Traveler | 16. Juni 2013
Fifty years ago today, the Soviet Union put the first woman into space: Valentina Tereshkova. Back then, the USSR was still ahead in the Space Race. Right now, Russia is ahead once more, mostly because the USA does not have a manned space program. A fact I mourn every day. I digress… Today, we raise our [...]
Traveler | 12. Mai 2013
Let me point your attention to this amazing project: The Cosmonaut (http://thecosmonaut.org/) The Cosmonaut is a crowd-funded project, four years in the making. What sets it apart: It is completely CC. Once you get your hands on the material, you can use it for your own purposes. Here’s what the people behind it, Riot [...]
Traveler | 10. März 2013
I have been looking forward to reading The Age Atomic, ever since it was announced. After enjoying Empire State immensely, I was itching for the sequel, and this is what I found when I finally got it: The Age Atomic is set a number of years after Empire State, in 1954, but in the Empire [...]
Traveler | 25. Februar 2013
Footage of a restored Me-262 Schwalbe taking off on a 30-minutes flight to a nearby airbase. Pure bliss!
Traveler | 21. Februar 2013
The more I dig into the Atompunk side of things, the more wonderful tech-gems pop up. I had no idea what a treasure trove of the weird and wonderful hides in the Atompunk timeframe. During the height of the space race, both the Soviet Union and the United States used massive amounts of resources to [...]
Traveler | 9. Februar 2013
The 1950′s were a golden age for science fiction movies. The space race had begun, the world was ablaze with a fascination for space travel and exploration. This was obviously a very fertile environment for science fiction movies to flourish in. The science fiction movies of the 1950′s are, do the math, around 60 years [...]
Traveler | 3. Februar 2013
As I mentioned in my last podcast, there is an awful lot going on in Spain. Case in point, in a few days the Semana Retrofuturista is happening in Spain. My friends there were kind enough to give me an English synopsis of the details: From 11th to 16th February, Retrofuturisms, Steampunk, Dieselpunk and related [...]
Traveler | 1. Februar 2013
The creativity within the music section of our scene really has no bounds. The other day I opened my ætherbox to find yet another message directing me to an album of a band I had thus far not heard of before. The band is Terrible Spaceship and the album (their debut) is Invasion 1938. So, [...]
Traveler | 20. Januar 2013
Today’s podcast is all about Atompunk and Cyberpunk, the two genres following Dieselpunk in time. Atompunk is a relatively new and obscure offshoot of Cyberpunk and Cyberpunk is by now deeply enmeshed with reality. The Internet and the omnipresence of computers, combined with augmented reality have turned many visions of cyberpunk into reality. Cyberpunk is [...]
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Traveler | 13. Juli 2012
Harrison Ford has graced this planet with his presence for the past 70 years, now. His career has spanned almost six decades (56 years, as of 2012) and he is one, if not the, most iconic actor of his generation, portraying two of the most memorable movie characters of all time: Han Solo and Indiana [...]
I am an anthropologist and in this capacity a minor scholar of the Cthulhu Mythos and H.P. Lovecraft. I am also quite obviously heavily into Steampunk and Dieselpunk and like travelling.
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