"A maverick theater and industrial designer,
Norman Bel Geddes is best remembered for creating the undisputed hit of the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Mounted in the midst of the Great Depression, the Fair focused on America’s promise of a utopian tomorrow. Geddes’s
Futurama, a piece of “immersion theater,” took six hundred visitors at a time on a swooping, simulated airplane ride across America circa 1960."
"The City of Tomorrow, a model of Manhattan that Geddes created, in 1937, to promote Shell Oil Company’s new “motor-digestible” gasoline, is often cited as [
Futurama's inspiration.]
But Futurama’s beginnings actually harken back much further, to the meticulous, insanely detailed private games he created in the 1920s and early ’30s for the amusement of his friends."
[more inside]
posted by zamboni
on May 6, 2012 -
15 comments
"Hi Jerks! Bender here. I just got back from the drinkin'est town in the known Universe: Las Vegas, Nevada- Earth. Check out these
photos and you will see what I mean!" from Bender's Las Vegas Scrapbook.
(Tons of pictures, big download alert) [via waxpancake]
posted by riffola
on Nov 10, 2003 -
18 comments
First the Family Guy gets the ax, and now this: according to
gotfuturama.com and
aint it cool,
Futurama will be cancelled. For me, there's officially no reason to watch the Fox network now, as they've cancelled the only things I recorded each week.
posted by mathowie
on Feb 12, 2002 -
58 comments
This Futurama fan site is better than anything Fox has to offer online about their show. Rather than unleash their lawyers on these fans, they should be sending them paychecks. Among the many gems on the site are these
remixes of the show's sounds.
posted by mathowie
on Jul 18, 1999 -
0 comments
