music and tales
The first wave of Futurists, the Italians from 1909 until WWI sparked a lot of fires with their vision of bold, vehemently modern, machine and industry industry loving, confrontationally daring art. One such fire was in the field of architecture. […]
Holy ****. This is like…. house porn for me. So… in 2006 this couple from Colorado, Erica and Matt Hogan bought 600 acres of land in Costa Rica which was otherwise going to be deforested. Once bought they decided that with […]
Let me be clear from the get go: i have stolen the idea for this post lock stock and barrel from Charming Trinity without shame or honor. She has a post called, coincidentally enough, Fairy Tale Castles which seemed like such a good […]
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 […]