British Children’s TV 1970s-1980s.

The mall from DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978).

Illustrations by E.H. Shepard for the 1931 edition of WIND IN THE WILLOWS.

‪Design sketches (and a model sheet) for Hanna-Barbera’s Yogi Bear. The character debuted in 1958 in the Huckleberry Hound Show.

Concept drawings by Mark McCreery for JURASSIC PARK (1993) and its sequel.

Art from THE LONG TOMORROW by Mœbius and Dan O’Bannon. The comic, published in French magazine MÉTAL HURLANT (Heavy Metal) in 1976, was an obvious influence on the look of BLADE RUNNER. (Mix it with Syd Mead’s art and you’re there basically.) Its influence reached wider however, as films such as Escape from New York, Tron, and Alien all contain elements inspired by the comic’s world and make-up.

Vintage publicity images for TWIN PEAKS.

Three things define the early 90s for me: The Simpsons, grunge music, and Twin Peaks.

I was 13: not a kid anymore, not really a teen yet; I mean not the kind of teen you are when you’re 16. I used to ride to school on my bike thinking about Twin Peaks: the music, characters, scenes, the warm visuals, the whispering trees, just the strange, otherworldly sense around it. The suspense was murder. Everything seemed charged with mystery, even traffic lights and ceiling fans. Twin Peaks is the shadow version of America’s can-do optimism.

That’s where my head was for about a year, I was constantly thinking about Twin Peaks. None of the other kids in my class watched the show, so it felt like my own dream world. Nobody knew but me. But then it has been like that for most of my life.

British artist, Paul Rumsey.

An Andy Warhol animatronic. I’m reading Warhol’s diaries now—when he mentioned in a 1981 entry that an animatronic of him was being made, I knew I could count on the Cybernetic Zoo to have images of it.

The intention was to have the animatronic perform a “No-Man Show”, where it would quote Warholisms and lines from Warhol’s book, Popism, among other things. As these things go, the project was never realized. All we have is this thing, which one day might become sentient.

Behind the scenes of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984).

Mary Blair concept art for Disney’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951).