will be made, and for that we need a sponsor.

This edition has an approximate price of €1,200.

With your contribution you will receive a percentage of the film but you will also be mentioned as the person who made the reprint possible and your name will be in the book. Besides, you can choose to change your corresponding percentage of the film for a percentage of the possible benefits the selling of books may create. You choose... 

 

EDITED: We have just broken a Crowdfunding record, for sure :P

Two hours after posting this entry, Poetics for Cosmonauts has found a sponsor: Javier Pinto

 

We've started to work like crazy to have the reprint for October.

The last mission

Solar prominences. Pictures by Thierry Legault ( via Discover Magazine > ALT1040)

 

 

Forbidden picture

Brezhnev, importante líder soviético, en calzoncillos.

Probablemente en este momento capturado, su secretaria le estuviese leyendo esta carta. Por eso ríe.

Probablemente la persona que distribuyó esta foto esté muerta.

Probablemente los calzoncillos los comprase en América.

Religion and Space

I discovered Aleksandra Mir at a bland art festival in ARCO. It was the only highlight, but it shined like a brilliant meteor just about to crash against Earth.