r/thepast

Good news everyone! Charles Lindburgh has flown from New York to Paris nonstop. It only took him 33 1⁄2 hours. Imagine a future where you do not spend a week on an ocean liner, you just get on an aeroplane and fly to Europe and in under two days, you are walking the streets of Paris!

From https://youtube.com/shorts/gFKnwxota1Q

Worst 30 seconds of my life.

I'm not sure a "space frontier" program will make it on TV, but we'll see.

I'm coming home from one of the most disgraceful performances I've ever had the displeasure to witness.

Elvis Presley has no future as a singer.

This child (he's a year out of high school!) has been permitted to play in small shows throughout the nobel South. As such I was subjected to his foolish prancing so his manager, Sam Phillips (who readers will remember helps produce black music!), can embark on a quixotic quest for mainstream stardom. Speaking of Sam "I play black records" Phillips rumours are abound Elvis is comfortable playing at places that are not just desegregated, but in fact majority black!

Thankfully tonight they only had time for one song. In unpleasant news it was one song to many. The great country singer Hank Snow didn't even introduce Elvis by his name, a fitting sign of things to come.

I'm talking about a makeup wearing, black floppy hair, hip gyrating attempt at getting the crowd sexually aroused with a rhythm heavy playing of Blue Moon of Kentucky. He even sneered at the crowd as he gripped the microphone! Myself and the other elderly practitioners were able to disway the rebellious youth through stonewalling any reaction.

Even after the show I heard of a shouting match between the managers and Elvis over the future of his carrer. But Elvis wants to sing the songs he likes. And that includes fast music in a new style called rock and roll. Though given the rural upbringing of Elvis it's more fitting to call it rockabilly.

Elvis can’t sing, can’t play the guitar, and can’t dance. Yet they want two thousand idiots per show yelp every time he opens his mouth, plucks a guitar string, or shakes his pelvis like any striptease babe in town? I say hell no.

That's why this Elvis Presley will never be successful!

I highly doubt he'd be the stuff of nightmares for anyone.

[Meta]Movie theater etiquette lantern slide from 1912. It was created by John D. Scott and Edward Van Altena to be projected onto the screens of early cinemas and nickelodeons [Meta]

Seriously, it 4 hours long! 4 hours! What were they thinking? No one has so much time. And there was VULGAR word used in the last scene! Since when have let indecent stuff get in cinemas?!

For thousands of years humanity strove to depict reality through art. Generation after generation the tradition of art was taught. It takes years to learn how to master the brush. An intricate skill set of fine tuned strokes. It takes days, sometimes months, to paint a scene that encompasses just one moment of still life.

Now with the invention of the “camera” there’s no more use for art. It may look bad now, but give it time and it’ll be more detailed and more accurate than any painter could ever hope to be. A perfect still life captured in seconds, instead of days, with the mere push of a button.

Years at the academy, wasted! I’ll be out of a job soon.

Art is dead.