Topic / art

Roman ruins at Schönbrunn. Carl Moll, 1892.

Volos harbor at night. Volanakis Κonstantinos.

The Fall of the Damned. Peter Paul Rubens, 1620.

Nantucket Sleigh Ride. John Stobart.

A Chapel in the High Mountains. Hugo Hodiener.

The Flood. Paul Merwart, 1889.

Winged Figures of the Republic. By Oskar Hansen at Hoover Dam, 1937.

Fantasy Landscape with Buildings by a Lagoon. Francesco Guardí, 1790.

Bernini in marble.

• Blessed Ludovica Albertoni
• Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
• The Rape of Proserpina

Canyon de Chelly. Edgar Alwin Payne, c. 1916.

Cotopaxi. Frederic Edwin Church, 1862.

The Colossi of Memnon in a Sandstorm. Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, 1896.

Shah-i-Zinda Mausoleum in Samarkand. Vasily Vereshchagin, 1869.

Wrote this week about the problems with feeds, algorithmic discovery, and passively letting the machines define your taste.

We all need a return to active participation in what we consume.

Prompt: “liminal space”

Recalls the finale of Interstellar.

“Stages of Evolution of Plant Species” , from the Whole Earth Catalog , Spring 1970.

Omni magazine covers.

James Niehues’s famous ski resort maps.

Dune read by Frank Herbert, vinyl records on Caedmon Records 1977 - 1982. Art by John Schoenherr & Frank Kelly Freas (‘The Banquet Scene’)

Incredible. Would love a hardcover set with these images.

blag-fidray:

From orbit to the seabase.

Entrance to the Cuiraing, Skye. Waller Hugh Paton, 1873.

Carl Röhrig draws the immune system.

Ruins.

The Wrath of the Seas. Ivan Aivazovsky, 1886.

Andor has some of the best cinematics of anything Star Wars.

The Zones of thought from Vernor Vinge’s eponymous science fiction series.

“Village Falls Asleep”, Karunchai Treetrong.

A cyberpunk rendition of Rear Window.

Dune artwork by John Schoenherr, 1980.

Gilbert Williams, Far Vistas.

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.

(via @FedeItaliano76)

Ralph McQuarrie.

Log booms and sawmills. From Edward Burtynsky’s Anthropocene project.

Vancouver Island above, Lagos below.

The Magic City , by Russian artist Artur Skizhali-Veis.

Illustrations by naturalistErnst Haeckel.

From his collection Kunstformen der Natur.

Great book, incredible illustrations.

The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. John Martin, c. 1821.

Cross-section of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City.

The interior of Wrocław Cathedral , Poland. Built in 1272.

Gilbert Williams, Entrance Into the Earth.

Sleepy.

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Ecco the Dolphin was such a weird (awesome) game. Created an entire aesthetic blended from science fiction, solarpunk, and SeaQuest DSV-style futurism.

Amazing work. Not a dud in the bunch.