Posts Tagged star trek
Japanese Futurism
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture, Entertainment on November 26, 2009
Star Trek, image © Shusei Nagaoka
Another hat-tip to Sci-Fi-O-Rama for showcasing some of the 1970s-80s artwork of Shusei Nagaoka. (Unknowingly I featured his ELO album cover art quite a while ago. He has quite the funky, spacey portfolio going, as far as album covers go!) There is an amazingly hi-res selection of Nagaoka-san’s art at Pink Tentacle — don’t miss it! (It was hard to restrain myself to just two images, I admit. I may yet publish more.)
Space Flower (illustration for Tsukuba Expo ‘85), 1984, image © Shusei Nagaoka
Best Picture Ever
Posted by Danielle in Entertainment, Picspam on September 15, 2009
I’m sure you’ll agree that this is quite possibly the BEST PICTURE EVER.
…whatdoyouMEAN you can’t tell what it is? Isn’t it obvious?? No? Well, you’ll just have to go and see for yourself. It is very clear that I can’t post this image on my website, so enjoy the 50px mosaic filter. I know I do.
Want a hint before you click? You’re the cautious type, I can tell.
Remember the rising of the starship Enterprise from the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, in the recent motion picture Star Trek, with magnificent Saturn and its rings dramatically coming into view in the background? It was a scene so highly regarded that its final shot was featured on the cover of Cinefex, the main motion picture industry magazine for visual effects.
Legally, with-permission-ly, “high resolution, digital shots from that scene” are exclusively available right over here. DO NOT MISS THIS DOWNLOAD. I am talking fully-detailed at over 6,000 pixels wide and tall Enterprise/Saturn yummy goodness. It definitely makes the most beautiful *desktop* ever, if I do say so myself.
Enjoy.
Star Trek
Posted by Danielle in Computer & Internet on May 26, 2009
The Iconfactory has long been one of my favorite haunts, and yet again they’ve delivered, with official desktop wallpapers and icons from the new Star Trek movie. I mean… really, who wouldn’t want these on their desktop??
Friday Picspam, part 7
Above, yesterday’s APOD in beautiful shades of blue; below, today’s NASA Image of the Day in beautiful shades of trippy-reflection-of-shuttle-controls.
Hyperion looks like a sponge. If they sold Hyperion-brand dish sponges, I’d buy ‘em. I admit it.
Colors in image below are less visible than they appear. Still, I like it:
Finally, if you haven’t seen Lunch Bag Art, you’re really missing out; he featured the new Star Trek movie on May 11:
Space artwork, part 2
Posted by Danielle in Art & Architecture on September 19, 2008
I was fortunate to see Dave Archer in person as a teen, demonstrating his million-volt reverse-glass space painting. At that time (mid-1990s), his art was all over Star Trek: The Next Generation and I spent almost all my off-time at his booth, looking at his originals (I was working at my mother’s art booth at the same exposition.)
I think what I like so much about his art is the contrast between the clean, detailed planets and the wispy, chaotic gas clouds produced by the electricity. It’s ordered and random, precise and yet running wild, brightly colorful at times and yet so subtle. It still reminds me most of Star Trek, because Dave Archer was all over EVERYTHING in the franchise (or so it seemed at the time; and at that time I was very into ST:TNG), but that’s just a small part of his fantastic portfolio of work. Check it out here!
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