“We’re rehearsing for our own future – why not do it as pleasantly as possible?” – Syd Mead, futurist
The second installment of BMW’s films on the future of mobility has just been released and it combines a plethora of things I like including: retrofuturism, cars (obvious) and visionary artist, Syd Mead (who is awesome).
So, I’m out and about today. And, again, it’s been a snowy, blustery drive across the state of Pennsylvania. Luckily, I-80 was the road of choice and it’s actually plowed (especially when compared to, say, Route 22.) Given the five hour ice-drive I got to undertake last week when going from Brandywine to Altoona, I’d say today has been downright boring. Since I haven’t had a chance to post them until now, enjoy the photos from East to Central PA:
From “Are we taking evolution into our own hands?“:
Today we continue to live the same process, but in an enormously accelerated fashion. For better and worse we are transforming ourselves from a Homo sapiens, a species aware of its environment, into a Homo evolutis, a species that directly and deliberately begins to control its own evolution, as well as that of many other species.
I’d add that we are now a species that can directly and indirectly alter the evolution and survival of the entire planet – and have been for decades.
(CNN)
First there was the deployment of a much snazzier design language and now this: Kia has unveiled its SuperBowl commercial, one that gives us aliens and temporal vortex-summoning Mesoamericans. I’d even build an Optima online (update: I have) after seeing something so keyed in to my mind.
(Autoblog)