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Writer & Hubris Analyst. Agents: Fiction & Non Fiction: @MWHamilton Screen: Nick Marston @TheCBG

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NEWS: hey folks. My 8th novel: "For Emma" arrives in 2025. It's a Technogothic tale of a brilliant scientist killed by a Brain Chip implant - a ghost-in-the machine story of bereavement & a unique, conflicted love between a daughter and father. LINK:

Leamington Books lands Ewan Morrison's thriller about an AI brain chip

Edinburgh independent Leamington Books has landed For Emma, a thriller about an AI brain chip, from Ewan Morrison.

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Star Wars was painted. Almost impossible to believe that most of the epic widescreen sci-fi images in the first 3 Star Wars films were done by 3 "Matte painting" artists. These are fake sets made with plexiglass and oil paint. Even the 100s of storm troopers were painted.

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“The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.” Andrei Tarkovsky

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Post-Technology Future. The art of Simon Stålenhag depicts a parallel universe in which Hi-Tech, Robotics & VR reached amazing heights then suddenly collapsed. An alternative world in which we've regressed to the 1980s, and are surrounded by dead Super-technology. Amazing.

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Murdered for $100. Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005) was a painter of breathtaking dystopian images. For all the darkness in his art he was reportedly a humorous, shy man. He was stabbed to death by the 19 year old son of his caretaker after refusing to lend him money.

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4 exploded steam locomotives. For no reason other than they are strangely beautiful and look like angry aliens frozen in time. A boiler explosion was so violent it could rip through steel plates, half-an-inch thick and "hurl an entire train into the air like a missile."

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Possibly the least horrific of all the images by Aleksandra Waliszewska. A Polish artist, born in 1976. Her paintings have a "new Gothic style that meshes surrealist imagery, medieval mystery, fairy tale themes and references to the likes of Bosch & Goya"

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The Floating Farm - like something from a children's animated Manga film. It's actually an abandoned potato sorting station in Ukraine.

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Glowing tyres. In 1958 Goodyear created translucent "neothane" tyres that had 18 light bulbs embedded in them. Sadly, they performed poorly in wet conditions and tended to melt when drivers braked too heavily. After ten years of development, they were shelved.

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I can't believe these actually exist. Original concept art for Andrei Tarkovsky's film SOLARIS (1972) from the archives of Mosfilm. They were created by Mikhail Romadin (1940-2012) and are not at all what you'd expect.

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Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was obsessed with creating paintings of imaginary castles. Famous for his work as poet, playwright, novelist, statesman & human rights activist, Hugo's art is less well known though it was avant-garde in his time. He painted w/ink, soot, coffee & blood.

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Sometimes an artist creates one image in their lifetime that transcends everything else they have done. This is Moonrise (1881) by Polish realist painter Stanisław Masłowski (1853-1926).

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The very first sketches for the first Star Wars poster for the first Star Wars film - by John Berkey ,1976. George Lucas owned several of Berkey's Sci-fi paintings & used them as reference material while he pitched his ideas to film studios for a new space fantasy film: Star Wars

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Spoiler: Those epic images in the first 3 Star Wars films were hand-painted! Back then before CGI matte paintings were used. Matte paintings typically depict landscapes painted onto glass using oil, acrylics, or pastels, and are either filmed through or added in post production

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"The most famous actress the world has ever known" - Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was also a skilled sculptress. Here is her "Death of Ophelia" (1880) & "After the Storm", (1876) carved from marble. 50 of her artworks remain. Are we fans yet?

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The terrifying & beautiful Cathedral's of Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005). They appear to be made of cobwebs & bones. Beksiński was a modest and retiring artist who tuned his back on art trends. He described his painting style as ‘photographing dreams’.

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The abandoned 'Wizard of Oz' theme park in North Carolina.

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The lost, last Surrealist. After a disastrous affair with Max Ernst, psychotic breakdown, internment - by the Nazis & then by an insane asylum - Leonora Carrington was written out of history from the 50s till the 2000s. She re-emerged to global accolade before her death at age 94

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Dystopia exists. The abandoned apartment block- Ponte City, Johannesberg. In the 1990s gangs moved in & it became a symbol of crime & urban decay. The core filled with refuse 5 stories high. In the 1990s there were plans to turn the building into a highrise prison. Thx @Oniropolis

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4 MOON paintings by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836 –1893). A Victorian Era British artist, born in Leeds, he invented the nocturnal painting as a genre. Whistler remarked that "I considered myself the inventor of Nocturnes until I saw Grimmy's moonlit pictures."

