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Kathleen Ryan's giant rotten fruit.
Kathleen Ryan's giant rotten fruit.
Wedge cars, Gandini at Bertone especially.
Throw these through the Mead mill and you've got some serious late 70s scifi transportation.
Throw these through the Mead mill and you've got some serious late 70s scifi transportation.
Dieter Rams and the Braun design team.
Loads of this stuff in Deckards apt in the original BR.
Loads of this stuff in Deckards apt in the original BR.
Michael Johansson's blocks of gubbins. Kinda like tetris tidying.
The futurist musings of the, aforementioned, late great Syd Mead. Look at those colours.
OATS Studios vol.1 Rakka, Firebase, and Zygote.
I hope the movies get greenlit at some point, the shorts are on Prime and Youtube and well worth a watch.
I hope the movies get greenlit at some point, the shorts are on Prime and Youtube and well worth a watch.
Might as well make this an #FF, it is Friday right?
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The environment work of Studio 4°C for Tekkonkinkreet and Mutafukaz. Shōjirō Nishimi, Michael Arias and of course Shinji Kimura smashing it.
A little odd but aircraft beginning with V tend to be cool. Valkyrie, Sea Vixen, Victor and Vulcan. The Vampire's pretty funky too.
If you can get over young Kevin Flynn's, and Clu's rubbery fizzogs, Tron Legacy is a beautiful movie with shots that actually cause a sense of wonder.
The 'zoney' sculptures and magical land art of Andy Goldsworthy.
Dazzle camo, pinched from nature, and still used when testing cars.
Step wells, just for the inside out, upside down, highrise feeling.
As a continuation of dazzle camo: The patterned universe of Chris Foss.
The Designer's Republic's Wipeout work. Graphic design so 90s that it's still futuristic.
Tilt rotars but mostly just the V22 Osprey. It didn't have the best start, with lots of incidents during testing, but it's quirkily beautiful, and besides, that's what happens when people keep loading requirements on a signed off design.
The graphic design work in the original Blade Runner. Amazing what you can do for a sci-fi world without a computer if you need to.
The joyously disturbing, pseudo retro, brutalist aesthetic, of Remedy's Control.
https://www.artstation.com/search?q=control%20remedy&sort_by=likes
https://www.artstation.com/search?q=control%20remedy&sort_by=likes
Following on the above with some nice bedtime stories.
http://www.scp-wiki.net/
http://www.scp-wiki.net/
Lowest possible hanging fruit.
The colour and light work in Akira
The colour and light work in Akira
On the theme of dangly drupes.
Jean 'Moebius' Giraud. Colour or black and white, illustrations or designs, damn he was good.
Jean 'Moebius' Giraud. Colour or black and white, illustrations or designs, damn he was good.
Anni Albers. A great source of inspiration for anyone into making patterns that flow, but don't necessarily repeat.
A little literature: The culture books of Iain M Banks, I think I've read 11 of them. Banks, unlike a lot of sci fi authors, manages to create solid worlds, rarely slipping into flimsy surreality when describing extremes of technology, and oddness in the universe.
Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga and Void Trilogy cover universe affecting events, monopolising megacorps, ancient alien races, and use the old Clarke adage, that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, to edge scifi into fantasy.
Greg Bear's EON, haven't read the rest of The Way, but if the first one is an exemplar, then it seems like a good plan.
Katsuhiro Otomo's Domu: A Child's Dream
An earlier take on telekinetic and psychic abilities from the renowned creator of Akira.
An earlier take on telekinetic and psychic abilities from the renowned creator of Akira.
Satoshi Kon's Paprika. A spectacular, surreal, and expertly crafted film. Christopher Nolan loved it enough to lift from it for Inception.
Peter Ting and Zha Cai Duan flower bowls, blanc de chine.
The Stars My Destination, lovely bit of Alfred Bester scifi. Teleportation, cool weird stuff, horrendous actions, espionage. A Masterwork for a reason.
Mike Mignola comics, Amazing Screw-on Head, Baltimore, B.P.R.D., Hellboy, Sledgehammer 44, and Witchfinder, with their multitudinous artists.
Roadside Picnic, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky a paragon of the zone genre.
Our zoney pinterest, based on the ref collection of @AlexJayBrady :-
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/animemotorcycleclub/the-zone/
Our zoney pinterest, based on the ref collection of @AlexJayBrady :-
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/animemotorcycleclub/the-zone/
Time travel stories, especially those with bootstrap paradoxes/rinse and repeats.
Dark, BTTF, Primer, Looper, Predestination, Source Code, Time Cop, Groundhog Day, Edge of Tomorrow, Arrival, ARQ, etc.
Ignore the pseudo science just go with it, and try to work out wtf is going on.
Dark, BTTF, Primer, Looper, Predestination, Source Code, Time Cop, Groundhog Day, Edge of Tomorrow, Arrival, ARQ, etc.
Ignore the pseudo science just go with it, and try to work out wtf is going on.
Flight in Ghibli movies.
Wes Anderson's stylistic choices.
Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach books. Nice bit of zoney business. The tower is far more interesting than the lighthouse.
Punk boids.
Ben Nicholas @BelgianBoolean's artwork hits so many of the things I'm into; Brutalist architecture, industrialised spacefaring, the new weird aesthetic of 'The Zone', and does it so well. https://www.artstation.com/belgianboolean
Paul Chadeisson @PaulC04's beautiful designs, and absolutely insane sense of scale.
https://www.artstation.com/pao
https://www.artstation.com/pao
Alex Jay Brady @AlexJayBrady 
We are really into hard scifi with a hint of modern fantasy, can't not love an excellent interpretation of a great story.
http://artstation.com/boac
We are really into hard scifi with a hint of modern fantasy, can't not love an excellent interpretation of a great story.
http://artstation.com/boac
Calum Alexander Watt @CalumAWatt's work, sketches, clean line stuff, painterly business, panels, concepting, all of it.
https://www.artstation.com/calumalexanderwatt
https://www.artstation.com/calumalexanderwatt
The aforementioned brutalist architecture, it's our jam.
Superspecialist vehicles doing heavy jobs.
cont. trenchers
cont. short bois for big jobs, the tug could've gone here but these are all low profile mining mecha
odd floofs are best floofs
Greg Broadmore and Stardog's universe of Dr Grordbort regarded by most as steampunk, but I'd say more late 19th century early 20th century scifi/fantasy. John Carter, Flash Gordon, Forbidden Planet and a dollop of Allan Quartermain.
cont. grordbort space booches
The inside out world of Rachel Whiteread.
The near infinite realms of @ianmcque. Sketches, paintings, concept art for movies, book covers, all the things.
Karl Kopinski @Karlkop's work, lots of goodness here https://www.instagram.com/karlkopinski/ can't not love excellent sketching, drawing, and painting.
Michael Whelan @whelanmichael's art work. I don't know what it is about his lighting but it's so warm feeling.
New love: The art of Dustin Yellin, it might be unfair to say, but it brings up good memories of Terry Gilliam's work on MPFC, and the general feel of the game Worms.
The Psychogeographies are zoney as all hell.
The Psychogeographies are zoney as all hell.
