Coleman McCormick

Topic / art

55 posts
March 4, 2025 • #
Roman Ruins At Schonbrunn

Roman ruins at Schönbrunn. Carl Moll, 1892.

Materials and Mastery

February 17, 2025 • #

How masters build expertise through deep understanding of their medium

November 25, 2024 • #
Nantucket Sleigh Ride

Nantucket Sleigh Ride. John Stobart.

November 24, 2024 • #
A Chapel In The High Mountains

A Chapel in the High Mountains. Hugo Hodiener.

November 24, 2024 • #
The Flood

The Flood. Paul Merwart, 1889.

November 23, 2024 • #
Winged Figures Of The Republic (1 of 2)
Winged Figures Of The Republic (2 of 2)

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

November 19, 2024 • #
Fantasy Landscape With Buildings By A Lagoon

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

November 5, 2024 • #
Canyon De Chelly

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

November 5, 2024 • #
Cotopaxi

Cotopaxi. Frederic Edwin Church, 1862.

November 4, 2024 • #
The Colossi Of Memnon In A Sandstorm

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

October 4, 2024 • #
Shah I Zinda Mausoleum In Samarkand

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

August 25, 2024 • #

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.

August 23, 2024 • #
Prompt Liminal Space

Prompt: “liminal space”

Recalls the finale of Interstellar.

Highrises

July 10, 2024 • #

Documenting the art deco architecture of America.

May 24, 2024 • #
Stages Of Evolution Of Plant Species

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

March 27, 2024 • #
Omni (1 of 4)
Omni (2 of 4)
Omni (3 of 4)
Omni (4 of 4)

Omni magazine covers.

March 23, 2024 • #
Dune (1 of 6)
Dune (2 of 6)
Dune (3 of 6)
Dune (4 of 6)
Dune (5 of 6)
Dune (6 of 6)

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.

March 22, 2024 • #
Orbit To Seabase

blag-fidray:

From orbit to the seabase.

March 20, 2024 • #
Immune System

Carl Röhrig draws the immune system.

March 19, 2024 • #
Ruins Of The Future

Ruins.

March 5, 2024 • #
Andor

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

March 3, 2024 • #
Zones Of Thought

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

March 2, 2024 • #
Rear Window

“Village Falls Asleep”, Karunchai Treetrong.

A cyberpunk rendition of Rear Window.

March 2, 2024 • #
Dune

Dune artwork by John Schoenherr, 1980.

March 1, 2024 • #
Far Vistas

Gilbert Williams, Far Vistas.

February 29, 2024 • #
Etienne Louis Boullee

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.

February 29, 2024 • #
Creative Computer Graphics (1 of 4)
Creative Computer Graphics (2 of 4)
Creative Computer Graphics (3 of 4)
Creative Computer Graphics (4 of 4)

We had some good things goin’ in the early days of visual graphics. From Creative Computer Graphics , 1984.

February 28, 2024 • #
Cylindrical Space Colony

Cylindrical space colony. Rick Guidice.

February 27, 2024 • #
Photography

Bao Tran Trung.

February 27, 2024 • #
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Concept art from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Ralph McQuarrie.

(via @FedeItaliano76)

February 25, 2024 • #
Ralph Mcquarrie

Ralph McQuarrie.

February 24, 2024 • #
Log Booms And Sawmills (1 of 2)
Log Booms And Sawmills (2 of 2)

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

Vancouver Island above, Lagos below.

February 23, 2024 • #
The Magic City (1 of 3)
The Magic City (2 of 3)
The Magic City (3 of 3)

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

February 22, 2024 • #
Tools (1 of 2)
Tools (2 of 2)

Great book, incredible illustrations.

February 21, 2024 • #
The Destruction Of Pompeii And Herculaneum

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

February 16, 2024 • #
Wrocław Cathedral

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

January 30, 2024 • #
Entrance Into The Earth

Gilbert Williams, Entrance Into the Earth.

Sleepy.

January 25, 2024 • #
Ecco

star01007:

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

Cuttle.xyz

January 6, 2023 • #

A design tool for cutting machines.

Lexica.art

October 11, 2022 • #

Lexica is a search engine for images generated by Stable Diffusion.

Dissolving Realities

January 30, 2020 • #

Point clouds, photogrammetry, and 3D photography combined for gorgeous visuals.