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Pt.3. More of those Star Wars Matte paintings, that I am reliably informed were painted on shower doors - because they were glass and the right dimensions for widescreen. Matte paintings create "the illusion of an environment that is not present at the filming location."

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300 years before Surrealism- were the incredible ruins of François de Nomé (1593 – after 1620). De Nomé was a French Baroque painter, obsessed with ruins & catastrophe. He painted post-apocalyptic dream landscapes in a style that foreshadows the surrealists, De Chirico & Dali

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Sunlight. Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916).

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pt.4. The amazing Hand-Painted Matte's from the Ewok forest moon of Endor in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. The acted action occurred in the black shapes and the majority of the epic views were paintings. Matte painting is an old cinema art - now superseded by CGI

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The Shoes on the Danube Memorial (2005), honours the Jews who were killed by fascist militiamen in Budapest in WWII. "They were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies...were carried away." #HolocaustRemembranceDay

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At the Edge of the Forrest - the haunting images of Aron Wiesenfeld suggest stories in which people go missing in nature - or find unexpected things beyond the threshold of civilisation.

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All the pieces of ceramics found on our local beach by my wife, Emily Ballou, during the Covid-19 lockdown, March 23rd to July 11 2020.

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If the Soviets had put a man on the moon - their spacecraft would have looked like this. Inside the Moscow Aviation Institute is a junkyard of shelved spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Soviet lunar lander. The USSR officially gave up the moon-race in 1976.

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The Scottish Enlightenment will die on April 1st 2024, exactly 327 years, eight months and 24 days after the incident that provoked it. For on April 1st the Hate Crime and Public Order Act (Scotland) 2021 comes into force, an Act which will criminalise speech and opinion deemed…

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Depopulated Art. People have been digitally removed from paintings of historic value by artist José Manuel Ballester. The Last Supper (da Vinci, 1498) The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault, 1819) The Birth of Venus (Botticelli, c.1486) The Third of May 1808 (Goya, 1814)

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For most of his adult life the playful composer Erik Satie lived alone in single rooms in Paris. His only love affair was a five-month liaison with artist Suzanne Valadon. He drank heavily & died of cirrhosis of the liver at 59. 'Satie in his room' by Santiago Rusiñol, 1891.

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pt.5 Another amazing Film-Painting fact. James Cameron (director of Avatar) started out as matte painter & model maker. Here he is turning an abandoned field into a ruined dystopian New York cityscape for the Apocalyptic Sc-Fi movie "Escape from New York" (1981). Thanks @chapps

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"City of Shadows". Images made during the collapse of the Soviet Union in the fall of 1991. These are time-lapse pictures of crowds trying to enter Vassilostrovskaya Metro Station, St. Petersburg. Artist: Alexey Titarenko (1962 -)

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Miraculously preserved 500 year old wreck. The remains of the Swedish warship Mars, which exploded during the first battle of Öland (1676). Wooden wrecks in the Baltic Sea are well-preserved because the water is cold, low in oxygen, and brackish, rather than being truly saltwater

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Amazing to think that this image came from 1900. It's called "Death Looking into the Window of One Dying" and is by Jaroslav Panuška. He was a Czech symbolist, and one of the many imaginative painters who was pushed out of fashion and into obscurity by modernism.

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"We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns." Andrej Tarkovsky (1932-86)

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Pt. 2. Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005) painter of dystopian surrealist landscapes said, "I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams". He "abhorred silence, and always listened to classical music while painting."

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Why are so many Blockbuster Movie Posters based on one 19th Century painting? "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" by Kaspar David Friedrich (1818) is arguably a symbol of how modern humans perceive themselves - lost & alone before the meaninglessness of existence - but heroically so.

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Destroying art. In Mao's Cultural Revolution (1966-76) young Chinese communists destroyed 5000 years worth art (Buddhist, Taoist, traditional & archaic). Students believed they could re-make History according to their own ideology & eradicate all that was "problematic".

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So accurate they are still studied by botanists today, these exquisite 18th-century 'flower mosaicks' were created Mary Delany - a widow who, invented a whole new art form at the age of 72. Each image is made by minutely cut & collaged paper. From 1772 on, she made 1,000 images.

