Music From The Future
Experience a glimpse of the year 2145The Chemical Brothers – Burst Generator
Funky fast fantastic blip-blop-pewpew whooosh! Yeah, you guessed it right: This song makes me smile!
Let’s blast off in a Jetsons-ish setting, traveling at a warp-speed through colourful galaxies in our perfectly round UFO with the big glass bubble on top in a bad-photoshopped eighties videomix!
The youtube video isn’t that good in my opinion, but it’s all about the tune anyway… Enjoy my friends!
About the track
‘The Chemical Brothers – We Are The Night’ is the album on which you can find this amazing track among lots of other crazy psychedelic electronic art like “Saturate”, “We are the Night” and the fun, yet less psycho “Salmon dance”.
My God, it’s full of Citroën?
To be honest, I have no idea where i got this design, but damnit… (by the looks of that logo) That’s an awesome Citroën!
Kudos to the designer. What more can I say? If I ever find the original artist, or if you happen to know where I found this, please let me know, ok?
Ok! Yea, Let’s make this a nice place to live! Um no wait…
By the looks of this picture; PyongYang sure had a bunch of visionary architects running around a couple of years ago. I think this is actually an awe-inspiring city-scape. Too bad it ended up like this:
Welcome to the spooky Hotel PyongYang.
The building’s plan for a 105-story height was reportedly a Cold War response to the completion of the Westin Stamford Hotel in Singapore the previous year by a South Korean company, SsangYong Group. North Korean leadership envisioned the project as a channel for Western investors to step into the marketplace. A firm, the Ryugyong Hotel Investment and Management Co., was established to attract a hoped-for US$230 million in foreign investment. A representative for the North Korean government promised relaxed oversight, saying, "The foreign investors can even operate casinos, nightclubs or Japanese lounges if they want to."
Construction gone bad…
Though the basic structure was complete when construction came to a halt in 1992, the building shell sat vacant and without windows, fixtures, or fittings for 16 years. A rusting construction crane at the top assumed the role of a permanent fixture.
Even though the hotel still dominates the Pyongyang skyline, it has proven difficult to obtain information about the hotel or its future from North Korean sources. The problems associated with the hotel led some media sources to dub it "The Worst Building in the World", "Hotel of Doom" and "Phantom Hotel".[11]
Source: Wikipedia:
Alas, this futuristic hotel will never get to be finished.
You can find a lot more pictures of this lost hope of a prosperous thriving city: Hotel PyongYang
Two impressive minutes
Wow people, this is yet again one impressive HD-Timelapse which will leave you in awe! It’s fascinating to see how our tiny dot in space is spinning, pretty randomly amongst trillions of other dots.
Makes you wonder about our spot in the universe. Damn, my tongue is tangled after watching this. Stunning, absolutely stunning.
On the side; The music is also pretty Goosebumps-engaging, so make sure you have your speakers turned on.
If we never invented Electricity
Hmm. What if?
We might have been stuck with pure steam and/or gasoline driven computer-like devices? Cars, airplanes, everything would use tremendous amounts of oil or hot water, gears and pneumatic pumps producing a hell of a lot of heat, gasses and fumes… What a waste, but what a cool setting! Welcome to the magical world of Steampunk!
Above –again- you can see these typical huge buildings which no future scene can lack… The sky isn’t the limit people! I know it’s engineering madness to build above 1Kilometer high; But come one humanity, if you can film how 2 protons crash at near light speed in a magnet the size of a cathedral, I’m sure we can build this as well. Anyway these buildings really remind me of that movie 1984 for some reason.
O(r)well Back to the scene…
Of course if there’s so many exhaust-gasses people will need to wear gas-masks… Please enjoy these amazing steampunk ‘very retro’-futuristic creepy photographs…
And this is just plain old absurd, but for those who can’t get enough…
Hope you liked it!
Joe Studzinski’s Paintings
Joe Studzinski sure knows how to paint what comes to my mind when I try and imagine how our cities and civilization might evolve over the next 150 years.
I stumbled on his brilliant work through Coroflot, a website which collects portfolios of some of the greatest young designers around.
I won’t distract you with more words, just enjoy the paintings and let me know how you feel about these… Just click to view the large editions.
