Musical stories in fantastical worlds
After WWII Stalin hesitated on commencing building of the great Palace of the Soviets. Included in his thinking was the idea that having won the war, the Soviet Union was now a superpower and must appear as one. It not […]
In the 1930s Stalin wished to boldly stamp a vision of the future, one where the great Worker’s Paradise would be a beacon to the entire world, leading the way to a new era. It would be grand and mighty, […]
To recap: in the beginning there was steampunk, a fantastical, futuristic reimaging of the victorian era. It was only logical that the period afterwards, the 20s to WWII, would have its sci fi devotees, and it has become Dieselpunk. 1945 […]
Sorry for the lack of posts but after waiting out Winterpocalypse 2012 in Belgrade, i have a lot of work to catch up on. Today is for those of you who like to wank on architecture, like myself. I present […]
Yes i should be shot for the title. I know this. Let’s just move on. Seasteading, kids!!! It’s the city of the future! It’s a movement to build self reliant livable communities in the sea. It is quite popular with certain libertarian […]
Sounds like a sequel to the Temples of Syrinx, but the temples of Damanhur are instead a very real, underground complex of… temples, built for about 16 years in utter secrecy by a small group of artsy, new agey folks […]
Well, we’ve certainly had some wordy posts lately, haven’t we? And since i’ve got more wordy posts on the way when i tackle Helen Bravatsky/Theosophy and Edgar Cayce, let’s pause and look at some perty lil’ pikshers, shall we? Perhaps […]
They’re kooky! They’re cute! They’re vastly smarter from a geo-conservation point of view. They can be VERY retro future which is the tethered string of logic we use to validate the presence of such posts on this blog. But really, […]
Javier Senosiain is a Mexican architect who champions a style called organic architecture. Now i know you’re here because you heard “willy wonka house on acid” so before i dribble on further allow me to show you the goods. This […]
As we here are interested in all things retro future, not just steampunk (because i could, if i wanted, i’m not saying i will, i’m just saying i could write a trilogy of operas: after The Steampunk Opera wuold be […]