"Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/feb/08/chaubin-soviet-russia-architecture-photography#/?picture=371534879&index=0 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/feb/08/chaubin-soviet-russia-architecture-photography#/?picture=371534879&index=0)
saw this the other day - my favourite is the palace of ceremonies.
It's like an Ezquerra building.
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/2/8/1297168101183/Cosmic-Communist-Construc-009.jpg)
Makes a fascinating contrast to this (http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/02e.htm).
Cheers
Jim
This (http://www.themysteryworld.com/2010/12/abandoned-remains-of-russian-space.html) place is pretty cool too...
Quote from: Banners on 16 February, 2011, 09:22:27 AM
This (http://www.themysteryworld.com/2010/12/abandoned-remains-of-russian-space.html) place is pretty cool too...
I love the way the Cold War rumbles on in the comments on that page.
This thread is going in my bookmarks..
more please
Quote from: johnnystress on 16 February, 2011, 11:26:53 AM
more please
Through the rust, and the gasoline... (http://www.abandoned.ru/)
Each of those thumbnails clicks through to an album, BTW.
Cheers!
Jim
Excellent JIm-- there are a few 'abandoned' collections out there-- facinating, poignant,
keep em coming
http://www.abandoned-places.com/
The work of John_Salt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Salt) is worth checking out if you like that kind of thing (albeit American, not Russian!)
I have climbed all over this one: http://www.abandoned.ru/thumb.php?gal=14 in the Stalker games!
a collected photomontage of those building would be great, make a nice Sov-Mega-Blk.
Wow! Some fantastic stuff there...what is it about destitute industrial areas and machinery that is so good?
M.
Quote from: Proudhuff on 16 February, 2011, 12:59:11 PM
a collected photomontage of those building would be great, make a nice Sov-Mega-Blk.
Indeed. If
only someone had been working on a pre-Apocalypse War Sov-Block-based story and had been inspired in part by the notion of a whole city built in the style of the Soviet constructivists ... oh, wait...
Cheers!
Jim
Gah, why can't the unfinished decaying buildings round my way have that much style?
The Central Research and Design Institute for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics - looks like it is about to get up and walk away...
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/2/8/1297168098201/Cosmic-Communist-Construc-006.jpg)
Why do so many sites seem to think I'm looking for Russian women with big tits? Oh wait, hang on...
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 16 February, 2011, 03:26:10 PM
Why do so many sites seem to think I'm looking for Russian women with big tits? Oh wait, hang on...
Why wouldn't you be ?
Silly Jayzus! It's Russian industrial destitution we're talking about here.
M.
:D
Anyone fancy an elephant-shaped whorehouse? An actual brothel: It used to be the first thing you saw on entry to Manhattan, according to QI.
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_h0SQqY8ocp4/S4KJOC-Ys-I/AAAAAAAAOvU/haIhIU_kNJU/s400/Cony+53.jpg)
Those East Meggers is craazyyy. :o
Quote from: TordelBack on 16 February, 2011, 01:57:55 PM
Gah, why can't the unfinished decaying buildings round my way have that much style?
What about
the Square?
Quote from: Banners on 16 February, 2011, 09:22:27 AM
This (http://www.themysteryworld.com/2010/12/abandoned-remains-of-russian-space.html) place is pretty cool too...
And just look at the cockpit of that Soviet version of the Space Shuttle. Talk about form follows function. Imagine looking through those windows surrounded by all that painted metal and rivets and seeing planet Earth.
Amazing.
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 16 February, 2011, 10:27:28 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 16 February, 2011, 01:57:55 PM
Gah, why can't the unfinished decaying buildings round my way have that much style?
What about the Square?
So called because the
Increased Leisure Citizens locals couldn't spell 'Pyramid'. Mmmm, beating heart of the community.
(http://u1.ipernity.com/7/83/12/3838312.581cefcd.560.jpg)
I believe it was the same crew who built the Logan's Run set were hired for this^.
again not Sov
present day Detroit
shocking really
http://io9.com/#!5435724/the-grandiose-decay-of-abandoned-detroit/gallery/1
http://io9.com/#!5435724/the-grandiose-decay-of-abandoned-detroit/gallery/1 (http://io9.com/#!5435724/the-grandiose-decay-of-abandoned-detroit/gallery/1)
(http://www.theohsnapproject.com/ohsnap_blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/5104808774_e0992d50c8_z.jpg)
Kiev's Tank Graveyard
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2011/03/04/kievs-tank-graveyard/ (http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2011/03/04/kievs-tank-graveyard/)
I've just seen on Russia Today (English speaking news channel) that Moscow is building 5000 bomb shelters before 2012!
