This series by Scott Erickson is titled Alliance Is Rebellion. Characters and vehicles from Star Wars are imagined as traditional Northwest Coast Indian art. They combine old traditions with new mythologies in a striking way.
You can buy prints from Scott’s website.
Death Mask
Great Sun Bear
Grey Eagle Horse
Howling Crow
Hunter Mask
Silver Tenderfoot
Skull Mask
Walking Lodge
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The Art of Alien: Isolation is a lovely coffee-table book published by Titan Books, featuring more than 300 concept images, illustrations and sketches designed for the insanely popular SEGA videogame. To set the stage, Isolation takes place in the year 2137, 15 years after the events of Ridley Scott’s original Alien.
This book is 176-pages of amazing work from dozens of outstanding artists, painters and illustrators. It is the perfect companion to the game. There’s no doubt that you can get lost for hours in this book.
Etsy seller FayProductions makes all kinds of prints that imitate the look of stained glass. They are pretty striking and look just like the real thing. Just put them on your windows and you have some instant stained glass fit for a geek church or comic book temple.
Below are some of our favorites. Click the link to see everything they have. They are reasonable priced between $8 and $25. The more complicated and larger pieces are the more expensive. This is the kind of geek art that can really transform your house.
Steven Klock created these cool Star Wars/NFL mashups. All 32 teams are represented. Check out his site to see all of them.
These designs work really well. I can easily buy that these are NFL teams in a galaxy far, far away. Great stuff Steven. Not enough use of Ewoks in my opinion, but awesome stuff anyway.
The 1980 Flash Gordon movie was something else. Something crazy and special. You really had to be there and see it during that time. It had all kinds of weird visuals and it was all varying levels of over-the-top fun. Plus, a Queen soundtrack. You can never go wrong with a Queen soundtrack.
Designer Chris Foss created designs for the Hawkmen’s rocket sled that Flash rides, which weren’t used in the film. These are some really trippy designs. Most of them seem way better than what was used on screen.
Dino De Laurentiis called me when Flash Gordon was almost ready to go into production and asked me to come and see them in the studios because he wanted new versions of some of the designs that had already been done, which he obviously didn’t like. And, specifically, he wanted me to redesign the ‘Space Scooter.’
I saw Dino De Laurentiis, he gave me a verbal brief. I was then taken down to the department that was physically building the stuff and we discussed what this thing was supposed to do in the film. And I then went away and, over a long holiday, produced the designs for it.
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It’s always fascinating to see original concept art and then compare it to what showed up on screen. I love seeing how this art translates into the finished movie. It’s interesting to see what they changed or left out, what they tweaked just a little, or which scenes they kept mostly the same. Also which were enhanced by practical effects.
Lucky for us, Production Designer James Chinlund has posted a bunch of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes concept art, giving us a look at how the art translates into actual sets and finished scenes. It is a great look at the film making process.
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You shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, but when the covers are this good we just can’t help ourselves. Penguin Books is releasing an updated anthology for their Doctor Who short stories that are written by famous children’s authors. This new version is updated to include a story for Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor.
But just look at those new minimalist covers for each book. It really is like having every doctor inside of that TARDIS slipcase. Take my money!
You’ll get stories written by Neil Gaiman, Malorie Blackman and Eoin Colfer. The new story for the Twelfth Doctor is Lights Out by Holly Black. There will be a normal edition of the collection that has all 12 stories in one book, but this gift edition is the one that has the awesome covers.
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The Enterprise D had a Captain’s Yacht, and likewise Voyager had an Aeroshuttle. Although we never saw it on screen. It was a small craft attached to the underside of the USS Voyager’s saucer section. It was there the whole time. You can see it attached to the Saucer. It was just never used.
The Delta Flyer basically took over its role. Now we can see the launch sequence thanks to visual effects artist Adam “Mojo” Lebowitz who posted a concept test video of the Aeroshuttle launch. Star Trek designer Rick Sternbach has also been sharing some behind the scenes Voyager stuff lately. A LOT of it. This is because next year is the 20th anniversary of the series. Below you can see some concept art for the Aeroshuttle as well as some earlier concept art for Voyager herself and even a foamcore mockup.
British artist Shaun Hughes has some mad engraving skills. He creates quite a variety of incredible hobo nickels. What you see here is just a small sampling of his work. He has all kinds of creations on his DeviantART gallery.
Even if we could, there’s no way we could spend any of these. They are so beautiful you would just want to keep them. These altered coins look amazing.
Some of the art we feature here is mindblowing, inspiring, just beautiful, or just plain fun. I would say that the 25¢ Wonders series from artist Patrick Ballesteros hits all of these notes. These illustrations bring back the fun of being a kid while we watch some of our favorite characters as kids themselves, riding kiddie rides.
They also evoke a nice sense of childhood innocence and wonder. You can’t help but smile as you peek into these scenes, watching characters that we know so well, as cute kids, and wishing we could see the scene unfold, just to see what comes next.
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