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space porn

This Is The World The Machines Made

A satellite image shows a totally machine-made world, which looks like a cubist painting. But it's not a giant set for the new Terminator movie, it's the remains of the Bolivian rainforest, after massive clear-cutting. The red areas are the places where vegetation still exists. This is just one of 30 amazing satellite images of the Earth which resemble abstract art, as posted over at Environmental Graffiti. Others include natural phenomena, such as the gorgeous Richat Structure in Mauritania, a huge bulls-eye impact crater in the Sahara. Click through to see a few more of our favorites. More »

4:00 PM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,922 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: Yet another sign of the apocalypse: cubism viewable from space. more »

concept art

Tron's Light Cycles Could Have Looked Much Stranger

As sleek and cyber-looking as the light cycles were in VR-game epic Tron, some of the original light-cycle concept art looks even more arresting. Some of the light cycles look almost industrial, like machines made out of pixels, while others look abstract and chaotic, just squiggly lines moving around. Even though the light-cycle concept art includes work by masters Syd Mead and Peter Lloyd, my favorites are the comic-booky drawings by Andy Probert, above. Some more favorites, below the fold. More »

11:40 AM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,230 views, 10 comments

Latest by jdw242b: the laserdisc set has a lot of those drawings and more... more »

terminator salvation

Exclusive Look Inside Terminator 4 Shows A New Wheel In Town

Look at this set photo from Terminator: Salvation. Is this John Connor's new BatPod? Or something more sinister? This is just one of the behind-the-scenes pics io9 just obtained. Click through for more pics, plus speculation about the nature of this wheeled beast. Spoilers ahead. More »

8:20 AM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Meredith Woerner
5,266 views, 9 comments

the dark knight

See the Sketches That Captured The Crazy

The Dark Knight concept art from legendary comics artist Bill Sienkiewicz shows Heath Ledger's Joker looking more crazed than ever. Sienkiewicz was the go-to guy for TDK, and it's no wonder. He pretty much captures exactly why the Joker is the scariest of all in Gotham. His concept drawings are pretty much a spot-on rendition of what the audience saw in the theatre. Click through for a few more of our favorites. More »

10:55 AM on Mon Jul 21 2008
By Meredith Woerner
49,814 views, 22 comments

Pulse 2

A Terrible Black Ooze Seeps From The Internet, Called Pulse 2

The people who brought you suicide by ethernet cable, in Pulse, are working on a second your-computer-will-kill-you movie. Pulse 2, the movie we didn't know we wanted, has released a few stills, which show all the hallmarks of a truly awful sequel, including lesser copies of the first movie's special effects and the addition of some children. That being said, I'm a wee bit curious to see what happened to the world after the internet opened a portal to another dimension in the first movie. Details and stills from the upcoming movie after the jump. More »

8:20 AM on Mon Jul 21 2008
By Meredith Woerner
1,395 views, 23 comments

Latest by n/a: Ringu was really scary. I was counting the days after we watched it and breathed a sigh of releif when we passed seven. Silly but that tells you the story had an impact. -Carrie more »

batman: gotham knight

Is Gotham City Really New York?

Batman stands on his favorite gargoyle, in front of a humongous clock overlooking Gotham City. You always what time it is in Gotham, but you may not actually know what city you're in. Gotham City is a weird mish-mash of architectural styles and a crazy-quilt of neighborhoods that don't quite fit together. This has never been more obvious than when you pay attention to the new Batman: Gotham Knight animated DVD, which is itself an uneasy mix of different stories. Click through for an annotated gallery. More »

12:45 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,301 views, 53 comments

Latest by n/a: I always assumed that Gotham was Chicago :-p more »

science fiction art

In Soviet Russia, Space Opera Really Was Operatic

Look at the Russian cover for Robert Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land: It's like one of Caravaggio's Bible scenes: lurid, fiery, over-the-top and awesome. It should surprise nobody that Heinlein and Philip K. Dick were fantastically popular in the U.S.S.R., with their sharp social commentary and crazy plot devices. The Russian Science Fiction page (in English, luckily) has a bunch of Heinlein and Dick covers, and we have a gallery of our favorites below. More »

