Posts Tagged ‘Bruce McCall’

It is very fit­ting that I saw an arti­cle on Boing Boing about a new issue of Steam­punk Mag­a­zine being released after my last post on the work of Bruce McCall. Noth­ing says Faux-Nostalgia like Steam Punk; that is the achingly sen­ti­men­tal yearn­ing for a future that never hap­pened. In case you don’t know Steampunk […]

Bruce McCall says in this hilar­i­ous and very inter­est­ing TED pre­sen­ta­tion that Nos­tal­gia is the most utterly use­less human emo­tion. I don’t totally agree but I see the point. Nos­tal­gia if taken to extreme becomes a mild case of depres­sion and self-deception. The past is never as great or as bad as it seems and […]