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One of the most grotesque demons ever painted. This is the Temptation of Saint Anthony, by Salvator Rosa (1645). Rosa was a Neapolitan painter, an un-recognised source of inspiration for Goya, and a forerunner of Romanticism.

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If the planets in our solar system were the same distance away as our moon - they would look like this. That's a distance of 233,812 miles from Earth. In sequence, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter & Mars Images created by former NASA art director Ron Miller.

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“If the decline of art is obvious - which it is - and if art is the soul of the nation, then our nation, our country, is suffering from a grave psychic disease.” Andrei Tarkovsky

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It's always worth remembering that Andrej Tarkovsky tricked the Soviet State culture dept into letting him create one of the most beautiful, anti-political and spiritual films ever made. Mirror (1975). The USSR tried to stop its distribution but it was snuck out to Europe.

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Stunning Concept Art for "The Little Mermaid" by Kay Nielsen for Disney studios (1937). The film was postponed and finally made in 1987, thirty years after his death. (1886-1957)

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@ValaAfshar @Blubdha @AndrewYang let's not kid ourselves that their primary use will not be military and that their secondary deployment will make millions unemployed.

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Victor Hugo's forgotten art inspired the Surrealists. Hugo, the famed author of Les Misérables, made over 4,000 drawings & invented the 'blotto' style. Making blotches with ink, soot, coffee & his own blood, he then saw subconscious images in the stains & brought them out.

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Moment in Time. An image of Parisians on a bus, 1892. The Swedish painter Anders Zorn (1860-1920) was an "international success as one of the most acclaimed painters of his era." His art is almost completely forgotten today.

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MIRROR by Tarkovsky has just appeared on youtube in its entirety in hi-def - & posted by Mosfilm, the rights owner. They must have realised that it belongs in the Creative Commons for the good of all. My favourite film & source of inspiration. Enjoy.

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The Mirror | FULL MOVIE | Directed by Andrey Tarkovsky

"The Mirror" movie represents reflections, thoughts of the person named here as the Author. He does not appear personally, only his tired voice sounds. And o...

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Josef Sudek. Czech photographic pioneer. Known as the "Poet of Prague". (1896-1976)

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Unbelievable - original carved wood blocks for printing wallpaper by William Morris (1834-1896). Using repeating patterns of floral designs, Morris primarily had his wallpapers printed by hand, using hand-carved pear-wood printing blocks. The details in the designs are exquisite.

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There is a subtle difference between seeing life as meaningless & seeing it as an unsolved mystery. The first way can lead to a sense of futility and despair. The second way can lead to wonder and humility. Art can greatly assist the second. Anselm Kiefer, Falling Stars, 1995

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Hard to believe this was a real opera stage! It was the giant book floating stage at Bregenz Festival for Giuseppe Verdi' s opera "A Masked Ball" in 1999. It's located on Austria's lake Constance. Image: A.McDonald

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Superheroes are pagan Gods. Pagan Gods were banished for 1600 years by Christianity and only re-emerged when Christianity began its decline in the West - from the 1940s onwards. Our love of Marvel/DC is really a return to Polytheism & the worship of many Gods with special powers.

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Depression as another land. Polish artist Dawid Planeta has explored depression through creating an imaginary world where lost travellers come across strange landscapes & mythical beasts.

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Galileo's original drawings of the Moon. Galileo made these watercolours and sketches "from life" by telescope in 1609. They are the first realistic depiction of the Moon in history & disproved Aristotle's theory that celestial bodies were perfectly smooth & spherical.

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The Thinker from Hell. The Gates of Hell by Rodin was commissioned for an ill-fated museum in Paris. Rodin worked on it for 37 years, but it was never finished & the museum never built. Facing total failure "The Thinker" was cast from it and became a famed stand-alone sculpture.

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Over shadowed by the reputation of her lover Pablo Picasso. For decades Dora Maar was remembered solely as the muse who inspired Picasso’s iconic series of “Weeping Women.” She was however one the the greatest & darkest of the Surrealist photographers. Image: La Simulatuer, 1936.

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“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” Edward Hopper (1882-1967)

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Primal Light. The paintings of Steven DaLuz (1953-) float in that imaginary space between landscape & abstraction. He creates "chemically induced patinas" using oils, chemicals and metals that react with each other. His images appear like "birth of the earth" moments.

