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drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
Went to Paris for some immersive Ravel. on.ft.com/3XEmgTa Yuja Wang’s VR concert is a retrofuturist spectacle — Ravel would have approved
Yuja Wang’s VR concert is a retrofuturist spectacle — Ravel would have approved
‘Playing with Fire’ at Paris’s Musée de la musique places the pianist inside a volcano, beneath the sea and on an ice floe
on.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
a5roseb.bsky.social
#Astro-Paranoia ’57: A 7-Day Retro-Cosmic Challenge
Style: Atomic-Age Pulp Sci-Fi

#GenAI #SynthArt #AIart #aiartist #aiartcommunity #GenerativeArt #AIchallenge #BuilderofNightmares #qp #promptshare
#Astro-Paranoia ’57: A 7-Day Retro-Cosmic Challenge Style: Atomic-Age Pulp Sci-Fi Influence: The Day the Earth Stood Still × Forbidden Planet × EC Comics Weird Science × Cold War cosmic dread × retrofuturist paperback covers. Nov 18: The Transmission from Sector 9 A garbled distress call reaches Earth — containing a human voice no one sent. Nov 19: The Astronaut Who Returned… Mostly A spacefarer emerges from his capsule smiling, though half his shadow lags behind. Nov 20: The Ray That Learned to Think A lab experiment in atomic light gains awareness, bending itself toward the nearest heartbeat. Nov 21: The City That Blinked For one full second, every building disappears — replaced by a mirror of a future that fears us. Nov 22: Visitors in the Vacuum Diner Late-night travelers stop by a chrome-and-neon diner floating above the desert — none of them order food. Nov 23: The Star That Followed Me Home A tiny burning point of light drifts behind a child, humming in a familiar voice. Nov 24: Planet X Has Already Landed The astronomers announce discovery — but its influence has been here for decades. Keywords: retro sci-fi, atomic age, chromed future, cosmic dread, pulp covers, Cold War paranoia, alien intervention, space anomaly, uncanny astronauts, cosmic mystery, ray-gun surrealism, retrofuturism.
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
phoenixsimms.bsky.social
Whenever I think about IF in the 2010s, I always notice that game designers were interested in retrofuturist takes on computer desktops. The first one I encountered, Digital: A Love Story, was even designed by someone who didn't grow up with the interfaces central to the game, namely the BBS.
November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
sharonk.bsky.social
it's kinda fascinating to me how there's basically two images of cyberpunk nowadays: where you have the pseudo-80s retrofuturist vibes (e.g. Cyberpunk 2077) and modern vibes (Incorporated)
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
sliderulesyou.bsky.social
Budget bathroom makeover complete! "Madam, you appear to have an atomic age, retrofuturist cityscape on the side of your bath!"
Bathroom with white sink and toilet, red toilet lid, red rug, black tiles, red frame with space tourism prints, red spoke clock, big mirror with black frame, and bath panel with red and black space cityscape Bath panel with retrofuturist, atomic age cityscape, slightly 3d, handmade, red buildings and weird cartoonish stars and planets on black gloss background Bath panel retrofuturist cityscape in red and black, a cartoonish rocket taking off Closer look at red and black retrofuturist cityscape, a couple of flying saucers, Jetsons style, flying through a black sky.
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
wire.xbox.com
With a tight core loop, thoughtful quality-of-life improvements, and a charming '70s retrofuturist aesthetic, Arc Raiders invites the wider public into extraction shooters: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/1...
Arc Raiders Invites Us Into the Extraction Shooter - Xbox Wire
With a tight core loop, thoughtful quality-of-life improvements, and a charming '70s retrofuturist aesthetic, Arc Raiders may finally invite the wider public into extraction shooters.
news.xbox.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
natclayton.bsky.social
Hard not to feel like Alien: Isolation didn't steal its thunder in the "things go wrong on a spooky retrofuturist space station" space but even *that* is over a decade old now.
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
zo51m05.bsky.social
Hey there, thanks for the space!

I'm getting my retrofuturist vampire hunting RPG Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet ready for our launch on Kickstarter next week!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
Coming soon: Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet
A retrofuturist gothic horror TTRPG of vampire hunting, cosmic secrets, and bloody fates, brought to glorious undeath with risograph
www.kickstarter.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
zo51m05.bsky.social
Hey there, thanks for the space!

