Jacques Olivar is a Casablanca-born photographer whose work shows a fine retro influence with several pictures clearly inspired by mid-century fashion styles. Be sure to visit his website for more. Thanks to Gearing Up for the link!

While perhaps not as widely referenced as Casablanca, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) is a classic in its own right. Certainly, this is a different era of filmmaking altogether. A lot of time has passed; new techniques, technologies, and styles have developed, flourished, and sometimes faded; this is a new generation of directors....

As a modest continuation to what our host brilliantly stated in his latest note about dieselpunk architecture and the exaggerations inherent to the steampunk concept, I must admit that, in regard to architecture, I find the combination of the industrial environment with grand and pompous architectural elements especially interesting and apt to generate thrilling visions of ...

In steampunk as well as dieselpunk, we tend to exaggerate history. Where by the turn-of-the-century, airships gradually began to enter service, in steampunk, by this time, the skies are congested with dirigibles. And where Nazi scientists performed the most dreadful human experiments, in dieselpunk, their work produces frightening creatures, half-man, half-machine, striking terror into the hearts ...