Random websites you didn't know you needed

[Techwright]

Just like the random video thread, but for web links. 

 

I'll kick it off.  @ThaOGDreamWeaver, knowing you love Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, have you seen this?  Much more retro-future but with a style of that 1930s/40s era.

 

RETROPOLIS - A website selling art in the retro-future sci-fi vein.  You can buy mugs, t-shirts, posters, calendars, cards of several kinds, etc.  Be sure to click on More By The Artist for the Pulp-O-Mizer, a pulp magazine cover generator allowing significant customization, which can then be put on mugs, t-shirts, cards, etc.

 

There's several stock images that might appeal to CoH players, such as

Where is my Jet Pack?

Ask me about my Death Ray!

Tell it to my Giant Robot!

...and probably the favorite of every Vahz surgeon:  Science: If you don't use your brain, who will?

 

 

[TheOtherTed]

Here's one for us ageing Americans (and many others around the world, apparently)* who still love cartoons from the 60s:

https://archive.org/details/top-cat_202208/

 

*I recently worked with someone from Hong Kong who used to watch the cartoon as a child.  Due to language barriers, however, she thought the main character was some sort of police officer or private detective.  Apparently she also watched "The Phil Silvers Show," but never connected the two until I mentioned it.

[WanderingAries]

I've only apparently got a few of my older links left in my archive (that's still a valid link):

 

• Ye Olde City of Badgers (the only CoX classic site many may not have saved)
• RenFair [NSFW] song of olde - "The Moose Song" (not That one)
• Well-made Fan page for Misfits of Science with helpful links
• The "OMG is Voltron really 40 years old now?!?" official page
• A translating tool that I actually used a bunch for both CoX Bios and my music library
• The Internet Archive, a powerful tool for finding things older than a millennial
• One of the Icon archive sites I use (IDK why I don't have the Others saved) because I like to heavily customize my Desktop

[Techwright]

6 hours ago, TheOtherTed said:

Here's one for us ageing Americans (and many others around the world, apparently)* who still love cartoons from the 60s:

https://archive.org/details/top-cat_202208/

 

*I recently worked with someone from Hong Kong who used to watch the cartoon as a child.  Due to language barriers, however, she thought the main character was some sort of police officer or private detective.  Apparently she also watched "The Phil Silvers Show," but never connected the two until I mentioned it.

Top Cat was one of those quirks of broadcasting that slipped past my view.  While I was very well versed with the rest of Hanna-Barbera, I never saw Top Cat, even though I'd seen images of him and heard his theme song  on that cassette tape of TV theme songs that made its rounds in the 1980s.

 

3 hours ago, WanderingAries said:

• Well-made Fan page for Misfits of Science with helpful links
• The "OMG is Voltron really 40 years old now?!?" official page

Voltron, StarBlazers (Spaceship Yamato, I believe was it's other name), Robotech, Ultron, even Space Giants, a live action show no one seems to remember:  the late 1970s/early 1980s was a great time for introducing Japanese storytelling to American audiences.

[WanderingAries]

12 minutes ago, Techwright said:

Top Cat was one of those quirks of broadcasting that slipped past my view.  While I was very well versed with the rest of Hanna-Barbera, I never saw Top Cat, even though I'd seen images of him and heard his theme song  on that cassette tape of TV theme songs that made its rounds in the 1980s.

 

Voltron, StarBlazers (Spaceship Yamato, I believe was it's other name), Robotech, Ultron, even Space Giants, a live action show no one seems to remember:  the late 1970s/early 1980s was a great time for introducing Japanese storytelling to American audiences.

 

Yeah, I was in PI for a few years in the mid-late 80s, so I got to see Voltron, Astro-Boy (B&W?), and quite a few others at the time.

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

Cheating a bit because this isn't a website (though you can listen to it on several.) 

I'm not a major podcast fan, even though (maybe because) I work with a bunch of them.

 

But the only one I'll siddown and listen to Soundtracking.

I'm obsessed with movie music - half of my CDs and a whole stack of iTunes are soundtracks.

And I like Edith, both personally and professionally. But I'm still amazed by how good her booker is, because... just have a flip through that guest list.

https://audioboom.com/channels/4794784-soundtracking-with-edith-bowman

 

And to keep this relevant to our interests...

https://audioboom.com/posts/8258636-episode-358-jon-favreau-on-the-music-of-the-mandalorian

https://audioboom.com/posts/8324435-episode-375-charlie-brooker-on-the-music-of-black-mirror

https://audioboom.com/posts/8316223-episode-372-daniel-pemberton-on-music-of-spider-man-across-the-spider-verse

https://audioboom.com/posts/8190251-episode-332-tony-gilroy-on-the-music-of-andor

[Techwright]

11 hours ago, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:

Cheating a bit because this isn't a website (though you can listen to it on several.) 

I'm not a major podcast fan, even though (maybe because) I work with a bunch of them.

 

But the only one I'll siddown and listen to Soundtracking.

I'm obsessed with movie music - half of my CDs and a whole stack of iTunes are soundtracks.

And I like Edith, both personally and professionally. But I'm still amazed by how good her booker is, because... just have a flip through that guest list.

https://audioboom.com/channels/4794784-soundtracking-with-edith-bowman

 

And to keep this relevant to our interests...

https://audioboom.com/posts/8258636-episode-358-jon-favreau-on-the-music-of-the-mandalorian

https://audioboom.com/posts/8324435-episode-375-charlie-brooker-on-the-music-of-black-mirror

https://audioboom.com/posts/8316223-episode-372-daniel-pemberton-on-music-of-spider-man-across-the-spider-verse

https://audioboom.com/posts/8190251-episode-332-tony-gilroy-on-the-music-of-andor

 

Nice find!  I didn't know about Edith before.  She has an absolutely lovely voice, the kind that Americans used to joke "could read the New York phone book and we'd find it fascinating".   

[InvaderStych]

By internet standards, this is an oldie, but definitely a goodie. Circa 2011 homage to 1950s Sci-Fi serials. Won't link the actual website as it seems to have triggered a certificate error, but since I didn't verify that was what triggered the Firefox alert I'll err on the side of caution. Might have shared this before in a previous thread, but I don't recall. Back when it was new the director posted a lot of really nice BTS on the costume/prop construction. Counts here as it was originally released online-only.

 

The Mercury Men

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995142/

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 14 by InvaderStych