Brigadier General Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager, legendary test pilot and first human to break the sound barrier in controlled flight, has passed on at the venerable age of 97. He will forever be remembered as a hero of aviation and Atompunk for his flight in the beautiful Bell X-1 that …
Here’s a nice little historical jewel for you: “The Hole in the Ground”, an informational short film about military and civil response on the home front in Great Britain in the early 1960’s. The casual stance of everybody involved is so quaint and is of course part of the propaganda …
Well, well, what can I say… Fallout 4 has introduced me to a number of highly atompunk pop and jazz songs that are simply to radiantly splendid (see what I did there? Tehehehehe!) not to share, so here we go:
Public Service Announcement! Radio Retrofuture goes Fallout with own Radiostation! My friend Bonsart Bokel of Radio Retrofuture fame is hosting 12 days of Fallout-related awesomeness. From 20th December 2017 to 31st December 2017 there will be a ton of stuff going on, including an Aethercast and his very own Fallout …
As if being an astronaut would not make you feel like a boss each time you go to work anyway… No, you even get to play with the best toys in the pool: Image © NASA, public domain
For all its retrofuturistic appeal, awesome gameplay, fantastic graphics, and stunning storytelling and in-game universe, Fallout is/was for a time very much the real world. At least as far as the aesthetics and sheer enthusiasm for the atomic bomb are concerned. Case in point: Miss Atomic Bomb. Yes, this used …
This post is brought to you by my newest patron, Alexis Maddock-Tarleton. Recently, I have started recording some let’s play videos, mainly Fallout: New Vegas,it has been a favourite of mine and it is wonderfully atompunk anyway. This is one of those let’s play videos, with German commentary, because German …
Living through the 1950’s in the United States must have been great, at least that is the impression you get when you watch the movies of those days, go through popular TV shows like What’s My Line on Youtube. Also, the US was the most powerful nation in the world …
My word! I happened across Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, by pure chance, but what a wonderful piece of 1950s sci-fi it is, and not simply for the nostalgic value. The tropes, the sheer concentraton of tropes. Before I go into detail of the tropes, I guess I should give a …
http://media.blubrry.com/non_euclidean_aethercast/p/s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/aethercast/aethercast/NonEuclidean38_Bonsart_Interview.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 54:04 — 49.5MB) | Embed Today I have the great pleasure of having Bonsart Bokel, host of the Radio Retrofuture Youtube channel (please subscribe!) as my guest on the Non-Euclidean Æthercast. We cover a lot of ground during the course of the …