But supplementing that aesthetic of “the future” sketched in imaginary edifice, the full SF vision of the future city is a mosaic, constructed from fragments of the cities that we recognize, including symbols that are decidedly from the past. [...]
If SF functions by taking the world we know and altering it with a constructed future fantasy, the Statue of Liberty serves as the junction point, the axis where the speculative fantasy begins and ends.
— motherboard.vice.com
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Milla Jovovich, mmmm.
The Italian Futurists were clearly the inspiration for Lang's Metropolis.
ha, Miles....when I taught rendering I would show this image and often say- only difference between this and Fifth Element (which many students were too young to have seen) was the absence of flying cars.
I should probably get back to work...
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