You reckon they know something we don't?
Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage'
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/03/18/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage?ft=1&f=1026
great article
The open casket...why?
Half of these look straight out of Bond movies.. Who knew they were actually that close!
Thought this might fit here, Yugoslavian monuments:
http://andrewharlow.tumblr.com/post/4303597516/monuments-erected-by-the-communist-regime-of
cool!
http://www.cracked.com/article_19142_5-soviet-space-programs-that-prove-russia-was-insane.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_19142_5-soviet-space-programs-that-prove-russia-was-insane.html)
Soviet WWII Veteran Memoirs...
http://english.iremember.ru/
Forward, only forward!
I've shown this before, I think. We came across this wacky ice-car-boat-thing rotting away in Barentsburg (Russian mining community on Svalbard, way up in Arctic Norway) a few years back. If I'd been able to get the thing started and drive it home, I would have.
(http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/7167/barentsburg.jpg) (http://img217.imageshack.us/i/barentsburg.jpg/)
That looks like it is straight out of Thunderbirds.
V
That is ludicrously cool.
I can only offer some humble Ekranoplan action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Nu94khHoo) in thanks.
Awesome! Ekranoplans are magnificently nuts.
That ice-car-boat thing is class Ming. A contra-rotating propeller system AND rotary cylinder engine though? Holy crap, it must have made a noise to wake the dead!
From Warren Ellis:
The Rusty Technoporn Of Nuclear Russia (http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=12619)
Rockets from Russia: great Eastern Bloc science-fiction films
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/30/russian-science-fiction-sci-fi-films-bfi (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/30/russian-science-fiction-sci-fi-films-bfi)
...by the awesome Alex Cox (Repo Man, Moviedrome).
Quote from: Art on 01 July, 2011, 04:42:56 PM
...by the awesome Alex Cox (Repo Man, Moviedrome).
...and who was pounced on in the buffet car of a train the day of Dreddcon 5 by a mental bloke wearing hulk pants.
Great find Cosh!
Stevie undertands that the inflight service (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wssM7GUH-rU)is outstanding.
& they derided Trofim Lysenko as being a mad fool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxRlv8yOysM&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxRlv8yOysM&feature=related)
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 02 July, 2011, 05:10:01 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxRlv8yOysM&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxRlv8yOysM&feature=related)
Apologies for the necro-post chaps but Stevie's just watched this again & noticed a certain
someone whom we daresay you will find startling familiar at 1:23 ;)
One of my fav threads this is. What is that monster Cosh posted? could it only travel on calm seas? so many questions, followed the links to the History Channel interview with a pilot, but no sound on this PC uuuurgh!
Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 02 July, 2011, 06:33:01 AMApologies for the necro-post chaps but Stevie's just watched this again & noticed a certain someone whom we daresay you will find startling familiar at 1:23 ;)
That's what happens whe you lose a Weapons-Crest.
Futuristic monuments of old Yugoslavia (http://youmightlikethis.com/2011/06/futuristic-monuments-of-old-yugoslavia/)
They ae indeed Sovtastic.
Tito would be proud, Sad that they are probably a salute to real heroes and are just rotting away... wouldn't they make great backgrounds to some post Apocalypse film?
Not Eastern European, but I can't think of a better place to post it. If I had a chance to do a post-apocalyptic movie set in a future from fifty years ago I'd go here.
http://io9.com/5813180/more-scenes-from-taiwans-cursed-retrofuturistic-resort-that-never-was/gallery/1 (http://io9.com/5813180/more-scenes-from-taiwans-cursed-retrofuturistic-resort-that-never-was/gallery/1)
Another non soviet but the ghost town in Famagusta Cyprus is something to behold. Although it has been a long time since I was there I am sure not much has changed.
A true post apocalyptic town.
