How Ad Men Invented The Future Post-war artists sold us a vision of a luxurious, automated suburban lifestyle.
A 1924 article imagines “radio-tele-mechanics”-controlled police automatons to quell riots [xpost r/robotics]
Happy belated (June 13) to Ralph McQuarrie, the artist whose concepts were the first images Mark Hamill saw for Star Wars
Frisky robot, there’ll be time for that later!!! From the 1979 version of “The Shape of Things to Come”
Space suits with so much cool they MUST be Italian. From “Planet of the Vampires” – 1965. How I want that jacket…
This derpy boi was the first of its kind on Venus – according to “First Spaceship on Venus” [Germany] 1960 – ERMAGERD!! VENUTH!!
Excellent material design from “Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea” [Czechoslovakia] – 1977
A weird digital collage/painting I did of the DJ duo Daft Punk. Inspired by album art from the 70’s. “Techno-Illogical”
In the Los Angeles Greyhound bus terminal in 1969, there were ashtrays and coin-operated televisions.
“Robot surgeons operated on Rodney Marlow’s injured head with superhuman efficiency.” by Julian S. Krupa, 1939
In the Los Angeles Greyhound bus terminal in 1969, there were ashtrays and coin-operated televisions.
In the Los Angeles Greyhound bus terminal in 1969, there were ashtrays and coin-operated televisions.
A canal created by nuclear detonations, proposed as a peaceful application of nuclear power in Project Plowshare. It’s so terrifyingly careless it becomes a little funny.
