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Friday, December 07, 2007

Category: Futurism



"See What the Future Used to Be!"


One-Track Wonders: Early Monorails

Past, Present and Retro-future
Travel Distant Worlds!

Vintage Space Travel Posters, and more.
Project "Orion": Powered by an Atomic Bomb Machine Gun

NASA's most radical killer asteroid defense
Grand Old Times... In the Future

Overview of the Pulp SciFi Art
Monstrous Aviation: World's Biggest Airplanes

Grand dream realized
Gigantic City-Structures of Paolo Soleri

Not just really big cities... Cities the size of mountains
Amazing Submarine Concepts

Every kind, except the yellow ones
Extravagant Designs by Luigi Colani

Love them, or hate them, there is no middle ground
Soviet Futuristic Illustration:
Oodles of Optimism


Black-and-white rare series of images
World's Strangest Vehicles, Part 4

Sheer Auto Adrenaline!
Airship Dreams

Extreme Dirigibles for the modern age
Retro-Future:
Mind-boggling Transportation


Not your average Jetsons flying car
Retro-Future: Glorious Urbanism

Part 2: When living in mega-cities was considered a privilege
Retro-Future: To the Stars!

Part 1: rare vintage space graphics
Future of the Urban Transport

Would you ditch your car for one of these systems?
Future Tech Review, Part 2

Exciting Innovations in Transportation
Future Tech Review

Exciting Innovations in Transportation
Flying Submarines!

Sky Captain's dream come true
How To Become a (Real) Cyborg

The DIY guide for the discerning nerd
Jet-Powered & Other Futuristic Trains

High-Speed Train Visions & Prototypes

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  • Here's another one for you:

    http://rookie.jasonsteinhorn.com/Puppy64.jpg
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  • Fantastic collection. I have been in a few of these positions.
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  • very awesome post. I look forward to more of things like this.

    Mike
    www.welightupqueens.blogspot.com
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  • I'm in the mood for...Partying! Woot first post!
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  • Bob and his rod. Priceless.
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  • Sometimes we can't understand human minds...
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  • (The mystery animal is a fennec fox.)
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  • I am so curious as to what that highway conceptual art is, yet the link seems to be malfunctioning. Can the moderator enlighten us? Thanks
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  • Link fixed. Thank you
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  • Cuánto sexismo.
    O_o
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  • Oh wow!

    A Jaguar E-Type
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  • I never tire of reading this blog!
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  • the 7th photo down is actually a clip of Grace Kelly and Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, 1957.
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  • lawgirl,
    Thank you for identifying this movie, I was looking for this info.
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  • I love that picture of the triumph spitfire (mk3?) with the girl in the back and all the guys at the front. I own one and that's pretty much what happens.
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  • Second picture from the top, the bonny lass on the Sunbeam Tiger--Rowrr!
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  • The girl standing next to the pink Volvo was a Playboy Playmate of the Year. The pink Volvo was one of her prizes. The photo appeared in Playboy magazine.
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  • The E-type with the flat tyre... that's Ursula Andress in a scene from the 1965 Elio Petri film "The Tenth Victim."
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  • What the heck is that ugly, boxy thing with the backward-slanting rear window?
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  • Thank you thank you for the photo
    of the Volvo 1800ES all in pink.
    Great page.
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  • The girl standing next to the pink Pantera was also a Playboy Playmate of the Year. The pink car was one of her prizes. The photo appeared in Playboy magazine.
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  • That ugly boxy thing with the backward-slanted rear window is a 1960s Citroen Ami - I'm quite fond of ugly cars but that one is startling!

    I see there's a couple of shots of XKEs from the movie "Diabolik" here.
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  • A lil' bit of rubber cement never hurt a turtle's shell. It will peel right off. Heck, it probably already fell off of it's own accord.

