• Dystopika – Cyberpunk city-building game

    Dystopika is a new city-building game like SimCity and Cities Skylines except here you’re building a futuristic cyberpunk city. It has tons of neon, moody weather, flying cars, everything you’d expect. Apparently this game just focuses on the fun of city building cause there is no management, goals, budgets, etc. unlike in SimCity.

  • World of Motion recreation

    I found this awesome digital recreation of the World of Motion dark ride at Epcot Center. It was an opening day attraction in 1982 and it closed down in 1996, before HD cameras were common, so we don’t have any high resolution videos of the ride. So it’s awesome to see this digital recreation synced to the original ride audio. I hope they do the other old rides like Horizons too.

  • World’s Best Dad Leads Nashville Police On high-Speed Chase With 4 Kids In His Dodge Charger

    A high-speed chase earlier this month involving Metro Nashville Police led to the arrest of 33-year-old Claude Maney, who allegedly had his four children — ages 2, 6, 8, and 10 — unsecured in the back seat of his black Dodge Charger.

    I wish my dad did things with me when I was a kid.

  • The Art of Herb Ryman

    I recently discovered the fantastic artwork of Herb Ryman, a Disney artist who made amazing paintings of Disney parks (both conceptual and realized). His concept art for the unbuilt Liberty Street looks so quaint and inviting, as does New Orleans Square, while Epcot Center just looks awesome. And I adore this transit center piece, the future looked so bright and optimistic. More artwork on his Flickr page.

    Herb Ryman Epcot Transportation Center

  • The Usborne Book of the Future

    I picked up a copy of The Usborne Book of the Future. It’s a classic from 1979, recently reissued in hardcover. This book is actually a collection of 3 books: Robots, Future Cities, and Star Travel. I had the Star Travel book as a kid and I loved it, I spent hours looking at the illustrations of space ships and futuristic vehicles. And I borrowed Future Cities from the library a bunch of times and also spent a lot of time looking at the pictures and imagining what the future would be like. Never saw the Robots book though, but now all three books are available again, and, as the cover blurb proudly says, “unabridged, unedited, and un-updated!” I miss these kinds of books that had an optimistic view of the future.

  • Holy shit I haven’t blogged in almost 14 years. Better get back on it.