http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/ Urban Culture, Alternative Art and Wonders of the World Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:27:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/comment-page-1/#comment-141268 WebUrbanist Reaches over 100,000 RSS Readers | Rapidcow.com Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:46:11 +0000 http://weburbanist.com/?p=8731#comment-141268 [...] sibling site: WebEcoist. We have recently had our resident technologist, Steve Levenstein, covering radical retrofuturistic technologies as well as the evolution of all kinds of technology. Gerri Elder is the newest addition to the [...] [...] sibling site: WebEcoist. We have recently had our resident technologist, Steve Levenstein, covering radical retrofuturistic technologies as well as the evolution of all kinds of technology. Gerri Elder is the newest addition to the [...]

]]> http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/comment-page-1/#comment-126815 173 Radical Retrofuturistic Designs & Technologies | WebUrbanist Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:31:36 +0000 http://weburbanist.com/?p=8731#comment-126815 [...] Space, the final frontier… that famous catchphrase from the original Star Trek embodies the spirit of retrofuturism, equating the “high frontier” with the Wild West. Even before the first successful manned space flight, artists and designers were under tremendous pressure to show the public exactly what was to come - and it wasn’t easy, since space was a place where “no man had gone before”. Some of their illustrations may look a little campy nowadays but one can still sense the hope, the yearning, the great expectations of our fantastic future worlds away. The triumph of Man’s first moon landing and the tragedies of Challenger and Columbia would rob us of our innocence but we can still look back across a gulf of space and time to a world where we were young and our steps were those of a child: as Arthur C. Clarke put it, “Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting”. Click Here to visit more Visions of Retro-Future Space Flight [...] [...] Space, the final frontier… that famous catchphrase from the original Star Trek embodies the spirit of retrofuturism, equating the “high frontier” with the Wild West. Even before the first successful manned space flight, artists and designers were under tremendous pressure to show the public exactly what was to come – and it wasn’t easy, since space was a place where “no man had gone before”. Some of their illustrations may look a little campy nowadays but one can still sense the hope, the yearning, the great expectations of our fantastic future worlds away. The triumph of Man’s first moon landing and the tragedies of Challenger and Columbia would rob us of our innocence but we can still look back across a gulf of space and time to a world where we were young and our steps were those of a child: as Arthur C. Clarke put it, “Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting”. Click Here to visit more Visions of Retro-Future Space Flight [...]

]]> http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/comment-page-1/#comment-105809 CYMOblog » Science Fiction Weapons to Die For Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:52:56 +0000 http://weburbanist.com/?p=8731#comment-105809 [...] TV and radio transmissions will be raising their tentacles in submission once they get a glimpse of sci-fi’s greatest hitmen and their weapons of mass [...] [...] TV and radio transmissions will be raising their tentacles in submission once they get a glimpse of sci-fi’s greatest hitmen and their weapons of mass [...]

]]> http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/comment-page-1/#comment-104830 Barry Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:37:39 +0000 http://weburbanist.com/?p=8731#comment-104830 How can you do a retrospective such as this and exclude the work of Frank Hampson! How can you do a retrospective such as this and exclude the work of Frank Hampson!

]]> http://weburbanist.com/2009/03/02/retrofuture-space-flight-15-visions-of-future-past/comment-page-1/#comment-100867 canvas art Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:20:13 +0000 http://weburbanist.com/?p=8731#comment-100867 Liking the sci-fi posters. Liking the sci-fi posters.

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