Wife and I saw one of these running around PB today. Very cool for a sub 40 mph beach machine. Not an original by any means and it was rough but had plastic seats and no carpet.
Wife and I saw one of these running around PB today. Very cool for a sub 40 mph beach machine. Not an original by any means and it was rough but had plastic seats and no carpet.
Clever.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/04/what-people-in-1900-thought-the-year-2000-would-look-like/
There are few things as fascinating as seeing what people in the past dreamed about the future. "France in the Year 2000" is one example. The series of paintings, made by Jean-Marc Côté and other French artists in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, shows artist depictions of what life might look like in the year 2000. The first series of images were printed and enclosed in cigarette and cigar boxes around the time of the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, according to the Public Domain Review, then later turned into postcards. [The next 800,686 years, in sci-fi predictions] Lots of their ideas involve mechanized devices, flying, or a combination of the two. Some, strangely, involve people interacting in a very close and personal way with marine life. As Open Culture points out, however, there are no images of space travel. [Kurt Vonnegut graphed the world’s most popular stories] Some of the portraits are fantastic -- swashbucklers riding on giant seahorses, anyone? But others are actually surprisingly accurate visions of our current era, including farming machines, helicopters, and what looks like a precursor to the new robot vaccum, the iRobot Roomba vacuum:
You see that wrong,
look again that isn't wood grain...
Wall-e wrote:
Where is my damn whale bus!!
Rats, trying to post only one pic.
What finish is that, Matte?
nocones wrote: Where is my damn whale bus!!
I can't help but think a Whale bus would be difficult to keep clean
(google image searches for fury road parodies)
Huh.
The reference: So I am watching this anime, which a friend recommended as "really berkeleyed up", and at the end of one of the episodes: BAM Lord Humongous. Like, part of the actual show.
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