The city of my birth holds a big place in my heart. Within, Forest Park holds a special mystique. After living for 20 years in a cabin in the middle of the wilderness of Canyon, just outside of Oakland, I can well imagine what wonders...

Wishing you all good fortune in the new year and pausing to celebrate my own. I got back on skis over the New Year holiday after several years of not skiing, and it was great on all counts. On the ephemeral level, I shredded powder....

In my last post, I discussed some of the inspirations involved in the Capitol Theater. We are fortunate in this era that despite the loss of many great movie houses of old, that others still are being restored to their former glory. The Fox Theater...

Two weeks ago sculptor Katherine Dewey pulled me deeper into my latest obsession with this photo of her latest sculpture. [caption id="attachment_1160" align="alignnone" width="717"] Digital Sculpture by Katherine Dewey[/caption] The catch?  It's not clay but a digital rendering--an image of a computerized 3D model that Dewey created...

Some of these fantastic pieces are space pennants, which were created to travel aboard actual spacecraft as a sort of time capsule and proof of passage.  Both Soviet and American spacecraft carried such pieces, which were designed to survive planetary impact, even to the extent...

Humanity has been looking forward to the age of the jetpack for some years now.  Sometimes the results are beautiful utopias that may yet materialize.  More often are humorous and naive dreams.  Paleo-Future Blog brings it all to you. Still waiting for your flying car? Ready to...