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Arthur Rackham's Gothic Alice in Wonderland illustrations. At the time, in 1907, many felt that Sir John Tenniel’s original illustrations for Alice (1865) had become so iconic that any other interpretation was blasphemy. However, Rackham made Alice both more sweet & more scary.

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Totally agree with this and its the same for writing: “If you want to get one hour of good painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time.” David Lynch

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20 years before Terry Gilliam - The Fabulous Baron Munchausen is a 1961 Czechoslovak romantic adventure film directed by Karel Zeman. "The film combines live-action with various forms of animation and is highly stylized, evoking the engravings of Gustave Doré".

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Glorious Birds by Matazō Kayama (1927-2004). Kayama was a Nihonga painter. Nihonga are Japanese paintings from about 1900 onwards that have been made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials, that are over a 1000 years old.

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Brutalism in Ruins. Near Rome sits the rotting remains of architect Giuseppe Perugini’s (1914-1995) ‘Casa Sperimentale’ (Experimental House). It was built in the 60s as a series of interlocking blocks & forms and is suspended in a scaffold-like exoskeleton.

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For the first 5 years of her life, illustrator Sulamith Wülfing (1901-1989) & her parents lived in complete seclusion. She had visions of angels, fairies, gnomes & nature spirits from age 4 that continued throughout her life & inspired her art. Much of her art was lost in WWII.

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More Strange & Fantastical Post-Apocalyptic Ruins by François de Nomé (1593 – after 1620). The Frenchman lived in Naples, and created paintings of imaginary ruins - some inspired by the Fall of Rome & Sack of Troy. He lived 100 years before Piranesi & 300 before the Surrealists.

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Extraordinary. From 1946-1948 an heiress who loved dolls houses created incredibly detailed miniature dioramas of the scenes of unsolved murders. She used them to train homicide investigators. Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962) is now considered the "Mother of Forensic Science."

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Glorious Birds. Matazō Kayama was a Japanese Nihonga painter of the 20th century, born in Kyoto in 1927. His delicate paintings focused on birds and animals. In addition to paintings he designed pagodas, temples and murals.

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The disturbing spaces of Carel Willink. Willink (1900-1983) was a Dutch painter who "developed a magic realist style related to the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico." The spaces he paints are like dreams of ominous impending events. He lived through two world wars.

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Invisible Cities. French illustrator Gérard Trignac’s stunning illustrations for Italo Calvino's classic book Invisible Cities. Here are his fantastical architectures for the cities Leonia, Octavia & Zenobia. He also creates his own imaginary cities, some of which fly.

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Why should books not be this beautiful? Printed editions by Morris & Co. Founded by William Morris in 1875, the company employed Pre-Raphaelite artists, had a medieval aesthetic & respect for hand-craftsmanship & traditional arts. It was put out of business by mass manufacture.

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The Lost Surrealist. Edgar Ende (1901-1965) was a German artist. "In 1936 the Nazis forbade him to continue to paint or exhibit his work". André Breton, declared him an official Surrealist in 1951 but most of his art had already been destroyed by a bomb raid on Munich in 1944.

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Unknown for 100s of years. Michelangelo secret tiny room was discovered in 1975, under the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence. It's believed Michelangelo hid here for a few months in 1530, to avoid being found by the Medici. He drew on the walls. Images: Italy Magazine.

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Imagine a planet made of wood that is a medieval monastery floating in outer space - and that's what would have been ALIEN 3 if the draft of the script by Vincent Ward had been made in 1990. Rejected, it has become legendary. The concept art for the unmade film is extraordinary.

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Pt.3 Artist Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005) lived through the Nazi invasion of Poland & the Soviet occupation. There is a famous photograph of him as a youth, w/a friend "playing in the rubble of a destroyed soviet bunker after the Slovak-German offensive on the Molotov Line"

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Pt.8 Stunning matte painting on ALIENS (1986) written and directed by James Cameron. Painting by Robert and Dennis Skotak. Matte paintings were also used in the original ALIEN film to fill in areas of the ship's interior as well as exterior shots of the planetoid's surface

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Stunning Concept Art for LA ZONA (The Zone) - A dystopian Sci-Fi TV series set in Spain (2017). Based on a novel written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and clearly inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky's classic Stalker. The concept art is by Alex Andreyev.