(http://www.aynikvets.org/images/Famagusta/Now1.jpg)
(http://artsytime.com/img/misc/famagusta-ghost-town/13.jpg)
http://artsytime.com/famagusta-ghost-town/
V
I love this site. Great for reference. Clicking on the image brings up the original photo upon which the pose is based.
http://rkka.ru/iuniform.htm (http://rkka.ru/iuniform.htm)
nice find Dode, and we thought comic geeks were out there
Anyone who likes an occasional Shturmovik should have a wee deek at Dode C's recent Blog pic: http://thedodecscrawls.blogspot.com/ (http://thedodecscrawls.blogspot.com/)
More abandoned places awesomeness
http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/12/abandoned-fake-disneyland-in-china/
nice, my son came back from Berlin with pics of something similar: an old fun park guarded by a motcycle gang!! like something from Batman vs the Joker
Quote from: Proudhuff on 13 December, 2011, 11:55:39 AM
nice, my son came back from Berlin with pics of something similar: an old fun park guarded by a motcycle gang!! like something from Batman vs the Joker
(http://dawire.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/spreepark3.jpg)
doesn't seem to be one site for this but google Spreepark Berlin seems to do it
The art of Nikolai Lutohin (http://nikolai%20lutohin):
http://yugodrom.tumblr.com/tagged/nikolai%20lutohin
Via (http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=13749)
His work is described as "surrealistic, sci-fi-sh, serigraphic and absolutely amazing."
http://50watts.com/#2371119/A-long-time-ago-in-a-Galaksija-far-far-away
Some great artwork there. I have a soft spot for the old Soviet posters and such. They had some great styling.
JvB
http://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2012/3/2/russian-vogue-photo-shoot-at-star-city.html
Russian Vogue Photo Shoot at Star City
Communications Lines Of The Past Century (http://englishrussia.com/2012/04/03/communications-lines-of-the-past-century/)
QuoteThe Tropospheric Radio Relay network called Sever (North) is a former Soviet system of communications lines the purpose of which was to provide connection between remote parts of the country. The line is 13 200 km long and consists of 46 Tropospheric Radio Relay Stations (TRRS) located mainly along the coast of the Northern and Pacific Ocean and largest Siberian rivers.
It is like the bones of a crashed starship.
http://bohemian-blog.blogspot.com/2012/04/urban-exploration-soviet-propaganda.html
Urban Exploration of a Soviet Propaganda Centre, Bulgaria
Quote from: Art on 07 April, 2012, 07:06:55 PM
http://bohemian-blog.blogspot.com/2012/04/urban-exploration-soviet-propaganda.html
Urban Exploration of a Soviet Propaganda Centre, Bulgaria
Fascinating.
The very best of both worlds...
Soviet disco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju1xvpAACVc)
amazing
http://humanplanet.com/timothyallen/2012/02/buzludzha-buzludja-bulgaria/
Quote from: johnnystress on 27 April, 2012, 04:13:44 PM
amazing
http://humanplanet.com/timothyallen/2012/02/buzludzha-buzludja-bulgaria/
Great find!!
QuoteThe monument's impressive dome was originally covered with thirty tones of copper
My local council can't stop people nicking drain covers, so the decision to abandon such a quantity of a valuable commodity (up the side of a desolate mountain) probably means the Bulgarian telecoms industry's been enjoying an over-supply of copper wire lately.
Those images enjoy the same cruel pathos as Ozymandias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias) or Brigitte Bardot's ruined face:
(http://humanplanet.com/timothyallen/wp-content/gallery/buzludja/bulgaria-timothy-allen-31.jpg)
One dear to my heart...
Star City and the Baikonur Cosmodrome
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/05/star-city-and-the-baikonur-cosmodrome/100297/
Secret Soviet Cities
http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/secret-soviet-cities.html
Hydropower Stations of Dagestan:
http://englishrussia.com/2012/05/22/hydropower-stations-of-dagestan/
The Grand Far Eastern Bridge:
http://englishrussia.com/2012/04/28/the-grand-far-eastern-bridge-saturday/
They need the highest tower cranes in Russia:
(http://media.englishrussia.com/112012/russkyisl/russky004-68.jpg)
Quote from: Art on 20 May, 2012, 06:06:29 PM
Secret Soviet Cities
http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/secret-soviet-cities.html
'Perhaps it goes without saying, but the idea of medical researchers helicoptering into the ruins of a formerly secret city in order to locate medical samples of fatally irradiated mutant animals is a pretty incredible premise for a future film'.
In my mind its already made!
Post atomic landscape:
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67154000/jpg/_67154773_3rooftop.jpg)
Sovtastic fear & loathing...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage?ft=1&f=1026
love this thread!
