[Alexis Rockman via {feuilleton}]

Disney World I
Disney World II
Capitol Hill
Church and White
East 82nd St.
Gateway Arch
Hollywood
Hollywood at Night
Hotelscape
Manifest Destiny
Mount Rushmore
Miami
Vie en Rose
Washington Square

White's Deviant Art gallery includes tons of these amazing paintings, some of which are still for sale. They're all acrylic on stretched black velvet, generally around 14 by 18 inches, although some are as big as 18 by 24. And they're like your most vivid dreams about robots, spaceships and aliens, only brought to life in pure velvet.

Says White:

I am a huge scifi geek. I saw this velvet painting on the Star Wars Collector's Archive, and I thought it was so cool in an awesome, yet cheesy way. I figured I could reproduce it pretty quickly. I was wrong. Painting on velvet is a lot harder than I thought. I did a few more, which were a little better, but they were still more like the "oh god that's so bad that it's funny" velvet paintings that seem so prevalent. I stopped trying for a while, and then had the idea, instead of trying to make them "cheesy", that I would try to paint them as realistically as I possibly could. Slowly, the paintings got better, and I started to get the hang of working on velvet. So, the more realistic paintings in my "deviantart" gallery are the more recent ones.

Check out more of his artwork here: [Bruce White on Deviant Art]

Captain Kirk velvet painting from The Velvet Store

Admiral Ackbar velvet painting from eBay auction.

Velvet Yoda painting for sale here, for just $1,500. Cheap!

Velvet Yoda Elvis painting, from BoingBong

Unicorns in space, from BoingBoing!

Star Wars poster on black velvet, from Mike Jackiw.

U.S.S. Enterprise on black velvet — sorry this is so low-res, but I had to include it. From Who Would Buy That? via Site Du Jour.

Chewbacca, plus weird creepy angel heads, on black velvet. From Brancusi7 on Flickr.

Baby Princess Leia on black velvet, from Bonnie Burton at the Star Wars Blog. (Thanks Bonnie!)

Admiral Ackbar (again!) From Indignico Inc. on Flickr.

Unicorn on the Moon! From Indignico Inc. on Flickr.

Wesley Crusher! As presented to Wil Wheaton. From Indignico Inc. on Flickr.

The Winchester Bros. From Indignico Inc. on Flickr.

A Sleestak, in contemplation. From Indignico Inc. on Flickr.

The Joker. From Indignico Inc. on Flickr.

Kim Jong Il and another Sleestak (why??) From Indignico Inc. on Flickr.

A Journey Round My Skull joined Feuilleton and Arthur Magazine in posting a slew of new covers and illustrations from the beguilling German magazine. Here are a few of our favorites, and you absolutely must check out the rest over at the individual sites.

And then in a further paroxysm of art-inspired debauchery, AJRMS sponsored a contest to create bookplates similar to the Orchideengarten style, and the results are fantastic. I would never dare steal a book from your library if it bore one of these insignia. Here are a few of the best, but they're all worth checking out.

These are some incredible shots of a few of the latest sculptures from retro futurist art maniac Nemo Gould. Specializing in robots and other outlandish creatures, Gould creates all his work from recycled materials gleaned from old mechanical devices, furniture, and knick-knacks.

You can see more of Gould's new work, as well as his back catalog, in his online studio.

Nowhere Fast
Nowhere Fast
Beholder
Beholder
Troglodyte
Troglodyte
Orbit

Check out the rest of his work at and closer look at these stunning sculptures check out the artist's site.

cosmonaute
herr doctor
clockwork
homme volant
little flying civil servant
robot pet
rouleur de patins
albert minette
alien
blind man
Frank
beauty machine
leather machine

Alex CF includes a story to accompany each piece, which is available for sale. And if monster killing is more your thing than monster collecting, he also offers some classic vampire hunting kits, and a collection of useful research on European lycanthropes.

