When Marcello Gandini showed his concept drawings for the projected successor to the Lamborghini “Miura,” the LP500 prototype, to Nucchio Bertone, the latter exclaimed “Countach!”—the Piemontese equivalent to “fuck me sideways!” Ferruccio Lamborghini, who was present, decided that the … Continue reading →
Some day back in the 1980s I got my hands on some SciFi-movie aficionado book, which, among many other things, contained concept paintings for “↑Blade Runner“ (1982) by ↑Syd Mead, who is labelled as “visual futurist” in the movie’s … Continue reading →
The computer game “↑Max Payne“ (MP, 2001) was ↑banned in Germany, due to “socioethical disorienting effects,” it supposedly causes. In July of 2002 “↑America’s Army“ (AA) was released—since then I am wondering why nobody over here has the idea … Continue reading →
‘Tis just as if I had known it, when, during chrimbo, I occupied myself with ↵creating complex airplanes out of square sheets of paper by folding only. Now geeks from Tokyo University teamed up with geeks from the ↑Japan … Continue reading →
visions of dream machines This is the “Vector W2” prototype of my teenage days in full flight. From certain angles it looks way more interesting than its contemporary successor, the “WX8”—both cars were briefly mentioned in ↵reventón, there also … Continue reading →
From November 1964 to the end of 1965 the trinity Gian Paolo Dallara (*1939), Gian Paolo Stanzini, and Bob Wallace in their spare time built the chassis of a new car by which they wanted to convince the old man, … Continue reading →
This by far is the most aggressive looking piece of automobile I ever saw. Definitely not ↵steampunk, but a cyberpunk-worthy folly—a car with a basic price tag reading one million Euros, without tax still, and I do not … Continue reading →
cyberian nomadism confirmed Once a real member of a real online community, always a member. ADM, whom I know since ye olde days of Max-Payne glory, yesterday evening sent me an e-mail, notifying me of the resurrected ↑BrightFalls.net—plus dipping … Continue reading →
steampunk informed appropriation of mythical worlds and hardware ↑Captain Nemo‘s submarine “Nautilus” on the surface, getting entered by “cannibals”. The picture is for those, maybe a bit more traditionally oriented anthropologists, who dare to doubt that this vessel has anything … Continue reading →
Rich “↑Datamancer“ Nagy specializes in “prestidigital datamancery & paraphernalic technofetishism (now with 20% more superfluous pleonasm!!).” In strictly out-of-character words: he makes customized steampunk-themed computer hardware to order. Here is a long quote, illustrating the ↑rationale behind his occupation: … Continue reading →