speaking of travel...
There is a great post on Blue Tea about retrofuturism (love the neologism) and travel posters for travels in time and space. She's managed to find a large collection of such posters. Here are my favorites:
Venus by Air by Steve Thomas
Pangaea by Amy Martin (profits to LA non-profit children's creative writing tutorial outfit 826LA)*
Travel to Jupiter by Steve Thomas
Ice Age by Amy Martin
And for the faunalia and reynardin types (F. called herself a Wheddon slut), check out the Blue Sun Travel Posters like this
by Adam Levermore-Rich
(Others are more for the BSG types).
*This is a beautiful poster. Life was bigger on Pangaea. The supercontinent existed during the Paleozoic (250 million years ago or 'Ma') through the Mesozoic (up to 65 Ma). It started to split (ultimately into the continents we know today) in the Early-Middle Jurassic (199 million years ago to 161 million years ago). The earliest found fossilized flowering plants, on the other hand, date from about 125 million years ago. Prior to that, plants used spores. Technically, there are two later stages of the splitting of Pangaea: the Early Cretaceous (150-140 Ma) and the Early Cenozoic (65-55 Ma). So flowering plants do overlap somewhat with the existence of Pangaea, but not in its original form. As a geophysicist, I felt compelled to add this caveat. The supercontinent cycle (or Wilson cycle), after all, was proposed by the man in the painting over my left shoulder, J. Tuzo Wilson.
There's a fancy restaurant in Yorkdale called Pangaea. My physics of the earth prof always thought it was wrong that it was too expensive for him to eat there.
Venus by Air by Steve Thomas
Pangaea by Amy Martin (profits to LA non-profit children's creative writing tutorial outfit 826LA)*
Travel to Jupiter by Steve Thomas
Ice Age by Amy Martin
And for the faunalia and reynardin types (F. called herself a Wheddon slut), check out the Blue Sun Travel Posters like this
by Adam Levermore-Rich
(Others are more for the BSG types).
*This is a beautiful poster. Life was bigger on Pangaea. The supercontinent existed during the Paleozoic (250 million years ago or 'Ma') through the Mesozoic (up to 65 Ma). It started to split (ultimately into the continents we know today) in the Early-Middle Jurassic (199 million years ago to 161 million years ago). The earliest found fossilized flowering plants, on the other hand, date from about 125 million years ago. Prior to that, plants used spores. Technically, there are two later stages of the splitting of Pangaea: the Early Cretaceous (150-140 Ma) and the Early Cenozoic (65-55 Ma). So flowering plants do overlap somewhat with the existence of Pangaea, but not in its original form. As a geophysicist, I felt compelled to add this caveat. The supercontinent cycle (or Wilson cycle), after all, was proposed by the man in the painting over my left shoulder, J. Tuzo Wilson.
There's a fancy restaurant in Yorkdale called Pangaea. My physics of the earth prof always thought it was wrong that it was too expensive for him to eat there.