[The Art of Alex CF via Super Punch]

Menes - The Vampyr Pharaoh of Egypt
Golem; life from inanimate clay
R'lyeh expedition case and Cthulhu spawn specimen
The triceratops catalyst
"L'enfant Diabolique" - The devil child
Experiments in extra dimensions; The Cheshire cat
Edward Harrell's Infant Lycanthrope specimen
The Monkey's paw
Dantes descent into the pit
The collected Eldritch horrors of Merrylin

Jason Martin's first love affair with science fiction all started with Star Wars. He was intrigued by the elaborate details of the action figures along with the Star Wars sketchbook he received as a child. This led him to create his own Intergalactic Hockey team. Check out some of his other star hockey players, plus his menagerie of weird creatures.

Punchy the Clown: Remember the punching clown you had as a child? And how much fun you had punching it over and over again? Well, he's back and he's got all kinds of upgrades. Don't be fooled by his large belly. He's a serious player.

The Goalie for the Cyborgs: This character sheet shows you that all is not as it may appear. There's a human inside this goalie armor. And check out the fancy foot design.

Shorty: Last but not least there is Shorty, probably the fiercest player of them all. He's a member of the Clown Team and you would be surprised how often the Clowns defeat the Cyborgs.

Not part of the Hockey team, but one of Jason's proudest achievements. Jason loves artwork that tells a story and has done quite a bit of animation work. His first comic book, "Homunculous" is a collaboration with Niko Karvounis and he's also wrapped up his first cartoon, Juvees, for the Fox AniBoom Competition.

He is currently developing a book, Lil' Book of Critters, and it's filled with a bunch of strange and fantastic creatures. And since Jason is all about the story behind the creatures, each one has a name. This one is Fangs (naturally)!

And this is Frisky. When Jason showed these creatures to others, they often came up with their own stories behind the critters. So I thought I'd take up this challenge and tell my own stories about them.

Here is Wisp. He may look a bit weak but he has a powerful singing voice (especially in the shower...).

Ok, this one is Clog. Not sure where to begin with his story (ha-ha). Makes my imagination just go wild. Probably better left unsaid.

It's not so much that he can't keep still, but that he is just an excitable boy. Fidget has a hard time staying in one place. And why should he? The world is a wonder and filled with marvels to explore.

Frizz is just a hopeless romantic. She enjoys a great love story and cries at the drop of a hat.

Sweet little Peep also sometimes cries, but this is usually because people forget where he is (because he is sooo very small) and he gets crushed or stepped on.

Ogler has been known to appreciate the finer things in life, such as good wine and beautiful women.

Leaflet may be small but she doesn't miss a thing. And don't worry. She is a loyal friend and your secrets are always safe with her.

Not all of Jason's critters are sweet. Some are downright mean. Not only does Snitch blab, he also thinks he's better than everyone.

And Worrywart is not much fun. He wrings his hands so much that they're all chapped; one of the many reasons he refuses to shake hands (also, he's worried about germs).

And here is Habringer. She doesn't just foresee the upcoming horrible events, she brings them.

Our last creature is Doubt, whom many consider the scariest of them all.

Many thanks to Jason Martin for giving me such cool art that allows me to make up my own stories!

Look for more of his work at http://www.conceptcreature.com/animation_art.php

Banwell's masks are currently on display at the University of Oxford's Steampunk Exhibition.

[Tom Banwell Leather via Make]

Attack on the V838 Energy Collectors
Black Eye Galaxy
Cone Nebula
Crab Nebula
Milky Way
Orion Nebula
Phobos
Reflection Nebula
Starburst Galaxy
Butterfly Nebula

Juha Arvid Helminen [DeviantArt via Coilhouse]

More images are available at My Zombie Pin-Up, where the 2010 calendar is on sale for $19.99.

[via ShockTillYouDrop]

According to an article in the New York Times, Moholy-Nagy was one of the least well-regarded members of Germany's Bauhaus school during his life, but The New Vision, his posthumous book on the future of art, design education, and the new media of photography and film, helped change that. And now he's being hailed as an important forefather to today's digital artists.