12:04 PM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,378 views, 14 comments

Latest by n/a: @kyfho23: Would RAH notice a difference between the Soviet Union and Putin's Russia (he's still in charge!)? I love the Stranger In A Strange Land illustration-it reminds me of William Blake... liked Ubik cover too more »

Repo! The Generic Opera

Giles Gets Stab-Happy With A Scapel In New Repo Stills

Repo! The Generic Opera gives Buffy's Anthony Head a real chance to open up — open up other people and confiscate the organs they can no longer afford, that is. Click through and check out pictures of Head gleefully preparing his next victim and donning the Repo mask, plus a closer look at his goth kid Shilo Wallace (Alexa Vega). More »

8:40 AM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Meredith Woerner
2,083 views, 7 comments

space porn

Brightest Supernova In History Has Turned To Velvety Goodness

This supernova dominated our skies for weeks, a thousand years ago. It was brighter than Venus and visible during the day, and observers documented it in China, Japan, Europe and the Arab world. We now know that the brightest supernova on record, SN 1006c, was caused by a white dwarf star that gained mass from a companion star until it gorged itself and exploded. Click through for some more mind-blowing images of SN1006c, including some super-colorful X-ray images. More »

11:52 AM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,223 views, 24 comments

Latest by SuperCollider: Just because we can't see those colors, with our eyes, doesn't mean it isn't "real." more »

Wynter Dark

The Kingdom Of New York Will Never Bow To Its Ice-Age Foes, London And Neo Tokyo

The upcoming post-apocalyptic war movie Wynter Dark has released a few concept designs of New York city 800 years in the future, during our next ice age. Looks like Lady Liberty is still standing (as usual in post-apocalyptic movies), but everything else is frozen and desolate. It also appears that the citizens of NYC have constructed some sort of barrier, obviously to keep their enemies from across the pond out of their city. There are no more details other than that out there for the moment on this 20th Century Fox film, but click through for a look at a snow-tank of the future. More »

8:40 AM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By Meredith Woerner
4,415 views, 36 comments

Latest by Grey_Area: @Mister Adequate: aw shucks, you're welcome. Now go change your pants, please. more »

avatar

First Outlines Of Avatar's Slender Aliens

A first glimpse of the super skinny, long haired alien life-forms from James Cameron's 3-D epic Avatar opens the door for many questions. Could this T-shirt design really be what the inhabitants of Alpha Centauri B-4, otherwise known as the Na'vi, look like? Click through for more pictures and spoilery talk. More »

8:40 AM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Meredith Woerner
3,161 views, 29 comments

primeval

Help! I'm Being Carjacked By The Cloverfield Monster!

A weird long-limbed creature attacks this guy's minivan, from the British time-warp show Primeval, coming to American TV. The show's producers insist it's nothing like Doctor Who: it's a work of total realism, except for the one central plot device of a time/space rift opening and letting prehistoric creatures attack. Primeval, from the creators of the acclaimed CG-heavy Walking With Dinosaurs, uses the same techniques to show prehistoric creatures in the present day. Click through for a gallery of CG creatures, plus a few spoilers. More »

4:26 PM on Thu Jul 10 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,890 views, 31 comments

Latest by Crunchy: Crunchy has watched all the shows and enjoyed them immensely. Good character development and interesting plots. "It's got Dinosaurs Man!"... "OH YEAH!" more »

eureka

A Little Happy Scifi To Get You Through BSG and Lost Withdrawal

The return of Eureka and its lighthearted scifi tales is nearly upon us, but in the meantime we've got new season three promo pics. Click through for a gallery of the brave new cast, including the one and only U.S. Marshal Jack Carter, from the sunshiney genius town of Eureka. The show's season premiere is July 29, 2008. Eureka, combined with Stargate, should give you plenty of scifi to watch instead of pining for more Lost or BSG. More »

8:40 AM on Thu Jul 10 2008
By Meredith Woerner
2,181 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: Pining for Lost and BSG? I'm pining for Atlantis and Eureka. more »

space porn

Murdered Galaxy Gets A Double-Halo Memorial

See that cool pattern around this edge-on spiral galaxy, NGC 5907? The one that sort of looks like two halos? Those are the only remains of another galaxy, which NGC 5907 slaughtered in cold blood. (Or maybe cold dark matter?) We've shown you galaxies colliding before, but here's an arresting look at the aftermath of one of those galactic hit-and-runs, courtesy of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. These "stellar fossils," or "ghost galaxies," result from the spiral galaxy's collision with a dwarf galaxy, which it mostly absorbed. Click through to see a bigger image, plus a look at NGC 4013's "ghost trail." More »

4:00 PM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,543 views, 11 comments

Latest by phoenix: @cafu: Also - the Magellanic clouds are irregular dwarves, and by irregular I mean geometrically - they're somewhat spherical, but they're not of any particular size or shape. more »

watchmen

Nite Owl's Study Is A Museum Of The Minutemen

In the latest behind-the scenes Watchmen diary from UGO original graphic novel artist Dave Gibbons explains how shocked and amazed he was by the attention to detail all around the set. And so are we — especially when it comes to has-been superhero Nite Owl's study. Click through for a clip, plus a gallery of the old time photos that adorn Nite Owl's walls, showing him at the height of his crime-fighting days. Plus some copies of his tell-all novel Under The Hood. More »

1:30 PM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Meredith Woerner
2,980 views, 16 comments

Latest by DSTRYA: @ all: ... of course, there's a good chance that he's just really splurging on the production and that these details will sort of just be there in the shot rather than drive the actual film. I'm just excited that more »

the dark knight

Look Who Nurse Joker Is Coming To Visit

So that shocking Harvey Dent image we ran in this morning's spoiler round up? The one I was pretty sure was a fake? It's looking more like it might be real. Spoiler TV's movie blog posted a bunch of screencaps from The Dark Knight, including a better version of that image. And it does look as though Nurse Joker is going to the hospital to visit a very special patient. Click through for spoilery images. More »

11:57 AM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
12,261 views, 33 comments

Latest by Charlie Jane Anders: @CJG: Yeah fair enough... I guess if you put those together, it does kind of give a hint about who the Joker is visiting... Sorry about that! more »

transformers

The Transformer Attack You Never Got To See

An aircraft carrier morphs into a massive robot and goes on the attack, in this gorgeous piece of Transformers concept art by Tim Flattery. We already showed you some of James Clyne's amazing Transformers concept art a while back, but Flattery's images of giant robots striding through water eruptions and jets of flame convey an incredible sense of scale. They're like a giant robot rock-concert lightshow for your brain. More »

11:47 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
78,042 views, 23 comments

Latest by snarklenyc: Speaking of transformers, who knows, perhaps that concept art will come into play in Transformers 2, I had a feeling that when Megatron and the other out of duty decepticons were dropped at the bottom of the ocean at the more »

the surrogates

A Robot Spartacus, Crucified In A Bleak Future

A grim warning to all robots looms over a pile of dirt and rubble on the set of The Surrogates, now filming in Hopedale, Massachusetts. In The Surrogates, based on a graphic novel, every human has a robot copy so they never have to leave the home. Willis plays a cop that has to go outside for the first time in years to investigate a rash of surrogate robot murders. Perhaps the last picture of Willis with his terrible rug was his idealistic perception of his robot self? Click through for more on set pics. More »

10:56 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Meredith Woerner
3,436 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: This is going to be just like The Sixth Day isn't it? There'll be 25 minutes of vaguely interesting world building- then 90 minutes of explosions followed by a twist ending so predictable you could see it coming from the poster. more »

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