kateoplis

“The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner was to put urban archeology in the frame. I hadn’t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps — just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can all be totally adjacent. In Europe, that’s just life — it’s not science fiction, it’s not fantasy. But in American science fiction, the city in the future was always brand-new, every square inch of it.”

— William Gibson, on Blade Runner

“Like some secret scene from the film: their youths like tears in the rain.” - Mills Baker

Blade Runner Polaroids by Sean Young

Blade Runner Revisited by François Vautier

Vautier’s tribute to Scott’s classic uses all 167,819 frames of the film:

“I assembled all these images to obtain one gigantic image of colossal dimensions: a square of approximately 60,000 pixels on one side alone, 3.5 gigapixels (3500 million pixels). He then panned a virtual camera above this giant image, creating the illusion of animation.

Fantastic.

theoriginaljoefisher:

This is how I imagine Kate’s Gun.

If I had the extra 150K for this “Holy Grail” of sci-fi weapons, I’d drop it in a heartbeat. My Saturday-night special will have to do for now, in lieu of Harrison Ford’s blaster.

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