Archive | BJA Samuel

Ben Samuel

Mar 23, 20231 min read

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

George King "Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel No. 1"

Ben Samuel

Mar 28, 20221 min read

Akira Kurosawa describes the Great Kantō earthquake of (1923)

Akira Kurosawa describes being shown the aftermath of the Kantō earthquake by his brother Heigo Kurosawa.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 20221 min read

Friedrich Nietzsche's Mental Breakdown

Jan 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is said to have witnessed a cab driver viciously whipping a horse.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 20221 min read

Motopia "a utopia for motorists" (1959)

Motopia was a proposed 'City of the Future' designed by architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 20221 min read

Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1

Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1 filmed (1919) by Lucien Le Saint with French balloon pilot Jacques Trolley de Prévaux.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 20221 min read

JG Ballard returns to Shanghai

In 1991 JG Ballard returned to Shanghai to his childhood home and to Lunghua Interment camp.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 20221 min read

Atomic bomb tests in the Nevada Desert (1951 - 1992)

Nearly 1,000 atomic bomb tests were detonated in the Nevada Test Site in the Nevada Desert from 1951 until 1992.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 20221 min read

Atomic bomb explosions (1946–52) taken with Rapatronic Camera

Pictures of atomic bomb explosions taken one ten-millionth of a second after detonation from about seven miles away.

Ben Samuel

Mar 1, 20221 min read

Wonderful interview with Quentin Crisp

Wonderful interview with Quentin Crisp from World in Action (1970). Here he discusses being beaten up because of his appearance.