Check out these amazing art deco style statues--reminiscent of Kevin O'Neill
http://imgur.com/a/MWuKK
(http://i.imgur.com/IJbCUXv.jpg)
Got myself one of these great Cosmonaut themed lamps on etsy
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/544559_10151332304306629_2110442693_n.jpg)
The Victory Day parade!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjeW74XcAvc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjeW74XcAvc)
Quote from: Snuffers on 10 May, 2013, 04:51:43 PM
The Victory Day parade!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjeW74XcAvc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjeW74XcAvc)
You Tank fans might want to start 40 mins in...
kind of knock the 'we do pomp better than anyone' argument into a cocked hat
http://mentalfloss.com/article/19141/11-terrifying-images-old-soviet-playgrounds
http://www.yurock.net/russian-tank-ship-plane/
Quote from: johnnystress on 19 June, 2013, 10:11:02 AM
http://www.yurock.net/russian-tank-ship-plane/
Oooh - one of my favourites, that - ekranoplan AKA the Caspian Sea Monster...
Valentina Tereshkova: First Woman in Space
http://www.space.com/21571-valentina-tereshkova.html
http://jumpsuitsandteleporters.com/post/418292168/philip-bond-is-drawing-female-astronauts
http://www.tested.com/science/space/456670-incredible-space-art-russian-magazine-tekhnika-molodezhi/
Great Russian science magazine images.
Quote from: johnnystress on 01 May, 2013, 01:43:14 PM
Got myself one of these great Cosmonaut themed lamps on etsy
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/544559_10151332304306629_2110442693_n.jpg)
So that's what Hugo Awards look like just after they've hatched.
Beach blanket au go go Sov-stylee (http://io9.com/huge-russian-hovercraft-interrupts-beachgoers-in-specta-1182804079)
Stalin's Rope Roads
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/stalins-rope-roads/100577/?fb_action_ids=10151599541276629&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151599541276629%22%3A619846504715295%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151599541276629%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/08/stalins-rope-roads/100577/?fb_action_ids=10151599541276629&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151599541276629%22%3A619846504715295%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151599541276629%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D)
That is impressive, bits of that remind me Brass Sun, it does seem to be another world.
Decaying Space murals in Kazakhstan. Use Chrome for instant translations.
http://esquire_kazakhstan.yvision.kz/post/380573 (http://esquire_kazakhstan.yvision.kz/post/380573)
I looked up the term camp in the dictionary and found this link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P08B_lBUL0E).
Not technically Sov, but this seems to double as the really smart pictures of decaying structures that remind us of the hubris of all human ambition (http://www.viralforest.com/sarejevo-olympics/) thread.
Quote from: The Cosh on 22 February, 2014, 07:10:08 PM
Not technically Sov, but this seems to double as the really smart pictures of decaying structures that remind us of the hubris of all human ambition (http://www.viralforest.com/sarejevo-olympics/) thread.
That will be London in 30 years
I want one
http://www.vinyloftheday.com/2014/06/18/soviet-banned-western-music/
Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock 'n' roll records were "pressed" on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste bins and then cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter. "They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole," says author Anya von Bremzen. "You'd have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha's brain scan — forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens
Soviet Moon Lander found in abandoned lab in Moscow:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtQlWvMIMAArIaq.jpg)
looks very War of the Worlds!
that looks amazing, wouldn't wan t to BE in it however
The way the N1 performed you wouldn't be in it for very long.
A 1965 Soviet documentary on colonising the moon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT1s5s2LurM#t=34 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT1s5s2LurM#t=34)
Abandoned (are we sure about that?) Supersonic Soviet Tupolev TU-144 in Russian backyard.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxAYCTyCQAA0H5u.jpg)
That's one hell of a garden feature...
Quote from: von Boom on 10 September, 2014, 04:22:06 PM
Abandoned (are we sure about that?) Supersonic Soviet Tupolev TU-144 in Russian backyard.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxAYCTyCQAA0H5u.jpg)
I'm kinda hoping that's a vertical take off? ;)
I hope they complain about those anti-social towering trees the neighbours have?
You could sit in the cockpit as you register the complaint.
