Star Wars Modern

In his 1972 book, Society And The Healthy Homosexual , the psychotherapist and gay activist,   George Weinberg ,  coined the term "...

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,...