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BBtv: Syd Mead with Joel Johnson pt. 3: BLADE RUNNER (Yesssss.)

2008-07-23 15:39:47 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...Syd Mead , who designed the film's dystopian look and feel. We learn about the "erotic machine" he dreamed for the replicant Zhora (this breast-shaped dreampod was cut from the script when director Ridley Scott ran out of dough), the 1 2 3 *4* alternate opening scenes designed by Syd (one of them, which involved shoveling dead bodies, was...
 
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In the Year 2000: Nothing Makes Me Happier Than Syd Mead

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2008-02-26 13:23:42 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Syd Mead illustrations, commissioned by U.S. Steel in the early '60s as promotional materials, and added them to the Paleo-Future / Boing Boing Gadgets "In the Year 2000" Flickr pool. I would kill to get my hands on a set of these This ambulance is taking me to the hospital where I will be impregnated with Syd Mead's babies Christ almighty!...
 
Tags: syd mead, probabilities flickr, flickr pool, promotional materials, michael stoll, paleo-future, christ almighty, 60s, hands
 
 
 
 
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Syd Mead's "Sulaco" ship from Aliens just a big gun

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2008-05-16 14:31:43 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Syd Mead lecture in SF was an incredibly profound lesson on design. During the Q&A I asked him how far he went on a design to make it technically believable. His advice was to design with the story in mind and stay consistent with it. Hence I learned that the Sulacco [sic] from Aliens is essentially a massive gun in space with a big nuclear...
 
Tags: design, design cues, conceptual design fallout, aliens, fallout, deadly hostile aliens, concept art, story, diverges story-wise
 
 
 
 
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Doha, Qatar: A Future City as Envisioned by Syd Mead [Future City]

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2008-06-24 16:30:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
...Syd Mead from his design work on geek friendly movies like Blade Runner, Tron and Aliensbut in his most recent work he envisions a future city by the name of Doha, Qatar. Naturally, his work speaks for itself, but I must admit that it stands in stark contrast to the bleak world of Blade Runner. Maybe he has become more optimistic as the years...
 
Tags: syd mead, syd, future city, blade runner, geek friendly movies, bleak world, qatar, stark contrast, doha
 
 
 
 
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Syd Mead Interiew: Designer of Tron and Blade Runner Vehicles Talks To Boing Boing Gadgets [Interviews]

2008-07-09 10:20:35 by Brian Lam in Gizmodo
 
Here Joel interviews Syd Mead , designer on vehicles in movies such as Tron , Blade Runner and Aliens . Syd's secret to designing tomorrow: Overlay the future on top of the familiar. Worth a watch. [ BBG
 
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Syd Mead dreams the future of Doha, Qatar

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2008-06-24 17:12:07 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Syd Mead, has released his latest vision of a future city: Doha, Qatar. Limpet dirigibles whale through the sky while oil barons cavort in martini glass sky parks As I am the luckiest person in the world and beneficiary of the machinations of one Ms. Xeni Jardin I will be sitting down with Mr. Mead tomorrow in his home to shoot an interview...
 
Tags: future, qatar, syd mead, limpet dirigibles whale, future city, qatar sydmead, oil barons cavort, pot belly, xeni jardin
 
 
 
 
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BBtv: Joel talks to Syd Mead

2008-07-09 10:33:35 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
Syd Mead is an ornery but welcoming man, who let me take up his time asking dumb questions about design, cars, gadgets that look like they're moving, and what got him into designing cars in the first place. And that was before we started talking about all the movie design work he'd done Thanks so much again to the Boing Boing TV crew, especially...
 
Tags: syd mead, movie design, design, tv crew, cars, dumb questions, time, xeni, riffle
 
 
 
 
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Lego Blade Runner Spinner Video Makes Us Drool to Dehydration [Lego]

2008-07-24 07:43:35 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
 
...Syd Mead's studio. We cut an episode about it, check it out!" Actually, what Xeni meant to write was: "Witness Joel Johnson getting a stiffy touching Syd's Lego Spinner." I can't blame him. In his own words A one-of-a-kind official LEGO version of Mead's "Spinner" flying car from Blade Runner, presented to Syd by LEGO when he attended a...
 
Tags: lego, lego spinner car, car, lego secret vault, spinner, lego spinner, witness joel johnson, joel johnson, blade runner
 
 
 
 
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Exclusive: One-of-a-kind official Blade Runner "Spinner" car from LEGO

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2008-06-26 00:46:37 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Syd Mead, who graciously let us sit around for a couple of hours and talk about, gosh, everything . It was without a doubt one of the most fantastic days of my life, bouncing ideas and picking the brain about car design, utopianism, and Hollywood. We shot enough video we could cut multiple BBtv episodes (and maybe we will!) but I thought I'd...
 
Tags: futurist syd mead, mead, car, syd, blade runner, car design, bbtv, team bbtv, spinner