Bel Geddes — While looking for an image of a flying car I came upon this cool site. If you like Buckminster Fuller, you’ll love this guy.
The American theatrical and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes was the first person to seriously apply the concepts of aerodynamics and streamlining to industrial design.
In 1927, Bel Geddes left theatrical design, and began designing cars, ships, factories and railways. He rapidly created streamlined forms for objects ranging from gas-ranges to trains, in addition to a revolving restaurant and, in 1929, a 9-deck amphibian airliner that incorporated areas for deck-games, an orchestra, a fully equipped gymnasium and a solarium — an airborne Titanic!
BACK TO THE FUTURE
Good for a story or two John.
The streamlined computer of the future. Retro-futuristic communication. Streamlined typing with a Mac. The ElectriClerk Ingenious retrofitting of a Macintosh SE with a 1923 Underwood manual typewriter. Really impressive design.
http://www.ahleman.com/Props/ElectriClerk.html
http://www.ahleman.com/Props/ElectriClerkPress1.html
These are great links..thanks!
First it was the ElectriClerk. Now that we have Google rigged (Thanks Google) http://video.google.com/ with the television we are introducing ElectriDetective. Game show, detective show, Internet game show and reality TV all in one. How how does Google Video decide which shows are most relevant to the search query? The typewriter detective ElectriDetective looks at CBS, big media, the game show and the breaking news stories of 2005.
ElectriDetective searches for the truth with new old technology
The documents are real, but now he was in no position to verify them. The political campaigns can work with powerful news organizations to denigrate stories, tell new stories and shape the facts. Hell, why not change a few facts for kicks? You’re fired! Breaking news just happens. Anybody with a computer and a blog can be as influential as CBS and maybe have more credibility. The documents don’t really matter at this point, real or invented they can’t be verified. ElectriDetective and his multibillion-dollar Empire, encompassing the entire 26th floor of a fake ElectriDetective Tower has a fake boardroom in NYC. Get ready for the game show. The biggest money game show on Earth, the greatest show on Earth. Got a Blog, you’re hired! It’s not Survivor anymore. It’s like watching the detectives and being the detectives. It’s Lou Grant working with Columbo. Almost like Columbo, oh, there’s One more thing I forgot to tell you. At the end of the day, your balance goes to Zero. Be careful Uncle Lou doesn’t do to you what Uncle Sam is doing to us. People and members of Congress, you know, people know what the rules are. Enron, Corporate America, the whole mess, the day of reckoning is about to come. It all kicks off tomorrow in lower Manhattan, West Virginia or Houston. Why in the world should we believe that’s true? Maybe we’re dealing with a revolution here. ElectriDetective thinks it is a primer for a prime-time reality show with Martha. Why are they cooking up dandelions? Each correct prediction’s worth 100 bucks to somebody. She is looking good, cooking and making deals. You have three days left to claim a piece of the $1 billion Microsoft antitrust settlement.
Retro-futuristic communication is here.
The realm of possibility is sponsored by ElectriDetective.
Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot adjust to. It is believed that this is the basis of our current energy policy. The new streamlined energy plan advanced by the lobbyist ruled government means everybody will be out shootin for some food and maybe up from the ground will pop some bubblin crude. Energy has led the rally. Gasoline, home heating oil and crude oil prices all soared 50% to 60% this year. When oil prices fall, their stocks tend to suffer, otherwise airline stocks suffer. Who needs airlines, when you got an old truck with a rocking chair?
Glad you liked those links John. I thought that was neat stuff.