Something about a pretty girl in the company of an imposing robot spoke very dearly to the hearts of readers and movie-goers of the Fifties' Space Era. Chrome was at the height of industrial fashion, and the curvy reflective plates of friendly (and not so friendly) robots played well against curvy shapes of the poster girls.
I planned to do this homage to the 50s style for some time, being partly inspired by illustrations from collectible science fiction pulp magazines, and partly by such sites as Fogonazos, or World of Kane with their own collections. So here is the first part of "Futuristic Ladies" post (the next one will feature space girls). Most images are promotional shots for the "Forbidden Planet" movie (1956) with Anne Francis, rare shots from various 60s TV series and, of course, art from vintage SF magazines.
The last of the "home intrusion" shots shows a tanker that has plowed through 3 buildings. This was taken in New Zealand, and it should be noted that the occupant of the last house was home at the time and narrowly avoided injury when the milk truck crashed into his lounge. (He was protected by the recliner he was sitting in.)
Many years ago, my cousin was driving through Kansas one winter and spun out onto the grassy median. A crazy ride, but the car stopped upright with occupants unharmed. A pause, and then a Pepsi truck fell on her car.
Pictures were taken so that they could move the truck (and she could get at her cat and birds, all of which turned out unharmed. Her French horn was not so fortunate. The pictures are very interesting, since the only thing not crushed was the driver's seat. (Alas, they have been swallowed in the backlog of my mother's online journal and I can't locate them at this time.)
My mother captions the pictures as "Taking the Pepsi Challenge."
I was looking at that German truck with the tube; The tube is the truck's own load which came from behind through the cab because of some abrupt braking.
the tanker through the ice is the drivers fault,it is a petro haul truck and the driver was told the ice was to thin for the weight he was hauling.he decided to go anyway and was charged,this was a truck from alberta canada
The ice road tanker incident occured crossing the Mackensie River at Fort Providence. It was early in the season before the ice thickened and the road was restricted to 4000kg. The driver missed or ignored the limit sign but still managed to drive his 40,000(?) kg truck several hundred meters before sinking. From the NWT DOT website. 2001?
The first "Drowned" photo appears to be Interstate 10 somewhere in Houston Tx, in 2001 a tropical storm flooded much of the city, leaving underpasses such as the one shown with as much as 20 feet of water in them.
Wow! Those old machines make my welder's heart go pitty-pat! I make "found" metal art and those babies would keep me busy for a whole lotta years. Looks like the Russian countryside is pretty, doesn't it?
Forests in Central Russia have much in common with old English forests, quiet small rivers, practically pristine lakes and rolling hills. Not bad, but there are some creepy places, ghost villages and weird strangers. Be prepared for lots of surprises.
These are really spectacular photos! I spent a summer touring Russia with an orchestra, and I saw a great number of hulking Soviet relics dotting the countryside.
As this post about dangerous roads has evolved into a Norway fjords article, I feel the need to share this cute video from YouTube on BASE jumping - ladybanana will be able to see some more people with no fear at all! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAWrt1dwbSY
Passo Stelvio is often used in Giro d'Italia - it's incredible, people actually race there on bikes.. Where a normal man would have problems getting there by car ;)
Wowie! What breathtaking shots! I don't have a fear of heights, but a couple of those pictures made me gasp out loud! I would really like to know how those bicyclists manage those drops! wild
The road between Villard Notre Dame and Villard Reymond in the French Alps west of Grenoble and south of Vizille is the scariest road I have ever driven, period, and I have driven some very scary mountain roads (to say nothing of driving over a bridge in Costa Rica that we had to help repair in order to get over it).
Just getting up to Villard Notre Dame was hair-raising, with a poorly-maintained, dark, rock-strewn tunnel. The death road itself hadn't been maintained in years, and there was at least one place where I know our right-side tires were not 100% on the roadway, and there was at least--at least!--at thousand-foot sheer drop to our right. But we couldn't back up, couldn't turn around, could only press forward hoping that the road would not get any narrower because of rockslides & all. Had there been, we would have had to hire some kind of heavy-duty helicopter to airlift our car to a safe place. Or abandon it forever.
The moral is, if you arrive at a road with gated entrance, and there's a sign there stating "if you take this road, your auto insurance is not applicable," you should really, truly take a different route, no matter how much you hate the thought of back-tracking.
Wow that Lysebotn Hairpin sequence gives me o very mixed feeling indeed...
After diving my motorcycle down from the visitors center, the "normal" curve in between two hairpins suprised me and I crashed quite hard.
I suppose a angel was on my shoulder: after kicking back the bent parts of my bike I was able to drive on, down trough the underground hairpin.... wow.
The first project looks very much like the studenthousing for the technical university in Delft, the Netherlands. http://www.duwo.nl/eCache/ENG/1/764.html
I don't think it started in 1970. I saw a modular housing development in Montreal in 1967, called Habitat. Google "habitat 67 montreal" and click on images.
My father made a pedestal for a sundial by taking several natural rocks and stacking them to find a way that they would balnce before cementing them in place. He said there was no reason to have gravity working against him.
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is not a robot.. there's a Blob of green alien inside.. the shell is just it's transport machine...
Not just Japan.The cylons of Battlestar Galactica fall into the robot+girl catagory.
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