Teenage Woodcarver Aims to Reclaim His Legacy By Retrieving Stolen Art

Tania James’s novel Loot is a deeply affecting, deliciously imaginative spin on how 18th century Mysorean Ruler, Tipu Sultan’s infamous automaton—"Tipu’s Tiger"—came into being. James, in her typical out-of-the-box imagination, has given voice and life to the (historically unknown) makers of the life-sized mechanical tiger, fully equipped with sound and movement, mauling a British soldier, currently on display in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.https://bookshop.org/a/269/978059353597417-y...

Black Mirror Has Always Excelled at Dystopian Design—Here Are 5 ... - Yahoo News

Futuristic interior design in television and film has captivated audiences for decades. As early as the 1960s films like Barbarella and 2001: A Space Odyssey told us walls lined in metallic silvers, heavily minimal white spaces, and geometric shapes were going to be key parts of our home design. The future then was rooted in space (technology) and the unknown (possibility), and so space-age design became popular in homes and in film. It was meant to give viewers a visual representation of fut...

Wallace Wood - Lambiek Comiclopedia

Also "Wally Wood" c.f. Hollywood and Wally World in the film 'Vacation' with Chevy Chase. -zas Lambiek Comiclopedia Weird Science #14. Wallace Wood was a versatile American comic artist, who excelled both in high-tech science fiction artwork and in humorous satire. He is also referred to as "Wally Wood" (although the utterly disliked the nickname "Wally"), while he signed some of his work with "Woody". His work for EC "New Trend" comic books such as 'Weird Science' and 'Weird Fantasy' ear...