Comments on: Chris Foss (5)

By: Kie

Kie — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:44:45 +0000

Oh yeah I know the Time Tourist album…. actually someone else made the same observation on a similar post… The Time Tourist cover is definitely Chris Foss inspired, maybe it actually was him? I’m not sure… Peter Elsons work is similar too..

By: konbot

konbot — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:52:48 +0000

the firt one reminds me the cover of B12 album – http://www.discogs.com/B12-TimeTourist/release/3622

By: Darth Continent

Darth Continent — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:18:14 +0000

These are great! Many of the starship ones remind me of the style of those in the book, “Great Space Battles”.

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/56/48/8766225b9da023bb15736110.L.jpg

By: franco brambilla

franco brambilla — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:48:19 +0000

One of my heros!

By: Kie

Kie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:12:52 +0000

Interesting point on the markings, and one I had not considered before – definitely puts a spin on things if you look at them with that in mind.

Great Jodorowsky quote as well “Machine-Animals, soul mechanisims. Sublime as snow crystals”….. (big sigh!) if only

I’m also sure Chris was also very much inspired by ‘Dazzle Ships’ camouflage patterns: http://ffffound.com/image/1fe4429d8ede0ca21a959eaee40b80aabcedc913 & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage- essentially designed to blur what was there and what was not…

By: superpanda

superpanda — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:46:46 +0000

Great ~~~ Wonderful~~

By: Dan McPharlin

Dan McPharlin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:59:25 +0000

There is something deeply animalistic about Chris’s spaceships, they display a kind of proud tribalism as if the makers want to remind us, even in deep space, of man’s primitive roots.

I think Jodorowsky puts it quite well in the foreword of 21st Century Foss:

(Referring to the ill-fated Dune project) I wanted magical entities, vibrating vehicles, like fish that swim and have their being in the mythological deeps of the surrounding ocean. The ‘galactic’ ships of North American technocracy are a mouse-grey insult to the divine, therefore delirious chaos of the universe. I wanted jewels, machine-animals, soul mechanisms. Sublime as snow crystals, myriad faceted fly eyes, butterfly pinions.

Now if only that film was made we might have seen more of CF’s great work on celluloid!