Musical stories in fantastical worlds
I should do a post purely on the movie Forbidden Planet. It’s impact on science fiction is incalculable. But let’s simply today focus on the soundtrack. The soundtrack was composed by Louis and Bebe Barron. MGM producer Dore Schary discovered the couple quite by […]
As we count down until the Tuesday album release i present you with what the 1920s thought the future would look like. Make SURE you watch the second clip. Even if you stop the first one and feel like clicking […]
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 […]
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 […]
As part of our little affair with atompunk era architecture (for those just joining us, atompunk refers to the period of the 1950s to the 1970s. Not simply that era, but that era’s vision of the future is what is Atompunk) it would […]
Basically, in my research for yesterday’s retro future prefab stuff, i cam across so much batshit awesome prefab architecture ideas happening now, that i simply have to do another prefab post. This is not the past imagining the future, this is us now imagining […]
Although Prefab seems so very Atompunk (post WWII-70s) it actually began Steampunk, in Victorian times. Prefab or previsouly fabricated refers to housing that is built off site than put together later, on the actual housing plot. Our modern concept of […]
Yes, wtf indeed. No this is a real thing. Raygun Gothic is a general term for retro futuristic science fiction environments. Once upon a time, from the 40s to the 60s, they imagined the future. It was bright and slick and […]