Here’s a quick feature on someone I’ve come across via the twitterverse, Taiwanese Concept Artist Yu Cheng Hong, this exquisitely finished Fashion Illustration is titled Bliss.
See more of Yu Cheng Hong’s work at his portfolio site: http://www.yuchenghong.com/ or follow him on Twitter http://twitter.com/YuChengHong
Thought I’d post something a little different that could well see me shot down in flames! yes it’s a personal Spotify playlist… There’s of course nothing more diverse than people musical tastes, personally I’ve always been more into electronic music, for me it kinda fits with the Futuristic/Space/Sci-Fi ethic – but then I’m sure listening to Slayer whilst playing Doom or Quake works very well too – what ever float’s your boat!
So here’s my selection – I’m rubbish at defining music genre’s, my best guess it’s a kinda filmic / Cosmic Disco blend – anyway If you like pulsing and/or shimmering 70′s & 80′s Synth sounds you’ll probably appreciate it… Enjoy!
1. John Daly – Oceans
2. Edgar Frose – Specific Gravity of a Smile
3. Toby Tobias – The Feeling (John Daly Mix)
4. Quite Village – I Regret The Flower Power (Fragments of Fear)
5. Stefan Goldmann – Lunatic Fringe
6. Marianne Faithfull – Broken English
7. Lawrence – Along The Wire (Superpitcher Remix)
8. Fever Ray – Triangle Walks (Rex the Dog Remix)
Sci-Fi-O-Rama Spotify Playlist: http://ow.ly/svdP
*Note that you must have the Spotify App installed – I recommend signing up for Premium too – despite the hype Spotify is IMHO a decent service…
Image via Eric Carl’s often featured, super cool Flickr Stack. Art is from the January 1982 edition on Heavy Metal Magazine, artist Alain Voss?
** Edit November 22nd 2011 **
Since first publishing the playlist, tracks 1 & 5 have unfortunately vanished from Spotify. I’ve therefore added two new tracks and the revised playlist looks like this:
1. Edgar Frose – Specific Gravity of a Smile
2. Tensnake – Congolal
3. Toby Tobias – The Feeling (John Daly Mix)
4. Quite Village – I Regret The Flower Power (Fragments of Fear)
5. Tangerine Dream – One Night in Space
6. Marianne Faithfull – Broken English
7. Lawrence – Along The Wire (Superpitcher Remix)
8. Fever Ray – Triangle Walks (Rex the Dog Remix)
A long deserted cityscape of patchwork coloured microrayon type architecture, now under the spell of giant floating spiders… Another fantastic example of the work of Chris Foss
Full post coming soon, in the meantime check more Chris Foss at either his home site http://www.chrisfossart.com/ or the superb SF gallery site & resource astrona.blogspot.com
This freaky spectral beast is a special effect from the 1992 movie Pet Sematary 2, sequel to the the original 1988 film Pet Sematary that was in turn based on Stephen Kings 1983 novel.
(SPOILERS!!) (SPOILERS!!) The basic premise is that the Pet Sementary in question is actually built near to a certain other type of burial ground (wonder what that might be) and (gasp!) burying a dead pet there will in fact resurrect it, only of course the reborn pet is not exactly the same as the old one… I’ve not seen either film (I have read the book) so didn’t recognise this when I originally spotted it via FFFFound, when backtracking through my bookmarks and came across it’s source; the absolutely awesome kindertrauma.com and that’s really what this post is about….
If you’ve even the slightest bit interested in Film Horror from the 70′s / 80′s / 90′s particularly of the B-Movie variety, then I wholeheartedly recommend a good peruse through kindertrauma.com – a lovingly devoted site to all those slightly obscure films you might just remember being tucked away at your local video store…
Check out http://www.kindertrauma.com “Your Happy Childhood ends here”
I recently picked up some semi-vintage Scientific/Natural History Books that belonged to my late uncle, loads of superb stuff that I’ll be posting over the course of the rest of the year…
Onto the first scan then – this amazing image is taken from the 1970 edition of the Time-Life International book “The Universe” and is by an artist I’d not come across before, Italian American Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) born in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Alas I’ve had to crop this as the painting covers the spread, it really has to be seen to be believed the colours are something else, and I’ve done my best to keep them intact here….
A snippet from the Illustrations accompanying text: “A Close look at the Solar Furnace”
The Sun’s vast sphere, 864,000 miles in diameter contains 335 billion cubic miles of violently hot gasses that weigh more than 2,000 quadrillion tons. Direct study can probe no deeper than the sun’s double atmosphere (the tenuous outer corona and the shallow, inner chromosphere) and it’s surface skin (the photosphere), because only the energy from these two zones reaches the earth after a 93-million mile journey in the form of visible light or invisible radiation. Yet the density, temperature and composistion of gasses in the suns’s hidden interior have been calculated, and astrophysicists know the nuclear processes that make them burn…
Antonio Petruccelli was an extremely versatile Illustrator, a very capable space artist just one of his attributes – read a bit more about him at buttes-chaumont.blogspot.com