View of 2011 from 1931 (Abnor­mal Use) ➟

This one is very inter­est­ing. Just try to for­mu­late fit­ting pre­dic­tions for the next decades and you will see what job these peo­ple had to do by giv­ing answers like

The pop­u­la­tion of the United States eighty years hence will be 160,000,000 and either sta­tion­ary or declin­ing, and will have a larger per­cent­age of old peo­ple than there is today. Tech­no­log­i­cal progress, with its expo­nen­tial law of increase, holds the key to the future. Labor dis­place­ment will pro­ceed even to auto­matic fac­to­ries. The magic of remote con­trol will be com­mon­place. [— William F. Ogborn]

[found on Sub­trac­tion]

The Non­sense Soci­ety — Art, Music, Culture… ➟

I like this one

On the morn­ing of Novem­ber 20, 2009 I woke up and rolled over to check my email. Hate mail. Wait a sec, hate mail?! I don’t get hate mail…
Sud­denly I felt extremely dis­cour­aged. I spent the rest of the day con­sid­er­ing destroy­ing the Non­sense Soci­ety, bleach­ing my hair, leav­ing the coun­try, and becom­ing a Mex­i­can pon­cho maker (Is that racist?). It was the worst I had felt in a long long time. A cou­ple hours later I took a look at my Analytics…

And this one:

I find film music espe­cially inspir­ing because (with film) the final result com­bines visual art, word (both writ­ten plot and spo­ken), and music. It’s a clash of cre­ativ­ity (and we all know how much I like that). Film & tele­vi­sion blow me away. I’d like to share some of my favorite com­po­si­tions from sound­tracks with you here.

[found on One­Mighty­Roar]