A Vision of Umbar?

A fortified port city by by Mark Bulahao (click on the picture for a bigger version).
To me, this is Umbar during the Corsair era in the Third Age.

Urban Scene From Fourth-Age Harad

Steam Oliphaunt: a motive from the year 1892 in the Fourth Age of Middle-earth.
By Mark Bulahao.
(Click on picture for a larger version.)

A Canal City on Mars

By Mark Bulahao (click on the picture for a bigger version)

Google Mars

Google Mars, a functionality in Google Earth, contains inter alia animated simulations of Lowell’s and Schiaparelli’s Mars maps, depicting the Red Planet as they thought it looked like one century ago. Great for retro fans.

A Clocktech Automaton

This programmable mechanical marvel would fit perfectly into Vidonia, the main geographical region of my renaissance fantasy role-playing game Gondica and my novel Spiran och staven. The Mechanurgist magician-artificers in that culture construct devices like this, though often even more fantastic.

I also think that it could be appropriate technology in the Swedish 18th-century horror RPG Götterdämmerung.

Dieselpunk Hollow Earth

A dieselpunk rendition of a Burroughsian Hollow Earth. Adventures await the daring explorer. (Click on the picture to see a larger version.)

I found this delightful picture at the Hollow World blog (link >>>), a place dedicated to daredevil adventures inside Earth in the vein of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Pellucidar stories, Lin Carter’s Zanthodon series, and Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Dieselpunk Lego

Jon Hall has built several dieselpunk aircraft in Lego. Take a look at his creations here — link >>>

Porco Rosso’s Italian seaplane from the Studio Ghibli movie with the same name.

A set of his photos of Lego Porco Rosso and his Savoia seaplane — link >>>

Dieselpunk Devices

Every once in a while, I find small treasure troves on the web. Here is a Russian fellow who has created a lot of illos of great-looking diesel- and atom-retro devices and vehicles — link >>>

A retro-style personal computer.

Cyberpunk Street Scene

This photo by Robert Bruce Murray evokes the spirit of William Gibson’s Sprawl novels from the 1980s.

Project Bluejay — an Arctic Construction Feat

In the beginning of the 1950s, the United States military built a major air base in the icy wastes of Greenland. Quite a feat with the technology available 60 years ago. This enthusiastic period documentary tells how and why.