2009 July Archive - Sci-Fi-O-Rama

Roger Dean – Shadow of the Beast T Shirt

Shadow of The Beast - T Shirt

A quick follow up to a feature I ran a year ago on Roger Dean’s Artwork for the computer game “Shadow of the Beast” published by legendary 80′s/90′s 16bit software house Psygnosis. This image is a close up of the highly sought after limited edition T Shirt featuring a graphic bio-mechanical Deer (reinterpreted from the Box Art) and that oh-so-cool Logo Type!

Scan is part of SOTB Boxs Set selection via Flickr User Pocket Clouds. “Psygnosis will never die!” … amen to that! In fact if you remember Psygnosis you might want to check out this superb French tribute site: http://psygnosisamiga.free.fr

Vincent Fournier – Space Project

Jul 19th, 2009 | Categories: Art | Photography | Sci-Fi | Vincent Fournier

Vincent Fournier - Space

Vincent Fournier - Space Project

Vincent Fournier - Space

A lone, fragile explorer traversing a world of cold desolation…

These spectacular landscape’s are the work of French Artist/Photographer Vincent Fournier, taken from his “Space Project” Series. I’m not sure on the exact location here but this type of arid terrain is known as ‘Badlands’ or simply ‘Badland’, basically a landform created by the wind/water erosion of soft sedimentary rocks and clay rich soils. Often this occurs in flash flooding when a years precipitation happens overnight.

Famous Badlands include: Hell’s Half Acre (Wyoming USA, used as a location for the 1997 movie Starship Troopers), Bardenas Reales (Navarre, Spain) and New Zealands Putangirua Pinnacles.

See the more from the Space Project set at http://www.vincentfournier.co.uk/ originally spotted via FFFFound.com.

Jake Blanchard (1)

Jul 13th, 2009 | Categories: Fantasy | Graphics | Illustration | Low Palette

Jake Blanchard - Recollections of Knulp

Jake Blanchard - Rivulets

Two enchanting Illustrations with an echo of both Tolkien and Tove Jansson, from London based Illustrator Jake Blanchard. See more of Jake’s excellent portfolio at: http://jakeblanchard.co.uk/

First spotted via ffffound.com/cornhustlah

John Polgreen (1)

John Polgreen - Space Travel

John Polgreen - Patrol

A selection of vintage Space Art by John Polgreen an American artist most prolific in the 50′s – a style akin to the work of Chesley Bonestell - difficult to believe these beautifully rendered forward thinking scenes are 50 or more years old. Perhaps then a shame that these depicted visions (simultaneous moon landings) haven’t quite come true yet.

Alas there’s not a raft of information on John Polgreen, best place to start is with Flickr User’s Curly-Wurly and Nick Derington who have both posted galleries set’s featuring more of his work.

Picture Notes:

Top: Astronauts surveying a Lunar Landscape via Nick Derington

2nd Top: Blast off from the Lunar Surface via Nick Derington

Bottom: A slightly different style (more painterly) via The Weird World of Winchell Chung / http://www.projectrho.com/ << now that’s a proper Sci-fi Blog to behold! some fantastially in depth stuff there – excellent resource.

Anyone with any more detailed info on John Polgreen, please post a comment.

Peter Andrew Jones – To Here and The Easel

Jul 6th, 2009 | Categories: Art | Illustration | Peter Andrew Jones | Sci-Fi

Peter Andrew Jones

Back to retro 70′s Sci-Fi with another explosive illustration from Blog Fav Peter Andrew Jones. This Menacing looking craft has a strong resonance of past military avation tech, which is why I’ve selected it – very Harrier Jump Jet - http://is.gd/1qprC

“To Here and the Easel” dates from 1974 and is scanned from Peter’s glossy compendium Book “Solar Wind” which I’m lucky enough to have a copy of – book is available as well as prints and more at: http://peterandrewjones.net

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