Music From The Future
Experience a glimpse of the year 2145Incredible BMW design concept car
Every day new concept cars arise from imagination to render and eventually a test-model. Problem is, usually the renders looked way more awesome than the real deal.
But here’s a car that looks actually cooler in real than the concept renders. I know most people already know about this vehicle or have seen it on auto-salons or the internet, but I wouldn’t want to leave this badboy out of this website’s collection.
BMW’s “Efficient Dynamics”, pushing 356hp while maintaining about 62MPG.
The new BMW Vision EfficientDynamics combines superb driving performance with extremely low consumption. A hybrid drive system and a revolutionary design are among the highlights. The film reveals how a sustainable, but enjoyable future BMW will look like.
These Germans did it again! If you compare today’s cars with these of the early 60’s, I think we could be driving these babies for a somewhat “affordable” price around 2040.
Please enjoy these stunning pics:
You can watch an interesting presentation about this vehicle here.
Big stars, Titans, TITANS and GIANT TITANS
Just like the previous post stated: “We’re pretty tiny” in this universe.
If you think the sun is big… well; You’re right… But it’s not the biggest star around. No Sir!
Here’s an incredible comparison chart showing just what kind of huge objects are floating in our own (Milky Way) galaxy. Alas no word on the street yet on what amazing stars exist outside of it.
Just check out this image and be very amazed.
Just how tiny we are
Remember those pictures like the Hubble deep field?
The video you will find above is also a nice impression of just how big and vast the universe really is. Just make sure you watch it in high-definition and prepare of 6 minutes of gentle travel and gazing at your computer screen in awe.
We’re nothing but a tiny spot in the house, which is a tiny spot in the city, which is a tiny spot in the province, which is a tiny spot in the country, which is a tiny spot on the face of our planet, and this is where the video kicks in…
Just imagine they would start from subatomic particles and zoom out before this video would start. The human body is a universe on it’s own!
Thanks –of course- goes out to the authors of the movie.
The 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!?
