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More of my space art can be seen in my "Paleo & Sci Illo" gallery:lexlothor.deviantart.com/galle…
Where the hell did my future go? When I was a kid watching "The Jetsons" in 1962, I was promised a 21st Century in which we all lived in lofty towers, flew jetpacks and commuted in air cars. Instead, I got psychopaths flying into towers, nylon backpacks and traffic jams worse than they were 50 years ago!
I live in the Seattle metropolitan area. It was the Space Needle built during the 1962 World's Fair that was the inspiration for the home in which George Jetson lived. They never built a city of such towers. Too bad.
This is my nostalgic look at what the year 2000 SHOULD have looked like.
"The Jetsons" (c) Hanna-Barbera
art (c) me
2.5" x 3.5" art card rendered in Prismacolors, markers & acrylics.
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Maybe it could happen two thousand years from now? at least for my story.
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This picture was inspired by the 1962 cartoon TV series "The Jetsons" In that year the World's Fair in Seattle featured the Space Needle. The Jetsons lived in "Astro City" where all the buildings looked like the Space Needle. The animators thought that this could be a reality by the year 2000. Such structures are architecturally possible today. The flying cars that use some unknown energy source to levitate may yet be centuries away in the future.
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I SO agree with you. Growing up the future was Orbit City, Tomorrowland and Epcot Center. A world that is clean, bright and positive. We are far from achieving that future. Disney Knows it and so they changed the old Tomorrowland from prestine white and blue to a copper and chrome nightmare. Artists use to draw beautiful renditions of tomorrow. Now they paint apocalyptic and undead zombie futures. Every once in a while I walk to the Space Needle and admire it and hope things change.
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I agree with the last things you said!
I am sick and tired of seeing most recent sci-fi everything is either dystopian or cyberpunk.
I WANT PEOPLE TO DREAM UP GOOD FUTURES.
However, the Jetsons does have one tiny flaw that is easy to overlook, which is that they didn't show how the new tech would really change society. But I still like it a lot.
I'm pretty sure humanity will manage, just ignore all the cyberpunk and dystopian crowding your field of vision and you'll see a good future for humans.
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Oh yeah. I always try to look for the bright future. Just sometimes hard when my vision is blocked by all the chrome and doom. I had thought of holding a contest a few times for people to depict in art a positive bright future but never got to it.
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Just don't turn around and look at the horrible EMP Museum architecture.
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You mean the multi colored metal potato? LOL.
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Very nice color scheme. I wonder if Orbit City inspired Cloud City in any way.
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Ralph McQuarrie did the graphic design for "The Empire Strikes Back". I am sure that any resemblance between the Cloud City and the Jetsons was generic according to the art style of the time.
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