Chernobyl: 28 years after - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chernobyl-helicopter-drone-captures-eerie-post-apocalyptic-video-footage-decaying-city-1477106
Quote from: Spikes on 28 November, 2014, 06:27:28 PM
Chernobyl: 28 years after - http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chernobyl-helicopter-drone-captures-eerie-post-apocalyptic-video-footage-decaying-city-1477106
wow! that gasmask image is amazing,sad and very scary, looks like something from the pages of 2000ad.
Those are some incredible images. I'd love to take a walking tour of that city... in about 50,000 years.
Rusting Soviet Jet trains! (http://englishrussia.com/2014/05/26/abandoned-and-rusty-soviet-turbo-jet-train/)
(http://i.imgur.com/rRT1mqL.jpg) (http://imgur.com/rRT1mqL)
Might well have been posted before but, in my opnion, no right-minded person can never get enough hot ekranoplan action.
http://www.unp.me/f44/russians-used-to-build-iron-pterosaurs-73705/
Y'know, I reckon if they'd tried really hard they could have got some more jet engines on that...!
Cheers
Jim
I don't know about a Pterosaur but it must have had a Godzilla sized carbon footprint!
Remains of the Soviet shuttle program.
http://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-sad-remains-of-the-soviet-space-shuttle-p-1710827956 (http://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-sad-remains-of-the-soviet-space-shuttle-p-1710827956)
(http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Gu8ztq_9--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1293892547272893866.jpg)
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 16 February, 2011, 12:39:33 AM
It's like an Ezquerra building.
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/2/8/1297168101183/Cosmic-Communist-Construc-009.jpg)
I was thinking Belardinelli, particularly from Meltdown Man.
More on the defunct Soviet shuttle, including a video.
http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/did-the-soviets-build-a-better-shuttle-than-we-did-1713379466 (http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/did-the-soviets-build-a-better-shuttle-than-we-did-1713379466)
Here's an abandoned model of the Soviet shuttle used for wind tunnel tests.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/buran-wooden-spaceship/ (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/buran-wooden-spaceship/)
(http://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/10220942796_7d459956bd_b.jpg)
Triffids schmiffids. That Trofim Lysenko johnny had his sights set firmly upon the stars.
Those shots are like something ripped right out of a Terran Trade Authority handbook.
(http://www.khantazi.org/Rec/TTABooks/Wreckhalf.jpg)
Some beautiful photography in this article: [The abandoned buildings of the Eastern bloc/url] (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34575019)
I can't believe that I didn't mention buying this book (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3836525194?ie=UTF8&at=&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links), which was worth every damn penny.
Cheers!
Jim
Quote from: Dandontdare on 11 November, 2015, 06:05:00 PM
Some beautiful photography in this article: [The abandoned buildings of the Eastern bloc/url]
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34575019)
Wow, some lovely images there. Good stuff.
This made me smile. On balance, I felt that this was more at home here than in the YouTube gold thread:
http://www.micccp.com/%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82-%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BB-%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8E/
(Link looks like gibberish due to the Cyrillic but it does work; give it a minute to load.)
Had a nice fix of Sovtastic Awesomeness thanks to the London Science Museum's Cosmonauts exhibition. Which only runs for about another week, I think..?
(http://i.imgur.com/MYhOh1r.jpg?1)
(http://i.imgur.com/HHA865h.jpg?1)
(http://i.imgur.com/UjVeGdv.jpg?1)
(http://i.imgur.com/NMTYxNI.jpg)
Yes a really fab exhibition. I was struck by how solid the sov capsules were compared with the American replicas. They were like 1950s ovens. I also adore my Laika the Spacedog tote bag. I am a sucker for museum shops.
bit late to this but is the exhibition still on? Looks cool!
No sorry. It closed a week after my original post.
The Guardian has just run an article about Soviet architecture (https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/oct/21/ussr-10-buildings-stalin-skyscrapers-constructivist-architecture) (though has a top ten with less than ten pictures)
Fantastic article Sheridan Cheers for link mate! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMX0pCs5-n0 Russian Cyberpunk Farm
I liked the look of this, and backed it over the weekend:
OCTOBRIANA WITH LOVE via Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/octobrianawithlove/octobriana-with-love
Features some nice artwork by the venerable Fraser Droid.
One annoying snag - as there always is with these things - postage will be charged at a later date, and I can expect it to be about €20 for delivery to Murphyville.
'Twould nearly make ye go digital.
It does look fun. The shipping makes it a very expensive purchase, unfortunately. I've noticed shipping rates have seemed very high on a few North American Kickstarters recently.