General Electric postcards from Expo 70

I'm still in Expo mood (waiting for the Expo issue of the Modernist Magazine) and today, I stumbled upon these postcards from Expo 70 in Osaka I found years ago in Tokio. Taking a closer look today, it's strange to look at this celebration of atomic energy post-Fukushima. And indeed, the Tsuruga nuclear power plant depicted here, opened in the year of the Expo, had it's first accident only 4 years later, and it wasn't the last.

On a lighter note, here's the Expo 70 contribution of Bruno Spoerri's Metronome Quintet (reissued by Sonorama):

Bratsk in 1978

Goetheanum (Rudolf Steiner, 1928)

The followers of Anthroposophy celebrated the 150th birthday of the founder of their movement, Rudolf Steiner, last week. I live only 10 km away from the world center of Anthroposophy, the Goetheanum, pictured above (with its restaurant in the second picture) and I'm still surprised about the fact that a movement with a rather mazy philosophy that is deeply rooted in the boom of occultism around 1900 could survive and still be quite strong. At least it is here. The monumental Goetheanum is still impressive today, but how alien must it have been in 1928? Note the tiny persons on the pic that give you an idea of its size.