Gilbert Williams, Far Vistas.
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Set the alarm.
I’m no big fan of the high modernist flavor of neoclassicism, at least when made real.
But damn Étienne-Louis Boullée ’s concepts are incredible.
We had some good things goin’ in the early days of visual graphics. From Creative Computer Graphics , 1984.
I dig Noriyoshi Ohrai ’s spaceship concepts.
Cylindrical space colony. Rick Guidice.
Bao Tran Trung.
Concept art from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Ralph McQuarrie.
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Edsger Djikstra
Simplicity is the hallmark of truth — we should know better, but complexity continues to have a morbid attraction. When you give for an academic audience a lecture that is crystal clear from alpha to omega, your audience feels cheated and leaves the lecture hall commenting to each other: ‘That was rather trivial, wasn’t it.’ The sore truth is that complexity sells better.
—Edsger Djikstra
We should build more moongates in our gardens and backyards.
From Austin Tennell on X.
Ralph McQuarrie.
In 2016 we visited Aubeterre in south France. This was inside of the subterranean monolithic Church of Saint-Jean , hollowed out of the mountainside in the 7th century.
The Eden Project is a complex of geodesic domes housing different biomes — a Mediterranean climate, and the world’s largest indoor rainforest. An island of foreign terrain in a retired mining pit in cold Cornwall, England.
Log booms and sawmills. From Edward Burtynsky’s Anthropocene project.
Vancouver Island above, Lagos below.
The Magic City , by Russian artist Artur Skizhali-Veis.
Heliopolis , from Description de l'Égypte , 1809.
Illustrations by naturalistErnst Haeckel.
From his collection Kunstformen der Natur.
Great book, incredible illustrations.
The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. John Martin, c. 1821.