So what does the Light-Space Modulator do? It allows you to study the motion of light. Moholy-Nagy explains:

This piece of lighting equipment is a device used for demonstrating both plays of light and manifestations of movement. The model consists of a cube-like body or box, 120 x 120 cm in size, with a circular opening (stage opening) at its front side. On the back of the panel, mounted around the opening are a number of yellow, green, blue, rot, and white-toned electric bulbs (approximately 70 illuminating bulbs of 15 watts each, and 5 headlamps of 100 watts). Located inside the body, parallel to its front side, is a second panel; this panel too, bears a circular opening about which are mounted electric lightbulbs of different colors. In accordance with a predetermined plan, individual bulbs glow at different points. They illuminate a continually moving mechanism built of partly translucent, partly transparent, and partly fretted materials, in order to cause the best possible play of shadow formations on the back wall of the closed box. (When the demonstration occurs in a darkened space, the back wall of the box can be removed and the color and shadow projection shown on a screen of any chosen size behind the box.) The mechanism is supported by a circular platform on which a three-part mechanism is built. The dividing walls are made of transparent cellophane, and a metal wall made of vertical rods. Each of the three sectors of the framework accommodate a different, playful movement study, which individually goes into effect when it appears on the main disc revolving before the stage opening.

Image by HC Gilje on Flickr. [New York Times]

We became fascinated with Kappel's robot masterpieces when we saw he was having a gallery show in Phoenix recently, called "Artificial Agents." We caught up with Kappel, who kindly sent us some of his amazing robot paintings, plus some other horror-themed art (perfect for late October!). Kappel tells us:

I became interested in all that is scifi long ago. My father schooled both my sister in myself in the finer things in life. 50's horror flicks, Star Trek, Dr. Who, Star Wars, Hitchhiker's Guide, OG Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica, (Even the Greatest American Hero) and The Outer Limits coupled with a heavy dose of Tom and Jerry, Superfriends, Thundar, M.A.S.K., G.I. Joe, Transformers and Bugs Bunny. Everything that I do spawns from that foundation, sprinkle in some comic book affinity, with the writings of Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury, and shazaam, you have Space Monkey Designs and all of my hand crafted, wood sculpted, laser cut visual stylings.

See more of Kappel's work at his site. [Space Monkey Designs]

We've featured the work of London artist Adam Baines on io9 before, and I'm always excited to see him do more science fictional stuff. He manages to make his cyborgs feel very lifelike, perhaps because of the environments where he puts them.

And then there's this image that immediately made me think: The Shining - in space! Which is a good thing.

See more of Baines' work on Voidart, via the superlative Gorilla Art Fare

The art of space exploration[Guardian.co.uk]

Designer Pedro Mealha created this lamp using a CNC laser cutter to create perfect shapes for the body of the lamp, then added metal bits to create elastic tension - and it looks like ball berings to balance the base. Very understated and very geeky. You can get this lamp, called rhizome, as a DiY set or fully-made.

Design Boom says:

The project emerged from his interest in wooden dinosaur kits and the way in which the various components are pieced together to gain a three-dimensional shape from a flat wooden panel. made from two A3 aeroply boards, rhizome uses an LED ring as a source of light. the lamp was initially intended to be for self-assembly for DIY enthusiasts, however, the project has now evolved into a ready assembled product made from 3mm bamboo ply and is fully extendible and can rotate.

via Design Boom

For comparison! This dinosaur set from RLP Woodware.

