In 1963, BBC production designer
Raymond Cusick was asked to design the first monster for a new show, Doctor Who. Terry Nation's script required aliens called "
Daleks" whose hobbies included world-domination and shouting "
exterminate". In response, Cusick came up with the amazing and even iconic Dalek design which spawned Dalek-Mania across the world.
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posted by w0mbat
on Feb 25, 2013 -
60 comments
Brindin Press has lots of poetry translations into English online, concentrating on
French,
German,
Italian and
Spanish, though
more than 40 other languages are represented as well. A
boatload of translators is represented, from those toiling in obscurity to big literary names (e.g. there are translations of Catullus poems by
Ben Jonson,
Jonathan Swift,
Louis Zukofsky,
Aubrey Beardsley and
Thomas Hardy). There is also a
section of quirky poems. Finally,
here's a rendition of Goethe's Der Erlkönig that substitutes the elfish king with a dalek.
posted by Kattullus
on Sep 27, 2009 -
4 comments
Project Dalek:
Alan has deliberately 'beefed up' the dome. From a child's eye view it looks like half an inch thick battle armour but the dome is really only four millimetres in thickness. This looks more substantial when viewed from underneath - an angle from which children often see Daleks. [more inside]
posted by cowbellemoo
on Jun 20, 2008 -
26 comments
