Topic
art
- What Makes Art Great?
With AI-generated work — writing, visual art, music — there's something missing that we can often identify viscerally (at least if we spend a few minutes paying attention), though not articulate exactly what it is tha…
- 2010: Odyssey Two
Michael Whelan's inspiring cover art for Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two.
- 10M
Search an archive of artworks by mood, feeling, style, or similarity.
- Isometric NYC
Using a combination of Claude, Opus, Nano Banana, and lots of satellite imagery, Andy Coenen built this incredible pixel art map of New York City. It's like flying over a realistic version of SimCity 2000. In this pos…
- Roman Ruins At Schonbrunn
Roman ruins at Schönbrunn. Carl Moll, 1892.
- Volos Harbor At Night
Volos harbor at night. Volanakis Κonstantinos.
- The Fall Of The Damned
The Fall of the Damned. Peter Paul Rubens, 1620.
- What Matters in the Age of AI is Taste
In this AI era, I've been thinking a lot about what it means for humans in the loop of formerly human tasks. When AI is inserted in all layers of the stack, what's left for us? Sari Azout hits on something I agree wit…
- Materials and Mastery
In the latest Res Extensa, I explored how craftsmen build expertise through deep understanding of their medium. It starts with the nature and properties of their raw materials, then moves to the individual parts, asse…
- Nantucket Sleigh Ride
Nantucket Sleigh Ride. John Stobart.
- A Chapel In The High Mountains
A Chapel in the High Mountains. Hugo Hodiener.
- The Flood
The Flood. Paul Merwart, 1889.
- Winged Figures Of The Republic
Winged Figures of the Republic. By Oskar Hansen at Hoover Dam, 1937.
- Fantasy Landscape With Buildings By A Lagoon
Fantasy Landscape with Buildings by a Lagoon. Francesco Guardí, 1790.
- Bernini In Marble
Bernini in marble. * Blessed Ludovica Albertoni * Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi * The Rape of Proserpina
- Canyon De Chelly
Canyon de Chelly. Edgar Alwin Payne, c. 1916.
- Cotopaxi
Cotopaxi. Frederic Edwin Church, 1862.
- The Colossi Of Memnon In A Sandstorm
The Colossi of Memnon in a Sandstorm. Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, 1896.
- Shah I Zinda Mausoleum In Samarkand
Shah-i-Zinda Mausoleum in Samarkand. Vasily Vereshchagin, 1869.
- Escape The Algorithm
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
Prompt: “liminal space” Recalls the finale of Interstellar.
- Highrises
An incredible project from Chris Hytha, documenting the gorgeous art deco architecture scattered across the country: The prosperity of early 20th century America resulted in a boom of skyscrapers that still tower over…
- Stages Of Evolution Of Plant Species
“Stages of Evolution of Plant Species” , from the Whole Earth Catalog , Spring 1970.
- Omni
Omni magazine covers.
- James Niehues
James Niehues’s famous ski resort maps.
- Dune
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.
- Orbit To Seabase
blag-fidray: From orbit to the seabase.
- Entrance To The Cuiraing Skye
Entrance to the Cuiraing, Skye. Waller Hugh Paton, 1873.
- Immune System
Carl Röhrig draws the immune system.
- Ruins Of The Future
Ruins.
- The Wrath Of The Seas
The Wrath of the Seas. Ivan Aivazovsky, 1886.
- Andor
Andor has some of the best cinematics of anything Star Wars.
- Zones Of Thought
The Zones of thought from Vernor Vinge’s eponymous science fiction series.
- Rear Window
“Village Falls Asleep”, Karunchai Treetrong. A cyberpunk rendition of Rear Window.
- Dune
Dune artwork by John Schoenherr, 1980.
- Far Vistas
Gilbert Williams, Far Vistas.
- 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.
- Creative Computer Graphics
We had some good things goin’ in the early days of visual graphics. From Creative Computer Graphics , 1984.
- Noriyoshi Ohrai
I dig Noriyoshi Ohrai ’s spaceship concepts.
- Cylindrical Space Colony
Cylindrical space colony. Rick Guidice.
- Photography
Bao Tran Trung.
- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Concept art from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Ralph McQuarrie. (via @FedeItaliano76)
- Ralph Mcquarrie
Ralph McQuarrie.
- Log Booms And Sawmills
Log booms and sawmills. From Edward Burtynsky’s Anthropocene project. Vancouver Island above, Lagos below.
- The Magic City
The Magic City , by Russian artist Artur Skizhali-Veis.
- Illustrations By Naturalist Ernst Haeckel
Illustrations by naturalistErnst Haeckel. From his collection Kunstformen der Natur.
- Tools
Great book, incredible illustrations.
- The Destruction Of Pompeii And Herculaneum
The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum. John Martin), c. 1821.
- Kowloon Walled City
Cross-section of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City.
- Wrocław Cathedral
The interior of Wrocław Cathedral , Poland. Built in 1272.