We already showed you Broadmore's concept art for the movie's alien mothership, but now here are his incredible designs for different versions of the aliens, plus some of the other most recognizeable images in the film:

You can also read our interview with Broadmore, and see more of his work, here. More art at the link. [WETA NZ via Concept Art World]

The above image, by Spike Walker, was one of the winners of the 2009 Wellcome Image Awards, announced yesterday in England. Last year's winners blew us away, but if anything, this years' are even more spectacular. Many of them play to our weakness for beautiful microscopy images. Here are our absolute favorites — more images at the link. [Wellcome Image Awards]

Microparticle drug delivery by Annie Cavaugh and Dave McCarthy: A synthetic drug coated with co-polymers. Scanning electron micrograph.

Villi in the small intestine. Multiphoton fluorescent micrograph by Paul Appleton.

Capillary network. Light micrograph by Spike Walker.

Mouse liver. Scanning electron micrograph by Jackie Lewin.

Lung cancer cell. Scanning electron micrograph by Anne Weston, London Research Institute, Cancer Research, UK.

Summer plankton. Light micrograph by Spike Walker.

You can see more of Thomas' amazing work - including a ton of videogame design - on his website. I first came across his work via Concept Ships.

These illustrations come from manga artist Shigeru Mizuki's book Yōkai Daizukai, which details the inner workings of 85 yōkai, the traditional demons and spirits from Japanese folklore. More illustrations are available at Pink Tentacle.

The Kuro-kamikiri ("black hair cutter") is a large, black-haired creature that sneaks up on women in the street at night and surreptitiously cuts off their hair. Anatomical features include a brain wired for stealth and trickery, razor-sharp claws, a long, coiling tongue covered in tiny hair-grabbing spines, and a sac for storing sleeping powder used to knock out victims. The digestive system includes an organ that produces a hair-dissolving fluid, as well as an organ with finger-like projections that thump the sides of the intestines to aid digestion.

The Makura-gaeshi ("pillow-mover") is a soul-stealing prankster known for moving pillows around while people sleep. The creature is invisible to adults and can only be seen by children. Anatomical features include an organ for storing souls stolen from children, another for converting the souls to energy and supplying it to the rest of the body, and a pouch containing magical sand that puts people to sleep when it gets in the eyes. In addition, the monster has two brains - one for devising pranks, and one for creating rainbow-colored light that it emits through its eyes.

Kasha, a messenger of hell, is a fiery monster known for causing typhoons at funerals. Anatomical features include powerful lungs for generating typhoon-force winds that can lift coffins and carry the deceased away, as well as a nose for sniffing out funerals, a tongue that can detect wind direction, and a pouch containing ice from hell. To create rain, the Kasha spits chunks of this ice through its curtain of perpetual fire.

The Bisha-ga-tsuku is a soul-stealing creature encountered on dark snowy nights in northern Japan. The monster - which maintains a body temperature of -150 degrees Celsius - is constantly hidden behind a fog of condensation, but its presence can be detected by the characteristic wet, slushy sound ("bisha-bisha") it makes. Anatomical features include feelers that inhale human souls and cold air, a sac for storing the sounds of beating human hearts, and a brain that emits a fear-inducing aura. The Bisha-ga-tsuku reproduces by combining the stolen human souls with the cold air it inhales.

The Mannen-dake ("10,000-year bamboo") is a bamboo-like monster that feeds on the souls of lost travelers camping in the woods. Anatomical features include a series of tubes that produce air that causes travelers to lose their way, syringe-like fingers the monster inserts into victims to suck out their souls, and a sac that holds the stolen souls.

The Kijimunaa is a playful forest sprite inhabiting the tops of Okinawan banyan trees. Anatomical features include eye sockets equipped with ball bearings that enable the eyeballs to spin freely, strong teeth for devouring crabs and ripping out the eyeballs of fish (a favorite snack), a coat of fur made from tree fibers, and a nervous system adapted for carrying out pranks. The Kijimunaa's brain contains vivid memories of being captured by an octopus - the only thing it fears and hates.

The above image is Yap's incredible "Legend Of Yamato" image won the CG Society's concept art challenge a couple years ago. You may have seen it before, but it was new to us — and we love how colorfully it reinvents steampunk. Here are some more of our favorites.

