Mechanix Illustrated, 1957.

This is the most time intensive text art I've ever made.

Tools I used to make this: Monodraw, Procreate, Glitché, and Destroypix. Font is FM Towns. Initially it starts off with finding the right image, which for this one I used an image from the inside of this computer I found on the site Oldcrap. Then imported to Monodraw as a reference layer and manually go over the edge of every object in the image - painstaking. I could use an edge detection algorithm, but they just don't work for highlighting fine details and omitting certain details you don't want in, so the way I do it is all manual. Then after I'm done with the ascii base layer, I'll copy the text into procreate and add in background colors, superimpose bigger text characters such as the ◙ symbol for the fan, and to add wiring which is very difficult to pull off with text without sacrificing aesthetics. Then once that's done, I'll glitch it out with Glitche and Destroypix, which allow me to replicate portions of the image to look like a window lagging effect.

I’ve added additional buildings and began expanding the eastern part of the dystopian skyline. Would love to hear what you think. Thank you so much for all the compliments on my last post.🙏🏼

This is an actual concept. From the description: As sea levels rise, imperiling coastal communities, one form of mitigation will be offshore floating cities. What kinds of innovative, resilient, multi-modal planning will engineers need to do to take on the rising water? The Floating City leverages innovations in ocean engineering to create an urban system that operates in symbiosis with its surrounding ecology both above and below the surface.

In full disclosure, I despise the META company who owns this concept, and I doubly despise that they’re cashing in on an avoidable disaster. The floating city, however, tickles my imagination.

Weapons were a lot cooler in the retrofuture.

"Airliner Number 4 was a design by Norman Bel Geddes and Otto A. Koller for a 9-deck amphibious passenger aircraft intended to replace the large transatlantic liners that traveled between Europe and North America before the Second World War. It was never built." – Wikipedia

MyClassicCarTV video of the XM TPC today – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mezw8rK9pb8