Bruce McCall: Nostalgia for a future that never happened

http://www.ted.com Bruce McCall paints a future that never happened -- full of flying cars, polo-playing tanks and the RMS Tyrannic, "The Biggest Thing in All the World." At Serious Play '08, he narrates a brisk and funny slideshow of his faux-nostalgic art.

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[CirqueDuCloud]

What a great sense of humor this man has.

I've always had great respect for the people who can actually express the way that they feel about the world and mankind through artwork.

[DocReason13]

make me regret my lack of artistic appreciation. if more "art" was like this-thought provoking, entertaining and COMPREHENSIBLE, i would be more into art.

[bonsema1]

I got several of his books, and after " Zany Afternoons" I just had to have " thin ice " , his autobiography. Bruce was fascinated by the US in the twenties and thirties, or should I say "OF "the twenties and thirties. And especially , by NYC. He always wrote about the rich people in that town like the Astors, Big Jim Fisk, J.P. Morgan and their ilk. He did that extremely well and in a very humorous way.

[5tonyvvvv]

@dethrock01 why hasnt it happened???..we should go back the way native americans lived..but bruce is cool

[dethrock01]

@5tonyvvvv

lol! troll much?

[davidheadon]

just incredible.

Bruce, you've invented my religion!

[MaximumPopcorn]

Those wonderful days of the Battle of Britain in 1940 when a Meschers ME 109 bursts into the house of commons and buzzes around, just to piss off Churchill." - Such a brilliant, zany sense of humour. : -)

[dubswine]

''The Zeppelin Shoot - They Fell So Much More Gracefully Than Grouse,''

[nerdelicious5]

Cool paintings! The guy's a good speaker too.

[cheeseit126]

wing dining HAHAHAHAHA

[5tonyvvvv]

this is all bullshit,that wont happen