If I understand correctly, the original Batmobile was in fact based on a 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car. Kind of wild, as the first Batman TV series launched 11yrs later!

Sorry for the lack of info / pics, but Spectrum basically crippled my internet on Monday, and I’m still trying to figure what the hell’s going on.

In any case, here’s more pics of this memorable automobile:
https://www.google.com/search?q=1962+Ford+Seattle-ite+XXI&udm=2

  • ApollosArrow
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    7 days ago

    Would other people here classify this as Cassette Futurism? I feel like it’s too early.

    That aside, I always found this to be a beautiful car and have used it for references when working on retrofuturistic projects.

      • ApollosArrow
        2·
        6 days ago

        Generally either an alternate timeline where technology was more advanced in the 70s and 80s, or technology plucked from the 80s placed in a different era. It has a more specific look, but that’s a longer conversation to get into. The car you posted I used in a piece that was pulling from Raygun Gothic/Atom Punk. (More like Fallout)

        • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Interesting, thanks. I certainly do agree that the ‘CF’ aesthetic best stems from actual cassettes and their relative era, as then riffed upon.

          I also agree that this particular post of mine isn’t absolutely ideal upon the CF aesthetic, but there’s so little content being posted here that I’d rather not worry about perfectionism in a semi-dead sublemmy. If that makes sense.

          If you want a better example of my ideal CF posting-effort and deeper dive in to that particular subject, see my inaugural post here:

          https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]/p/2030866/quickie-review-casio-s-eg-5-electric-guitar-1985-with-built-in-tape-player-recorder-spe

          • ApollosArrow
            3·
            6 days ago

            I have often wondered if there should have just been a general Retrofuturism community that would have housed multiple “punk” aesthetics. We’d have more frequent posts and interesting new finds.

            Also that is quite an amazing guitar.

            • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPEnglish
              2·
              6 days ago

              We’d have more frequent posts and interesting new finds.

              Not to veer too cynical, but much of the Fediverse is a wasteland of communities started with great intentions, but insufficient follow-through. Unless it’s a highly-popular place that has the critical mass to ignite itself, most communities wind up needing to be supplied by their founder with quality material through the years. Only a few us seem to be that level of crazy. XD

              • ApollosArrow
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                5 days ago

                That’s why I think cassette futurism is a bit too niche. If you had Steampunk, atompunk, diselpunk and cassette futurism lumped into one place, there would likely be more content running through it since it would have a larger bucket of content to pull from.