    Now if only I could get that tutle shell to stick to my cat...
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  • MakeMagzine blog commenter says the nail artist is: Albanian artist Saimir Strati. The nail mosaic was named "The Largest Nail Mosaic" on September 4th, 2006.
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  • Hello,

    the 2nd picture in this post (the b/w sketch) http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2084501870&size=o

    struck me because the guy's ears look like Mr. Spock's -- just that this is 30 years before. Amazing.

    That said: as usual this DRB post was delectable. Thank you very much and please do keep up the good work.

    Anonymous.Coward
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  • This is one of the coolest features I've seen online in quite a bit! Please keep them coming.
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  • The 6th pixture from the bottom ("original unknown") is from Arthur C. Radebaugh. http://images.google.de/images?q=+site:www.palaceofculture.org+radebaugh
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  • These are all really cool... and I think some of the ideas could really become reality. Of course... we're now into an era of increased interest in public transit (which is good).

    The thing is, though, that most cities evolve organically (aside from the roads in the grid-style of North America) and therefore don't usually turn out looking uniform like in the visions. Architects don't even design their buildings to match well with neighboring buildings that are already up!
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  • One of the best collections of such images I've seen. Can't wait for the transportation.
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  • The photo of the man talking to a woman pilot is from the musical-comedy-science fiction (3 things that don't go well together) film "Just Imagine", 1933.
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  • Another great post by this blog. I love how much original content there is, and their daily link post is always classy and interesting. The gotham-style concept art is amazing, and I can see why it was groundbreaking then. While viewing those pictures, I was reminded of the visual style of the concept art for the "People's Palaces of Socialist Bliss" that I stumbled upon a good while ago - and lo and behold, there it was, a bit further down. Thumbs up!
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  • Could the future be any cooler? Love this stuff.
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  • hi
    i think the 'flying cities' are supposed to be on venus
    (my russian is quite bad though)
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  • actually working on automatic parking garage in Sao Paulo, I interested in this russian peoject of rotative parking. Do you have other information about, like the name of the arquitects, year, etc...

    thank U +++ dms +++
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  • dms, thank you for your interest - this was a concept in the early 1980s, I don't think it was given any further development... No other info so far.
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  • I wouldn't have imagined Turkey to be that beautiful. It is a definite spot for me to see in the near future :)

    _denise

    I make a living in Forex - http://www.chapter322.biz/forex-investing
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  • Most of the sites you describe are Greek and were taken by the Turks - they merely preserved it to have revenue from tourism.
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  • I visited Antalya in the Navy in '89. We had no idea what to expect, but were pleasantly surprised.
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  • None of the sites described here are Greek. They are preserved because they are history.
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  • heavenly!!!!
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  • In response to "anonymous" who made the comment that "most of the sites are Greek...": Why can't you just enjoy the beauty of nature and history without delving into politics and silly nationalism?

    Omer Yagiz
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  • "Love is in the air, and just about everywhere else"
    Muy buenas. You should see turkish houses when u come to Turkey.
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  • Well said Omer - re: the anonymoue comment about who a place "belongs to". That's why there are people who will always have a cause for war.
    For the rest of those who are intelligent enough to just enjoy the beauty, we're grateful.
    ..Tigerlily
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  • During the Athenian Empire, the whole coastline of the Aegean was Greek, but during the Byzantine Empire (Greek empire of the Middle Ages) most of the coast of the Mediterranean was considered Greece. That includes all of Italy, areas of North Africa, all of Turkey including Istanbul the then capital of the empire. So for you to say that Turkey took settlements from the Greeks is inaccurate. The fact is that the whole Mediterranean area is filled with the remnants of many long gone empires. The Turks aren't the only people that have Greek structures in their country, check out Taromina in Italy. You should also research the population exchange between Turkey and Greece in the 1920's. It left awesome ghost towns in (Kayakoy)
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  • http://www.patrykmoriak.com

    Feel free to visit my personal website for more views from Turkey and other countries.

    Many thanks for your interest and support!
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  • There are many of the beautiful places over in Turkey, it very nice to get relax and spend vacation over there. Best Regards,
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  • Kudos! Magnificent photos...
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