It's a steampunk boat that's also a train, from BlueStorm. More of his art here.

A steampunk arctic explorer by Vyse — way more of his awesome art at Concept Art forums.

Fantastic concept art from Big Huge Games' Rise Of Legends. Way more awesome art here.

Fantastic concept art from Big Huge Games' Rise Of Legends. Way more awesome art here.

Fantastic concept art from Big Huge Games' Rise Of Legends. Way more awesome art here.

Fantastic concept art from Big Huge Games' Rise Of Legends. Way more awesome art here.

Fantastic concept art from Big Huge Games' Rise Of Legends. Way more awesome art here.

"Crab fort" concept art from Guild Wars Factions — we featured this art at io9 ages ago, but it's so amazing it deserves to be seen again. More art from the game here.

Walker concept art from Guild Wars Factions. More art from the game here.

Walker concept art from Guild Wars Factions. More art from the game here.

Requiem For Industry by Kazuhiko Nakamura. Way more art here.

Automaton by Kazuhiko Nakamura. Way more art here.

Metamorphosis by Kazuhiko Nakamura. Way more art here.

Steampunk concept art by Lebbeus.

Steam train concept art by Emil Landgreen.

War Zeppelin concept art from Iron Grip video game, by Leviathan artist Keith Thompson. Way more at the link.

ST-38 tank concept art from Iron Grip video game, by Leviathan artist Keith Thompson. Way more at the link.

Steam walker concept art from Iron Grip video game, by Leviathan artist Keith Thompson. Way more at the link.

Freighter concept art from Iron Grip video game, by Leviathan artist Keith Thompson. Way more at the link.

Norse APC concept art from Iron Grip video game, by Leviathan artist Keith Thompson. Way more at the link.

Antarctic exploration by Myke Amend, more at his site.

Captain Nemo's Office by Alex Brockel.

Steampunk Mary Poppins by Daniel Cestari (More at the link.)

Steampunk Mary Poppins (draft) by Daniel Cestari (More at the link.)

Juggernaut assault, concept art from Steam Wars movie by Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra director Larry Blamire.

Turkish "Flaming Kettle," concept art from Steam Wars movie by Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra director Larry Blamire.

Tyler Gunwagon (1872), concept art from Steam Wars movie by Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra director Larry Blamire.

French experimental steam rig, concept art from Steam Wars movie by Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra director Larry Blamire.

Goliath class gunrig, concept art from Steam Wars movie by Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra director Larry Blamire.

Concept art from War Of The Worlds: Goliath, a direct-to-DVD animated movie (from the Heavy Metal Fan Forum. More at the link.)

Concept art from War Of The Worlds: Goliath, a direct-to-DVD animated movie (from the Heavy Metal Fan Forum. More at the link.)

Concept art from War Of The Worlds: Goliath, a direct-to-DVD animated movie (from the Heavy Metal Fan Forum. More at the link.)

Concept art from War Of The Worlds: Goliath, a direct-to-DVD animated movie (from the Heavy Metal Fan Forum. More at the link.)

Concept art from War Of The Worlds: Goliath, a direct-to-DVD animated movie (from the Heavy Metal Fan Forum. More at the link.)

Schongut is still working, providing illustrations for everything from book covers to the New York Times and children's books. You can see more of his amazing, eye-melting work on his website.

via A Journey Round My Skull

[Cornelia Hesse-Honegger via Neatorama]

Tree bug from Parvin Road near Hanford WA, USA
The right feeler lacks a section
Harlequin bug near Three Mile Island, USA
The Scutellum is curved and its yellow ornament is asymmetrical.
Soft Bug larva from Posonby, Sellafield, UK
Both of the left wing tips are damaged.
Tree bug, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Right tip of the neck plate is flattened
Housefly mutant ‘aristapedia'
Parts of legs are growing out of the feelers and the eyes are yellow
Squash bug from Rohr, Canton Aargau, Switzerland.
Left cover wing is a short stump.
Soft bug from Pripjat, Ukraine
Right side middle leg is short with no foot but two claws
Damsel bugs Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Wings of uneven length and disturbed neck plate
Scentless plant bug from Würenlingen, Canton Aargau, Switzerland
Left cover wing is blown up like a balloon
Tree bug from Slavoutich, Ukraine
Right feeler is disturbed.
Drosophila melanogaster
The left wing is a little clump
Ladybird beetle near Three Mile Island, USA
Dent and a black growth on wings.

