Bruce McCall's faux nostalgia

Now, retrofits are often accused of being examples of faux downtowns and instant urbanism, and not without reason you don't get much more phony than an Astroturf town green.

With political pressures encroaching on the bank s policy decisions and a faux consensus, it is not surprising that there is now nostalgia in Frankfurt for earlier times and for Wim Duisenberg, even among his former critics.

In becoming the poster girl for a re branded continuation of the Bush administration, Palin is showing herself to have much in common with glossy faux populists like Eva Peron or Denmark s anti immigrant leader Pia Kjærsgaard.

Bruce McCall paints a future that never happened full of flying cars, polo playing tanks and the RMS Tyrannic, The Biggest Thing in All the World. At Serious Play '08, he narrates a brisk and funny slideshow of his faux nostalgic art.