I was driving over the chesapeake bay bridge the other day and it hit me how nothing of this magnitude will ever be built again in America. We no longer have the institutional capacity to build stuff like this.
The hand-painted backgrounds of Neo-Tokyo in Akira (1988) are just insane. Thousands of windows, signs and architectural details, all built by hand to make a city that still feels futuristic nearly 40 years later.
Unpopular opinion, museums should not have to close bc lack of funding. My taxes should be going to them and not some foreign country to bomb civilians