Life Magazine has even more box art from 1950s science fiction toys, with plenty of ray guns, spacemen, and rocket ships. The boxes, largely designed in Japan and Korea, take varied views of our spacefaring future, sometimes focusing on the idyllic wonder of space travel (and how our robot companions will help) and other times on the crime and war that could come with an interplanetary frontier. But whether they were meant for peace or war, the robots got to look wonderful and weird.

[Life Magazine via Tokyomango]

The images are by Stephen Hayford, who has been meticulously creating amazingly sweet Star Wars dioramas for the holidays for years now.

[Hayford via Star Wars]

Netherlands Outrezone [Sam Van Olffen]

Don Quixote of Amsterdam vs. The Alien Windmills
Red Light District
Electrotulips
Flying Dutchman

William Nolan, the guy who wrote the original novel on which Logan's Run is based, helped craft the continuation of Logan's adventures with the Bluewater team.

According to a release about the series, here's what we have in store:

The pieces are falling into place for Deep Sleep Operative Logan-6 on his clandestine mission to find the ever-elusive Ballard and destroy his precious Sanctuary. But even the best-laid plans can go awry. When his cover is blown, not only does Logan risk being killed, but also he must make a split second decision that transforms him from the hunter to the hunted. In this heart racing continuation of LOGAN'S RUN: LASTDAY, Logan soon discovers that going rogue comes with a price.

The series starts in January, but in the meantime you can take a gander at these goofily awesome covers. They'll make you remember why the blinky lights and shiny clothes of the original flick were so memorably groovy.

Art by Matt Bellisle.

Art by Erich Owen.

Art by Michael Shelfer.

Art by Daniel Gete.

We've profiled some of Wragg's sexier (read: NSFW) work before, and BrainBot has the all their whimsy, but is tinged with sadness as well. The BrainBot series was created as part of the "Mind Machines" show at San Diego's Distinctions Gallery. The illustrations are great on their own, but could we maybe someday see a Pixar-produced BrainBot short?

[Nate Wragg via lines and colors]

A Kiss Before Work
A Breath of Fresh Air
Computer Companion
The Brainbot is Alive and Dangerous
Brainbot Has Bad Days Too

Tanijiri is a Japanese designer who was hired to create the interior of Diesel's "Denim Gallery" in Tokyo. He decided to aim for a strange blend of the organic and industrial in this tangled forest of white pipes that crawl over all the walls in the store.

via Archinect

The remake of 1950s camp-horror classic The Blob is still flash-frozen in development somewhere, but New Zealand is leading the rest of the world in Blob-mania.

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so the New Zealand cancer foundation has unleashed "bulbous, veiny street art tumors" (as Animal NYC puts it) on the unsuspecting people of Auckland, to make people more aware of breast cancer by blocking sidewalks and wobbling bizarrely unpleasant-looking flesh in their faces. And there's an ad, which shows a tumor growing so large, it bursts out of a house:

Steve McQueen never had to deal with anything like this. [Animal NYC, thanks Mark Copyranter!]

The winners for the 2009 competition will be announced this Thursday, October 8th. In the meantime, you can play a few rounds of Identify the Image with more finalist photos on the competition website.

