Shock of the old: 11 wild views of the future – from winged postmen to self-cleaning homes
Do you have to brush your own hair, own an umbrella or keep at least one hand on your steering wheel? Don’t blame these visionary thinkers
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Do you have to brush your own hair, own an umbrella or keep at least one hand on your steering wheel? Don’t blame these visionary thinkers
'Poor Things' production designers James Price and Shona Heath describe the all-in effort required to bring the director's fantastic world to life.
'Poor Things' production designers describe the all-in effort required to bring the director's fantastic world to life.
Albert Robida was a French illustrator and author who produced a series of fantastical drawings to accompany three futurist novels he wrote in the 1880s. Often caricatured as derivative to Jules Verne's science fiction, the two are more fairly seen as contemporaries. Whereas Verne's adventures took place in the proximity of scientists and engineers, Robida built his technological marvels into everyday life, and studied the effects they would have on the public at large.
"The Old Man At Night Fall" is an allegorical, though quite literal take on the issue of Mitch McConnell's recent injury and political power.