Matt Novak's 'The Future That Never Was' at ArcLight Saturday

There are always a lot of weird and quirky events happening in Hollywood, but this one particularly caught our eye because it involves a paleofuturist.

What's that you say?

Someone who writes about "the technologies, lifestyles and ideas imagined by the thinkers of the past and explores why they never came to pass" as we've come to learn by visiting The Paleofuturist column on BBC Future.

The man behind the column, Matt Novak,  will visit the ArcLight Hollywood on Saturday to share his private collection of "ephemera, vintage advertisements and miscellaneous retro-future objects that capture the ghosts of future visions past."

(If you've ever been to the Museum of Jurrasic Technology in Culver City and enjoyed it, this event sounds like it would be right up your alley.)

The free exhibit, "The Future That Never Was," will take place in conjunction with Atlas Obscura's third-annual international day of unusual local explorations known as "Obscura Day." Expect to see and hear about ray guns, spaceships, robots and more.

From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. sip cocktails, check out the exhibit and sit on a presentation by Novak as well as Viriginia Postrel, Bloomberg View columnist and Brad Fidler, Director of UCLA’s Kleinrock Internet History Center. 

We noticed that evite tickets have sold out, but we're told that entry is first come, first served.

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