Syd Mead

What could go right? I love thinking that way.

Yesterday I was actually at a Syd Mead exhibition art Uh, curator.

And I was talking to Syd Mead's husband about, you know, who are these tech optimists of the present, and, um, who's actually carrying on Syd's legacy and bringing it out into the real world, and he mentioned Peter.

He's like, "Peter is that modern day, like, bringing that out, bringing out this idea that we can shape the future, that the future is- lives inside what we can dream, what we can [laughs] design, what we can build." And it was just one of the most enlightening, optimistic conversations that we had.

And I mean, I've never talked directly to Peter, but when I was seeing that you guys were really close, and this is obviously a, a creation of what you're [laughs] trying to get into the world, I was like, "Wow, like I definitely wanna talk to you and understand what you guys are doing."

Through everything.

Syd Mead's architectural concepts, the claustrophobic, trash-filled streets of Los Angeles 2019.

The relentless freezing rain.

Yes, and the massive neon advertisements for off-world colonies that promise a better life that no one on the ground will ever reach.

Now, the star car was designed by Gene Winfield, who helped design a lot of famous vehicles, uh, the Spinners in Blade Runner.

He did that with Syd Mead.

He also designed the Catmobile driven by Eartha Kitt in the Batman TV show.

Uh, he also, from what I've read, has designed the original shuttlecraft for Star Trek.

The novel could only outline a dystopian future using text.

Ridley Scott, working alongside the legendary visual futurist Syd Mead, physically built it.

Built it from the ground up.

They used relentless neon-drenched rain, towering brutalist architecture like the massive Tyrell pyramid, and of course, a soaring synthesized melancholic score by Vangelis.