Small Wonders: Finalists From the Nikon Small World Competition [PDN Photo of the Day via Metafilter]

Shamuel Silberman, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Embryo of guppy fish (40X)
Viktor Sykora, Institute of Pathophysiology, First Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Hoya carnosa (wax plant) flower (10x)
Massimo Brizzi, Microcosmo Italia, Empoli, Firenze, Italy
Snail eggs (200x)
Daniel Vega, Madrid, Spain
Gall (plant tissue growth) formed by Trigonaspis mendesi (4X)
Karie Holtermann, Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States
Raindrop on butterfly wing (20X)
Norm Barker, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Dinosaur bone, Jurassic period (15X)
Gerd A. Guenther, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sonchus asper (spiny sowthistle) flower stem section (150X)
Fabrice Parais, DIREN Basse-Normandie, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France
Atherix ibis (fly) aquatic larva (25x)
Yanping Wang, Beijing Planetarium, Beijing, China
Snowflake (40X)
Frederique Ruf-Zamojski, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States
Zebrafish embryo, 22 hours post-fertilization, living specimen (40X)

[seek&speak via Super Punch]

Anderson's comic-book covers take racist stereotypes and transplant them into a fantastical world of superpowers and stylized action. Here's Anderson's explanation of Mam-E's superpowers, which are always at the disposal of the "white chilluns":

Mam-E is endowed with great strength and enhanced agility and endurance. More than anything she has an undying will that has served her even more so than her cosmic capabilities. She has a broom that has secrets yet to be unlocked. She has learned with a sudden sweeping gesture that she can conjure a miniature tornado, which can lay low a small cabin. The broom can also project synthetic kinetic energy blasts. She can build up the force by slamming her broom against a hard object. The kinetic blows are stored in the circuitry of the broom where they are amplified and then channeled through the three rings at the end of Mam-E's broom. So far she hasn't reached a limit to the amount of kinetic energy that can be discharged.

If you're up for seeing more of these chaotic, satirical glimpses of a whole made-up comic-book universe ("Gullah Sci-Fi Mysteries") from Anderson, a member of the collective Otabenga Jones and Associates, then you can check out his gallery show that just opened in Houston. You can also find more of them at his blog, at the first link. (The Kool-Aid guy cover is at the second link.) [Gullah Sci-Fi Mysteries via Houston Chronicle]

Juan Molinet [Flickr via mashKULTURE]

War of the Worlds
Revista Colectiva - Supermarket Edition
Wintertime
Hidden Monster, Crouching Tiger
Candynaut
Golden Slumbers
Teen Wolf
Midnight Snack
Somewhere in Japan
First Day at Work
Robotono
Space Monkey
Harald the Viking

Oh, and a couple of these images may be a tad NSFW (mostly just images #14 and #16).

We caught up with Hayden at an art show on Friday, and we were blown away by his images of weird robots, dolls, transformers gone awry and strange mutations. We were even more amazed when he told us that his friends served as the model for all of these pictures (except when he models himself.) We asked Hayden more about his work, and here's what he told us:

Ever since I was a kid, I've loved comics. Starting around 2000, I began experimenting with combining the visual language of comic books with my other artistic passion - photography. In college, I made these illustrated-photography pieces in a fully analog way, by shooting in film, making C-prints, and drawing directly on them with marker. After graduating, I couldn't afford to do film more anymore, and in '05 I bought my Wacom tablet. Ever since then, I shoot digitally, composite on the computer, and hand-draw everything with the Wacom. Even though hand-drawing it digitally takes me a lot longer than ink, I do that rather than automatic vectorizing because I want to maintain the human touch to my art.

I love exploring themes of body-horror, biomechanical transformations, insane robots, and anything vividly colorful. Thankfully for my artwork, I have some very helpful friends who don't seem to mind being painted with crazy metallic body paints, or loaded down with gadgets!

Some of my influences are Tadanori Yokoo, Jasper Goodall, and Hajime Sorayama, as well as a life full of comics, video games, robot toys, and my trips to Japan.

See more of his awesome work at the link. [Evan Hayden Art]