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The Floating Buildings of the artist who said: "I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.” Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005)

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Against the Tide. In 1969, Gerhard Richter did the most unfashionable thing any artist could do. At the height of Pop Art & Conceptual Art, he painted seascapes. Even worse, they were inspired by the much loathed German romantics. They have nonetheless endured.

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Police Scotland's "Hate Monster" is a stunning example of Cute Authoritarianism in action. This is the use of childlike images and slogans to push forward authoritarian laws. The Hate Monster has been created to 'nudge' conformism to Scotland's New Hate Crime Laws. The result…

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The Derinkuyu underground city is an ancient multi-level subterranean city in Turkey (700 BC). It was discovered accidentally in 1963 when a cave wall was opened, revealing a passageway. Excavated, it has 11 floors, 15,000 air shafts & housed 20 -50,000 humans & their livestock

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Plants growing out of humans. An old Gnostic/Pagan theme that re-appears in the paintings of Agostino Arrivabene. A contemporary artist who uses Renaissance painting techniques to create mythic morphing figures.

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The Inferno was a 1911 Italian silent feature film based on Dante's Divine Comedy & the illustrations by Gustave Dore. L'Inferno took $2 million in the US Box office & was arguably the first ever blockbuster. even though American censors removed many of the nude scenes of Hell.

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Trying to live "in the now" never works. "...the past is far more real...than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand through our fingers, acquiring weight only through recollection." Andrei Tarkovsky

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Trinity College Library, Dublin, is the largest library in Ireland. The Book of Kells is housed within it, along with the Book of Durrow, the Book of Howth & other illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. The library itself is a thing of beauty

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"I should not have written the book" claimed Clockwork Orange author Anthony Burgess. "(it became) a film which seemed to glorify sex & violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, & the misunderstanding will pursue me until I die."

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The exquisite winter landscapes of Valerius De Saedeleer (1867-1941). A Belgian symbolist, he had 5 daughters & he struggled to earn a living from his art. After bankruptcy, he took up chicken farming. His art was a "symbolistic search for the soul of the landscape."

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George Tooker (1920-2011) was a painter who was ignored during the modernist era of abstract & conceptual art. His images are prophetic glimpses of the alienation of the 21st C. “I am after reality' he said, "painting impressed on the mind so hard that it recurs as a dream.”

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Pt.6 Star Wars - painted on Shower Doors? Truth or myth? Perhaps someone at @DisneyLucasFilm can confirm (or deny) that the fabulous rumour that the original matte paintings for the first 3 Star Wars film were painted onto shower doors? We love the art & the mythology behind it

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The most beautiful Cathedral in England. The Gothic Cathedral, at Wells, Somerset, is the work of a dozen master masons, all largely unknown to us now. The Scissor Arches, the Astronomical Clock and the Rib & Star Vaulting are all exquisite innovations of their time (1239-1390)

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Un-used Star Wars image. This image was concept art by Ralph McQuarrie for Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes back. It depicts an egg-laying alien creature on Dagobah, the planet where Yoda went into exile. It never made it past the drawing board. Amazing nonetheless

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The Night of the Hunter (1955) was a critical and box-office failure, and it's director Charles Laughton (1899-1962) never directed a film again. Yet, half a century later in 2008, influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma selected the film as the second-best film of all time.

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The "Spanish Flu" pandemic of 1918 influenced the furniture design of the Bauhaus. In contrast to the heavy, upholstered furniture that was popular in the 19th C, Bauhaus "minimalist pieces were made of hygienic wood & tubular steel...to facilitate cleaning"

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Nightscapes by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797). Derby is famed for "Painting the British Enlightenment". Depicting industrialisation and "the birth of science out of alchemy." His nocturnal landscapes are surprisingly sublime.

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@Todd_Spence Here's the painting that 'saved' Bill Murray's life. "The Song of the Lark" by: Jules-Adolphe Breton at the Art Institute of Chicago. Thanks to @Todd_Spence for sharing this fact.

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Nature reclaiming, stunning, deserted buildings. "Impermanence" is a series of photos by German-based photographer Matthias Haker. The challenge of Urbex (Urban Exploration) is to find abstract beauty within degenerating architecture and capture it before it vanishes.

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“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.” William Butler Yeats

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What is the meaning of life? Gregory Crewdson (1962-) creates incredibly cinematic photographs using the talents of entire feature film crews, to capture those "what is the meaning of life" moments.

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