Another trademark ‘ultra-vivid’ Poster Design from a modern master of that genre; Canadian Graphic artist James White taken via his excellent http://blog.signalnoise.com/
This unofficial piece of tribute art is inspired by screenshots and concept art of the forthcoming film – Come on Disney – there can’t be many people who could produce a superior, more striking job than this?!
See the HD Trailer for Tron Legacy here and a selection of screenshots here: http://blog.signalnoise.com/?p=1405
A selection of screenshots from David Braben’s classic 16bit Space trading adventure game elite Elite 2 “Frontier” which made it’s debut back in 1992. Frontier’s core gaming may not have been as playable or fun as it’s illustratious, highly sucessful 8bit predecessor, but it was IMHO a much more immersive experience – Armed with an Commordore Amiga, Atari ST or IBM PC (boo!) it offered you the chance to explore an almost limitless galaxy of Millions of Star Systems, ok so perhaps only 100 of them were of actual interest but that was still plenty of traveling. Probably the games most fascinating aspect was it’s Galactic and Local star chart’s, the prior offering a 3d rotatable Grid enabling the player too see not only Star positions, jump distances and shipping lanes but also how far above or below the galactic plane a potential destination might be- cooler still, real star’s were featured up to a 20 light year radius from our own, making it possible for a player to visit Sirius, Ross 154, Alpha Centuri etc. This attention to realism carried through into gameplay with focus on actual spacial dynamics, leading to ship to ship space battles becoming interia driven slingshots affairs which while true to physics were’nt particularly frantic in the X-Wing/Tie-fighter mould.
Opinion has always been divided over whether Frontier was as good as it’s more famous forerunner, where as that was a 3d space combat sim with the Space exlporation bolted on. Elite 2 kinda works in reverse – personally I’ve always prefered it
Read more about Elite at Wikipedia or visit this excellent Fan site http://www.sharoma.com/frontierverse/
Another Classic David Pelham Penguin Cover, for the Pohl / Kornbluth collaborative novel “The Space Merchants” this dates from 1974. If your unfamiliar with Penguin SF Book cover art and want to see more, the best place to start is here: http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/
Scan via Flickr User metoikosdraig who has assembled this great selection of Classic SF Book Covers
A wonderfully detailed profile shot of “Tank Girl”, a British Comic book character who made her official debut in Deadline Magazine back in 1988.
Set in a post-apocalyptic Australia (ala Mad Max) Tank Girl is the creation of Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, Hewlett of course most famous for being the Co-Creator (along with Blur’s Damon Albarn) of the concept band Gorillaz.
Read more about Tank Girl at Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_girl
or visit the official site http://tank-girl.com/
Illustration originally Via Flickr User Zeroblondal
Ok so here we have something of a Sci-Fi-O-Rama Exclusive! A set of 3 gorgeous SF Illustrations commissioned for the May 2009 edition of Wired Italia. The accompanying future gazing article hypothesizes the year 2061, where Italians are living on the moon – hence the Earthrise in the middle image! Super cool stuff from Dan as always; from his trademark lush textures, right down to the subtle 70’s-esque borders…
Images Courtesy of Dan Mcpharlin http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmcp/
and Wired Italia http://www.wired.it/
** Addendum Sept 1st 2009:
Of related interested, Bruce Sterling (author of the Wired Article) http://blog.wired.com/sterling
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