Futurama

my wife has old TV shows playing all day long as she does her crafting. I must confess that when I got to bed each night, the bedroom TV plays some old rerun cartoons that lull me to sleep, my favorite is futurama, but my wife had me get all 22 seasons of the Simpson’s, she got bored with futurama after 2 years now…

New Horizons is what the wonder year of 1960 is all about. A strong and bold vision of the utopian future of 1960 is laid out from this 1939 film from the General Motors World’s Fair in New York called Futurama. It is a time of “modern and efficient city planning and breath taking architecture” and “new opportunities for employment and better ways of living.” Urban life is dramatically changing during this time period of before World War II, with new technology and this film shows the changes…

Although paranoid fiction is very popular among authors in literary works, the genre expands much further than just novels. Many screen writers find paranoid fiction to be very entertaining when it comes to creating a television show. Shows such as Futurama and Fringe depict a cast in which they are fighting against conspiracies of the…

Like color, while music generally did accompany animation, the recording of the human voice changed the animation game and therefore the way they worked and their influences. In the 1940s recorded sound allowed for the characters in films to talk. Unlike the cartoons of the of the Silent Era, cartoons of the ‘40s were influenced by radio personalities as they would provide the voices that helped to define the character. The most notable radio personality turned voice over artist is Mel Blanc.…

people. Richard Bach, a well-known 70’s American author said, “If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats”. In the animated show “Futurama” that airs on Comedy Central, Philip J. Fry, a 90’s pizza delivery boy, gets frozen and thawed a millennium into the future and experiences many adventures with his strange new…

Artificial intelligence. The number one creation that human beings have seeked for many years, an eternal undying form of simulated life, competent of self-thought, and maintenance and protection. Human beings still have yet to invent a truly intelligent artificial imitated being though. Although, in numerous science fiction universes, Artificial Intelligence have become a part of the real world and in every day life. Good morning/afternoon, my name is Rylee, and I am here to analyse and compare…

Have a Coke and a Smile Throughout history thus far, one of the greatest ways to reach a large audience with a message has been through the television, since it’s conception it has been used by advertisers to convince people to buy a product. Ads, or “commercials” are now a staple of the television world and can thus be considered an art of their own. Some ads have had more success than others, even to the point of cultural fame. One of these ads is an ad done buy the coke company that features…

William H. Whyte is best known for The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces a textbook study of behaviour in public space. Set mainly in 1970s Midtown Manhattan, the book and associated documentary concentrated on how people interacted with the physical design of modernist public space. His focus was on “exchange, the most vital measure of the city’s intensity”. Lesser known is Whyte’s commitment to theoretical framing for understanding this intensity and how his research into the behaviour of…

my parents in Seattle for the holidays; only to come across a laboratory in our attic. Apparently, my brother is this boy genius that everyone failed to tell me about. I came across this machine that reminded me of the freezer that froze Fry on Futurama and then he was thawed out thousands of years later. Crazy how it intrigued me enough to get in, and I did; and from there my adventures began. I knew how to work this thing only because I watch a lot of Dexter’s Laboratory as a child,…

intention of the painting and the perfect people to bring this feeling. The artwork is a very successful painting, because the Painting has become ingrained in pop culture. The Persistence of Memory has been referenced on television in The Simpsons, Futurama, Hey Arnold, Doctor Who and Sesame Street. Dali is a famous Spanish painter because of his surrealist works. Dali is an extraordinary talent and imagination of the artist, his works like the strange dream image, excellent painting…