The other day on social media, I shared a newspaper article on the rising hobby of retrocomputing, or bringing old computers back to life. After 3D printing turns to micromanufacturing, retrocomputing will give rise to […]
Month: January 2021
The $treet
My buddy in Japan asked me what was going on. This was my description — and why it matters. During the pandemic, a hedge fund called Melvin Capital was short-selling stock of video game retailer […]
(Fiction) The World-Walker
He put his hands on the antique oak counter. “This is a book shop. Not a help desk.” He pointed to the sign high on the wall behind him: THIS IS NOT A LIBRARY “I’d […]
(Art) The King Dragons of Jan Ditlev
Besides his colossal wyrms, which positively bleed menace, Danish artist Jan Ditlev’s digital paintings are punctuated with dragonlike forms. His ocean-skimming sci-fi battleships look like dragon heads while the terrestrial and floating pyramids in his […]
(Sunday Thought) What is going on?
In simple terms, the world has gotten big. Since I was a child in the early 1970s, the population of the planet has doubled. Imagine a “Shaft”-era earth, with all the chaos, all the strife, […]
(Art) The Hi-Tech Wastelands of Ignacio Bazan-Lazcano
The illustrations of Ignacio Bazan-Lazcano depict grungy hi-tech frontiers pitted with dust and danger. Sometimes post-apocalyptic, always remote, many of his works look like something out of Mad Max. His subjects are rebels and explorers […]
(Fiction) They Eat Humans, Don’t They?
From the air, the planet looked like one continuous hilly park punctuated irregularly by immense tower complexes that reached into low orbit. The surface was almost entirely covered in a continuous manicured lawn that stretched […]
(Art) The Dark Towers of Reza Afshar
Iranian artist Reza Afshar creates stunning towers and dark fantasy scenes from pop culture and his own imagination. One could easily see these as book covers. Find more by the artist on his ArtStation page.
Let Them Fight: Godzilla and Mythic Symbolism
I grew up on Godzilla movies. Well, I grew up on a lot of TV, but those too. As a kid, I often didn’t understand them — some of the plots are pretty outrageous — […]
(Art) My Dystopian Library – Pt. 4
At this point, I seem unable to stop myself!
