A terrific piece in today’s New York Times about the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, which was created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Shown here, “A display of robots from various science-fiction movies and television shows, including Lost in Space and Battlestar Galactica.” I have not yet been to this place, but my goodness, I’m dying to. Snip:
In the museum, the influence of those epics is unmistakable, with sound effects and lighting shaping each exhibit’s environment. A “Stardock” window even seems to look out into cinematic space, where ships from “E. T.” and “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” (along with antiques like H. G. Wells’s moon capsule), glide past one another as observers at touch-screens learn about their origins and powers. Other displays mix genres and media with almost gleeful abandon. A vest worn by Michael York in “Logan’s Run” (1976) is not far from … a copy of Mad magazine. Hauntingly delicate drawings by a little-known Brazilian artist, Alvim Corrêa, illustrating a 1906 Belgian edition of H. G. Wells’s “War of the Worlds,” are around the corner from models of extraterrestrials assembled in a mock intergalactic saloon similar to the one in “Star Wars.”
It is as if a molecular manipulator out of “The Fly” had scrambled a century of objects, grafting together disparate media and creatures.
Link (Thanks, Michael Nank!)