{"id":298,"date":"2006-09-10T17:20:04","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/09\/future-imperfect-past-imperfect.html"},"modified":"2006-09-10T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T17:20:04","slug":"future_imperfect_past_imperfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/10\/future_imperfect_past_imperfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Imperfect, Past Imperfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Flickr features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cantikfotos\/sets\/72157594190669543\/\" \/>Desolation Row<\/a>, B&amp;W shots from a &#8220;futuristic&#8221;&#8211;and now abandoned&#8211;housing development in Taiwan.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/abandoned_homes_of_the_future_taiwan_4310.asp\">Via<\/a>]\n<li>Speaking of futures that never were, here&#8217;s the late Braniff Airways&#8217; view of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mdF1yPFRJ9s&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffuture%2Eiftf%2Eorg%2F2006%2F09%2Fthe%5Ffuture%5Fby%5Fb%2Ehtml\">what air travel could be, circa 1975<\/a>.  (If you wore the tinfoil pants, would the TSA <i>then<\/i> let you carry a Coke on board?) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/09\/02\/future_of_air_travel.html\">Via<\/a>]  Oh, and related to retro, never-quite-happened air travel, have you seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/davidszondy.com\/future\/Flight\/rubber_plane.htm\">Goodyear Inflatoplane<\/a>?\n<li>A sort of Flickr of the past, <a href=\"http:\/\/squareamerica.com\/\" \/>Square America<\/a> bills itself as &#8220;A gallery of vintage snapshots &amp; vernacular photography.&#8221;  Odd finds include &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/squareamerica.com\/de1.htm\">Defaced<\/a>,&#8221; a gallery of photos with faces scratched out.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.photonewstoday.com\/?p=1838\">Via<\/a>]\n<li>Among other surprises from the past, I had no idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com\/\" \/>color photography existed in World War I<\/a>.  Kottke links to this and <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/plus\/misc\/bound-for-glory\/\" \/>other collections<\/a>.\n<li>Ah, the days before medical malpractice, when you could wire up a guy&#8217;s face &amp; shock the crap out of it&#8230;  In the 1850&#8217;s neurologist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guillaume_Duchenne\">Guillaume Duchenne<\/a> combined electricity &amp; photography to record the creepy <i><a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/who-is-this-man-and-why-is-he-sticking.html\">The Mechanism of Human Facial Expressions<\/a><\/i>.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flickr features Desolation Row, B&amp;W shots from a &#8220;futuristic&#8221;&#8211;and now abandoned&#8211;housing development in Taiwan. [Via] Speaking of futures that never were, here&#8217;s the late Braniff Airways&#8217; view of what air travel could be, circa 1975. (If you wore the tinfoil pants, would the TSA then let you carry a Coke on board?) [Via] Oh, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}