Star Wars Modern

Neo -avant-garde (1999); Historical Avant-garde  (1916) . The impulse to write my first essay about Star Wars  was born out of a fr...

"Basement in Selma"  Franklin McMahon  (1965) - illustration for Look Magazine [RLP standing at center] I traveled to Sel...

MUDC work train on the 3rd Avenue El .  [This is the sixth short story in a series,   the 1st story is  here , the 2nd is  here , the 3rd...

The Craven Family, Peter Manzel (2001) When I started working on this series of short stories about the second half [2H] of the 21st C...

Ralph McQuarrie matte painting of the desert and the void (1977); Skyscraper Index - up to 1974.   Preparing for a  talk at Whitman las...

I'm giving a talk on Star Wars at Whitman College next week , so I was excited to see  Chris Taylor speak last night at Seattle...

iAroki walking Benji, the family dog  (1977) Chuck Close was a small, compact, terrier-mutt with a shaggy coat of coarse dark grey hair...

Westinghouse's " Elektro " at the 1939 New York World's Fair. via  Paleofuture About the time Greg Borenstein and I ...

Ferguson Missouri, 30 years after George Orwell's dystopian future of  1984 . Over the past week I've been watching the pol...

Urban Think Tank 's Grotão Community Center in San Paulo Brazil. "There is a famous scene in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead ...

Viral ad campaign by Lego didn't do much to comfort those put of by Lego Friends. I got in a bit of a dust up on twitter this week,...

Dr Strangelove (1964)   From time to time, as tensions rise in one part of the world of another, someone will bring up the idea repl...