I’ve not done one of these for a while, and since it looks miserable and grim outside – and I don’t just mean the weather – it must be about time I did another one. So here’s some retro-futurism:
buildings
(the following were taken from the excellent tumblr site Fuck Yeah Brutalism)
House of the architect, Casablanca, Morocco, 1960s
Hotel Ashkhabad, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 1969
Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami, Florida, 1972
Pavilion of the City of Casablanca, International Fair of Casablanca, Morocco, 1960
Technical College, Busto Arsizio, Italy, 1963-64
air
Tupoleve Tu-114 Rossiya (‘Cleat’)
1970s proposed first class lounge aboard an airliner
Martin P6M SeaMaster
Yakovlev Yak-28PP ‘Brewer-E’
cinema
(a few posters from 1960s sf films, taken from Wrong Side of the Art)
I suspect those pressure suits wouldn’t keep the 12 alive for long
NASA might be a bit upset their X-15s are being used to battle aliens in outer space
The hero is apparently using the female star as a human shield – that’s not very heroic behaviour
Even on the Moon, women can wear bikinis
Although apparently not everything, such as ride motorbikes with big spikes on the front
fashion
It is important that some, if not all, of your outfit is colour-coordinated with the giant computer brain
A 1969 Clairol advert, aparently – and no, I don’t understand why they’re in a giant transparent ball above a park, either
Pacific Southwest Airlines flight attendants – normally, they flew inside the aircraft with the passengers
Back in the 1960s, the CIA was only just figuring out how to use waterboarding
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