#retro-future

[isottafraschini]

Daihatsu Midget X 2025

The Midget X microcar is inspired by a mid-century model. From 1957 to 1972, the Midget name was used for a compact three-wheeled truck that proved incredibly popular thanks to its maneuverability on Japan's narrow streets. The glorious name was revived in 1996, this time as a small but fully-fledged four-wheeler, and now, yet another reincarnation. The new Midget X is a compact truck with an electric powertrain. Its appearance evokes associations with the original Midget: the prototype features round LED headlights and a convex windshield. The wheels, positioned at the corners, are covered by separate fenders with integrated lights. A removable cargo compartment is installed at the rear, which, on the show car, resembles a backpack.

The interior features a unique steering wheel-style steering wheel, a centrally mounted driver's seat, and rearward-facing passenger seats. While this is still just a concept, it's possible it could eventually become a production model.

I will introduce you to the Cars of the World of different years of release.

Daihatsu Midget X

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[mudwerks]

(via Bruce McCall, Satirical Artist Who Conjured a ‘Retrofuture,’ Dies at 87 - The New York Times)

Bruce McCall, whose satirical illustrations for National Lampoon and The New Yorker conjured up a plutocratic dream world of luxury zeppelin travel, indoor golf courses and cars like the Bulgemobile Airdreme, died on Friday in the Bronx. He was 87.

I love the Bulgemobile  

[pierre-grillere]

✦ 30 ANS PLUS TARD ✦

Cécile  a toujours été obnubilée par le passé, le poids de l’héritage de  son  père et son besoin de reconnaissance. Transportée 30 ans dans le  futur,  elle est soudainement obligée de s’interroger sur son propre  avenir et  sur ce qu’elle léguera au reste de l’humanité.  

[humptydumptyunbroken]

Jakub Rozalski | “1920 - no worries, I got this“ and  “1920 - about life and stuff“.

[gamesyoushouldbeplaying]

I am a simple gamer. I see "retro-future setting" and I buy the game.

[burlveneer-music]

D. Rothon - Aquarius Rising from Memories of Earth, his new album for Clay Pipe Music inspired by retro-future nostalgia (June 26)

Memories of Earth is D Rothon’s second LP for Clay Pipe Music. In the years since 2018’s critically acclaimed Nightscapes, aside from working on this follow-up, he has played pedal steel on albums by Lost Horizons (on the John Grant-fronted track Cordelia), Liela Moss and Johanna Warren. He has also contributed to two recent compilations by the Second Language label – a kindred spirit to Clay Pipe.

The catalyst for Memories of Earth was the 2019 Moving to Mars exhibition at London’s Design Museum - which created a simulation of a future Martian settlement. For Rothon this triggered recollections of a childhood fascination with space – fuelled by the moon landings, visits to the London Planetarium and being taken aged six to see Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. “I recall it as a time when a science fiction-style future seemed just around the corner,” he says. He cites as another influential experience the landmark Cybernetics Serendipity show at the ICA, which featured collaborations between artists and scientists: machines were shown alongside artwork in a spirit of postwar optimism for the positive power of new technologies. “I actually remember very little about it other than it was very noisy and somewhat scary!” Memories of Earth reflects a spectrum of emotional responses to the idea of space travel – from the optimism and wonder of those childhood dreams to the sense of disconnection, isolation and loss we might feel on a one-way trip to Mars… or beyond. The final, bittersweet track brings us back down to earth with a sense that perhaps it’s caring for our own planet that should be our priority. Musically Memories of Earth draws on a varied palette of influences including early prog, electronica and European film soundtracks. This diversity of styles flows together to form an album that’s coherent but full of surprises. It also benefits from vocal contributions by acclaimed US musician Johanna Warren and actress/chanteuse Claudia Barton, who wrote and performs the words for the title track – a paean to Earth’s “soft, green bacterial surface”; its “deep, wet, blue mysteries”…

Clay Pipe Music · 01 Apeman, Spaceman

Clay Pipe Music · 10 Memories Of Earth

[nemfrog]

2000 years on. 1950. Magazine cover.