“Aurora Noir” is a retrofuturist image series by Tel Aviv digital artist Tim Razumovsky. With art deco robots, cyborg private detectives, an automaton jazz orchestra, and monumental public works, it’s like Blade Runner if Blade […]
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(Art) Retrofantasy Computing
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 […]
Cyberpunk I: Cyberpunk as Retrofuturism
Cyberpunk and its offshoots (biopunk, solarpunk, etc.) are still our significant cultural vision of the future. And yet, it hasn’t aged particularly well. This is the vid-phone from Blade Runner (1980), which was supposed to […]
(Art) The Anti-gravity Dieselpunk of Alejandro Burdisio
Retrofuturism is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. Characterized by a blend of old-fashioned “retro styles” with futuristic technology, retrofuturism explores the […]
(Art) The Retro Pulp of Ryan Heshka
Born in Manitoba and raised in Winnipeg, Canadian artist Ryan Heshka spent much of his youth in the company of old comics and pulp magazines. His work channels the giants of the genre, such as […]
(Music) Cratediggers: Rare Pop Nihon
Kyu Sakamoto stands over popular music in Japan the way Frank Sinatra stands over popular music in the U.S. This song actually made it to the Western charts with the title “Sukiyaki,” which is a […]
(Art) The Fantastically Far-Out Retro Art of Moon Patrol
Matt Cunningham, who goes by the moniker Moon Patrol, creates fantastically trippy retro collages from or inspired by old comics, pulp art, and vintage ads: cowboys, robots, phantoms, aliens, dinosaurs, and monsters. You can find […]
