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Kit Stølen

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Art Director on #ForAllMankind S4-6 Art Director on #StarTrekPicard S3, Art Director/Concept Designer on #TheOrville, Art Director on #WestWorld S1

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27.02.2026 22:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
For All Mankind - The Next Giant Leap: 2004 - 2012
YouTube video by Nadal Pushnof For All Mankind - The Next Giant Leap: 2004 - 2012

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27.02.2026 14:34 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
For All Mankind — Mars Space Elevator Headline News | Season 4 Scene | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV For All Mankind — Mars Space Elevator Headline News | Season 4 Scene | Apple TV

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26.02.2026 19:10 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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For All Mankind — Season 5 Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV For All Mankind — Season 5 Official Trailer | Apple TV

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24.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 6

Part of the trick is figuring out what it needs to do & in what environment. Assume they’re taking every opportunity to save on weight & fuel. It’s better if a machine does less things. The more complex the more points of failure. What pushes it? What powers it? How does it shed heat in a Vacuum?

07.02.2026 04:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We have an astronaut advisor who we consult with & researchers in the dept. It’s a complicated process though.

07.02.2026 04:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Misc Art Director scribbles

06.02.2026 20:54 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

We hadn’t quite figured out the pressurized transport that docks & takes people to the base at that point, but figured it was probably camper van sized & that the Hopper craft landing gear needed to clear it to airlock to the top.

03.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Art Director scribbles and the finished scene.
youtu.be/qLusv3pr4mM?...

03.02.2026 04:59 — 👍 26    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1
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Season 4, exterior fight on Ranger 1

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25.01.2026 17:45 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Discarded “Ranger One” Asteroid Tug rough sketch for S4.

24.01.2026 16:21 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
For All Mankind — Season 5 Official Teaser | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV For All Mankind — Season 5 Official Teaser | Apple TV

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21.01.2026 17:08 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

yikes…

03.01.2026 20:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Were we not adequately warned about Rings of Power?

11.12.2025 14:01 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Well… SC films in eastern Eu & FAM5 completed filming a while ago…

Hopefully, there will be trailers and a release date soon.

27.11.2025 01:35 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Home again home again jiggety-jig

26.11.2025 19:27 — 👍 30    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
Orville Interactive Fan Experience v18 Release Video
YouTube video by Messy Desk Interactive Orville Interactive Fan Experience v18 Release Video

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Amazing as always Messy Desk!

youtu.be/Ue6MdElQUFM?...

22.11.2025 14:36 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

Looking at history, I fear that could be decades, or centuries from now…

11.10.2025 21:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Something about watching them is like a slap in the face, that society at large seems to have broken all the morals and promises that we aspired to, that the shows represented…

11.10.2025 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah, I feel that.

11.10.2025 00:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Eh it’s long dead, would have been a B movie, probably not good. But I did get to investigate and learn about a lot of deep sea life. It had a bio luminescent based language.

11.10.2025 00:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I worked on a deep sea sci-fi horror film, that never got made, but the idea was intelligent life based on deep sea vent life.

So much interesting potential...

10.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I agree that it’s the ideal direction. It’s the how and the what of it in terms of storytelling, that will captivate a wide audience…

07.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or one might equate it to the Shire. Characters have to leave The Shire for the adventure, but it persists as the quant notion of home that’s under threat.
Something about that seems very 20th century, though…

07.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Solarpunk is a tricky one, because when it’s often depicted in sci-fi, it’s usually as the too-good-to-be-true utopias or would-be 3rd party victims of some antagonistic force.
Earth in Trek seems very solarpunk adjacent, but they’re also rarely there in the show, because the drama is elsewhere.

07.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What is the point of sci-fi now?

Assuming we’re not talking about escapist fantasy entertainment.

We’ve blown past # of milestones & warnings depicted in 20th c. Fiction. We’re awash w/nostalgic sci-fi from the past. But I find myself struggling with the idea of what does it need to be for now?

07.10.2025 15:34 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

Is there some sort of Bluesky drama that I’m oblivious to?

06.10.2025 23:19 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Even if we entertained that scenario, it would be like handing a mobile phone to a caveman & expecting something Flinstones-esque to occur.

30.09.2025 17:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ok hear me out…

A fully functional and permitted pop-up friendly ultra-upscale-bougie-looking farmer’s market that just conveniently forms around or near gestapo raids. Can’t break character or seem threatening in any way, though.

30.09.2025 15:36 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0