1977 poster for Queen's "News of the World.” Art by Kelly Freas.
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Spider-Man vs. Captain America in 1973’s “3 Dev Adam” from Turkey. That’s Tevfik Şen and Aytekin Akkaya as the unauthorized Spidey and Cap.
1971 Marvel greeting cards by Third Eye. Groovy.
A Soviet sailor learns to play Kageki in a San Diego arcade, July 1990. The USSR's Pacific Fleet dropped anchor for a 5-day goodwill visit.
“Gaming and urban redesign are not the same thing, but they’re related; they incentivize one another.” www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/pokemon-go...
How Pokémon Go exposed America's bad level design
On the game's 10th anniversary, I explain why the play experience sucks in suburbs and rural areas
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The Trojan Horse on the set of 1997’s “The Odyssey” in Malta.
“The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” poster for an Italian re-release, 1976.
French poster for Mario Bava's "Hercule contre les vampires," aka "Hercules in the Haunted World," 1962.
“Zoinks, I’ve got zits!” Velma teaches Shaggy about skincare in the 1980 educational filmstrip “The Scooby-Doo Gang in ’Skin Deep’ Part 1: What is Acne?”]. See more wacky filmstrips and read about the archivist trying to save this forgotten medium: www.popculturalprecursors.com/p/can-this-f...
“Clash of the Titans” poster with artwork by the Brothers Hildebrandt.
Classics Illustrated edition of Homer's Iliad, 1951. Cover art by Alex Blum.
"Bards are honoured and respected throughout the world, for the muse teaches them their songs and loves them." —The Odyssey, Book VIII
Historian Michael Wood takes us to a coffeehouse in Kars, Turkey, where a traditional bard (aşıks) performs the “Epic of Köroğlu.” As seen in 1979’s “In Search of Troy.”
A bit of levity in Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya’s “Labyrinth: The Deeds of Theseus,” Soviet animation produced by Soyuzmultfilm, 1971.
Odysseus is here to chew bubble gum and kick ass — and he’s all out of bubble gum.
Odysseus comes home: “God guide my arrow straight!!”
Watching the fireworks from home on a Mars Attacks card, 1962.
THE RIGHT STUFF, 1983. Poster art by Tom Jung.
Dropping Tom Cruise into the CGI world of “Minority Report.”
"Imperial City, Alderaan -- city floats in gray clouds." Ralph McQuarrie concept art for the original STAR WARS, a design later used for THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK trailer with giddy narration by Harrison Ford.
STAR WARS disco dancing at Holiday House in Baltimore, September 1977. The dancers are Ed and Dorothy.
Syd Mead's 1975 concept for the Kentucky Derby of the future. Take note of the anti-gravitational comms hub floating over the infield with signage that reads INTRNET. (The term "Internet" was coined in 1974.)
Commodore ad photo from an Italian magazine called Commodore Computer Club, September 1982.
In 1988, a Commodore 64 became a digital sommelier when Malcolm Lowe developed The Wine Steward, a program offering a menu of budget, popular, and premium bottles based on what you’re having for dinner.
Smoke break on the set of "The Empire Strikes Back."
