2006-07-25 // 11:43:04
CecileA
French words are not so cool: cosmonaute, spationaute...
But your pictures and this serie are original and aims to be explored! Good idea!!
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^ Yes, I think the Soviets did the best job at coining a term for space travelers. Thank you for your encouragement! |
2006-07-24 // 17:31:35
joel
i know that American is astronauts , russian is cosmonauts , the chinese is taïkonaut ... but i'm not sure for the french i think they use the word "Spationaute" ... Belgian one can be " tintinaut" .
There is a lot of Belgian atribute to space program , because of Tintin and because few years ago we send the a true human belgian guy in space with the Nasa ... his name is Dirk Frimout ... i let you know if i found stuffs in my archive . ( i have a hudge one on that subject )
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^ I've decided a long time ago that I liked the term cosmonaut the best of all the ones that I know. It's the fact that it refers to the cosmos as opposed to the stars. I find it a bit silly to call people that just barely make it out of the Earth's atmosphere without ever truely escaping its gravitational pull (I'd include the Americans that went to the moon in that) travelers of stars. I really do hope to see a Tintin tribute from you sometime ;-) |
2006-07-24 // 14:03:31
catartica
oooooooooooh you know i love this!:D
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^ It's because of the pretty red, right? ;-P :-) Grazie. |
2006-07-24 // 00:43:36
dimitris
Very nice project. Waiting for more...
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^ I'm glad you approve. I have a somewhat related series waiting in the wings :-) |
2006-07-24 // 00:04:29
Urizen
A spanish fotographer called Fontcuberta made a fake exhibition "Sputnik" about a failled cosmonaut. He went to the Star City in russia and made lots of pictures of himself to build the fake biography of that erased soviet hero. At the end he had to warn that it was fictional because the Russian Embassy said people were believing it!
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Sorry, only found lkinks in spanish
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^ So cool! I'd read about that as a brief reference once, but I'd never seen any of the photographs. Just great. Thank you for those links! Speaking of cosmonauts and Polaroid, in my mind there is a kinship between Edwin Land and his wonderful cameras and the heydays of the Soviet space program. I do think there's some potential in exploring one through the other. |
2006-07-23 // 23:13:48
joel
in fact the very very first guy in the space were Belgian ...
His name is Tintin ...
I read that on my history book at middle school !!!!
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^ Teehee. Maybe you should shoot a Tintin tribute with a Belgian flag or some such attribute and join my cosmonaut series ;-) Is there a cool French word for cosmonaut? |
2006-07-23 // 23:08:38
Urizen
Some years ago, some KGB papers were declassified and there was known that Gagarin wasn't the first... 3 or 4 forgotten men died before, trying to be the fisrt man in space. The KGB simply erased them, even from the fotos!
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^ Yeah, the unsung heroes! What a great project it would be to research them and write a book or make a movie about them. Not that you're any braver or more important when you happen to die during your mission. Of course Yuri died flying while he was supposedly in training for his second mission, but that might have been Soviet propaganda spin as well :-> |