Post–Apocalypse Nouveau Fashion

April 1st, 2010 • Photography
Tags: commercial, design, dystopia, Fashion, photo, Photography

Eli Schmidt photographs collections from  Reid Prebenda and Ian O’Brien. The work has a very Post–Apocalypse Nouveau meets young Mathew Barney.
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Artificial Paradise, Inc

February 10th, 2010 • Motion Graphics
Tags: dystopia, film, Motion Graphics, video

Artificial Paradise, Inc. by John-Paul Frenay

Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed a unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?

OK, but can it help me find my keys?

Welcome to Your Future

June 9th, 2009 • Art & Design
Tags: contemporary art, cyborg, dystopia, future, scifi

These are digital illustrations, from Berlin-based artist/designer David Löhr, commissioned by the agency Generation Digitale. These images might seem like a new form of Futurism for their embrace of technological hybridism, but the minimal softness doesn’t suggest the fascist ideology, of the futurists, that war and industrialism will save the world. Rather they seem to convey a romantic notion of cybernetic organisms as a future utopia without the industrial straight lines of modernism. Read more »

I’d Love to Do Your Nails, Before Someone Gets Hurt

April 17th, 2009 • Music Video
Tags: 70s, dystopia, events, los angles, music, music video, san francisco, synth pop

Tiga’s new video for “Shoes” directed by Alex and Liane. It’s as if the directors were channeling Stanley Kubrick from his Clockwork Orange days and imagining his version of a 70s talk show.

Tiga – Shoes (Spencer & Hill Remix)

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Naughty, Naughty, Naughty! You Filthy Old Soomka!

March 24th, 2009 • Film & Video
Tags: dystopia, film, scifi

Now showing at SFMOMA, a total dystopian love fest. With the current crop of awful science fiction movies over the past few years. It’s time to revisit the good old days of tomorrow. And not that I’m suggesting taking mind altering substances for viewing of these films, but one has to wander what was in the water back then and where can I get some now, and does it come bottled? There are some fantastic worlds of despair that have a viscerally visual pleasure that seduces you into watching a grim forecast of the future today. Read more »