The Beautiful Retro Futurism Of Robert McCall

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[@jbbuzzable]

I love his vision.

[@landiahillfarm6590]

I, too, was a kid growing up with all these visions of the future, fascinated with all our cities and homes being in the clouds [ie. Jetsons]. It is only now that I realize what a nightmare this would be, being a person who suffers from fear of heights. I'm afraid I would have been stuck standing on the ground looking up to see the world go by! LOL

[@JackbenImbel2274]

Your humor is great man, “Then people would certainly be very peaceful at those concerts…”. Had me dying. Keep it up.

[@NebulaStudios1]

This is the future we were promised and worked for in personal lives and careers. It was stolen from us. The only way forward is back to the future.

[@HauntedTheatreNY]

A great look at his art depicting mankind in the future years going to the Moon, Mars and beyond can be found in “Our World In Space” with text by Isaac Asimov. I believe it was published in 1974 and is a great look at us revisiting the Moon in the eighties, and Mars in the 90s and more. One of the pix in this video is actually from that book depicting an underground Moon city. Look for the big lights in a ceiling.

[@bbartky]

Yea, I had that book when I was in high school. It’s really neat. I may still have it boxed up somewhere.

[@morenofranco9235]

A master of Practical Futurism. Thanks, Space Chasm, for the exhibition.

[@joebuck714]

Wish I could live in such a worldm

[@valentinsn-ostalgiemodellbahn]

As mentioned, the positive attitude to the future and the possibilities of mankind, living together as one in peace, harmony and progress, is the essence of those pictures - something we lost somehow on the way.

[@vylbird8014]

They envisioned technology advancing, but society remaining fundamentally unchanged. Because then-contemporary America was just the obvious pinnacle - if you suggest it is less than perfect then you are proposing change, and that is drifting too far into politics. The imagined futures might have flying cars, but they would still be carrying commuters to the office to work a regular job. Still the same market-based capitalist economy. Usually still with the husband working and the wife at home.

[@valentinsn-ostalgiemodellbahn]

​@@vylbird8014 That's right - just transferring the status quo into an accelerated form of capitalism, like sprinkles on a poisoned cake, only shatters the utopia. Perhaps it is only the historical optimist in me that sees the positive answer to Luxemberg's dictum "socialism or barbarism" in many of the visions depicted.

[@ChameleonAI]

I like all his round and spherical motifs. Makes things look a bit alien.

[@flapjackfae]

Thank you for starting this channel. I'm still waiting for that wheel-shaped space station (instead of the things we got, which just look like complicated floating garbage disposals), and those plump, finned rockets that flew to other solar systems in mere weeks. Your videos are a wistful pleasure.

[@ZurvanCarlson]

5:23 That stage and the Dj played that big music keyboard and the big buliding concert that is EDM, Electropop that ordiery happen today since 2007 to 2010 and now 2024 Hot Takes : Robert Mccall illustrations predicted EDM Music today Thanks to Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, Tiesto, David Guetta

[@JB-1138]

I've always been interested in science fiction. As a kid I was given a books titled "The Art of Star Wars." From the original trilogy. The artwork by Ralph McQuarrie. It completely blew me away. Most of the time his art is better than what showed up on film. His locations, character designs, ship designs, etc. were all so amazing. I found myself being slightly disappointed in certain aspects of films. Because they didn't live up to the concept art. So thanks for putting this channel together. It's really awesome to see the future that could have been...

[@vulpo]

We have flat panel TVs and smart phones, high-speed rail and electric cars, AI and robots, but we will not truly have arrived in the future until we get this anti-gravity thing figured out.

[@AmigaA-or2hj]

This reminds me of the Terran Trade Authority. TTA

[@HauntedTheatreNY]

I loved those books. How to take a bunch of random space art and make a “history” book of space ships of the future. Fun stuff.

[@user-xf2oz6gr2o]

Maybe the weapons at the concert hall were stun only, in case of a riot.

[@DavidSmith-xs3or]

I always loved the futurist art movement, especially of the 19t0s and 60s with people like McCall, Berkey and Chesley Bonestelle. The latter did the planetary and matte paintings for the 1950s film- " The War of the Worlds".

[@heidihobear]

I love that he did the art work for Epcot. So he painted paintings for spaceship earth. Horizons concept work also did murals for the air and space museum in D c

[@ahoog69]

The image of Mr. McCall painting the mural at 9:08 depicts his work for what would become part of the Horizons pavilion at E.P.C.O.T. in Florida. The mural is titled "The Prologue and The Promise". He and his wife completed the project in California in 1983, and it was carefully transported to Florida. When the Horizons pavilion was dismantled to make way for the Mars pavilion, the mural made its way back to California, and was--at least for a time--on display at the Disney Imagineering offices in Glendale, CA. I do not know where it is at the moment, but it was--and remains--a spectacular work which should be put on public display.

[@jaymzbeesez]

the painting at 7:46 is just outside Page, Arizona - I was there recently!

[@michaelstaengl1349]

7:10 - In my head canon they have a "History of Space Flight" time-cycle, month or how it may be called and this rocket is part of a planet-wide historical reenactment event with which they remember how everything started. and this liquid fuel propelled rocket was built by a 7th grader school class.

[@arkhamasylumsjanitor4039]

his positive view will be great match with any Superman media

9:11 and 9:25 amazing technique and compositions. Wow impressive artist really

[@rickace132]

I like the 90s style Star Trek architecture.

[@GFalconDX]

Just discovered your channel. I really love the videos that you’re doing. Keep it up!

[@jayyates1676]

5:17 Confetti cannons?

[@nealsterling8151]

2:00 this is so true. I really miss a positive outlook to the future for humanity, similar like Star Trek was once (not this depressing nihilistic nonsense they make nowadays).

[@danityvanityinsanity]

Domino’s pizza just started using jetpacks to deliver pizza!😮😃👍✨💖✨

[@timothyexner]

Great video but I personally wouldn't be assuming everything will be "anti-gravity."

[@pencilpauli9442]

Robert sure liked flags

[@Jeremiah-x7q]

Star trek soon

[@twitchew]

Star Trek's Starbase 'Yorktown' was really a hit with me. that ultra retro optimism on screen just looked fantastic and took all that cool tech that Trek has and extrapolated.

[@originaluddite]

Hold on... are you by any chance also a KZbinr focused on the works of architect John Lautner? I see some overlap in topic...

[@jpofgwynedd3878]

...so is it just me or is Retro Futurism still more Futuristic than Modern Futurism? Sort of like, "meh, they were naive back then, we know our limitations now." I mean, somehow, we knew that we weren't looking even only a century ahead, but far further...

[@jeffbrinkerhoff5121]

Hi JP, we likely will futurize through art deco to arrive at atomic steam quantum punk.

[@vylbird8014]

@@jeffbrinkerhoff5121 At some point the channel will have to cover cyberpunk. The type of futurism which acknowledges that technological advancement alone does not bring about any utopia because the social problems remain. Where you might well have a flying car, but you're still stuck paying off the loan while you work as a faceless drone in an office working yourself to exhaustion for the benefit of shareholders who only know you as a line in a spreadsheet. The gritty future where the homeless shelter beneath signs advertising bionic limbs.

[@jeffbrinkerhoff5121]

@@vylbird8014 wow! That was humor. Sorry for whatever happened to you.

[@brodriguez11000]

Bioshock Infinite ahead of their time.