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It’s funny, we always thought Chris Tucker’s character Ruby Rhod (pictured) from The Fifth Element had pretty much the coolest haircut ever–a haircut that, incidentally, makes for a very challenging Halloween costume. We’re frankly shocked that Mr. Rhod ended up in Vulture’s listicle of The 12 Worst Haircuts of the Future, but we’re surprised by [...]

There are so many terrific pop cultural robots to keep track of (funny ones, scary ones, utilitarian ones, oddly sexy ones, oddly human-seeming ones) that we’d really like some sort of encyclopedic chronicle of fictional robot types. Someone has designed the next best thing though, this design (available as a print or T-shirt) of 51 [...]

Do you think that maybe, now that collective dreams are possible again, we’ll start seeing the return of slick, stylized, retro-futurist projects, ambitions and advertisements? After all, in the age of everything being possible (in a CG movie if not in real life), and with the dreamy and slick iPhone aesthetic that gets stamped on [...]

Really, we’ll stop posting graphic design projects by Dan Meth as soon as he stops coming up with brilliant ideas like his “Emomelon Days” music video or his 21 Movie Trilogies, but for now we bring you another graphisticle from the mind of Meth. The latest attempts to chart the confusing journeys through time of [...]

So the new Star Trek movie that opens today is completely predicated on one very popular theory of time travel, which holds that by going back into the past we inevitably change the present that we’ve left behind. This means that time travelers can abandon any dreams of clean, no strings attached time travel, because [...]

Every time there’s a major auto show in town or cool new future epic at the multiplex, we get a little carried away fantasizing about transportation for the future. Like those cool Lexus pods from Minority Report. Turns out that snappy concept cars and the like have existed since at least 1938, when the Buick [...]

Some sobering news from the funny (if occasionally sexist-classist-racist) gentlemen over at NextRound: even though a self-parodying celebrity like David Hasselhoff might be able to pull off a strange or unlikely look with ample sex appeal, it doesn’t mean you, me, or any normal person can. Hence: 15 Looks David Hasselhoff Can Pull Off But [...]