Month: June 2022

nastassja aglaia nakszynski: Nastassja vs Nastasia vs Nastassia vs Natacha Kinski

nastassja kinski director james toback photographed by helmut newton hollywood 1983

nastassia kinski photograpohed by curt gunther 1977

natacha kinski early acting portrait

nastasia kinski vintage playboy nude photographer unknown

nastassia kinski in win wenders film “paris texas”

nastassja kinski photograpohed by curt gunther 1977

pretty no matter how you write it. nastassja kinski was the daughter of Klaus Kinski and she appeared in many forms one of which was as “nastassia ninski” (with an extra “a” in the first name, and an i instead of a j) especially in earlier credits and international releases.

her standard spelling is nastassja kinski, but the variation “nastassia” shows up because her birth name is nastassja aglaia nakszynski, and “nastassia” is essentially a latinized/phonetic variation of the same slavic-root name (related to “anastasia”). in practice, this kind of name has multiple accepted transliterations depending on language and film credit conventions.

so the variation happened for a few reasons: transliteration differences: her name comes from a slavic-style name, and there isn’t just one fixed way to render it in german, english, italian, etc. film credit inconsistency: early european films and international distributions often spelled names differently in subtitles, posters, or opening credits.

branding/recognition: some markets or productions tweaked spellings to make names easier to read or sound more familiar to local audiences. in short – yes, she has been credited as “nastassia kinski,” but “nastassja kinski” is the official and most consistently used form today. by ar

 

CATEGORIES: beauty, naughty stuff

LIN YUNG CHENG: On the edge between beauty and bizarre

mirror illusions by lin yung cheng

 

lin yung is a photographer and art director who loves to experiment with optical illusions and whimsical compositions to create images that draw the viewer into their spell. his photographs are on the edge between beauty and bizarre using a sense of poetry and grace in his work. he has a really particular style of working which is minimalistic and ethereal aesthetics. by kn

CATEGORIES: art, photography

The Roots: Things Fall Apart

i love how this album was one of the first ones to break the standards of the typical hip hop albums using famous photos to show what was happening in society. these photos used in the album represented “visual failure in society.” things fall apart was a step towards social activism both in their music and imagery. by kn

CATEGORIES: album covers

spacex vs nasa: saturn and apollo programs that paved the way


elon musks spacex new starship super heavy rocket go for launch and the spacex’s replica nasa spaceshuttle version tesmanian falcon heavy

now i know kanye west and donald trump are the real genius’ out there but before elon, there was the incredible nasa saturn program and the german super villain engineer, and SS party member, dr. wernher von braun (the man behind the Nazi V2 rocket at peenemunde during world war II) who after the war “helped” take the first US astronaut to outer space and eventually to the moon.

rockets of the world by country – amazed at some of the tiny countries and their tiny rockets…

I had the pleasure of meeting and having breakfast with astronaut buzz aldrin (brag) so I may be biased, but here are 2 great documentaries that i enjoyed watching. if link is broken try and search for “nasa doco – the the moon – Pt1 – awesome” its a national geographic docu that is no longer available unfortunately…

enjoy – amazing to see how they risked it all to go into the unknown, the fogging up of the astronaut helmets, the first EVAs and 170 beat per minute heartbeat, one astronaut lost 10.5 lbs in just 2 hours of EVA – upon return they discovered 2 lbs of sweat in the shoes of his space suits. fascinating and impressive. by uh

CATEGORIES: history