I'm getting my retrofuturist vampire hunting RPG Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet ready for our launch on Kickstarter next week!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
Coming soon: Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet
A retrofuturist gothic horror TTRPG of vampire hunting, cosmic secrets, and bloody fates, brought to glorious undeath with risograph
www.kickstarter.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
casceth.bsky.social
tube girl was on the same page of sketches originally
(from last year)
a page of sketches of various original scifi characters and objects, meant to evoke a sort of retrofuturist aesthetic of bulky 90s and late 80s electronics
October 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
zo51m05.bsky.social
We're less than a week out from Ephemeris' launch!! 🚀💥

Gaze upon the eldritch secrets in store for you in this gothic retrofuturist vampire hunting adventure, brought to glorious undeath with the analog power of risograph!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
Coming soon: Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet
A retrofuturist gothic horror TTRPG of vampire hunting, cosmic secrets, and bloody fates, brought to glorious undeath with risograph
www.kickstarter.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
prokopetz.bsky.social
I think modern cartoons should start doing the 1980s anime thing where successful directors would just recycle exactly the same character designs in multiple unrelated projects. I want to watch a retrofuturist cyberpunk thriller where the characters are clearly the cast of Steven Universe.
October 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
mayke-arth.bsky.social
Woah, already another #PortfolioDay!

I'm Mayke, a Brazilian illustrator and designer working on games! I love to make magic retrofuturist things

If you want, you can see more of what I do on my Site/Blog

🎨 maykearth.com.br/en

#PixelArt #ドット絵
a pixel art of a motherboard a pixel art showing a landscape and a person waking side by a bicicle A pixel art showing a goat/sheep like animal
October 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
zo51m05.bsky.social
Hey there!

I'm putting the finishing touches on some new linocuts for my retrofuturist vampire hunting RPG Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
Coming soon: Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet
A retrofuturist gothic horror TTRPG of vampire hunting, cosmic secrets, and bloody fates
www.kickstarter.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
d1ucb4u.bsky.social
For all their desire to drag America and the world BACK to a 1950s that never existed, they sure do hate what the 1950s thought the future would be: Health, Happiness, Abundance, and Leisure for the masses provided by Science.
Retrofuturist cityscape with groups of people in the foreground, swirling, towering buildings of white and gold in the middle-ground, and a bright, blue sky with huge, fluffy clouds in the background.
October 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
3dukko.bsky.social
Completed my retrofuturist recording device and headphones 😎
October 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
zo51m05.bsky.social
Hey there, thanks for the space!

This weekend I'm working on new linocut illustrations for my retrofuturist vampire hunting RPG, Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet! ☄️🦇✨

I'll be launching Ephemeris on Kickstarter in just a few weeks!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/stu...
Cover design for Ephemeris: Omens of the Blood Comet, a linocut illustration depicting a bloody comet arcing above a desolate planet's dead birch grove
September 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
wiswell.bsky.social
Meanwhile I always crack up at retrofuturist stories set "in the far future of 1999." Literally always gets a laugh.
September 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
sliderulesyou.bsky.social
Atomic age retrofuturist bath panel cityscape has reached floor stage.
Bath panel on a kitchen floor. I kind of plastered it to a smooth surface with filler, after peeling off the thing it was originally surfaced with and filling in all the gaps. Painted it blue-black and positioned my red cityscape on it.
September 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
drahsturgis.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy
My latest "Looking Back on Genre History" segment is now available on Episode 741 of the #starshipsofa #Podcast. I discuss the #radiumage imprint of reissued #sciencefiction classics from 1900-1935 published by #mitpress.

#sff #books #bookstodon #RadiumAge […]

[Original post on universeodon.com]
The "Looking Back on Genre History with Amy H. Sturgis" logo from the StarShipSofa podcast with retrofuturist artwork of a rocket ship in space. Pictured are two book titles with retrofuturist cover art from the Radium Age series from MIT Press, specifically The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories by Francis Stevens and The People of the Ruins by Edward Shanks. Pictured are two book titles with retrofuturist cover art from the Radium Age series from MIT Press, specifically The Inhumans and Other Stories edited and translated by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and Man's World by Charlotte Haldane.
September 18, 2024 at 10:31 AM
apocrypals.bsky.social
Not a great picture, but here’s what it looks like
A 3D printed model of the Guess-o-Tron 5000, which looks like a retrofuturist computer with a large monitor and multiple knobs and buttons
March 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
johnvoelcker.bsky.social
I will say Zeltango at its best makes me shiver for a retrofuturist age we never had.
www.instagram.com/zeltango/
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November 4, 2024 at 1:30 AM
onefootinthegrave.bsky.social
we don’t have jet packs or flying cars but getting a perfectly balanced pre workout breakfast from my orange-mango powdered drink and a chocolate bar feels retrofuturist
July 2, 2023 at 1:28 PM
e6n.lol
like a more grown up, not unlike Who Framed Roger Rabbit kind of sultry, sleazy but not obscene sort of slinky Bugs Bunny is the correct Bugs Bunny. The metamodern-retrofuturist Hugh Hefner for us aging millennials
April 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
airshipchronos.bsky.social
Honestly FF probably benefited a LOT from being retrofuturist. Once the whole aesthetic requires that you can trick the eye more easily.
July 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM