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TheFaithfulStone
10/30/08

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It's like Di Chirico in space.
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NerD: Blattella
10/29/08

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I really like the feeling of these. It seems familiar, yet modern. I wish I could paint like that.

Wait, I can. I wish I WOULD paint like that.

Wait, I have time tonight.

I wish I hadn't bought Fallout 3, but I love the lunchbox and bobblehead too much.
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d_r_e
10/29/08

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Holy shit, this is HOT.
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Annalee Newitz
10/29/08

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Hello new desktop wallpaper.
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Aethelred
10/29/08

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I really liked Land of Sleeping Things ... evocative, stylish and well executed.
The others all look entirely different, though. Sterile, comic-booky and cheap.
Are these by the same artist? The dichotomy is astounding.
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tetracycloide
10/29/08

@Aethelred: it sounds more like you have a problem with minimalism than anything else. one could assume you praise land... over the others because it has a clearer vanishing point that adds extra perspective. the lack of depth perspective in the other works is not indicative of cheapness as much as it is a part of the composition of the respective works. in fact the perspective in most of the shots serves as a visual motiff to seperate the elements within each work and it does a pretty good job of it. very reminescent of ukiyo-e.
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Daveinva
10/29/08

@Aethelred: I was going to say the same thing-- Sleeping Things is great, but the others look like bad versions of Stanislaw Lem movie posters.
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Grey_Area
10/29/08

@Daveinva: They are all reminiscent of some SF/Fantasy art from the 70s. Especially Roger Dean the guy who did album covers for Yes.

On the whole I quite like these.
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Aethelred
10/30/08

@tetracycloide: Ahhhh. Now I gets it: the others are "reminescent" of crap. That explains everything. Now I just need to go find out what reminescent means.
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tetracycloide
10/30/08

@Aethelred: ukiyo-e was a heavy infulence on a number of significant movements in classical european art. it is hardly worthy of a title like crap, at least van gogh, degas and monet didn't think so along with a number of other extremely talented artists.

reminiscent = suggestive
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