A tribute to one of the great SF artists, Bruce Pennington.
Johfra Bosschart, Unio Mystica, 1973 Born in 1919 as Franciscus Johannes Gijsbertus van den Berg in Rotterdam or as more commonly known Johfra Bosschart (The Artist adopted the pseudonym JohFra by using the first three letters from each of his two first names in reverse order.) was a Dutch surrealist Artist. Johfra and his wife Artist Ellen Lórien, established themselves in Paris and then Fleurac, France after relocating from the Netherlands after World War II. Johfra described his works in his own words as
Spoke Art is incredibly thrilled to share Felicia Chiao's I Just Want To Go Home, our next exhibition at our San Francisco gallery. With an incredible new collection of originals, prints, books and more, Felicia has created a world we can't wait to share. More after the jump...
Finlay’s cover for the May 1952 issue of Weird Tales Master of exquisitely detailed images that often combined the sexual and the scary, Virgil Finlay was born in Rochester, New York in 1914. He was a highly prolific commercial artist in the midcentury years — one commentator went so far as to call Finlay “the most famous fantasy illustrator of mid-twentieth century.” In his youth during the 1920s, Finlay discovered the magazines Amazing Stories and Weird Tales, which focused on sci-fi and horror, respectively. Once he reached adulthood in the mid-1930s he felt confident enough in his artistic prowess to try to get a position at those journals. Finlay’s mastery of stippling was so advanced that it nearly cost him a job at Weird Tales because his employers weren’t sure that their printing process could reproduce his fine detail, but it turned out that it could. Finlay in 1969 A key medium of Finlay’s was scratchboard, a method that incorporates a white clay coating covered in black ink—the artist scratches the black ink away with a scribe or knife, and the resultant effect is similar to a wood engraving. The technique is called “working from black...
…In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. - quote by Albert Camus None of these pictures...
cw blood (just in case) I did it my soul feels good, pain and suffering #GenshinImpact #itto #gorou
John Norman: Savages of Gor. DAW Books 1982. The seventeenth book of the saga of Tarl Cabot. Cover art by Ken W. Kelly.
The marvelous cover for the first hardcover edition, 1969 For those who enjoy their realities getting fucked with, there’s no better writer for that than the great Philip K. Dick, and among his many unsettling works, his novel Ubik is held in unusually high esteem. Ubik is about a mission to a moon base that includes Joe Chip, a technician who works for Glen Runciter’s “prudence organization,” and 10 cohorts. The mission ends in a fatal explosion, but who lived and survived that explosion is a puzzle the book never quite reveals. It’s a bewildering mindfuck of a book, featuring routinized space travel, psychics and “anti-psychics,” a character who can alter reality by traveling to the past, and a mysterious (and mystical) product called Ubik (same root as “ubiquitous”) that comes in a spray can and serves as a slippery metaphor for God itself. One brilliant aspect of the book is the devilishly ambiguous ending—as Dick’s wife Tessa wrote, Many readers have puzzled over the ending of Ubik, when Glen Runciter finds a Joe Chip coin in his pocket. What does it mean? Is Runciter dead? Are Joe Chip and the others alive?...
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he baseball #Caelus #HonkaiStarRail
The super realistic 3d robot designs and mech creations of David Letondor, a freelance 3d artist and modeler based in Grenoble, France.
The World of Null A, A.E. Van Goyt // Bruce Pennington
architects michael hansmeyer and benjamin dillenburger have completed 'digital grotesque II' – a full-scale 3D-printed grotto.
