If it hasn’t become obvious over the years… we here at The Chopping Block have always been fixated on space exploration. From our NASA themed website (circa 1998), to my personal space imagery blog wanderingspace, to Chop Shop’s Space Exploration tshirt collection — we have been working elements of space exploration into our own promotions
‘Carbongrad 1999’ is a cool series of conceptual dystopian artworks by Russian artist Evgeny Zubkov. More digital art via Behance
I was excited to get a 1st edition of this popular book. It has some beautiful paintings of Soviet future exploration of the Solar system. Klushantsev, P. Illustrations by E. Voishvillo. What the Telescope Told Us. Moscow : L. Detgiz. (66 p.) 28 cm. 1972. I like the mix of the Lunokhod 1 rover and the bottom half of the LEM in the painting as they roam the Moon. This is the expedition to Mercury (It is OK, we will go at night) Expedition to Venus. An illustration of some of the ideas about Mars An actual Martian expedition Observing Jupiter Observing Saturn Closer to Saturn. Please note the artist in space trying to capture the scene with his paint palette. Space art at its rawest! Expedition from earth The brave new future in space. (I like the "space bus." Next stop Outer Space.)
Space City by Steinar Lund More of Steinar’s work here
Image 4 of 10 from gallery of The Architecture of Star Wars. 2. JABBA THE HUTT'S PALACE, TATOOINE. This monumental structure in stone and metal is composed of three cylindrical towers; located at the fringe of the Northern Dune Sea on the planet of Tatooine, it was originally built as a monastery by the B’omarr Monks. The palace’s hulking mass dominates the surroundings and is home to torture chambers, droid pool, storage area for frozen enemies and Rancor pit. Not universally admired, C3P0 commented: ‘That is scarcely what I would call a palace, Artoo. It looks more like an iron foundry’.
