Not necessarily of the delusional type, but thinkers of such things as the Cyclop: First Large-borne aircraft, and of that airy interplanetary apparatus. posted by past at 1:04 PM on October 11, 2009
You forgot to mention that this epic (ha!) blog belongs to none other than Mefi's Ownpeacay. posted by spiderskull at 1:14 PM on October 11, 2009
Actually, I meant to! posted by brundlefly at 1:19 PM on October 11, 2009
This is brilliant. Cheers posted by dng at 3:07 PM on October 11, 2009
The drawings are mostly from the 1950s but they have a 1930s "Buck Rogers" vibe. Only a few drawings have the lethal sleekness of modern aerospace engineering; I wonder if he didn't have access to current (that is, 1950s - 1960s) magazines and books, or whether his mental illness wasn't too advanced in the 1930s and so that was his personal Golden Age, but he seems to have gotten stuck in the balloony cartoony look of the 1930s. There was also a pretty strong emphasis on German this and German that, and I wonder if that's a lingering echo of the ultra-nationalism of the 1930s.
Is it common for schizophrenics, as part of their general abnormal perception of reality, to get "stuck" in a previous era? Of course this guy could have simply been nostalgic for a better time in his life, or just liked the looks of 1930s comic books, but I wonder how schizophrenia played a role in his "engineering" process. posted by Quietgal at 8:40 PM on October 11, 2009
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Not necessarily of the delusional type, but thinkers of such things as the Cyclop: First Large-borne aircraft, and of that airy interplanetary apparatus.
posted by past at 1:04 PM on October 11, 2009