I'm in.

Bird lands on balloon.

*POP*

People living up there gonna have "falling nightmares" every night.

I'd much rather live underground. Why would you purposefully expose yourself to that much sun?

I can't think of a better metaphor for the 1% then this concept. Only with Lucas's Cloud City did this turn into an almost benign city state, but it was still an amoral place, like Rick's Casablanca. But Lucas's uplifting vision is the exception.


stolen from: http://startrekreview.wordpress.com/category/torture/*
* no, I'm not going link to the new graphic


stolen from: http://flashgordon.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sky_City


stolen from: http://www.pluckyoutoo.com/2010/08/zardoz-happy-birthday-sean-connery. html

tricycleracer: Barros frees the traveler from these stressful preoccupations and gives them the opportunity and space in which to explore their ludenic selves. The act of traveling, thus, is redefined and contextualized within a new nomadic vision of life.

Can I buy some pot from you?

Please share. I had no idea what this was. I've heard the theory of leisure time as necessary for civlization to prosper--you have to have downtime to invent a better plow--but never this.

"Homo Ludens or "Man the Player" (alternatively, "Playing Man") is a book written in 1938 by Dutch historian, cultural theorist and professor Johan Huizinga. It discusses the importance of the play element of culture and society. Huizinga uses the term "Play Theory" within the book to define the conceptual space in which play occurs. Huizinga suggests that play is primary to and a necessary (though not sufficient) condition of the generation of culture." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens_(book)

So, essentially, it is the farking Zardoz head.

Have all the pop culture sky cities been posted yet? ...no? ...okay, one more.