Retro-Future: To The Stars!
This is the start of a new series: an extensive collection of the most inspiring and hard-to-find retro-futuristic images. We will try to stay away from the well-known American pulp and book cover illustrations and instead will focus on the artwork from some rather unlikely sources: Soviet and Eastern Bloc "popular tech & science" magazines, German, Italian, British fantastic illustrations and promotional literature - all from the Golden Age of Retro-Future (from 1930s to 1970s). Wait for images to load.
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Part 1. Space never looked better... and perhaps never will
Retro-futuristic art, in a way, can be called a double-fantasy: imaginary future wrapped in imaginary past. Which makes this style doubly interesting, if not doubly obsolete... In this part we will showcase rarely seen art, done in 1930s to 1970s, mostly from "Teknika Molodezhi" (TM), "Yuny Tekhnik", "DetGiz" (Russia) and German retro-future sites.
Back to the future Krish.
Funny stuff !
In reality Mankind is not physically suited to exist anywhere known to mankind except this one damn planet , anything else anywhere near for the masses in our lifetime is fantasy.
Thinking about future tech... REALLY thinking about it... is very hard.
There will be spaceships. They will have to be built... somewhere and somehow...
One artist uses a wheeled crane -- basically 1940s tech for shipbuilding a couple centuries later. Not so cool.
The other has the construction happening in space (yes!!) with zero gravity (yes!!) ... ... but apparently forgetting inertia (can't win 'em all...).
These are cool images, Krishna. Keep 'm comin'!