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Esso gas station 1950s - roadmap

Batmobiles

Photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson

 Photo courtesy ofWarner Bros

BATMOBILE INFORMATION

• Batman Television Series and Batman, the Movie (1966)
Designer and builder George Barris and Barris Kustom Ind.

• Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992)
Batman (1989) Production Designer Anton Furst, with art director Terry Ackland-Snow and special effects supervisor John Evans for the build. Batman Returns (1992) Production designer Bo Welch – modifications made.

• Batman Forever (1995)
Production designer Barbara Ling, with automotive illustrator Tim Flattery and builders TransFX.

• Batman & Robin (1997)
Production designer Barbara Ling, with designer/illustrator Harald Belker and builders TransFX.

• Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012) (Black Tumbler, Camouflage Tumbler, Batpod) Director Christopher Nolan and production designer Nathan Crowley with special effects supervisor Chris Corbould and his team of special effects technicians for the build.

Warm Leatherette

Warning - Video contains disturbing images

Warm Leatherette by Trent Reznor, Jeordie White, Peter Murphy

Pre-Show Radio show with Trent Reznor, Jeordie White, Peter Murphy and Atticus Ross.
Originally Posted on NIN.com

Original song by The Normal

Original Video: youtube.com

J.G. Ballard - CRASH (1973)

J. G. Ballard - Crash - Wikipedia

The book explores themes such as the transformation of human psychology by modern technology, and consumer culture's fascination with celebrities and technological commodities. The human characters in the novel are cold and passionless, unable to become sexually excited unless some kind of technology is involved (typically architecture and cars). The gruesome damage inflicted on car-crash victims is not seen as shocking, but as the liberation of new sexual possibilities that have yet to be explored, such as in one scene where a man and a woman have sex in a car that was involved in an accident, but rather than have vaginal sex, he penetrates a wound on her thigh that she received in the crash. Finally, the book asks why we, as an enlightened society, accept such a “perverse technology” – that kills a vast number of people yearly – as such an integral part of our culture.
Ballard writes in the foreword: “Do we see, in the car-crash, the portents of a nightmare marriage between technology, and our own sexuality? … Is there some deviant logic unfolding here, more powerful than that provided by reason?”

J. G. Ballard - Wikipedia


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