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Showing posts with label 80s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 80s. Show all posts

Monday, June 22, 2015

The Beauty of Kung Fury


One recent phenomenon on the Internet that earned accolades from me was this short film from Sweden, Kung Fury.




Thursday, May 21, 2015

Growing... Mechanical

This time, it's about something heard rather than seen, a piece of music. But it's as artful and anything visual. In fact, I'd consider this among the most artful music works of all time.

Although many have blogged about this, this thing is so good that it just has to go "viral" again.



Wednesday, June 12, 2013

The Cliffjumpers

A few months ago, when I still had funds for buying toys and models, I was able to get these three versions of an iconic, but lesser known Transformers character, Cliffjumper:



Friday, February 24, 2012

Spiral Zone

Let me go back to one of my old obsessions: 80s cartoons and toys.

One of the most fascinating for me was Spiral Zone. It had one of the most interesting concepts for a sci-fi action show. One of these concepts was the costume I most like: powered combat suits. I especially liked the backpacks which had various weapons like a grenade launcher, grappler, one-wheeled foot motorcycle, and remote controlled missile-launching mini-drone.



Saturday, February 11, 2012

80s Cartoon Collage

In my search for Spiral Zone references online, I came upon this collage of cartoons that were popular during the1980s:



It can be found here.

Guess who they are. I can't identify all of them. hehe