There is apparently some neoliberal sporting festival about to take place in London in a couple of weeks – featuring events such as ethnic profiling, merchant scheme monopoly, remove the non-sponsor logo, the all-day traffic jam, spot the celeb in the VIP lane, and other such twenty-first century pursuits in Tory Britain. But since that is all a) boring, b) unethical, c) dull, and d) offensive, how about looking at some photos of cool retro-futuristic (sort of) things instead?
land
Buick Century Cruiser, 1969
Oldsmobile Golden Rocket concept car, 1956
Ford Seattle-ite, 1962
Pininfarina X, 1960
sea
SRN3 hovercraft
DSV-2 Alvin
DSV-4 Sea Cliff
air
Supermarine Type 508
Republic XF-103
BAC Lightning (and Tupolev Tu-95 ‘Bear’)
home
from Fahrenheit 451 (great film, rubbish book)
from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
It Doesn't Have To Be Right... 
July 16, 2012 at 12:10 pm
The first image is gorgeous! Almost haunting (especially the concrete domed building)….
July 16, 2012 at 12:20 pm
from Fahrenheit 451 (great film, rubbish book)
I can’t tell if you’re being facetious, Ian…
July 16, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Not in this case 🙂 I hated the book but loved the film.
July 16, 2012 at 12:36 pm
Hunh. In general, that equation for any film-based-on-a-book is usually reversed. (And particularly for something as iconic as this).
July 16, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Not always. The film of Marnie was better than the book. Likewise for The Commitments.
July 16, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Well, I do like Total Recall more than the Dick story, so yeah, but those are exceptions that prove the rule, in my view…
July 16, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Generally NOT a fan of Truffaut (Whispers of the Heart is a terrible piece of crud for example) but loved his film version…. Not sure it was better than the book 😉 hehe
July 16, 2012 at 1:38 pm
*oops, got some names muddled — Murmur of the Heart…
July 16, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Yikes, and Murmur of the Heart is by Malle not Truffaut — ignore my previous comment… Regardless, the other Truffaut films I’ve seen have been underwhelming as well.
July 16, 2012 at 1:44 pm
I must admit I’m not a Truffaut fan – didn’t really like Jules et Jim or Les quatre cents coups. But for some reason, Fahrenheit 451 really appealed to me.
July 16, 2012 at 1:49 pm
I enjoyed 400 blows but didn’t think it was a masterpiece and tolerated Day to Night but it was really silly — Shoot the Piano Player is kind of fun…