Art by Ralph McQuarrie for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
14.02.2026 22:50 β π 1231 π 268 π¬ 5 π 8@vbabylon.bsky.social
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Art by Ralph McQuarrie for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
14.02.2026 22:50 β π 1231 π 268 π¬ 5 π 8Sister of Rebirth
Exploration artwork for personal project
A pair o ' Ghosts
30.12.2025 22:33 β π 149 π 37 π¬ 2 π 0Another Interior Illustration for the forthcoming limited edition of Tad William's 'Otherland' from Grim Oak Press. A total of six full page plates for this edition.
Trenches
18" x 14" Oil & Acrylic on Bristol Board
Pre-ordering for the books:
grimoakpress.com/collections/...
My biggest stand alone build yet! 'Admiral Beakon and His Lack of Foresightβ 34βW x 12βH x 20βD Mixed media: polymer clay, wire, foam, fabric, wood, brass, aluminum and found objects. Available if interestedβ> www.rednosestudio.com/puppets/admi...
03.12.2025 17:30 β π 317 π 57 π¬ 4 π 2The Jolly Cat at the Fish Parade
02.10.2025 22:36 β π 174 π 50 π¬ 1 π 0incredible sky, this is one of my favorites
16.09.2025 03:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 040k Chaplain fanart -
oil painting on panels 12"x18"
#oilpainting #warhammer40k
Too long for full alt text, the gist is that genre fans have "a limited frame of reference" to genre work. Fans try to link things in Babylon 5 to Lord of the Rings, but JMS was thinking about Orpheus. Or more broadly, that genre works have broad and deep inspirations, in ancient, classical, and medieval stories, themselves that genre fans are ignorant of.
I've quoted this post by JMS (Babylon 5, Sense8, etc) for years now. It's long, and he's talking about genre fans here, but genre fans of the 1990s are now genre writers. www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/0...
14.08.2025 04:13 β π 23 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0had this same feeling from Pulse by the same director
26.07.2025 23:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"NORCO finds the sublime at the heart of the perverse. It seems to suggest that setting your sanity adrift is the only way to float." Very enjoyable article by @groan.bsky.social!
10.07.2025 17:09 β π 52 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0pluto tv now, the license jumps around every few years π
08.07.2025 20:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0classic twilight zone always hits, babylon 5, fringe, futurama, trailer park boys
08.07.2025 19:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0repackaged auteur worship
07.06.2025 17:32 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A Great Egret gliding towards the marshy part of the lake to do some fishing.
22.05.2025 21:33 β π 495 π 24 π¬ 3 π 0From: The Little Mermaid (1968), dir. Ivan Aksenchuk, Soyuzmultfilm
16.05.2025 22:33 β π 3055 π 635 π¬ 51 π 34π₯π₯βΌοΈ
11.05.2025 20:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Ocean in early spring has a nice bloom to it. So active like ink in a water glass
02.05.2025 22:14 β π 69 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0love this composition
30.04.2025 14:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π€©π€©
30.04.2025 02:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cover illustrates Jenny's Junk yard -- used spaces ships and second hand robots. The titular Jenny sits on a captain's chair, behind here is a junkyard with crushed robots, floating cars, spaceships, etc.
Ed Emshwiller's cover detail for Galaxy magazine, ed. H. L. Gold (February 1960)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist
Vantage point. #pixelart
17.04.2025 13:16 β π 271 π 62 π¬ 1 π 0morning waters
20.10.2024 09:37 β π 252 π 49 π¬ 5 π 0three safecrackers wearing protective gear and working on opening a safe, with gold sparks in the air, surrounded by a smoky-looking fog from a fire extinguisher
closeup on the black hood of a car at night with city lights reflected on its glossy surface
James Caan in the middle of a used car lot that's on fire. there's a pink and blue neon sign in the background and strings of white lights above that are reflected on the cars' surfaces, especially one black car that takes up most of the foreground
closeup on a gloved hand holding a metal rod, the other hand holding a blowtorch being applied to the metal creating a spray of pinky gold sparks
Thief remains one of the best-looking movies I've ever seen in my life
07.04.2025 03:25 β π 377 π 48 π¬ 9 π 7Queensborough Bridge - 1913
25.03.2025 13:01 β π 56 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0oh love this
06.04.2025 21:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Early visual explorations for the Common Side Effects title sequence.
Episode 9 is now streaming! Itβs the third and last episode I got to direct on the show.
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24.03.2025 04:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0