<![CDATA[io9: alien art]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: alien art]]> http://io9.com/tag/alienart http://io9.com/tag/alienart <![CDATA[Your Trash Attains Sentience in Alien Sculptures]]> In Brandon Jan Blommaert's "Eco Station" sculptures, discarded objects are recycled into alien bodies and set loose against Earthly landscapes.

Blommaert creates whimsical scenes of trash-inspired aliens and monsters: a giant bird made of plastic trophies, a pair of critters who retrieve their companion's head (which is made up of back issues of Nature), and spiky-topped bipeds with egg crate arms and coffee cup fingers. In addition to the finished products, Blommaert's Flickr stream includes a series of "making of" photos, showing the strange array of materials that went into his trashy creatures.

[Blommaert's Flickr via FFFFOUND!]










]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5341046&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Lonely Astronauts Explore Silent Alien Landscapes]]> As much as we all love “Also sprach Zarathustra,” the only soundtrack to space travel is probably going to be the low hum of your spaceship’s engines. And Dan McPharlin fully captures the silence of otherworldly exploration in his haunting illustrations of astronauts and spaceships moving through alien landscapes. His work evokes an unsettling and surreal sense of a first, quiet encounter with the unknown.

McPharlin is better known for his miniature models of analog sound equipment, but his digital drawings demonstrate his capacity for visual scene setting. Aside from birds and flowers, alien life is never encountered, but often hinted at in the unfamiliar architecture of the worlds, while suit-wearing explorers look on in wonderment.

[Dan McPharlin on Flickr via Design You Trust]

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