Hasta La Ideas

Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner (1982) is one of few films whose futuristic visions have aged well—the corporations, fashion, and technology, are all plausibly in humanity’s trajectory—albeit not by the year of the film’s setting, 2019.

We might, perhaps, achieve the architecture. These photos of Tokyo by Thomas Birke bear a striking resemblance to the art from the film. He shot in large format (8×10), looking for density, the city’s organic nature, and, above all, the city of Bladerunner.

See the full set on Flickr.

via Hivelogic