Watch: “Tomorrow” by Niki & The Dove
Is anyone else seeing shades of the Zambian space program in the costuming and locations of this video from Niki & The Dove?
Is anyone else seeing shades of the Zambian space program in the costuming and locations of this video from Niki & The Dove?
In today’s “look at this cool thing that Wired unearthed” posting we have these incredible photos by Christina de Middel that envision what a Zambian space program in the 60’s might have looked like. Don’t laugh: apparently one was “seriously” considered. The image above is my new favorite thing of the next 72 hours, at least.
Oh how you torment me Citroën – it’s so very unfair that you create such gorgeous cars that are completely absent from our North American streets. It’s been said (by Top Gear) that the French don’t really seem to be car designers so much as people who design art based around the concept of a car. I couldn’t agree more.
Love these.
I just discovered a quick profile of Kevin Weir’s animated GIF art (that was aptly compared to Terry Gilliam’s work for Monty Python). You can see quite a few examples on Wired‘s site and I’d really recommend following his Tumblr if you are so inclined.
I am.
There is something I’ve always loved about a city with hardly anyone living in it. I just recently blogged about China’s Ordos and before it, about others like it. Urville, though, takes the cake because it exists entirely in the head of its chief architect, savant Gilles Trehin. And he’s been drawing it for the last twenty years.
(io9 – again)
The “whole” story of A Wrinkle in Time presented as a single comic page. You’re welcome.
(And thank you, io9.)
I concur with Engadget on this one: this would make a fine iPad app!
Fashion! Models! The apocalypse?
This is a brand new, absolutely jaw-droppingly beautiful museum designed by some truly phenomenal architects in the middle of Ordos, a city in China…with a population of zero people. Did I mention it’s also in the heart of the Gobi dessert?
China, dear, what are you doing?
I would also like to point out that it’s basically a set from the Charlize Theron reboot of Æon Flux, a fact that I have no problem with but still merits mentioning.
Come to think of it, though, if you were to construct the last city on Earth, you couldn’t really do much better than the Gobi, right?
(io9)
Earth is trapped in the crossfire of an unwinnable war between two alien civilizations. Its leader is perpetually on the verge of death. And on top of it all, a new drug has just entered circulation a drug that whips its users back and forth across time.
io9 has news about the latest Philip K. Dick adaptation, Now Wait for Last Year. Also in the report: absurd hats are pondered and I’m reminded of the impending Gondry-fication of Ubik. Hoorah!