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Interceptor ’48 by *Malaveldt on deviantART
Tuskegee Airman by *MarkNewman on deviantART
The Happiness Machine by ~TRIS31 on deviantART
Pulp Fiction vol2 by ~Gisele-Dessin on deviantART
NFZ M3 Sunrise by *600v on deviantART
"Blinky" is uncannily close to a retelling of "Medea", but with robots.
By Ruairi Robinson; more here.
[tags]blinky, robot, Ruairi Robinson, short film, don’t forget those three laws of robotics, and don’t taunt happy fun ball[/tags]
You know, imperial troopers just haven’t been as sinister since they abolished the minimum wage. There’s more here.
If you’ve ever wondered exactly what quasi-victorian interplanetary conflicts you needed one of Doctor Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators for, well, one click will show you everything you need to know.
This short animation from Weta Workshop could even be a teaser for a new project (collectible tanks!) but whether or not that’s true it’s an inspiring view of what all that Aetheric Oscillation is needed for, apparently on Venus.
via i09.
This shocking picture proves – definitively! – that Futurama’s Bender Bending Rodriguez once traveled to the 1940’s, where he worked as a comic book cover model. Or was photographed during a heist. Or something.
He’s clearly inviting his pursuer to bite his shiny metal ass; also, note the somewhat enhanced size of his antenna. Does this show excitement? Or is it some sinister modification? And are those interesting tubes that lead to his head part of a primitive beer hat?
We have to thank Mister Door Tree’s Golden Age Comic Book Stories for this tantalizing glimpse into the time-traveling adventures of one of our favorite robots.
Just because I like them, here are two retro robot sculptures by Toby Fraley from Uncommon Goods. Each one’s a large illuminated piece that would look swell on your world domination console, provided you’ve dominated enough of the world to afford them. That was envy, just then, is what that was.
This fellow on the right stands 48" tall; the Slim Pickens version above is just 28" tall, but equally wide, due to that cool rocket it’s riding. They’re built from aluminum, steel, and wood, and – as you can probably guess – many of their parts are recycled vintage mechanical whaddayacallums.
Fraley’s exhibited widely, including a show at the Smithsonian, and he must be haunting the estate auctions and second hand stores of Pennsylvania even as we speak.
You know, this guy on the right would make a pretty nifty desk lamp here in the Secret Laboratory. I’d kind of enjoy that thrill of knowing an armed recycled vacuum cleaner was watching my every move.
[tags]retro, robot, sculpture, artwork, vintage, found objects, recycled, toby fraley, you know you want it[/tags]
I like everything I see about this indie game in development but that just can’t compete with how well I like the last line in the video: “Made by a single person who had an idea”.
But maybe that’s just me. Whether or not this is true, plenty of other people have liked what they see: it’s the grand prize winner in Epic’s "Make Something Unreal" contest; it’s won awards from a couple of other competitions; it’s currently competing in the Indie Game Challenge; it’s attracted the omniscient interest of Sony; and it’s not even done yet.
I’m not very interested in games these days, but this one interests me. It might just be the revenge of every kind of game that was slaughtered by the first person shooter, made with the tools of first person shooters, which would have a lovely symmetry.
Found via Ars Technica.
Now your first choice, the way I see it, would be to buy my own retro future art calendars; but if you’re looking for something else (and for free!) you should fire up your PDF reading rocket pack and jet on over to The Website at the End of the Universe, where you’ll find a downloadable, printable calendar for 2011 whose theme is "sexy women and the mad scientists that love them" or, possibly, "sexy women and the mad scientists that love to keep them in tubes".
It’s sort of low fi, which is my way of saying "low res", but it’s still a full twelve months of demented research and scantily clad dames. Which is all you can ask for, really, isn’t it?
I worked with Scott Bieser during my very brief stay at Interplay, back when Interplay was still a place where people worked. Scott has since then been moving and shaking over at Big Head Press, a webcomic site, and he’s just let me know that he’s got a new comic going over there called Quantum Vibe. This is something new for Scott because it isn’t a collaboration (there is a "me" in team!).
The comic is updating on five weekdays each week, which when you think about it is all the weekdays we’ve got. So, you know, frequently*.
What I want to know is this: when they get into the bar, who gets told "We don’t serve your kind in here"? And what hijinx ensue?
*Unlike me. But that will change soon, I promise.
[tags]quantum vibe, big head press, webcomic, web comic, comic strip, science fiction, oh go on and click the link already you know you want to[/tags]
Not to be outdone even by himself, the astounding Mister Doortree has posted a new collection of science fiction pulp magazine covers at Golden Age Comic Book Stories.
This time we see 49 covers from Startling Stories, spanning the years 1939 to 1955. And they’re wonderful.
The credited artists are Howard V. Brown, Earle Bergey, Rudolph Belarski, Alex Schomburg, Jack Coggins, Walter Popp, Ed Emshwiller, and Ed Valigursky. I was just looking at one of the Emshwiller covers yesterday, and found to my, well, startlement that he was also an early pioneer in computer graphics. It’s a small world, even when it has rampaging robots and sinister tentacles in it.
As, you know, it does.
[tags]pulp magazines, science fiction, cover, illustration, startling stories, Howard V. Brown, Earle Bergey, Rudolph Belarski, Alex Schomburg, Jack Coggins, Walter Popp, Ed Emshwiller, Ed Valigursky[/tags]