New York after some biological warfare?
The sky has never been the limlit…
I don”t know why, but most of these futuristic images contain a lot of atmospheric haze and I love it. It really gives a sense of huge heights and distances, pollution and dirt… And of course a little bit of mystery.
Finally: Can you imagine the first people on Mars or Venus?
2 Sublime building-designs
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Or what did you expect?
This office building, called “Al Rostamini Headquarters” – to be build soon – gives every office it contains the best view possible.
It looks like such an unstable structure, but I guess the architects know what they are doing; I just wish it was even bigger, like giganthunormous. Do you remember those utopia/megapolis-style images from the 19th century? Yea, like thàt huge!
Same with this design in Cairo, Egypt actually. Give it twice or even three times the size you see on these renders and we’re talking about architecture and scenery we would find in brilliantly designed futuristic videogames like Halo 3.
These towers, called “Stone Towers” were designed by “Zaha Hadid Architects”. Cairo is a greatly expanding/growing city, and these buildings easily give home to companies, retailers and 5-star-business-hotels, and a glimpse of future architecture of course.
Damn, doesn’t that just look stunning!?
W0w indeed!
I will quote the author:
スイスで開催される [BASELWORLD 2009] でシチズンブースのメイン映像として制作した作品。 表現テーマはECO DRIVEの無限性。東京という都市が持つ変化し続けるパワーを、ECO DRIVEが持つ無限性と重ね合わせ、エネルギーの蓄積と放出と いうアクションを東京という都市を使ってダイナミックに表現した
So you make sure you never forget it!
No, seriously, do you remember this time-lapse movie of Tokyo I posted here a few days ago? This movie does about the same but adds some extremely complex 3D-renderings and music visualisation amongst the stunning footage.
I don’t think you will regret watching it. Made by w0w, a Japanese Graphics/advertisement agency (I guess).
Audi D7 Concept Car
Ok… So I just stumbled on this pretty baby and just couldn’t resist sharing this with you.
Must say that I’m a fan of Audi, especially since the release of their mighty Audi R8 ( I love this car, and the ad). So I’m sorry if I occasionally forget to mention other car-brands’ concepts.
This concept here… It may not perfect (yet) but gosh almighty it does resemble my impression of “future” when i hear the word. And it went vice versa when I first laid eyes on this amazing piece of design. Let’s hope Audi does the same as they did with the R8 they designed for the movie “I Robot”…: Make it even more awesome and bring it to the market!
Westinghouse Time Capsules
Today I was reading in a book called “ Were the Gods Cosmonauts?” by Erich von Däniken.
I won’t discribe the contents of the book, however the it goes beyond just “interesting”… I really wished to share with you a certain paragraph.
Somewhere around page 95 he mentions time capsules we have buried somewhere in New-York, and of-course I had to find out what this was all about!
Quickly I found the Wikipedia page describing in full detail what the Westington Time capsules are all about; In 1938 and 1965th’s New-York World fairs, 2 Time capsules were built, filled with some of the most important human discoveries, books (on microfilm) and buried to be opened in 6939.
Makes you wonder if humans, let alone civilisations, will actually exist by the year 6939 to discover our 20th century inheritance.
I can’t help but sharing the strange message Albert Einstein himself shared in the time capsule. I read it in both awe and fear. Alas this man is so right:
Our time is rich in inventive minds, the inventions of which could facilitate our lives considerably. We are crossing the seas by power and utilise power also in order to relieve humanity from all tiring muscular work. We have learned to fly and we are able to send messages and news without any difficulty over the entire world through electric waves. However, the production and distribution of commodities is entirely unorganised so that everybody must live in fear of being eliminated from the economic cycle, in this way suffering for the want of everything. Further more, people living in different countries kill each other at irregular time intervals, so that also for this reason any one who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror. This is due to the fact that the intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce some thing valuable for the community. I trust that posterity will read these statements with a feeling of proud and justified superiority.
Maybe we should create a new one… In stead of microfilm we can now store terabytes of data, digital video-footage in high-definition of the entire world cities, nature,… Computer and microchip technology, nano-technology, robotics, …
Explain the binary system on a few basic paper pages (or inscripted in stainless-steel)
What do you think?
