“Yeeehaaa,” roared Jim. His face creased with laughter and he felt somewhat light-headed, even with the benefit of a pressure suit. He turned to Frankie at his side. “Woah! That dive gets me every time.” “Me too,” chortled Frankie, “although it’s the first time we’‘ve done it with invisibility off.” Frankie gently tweaked the single control column, levelling the, “Frisbee” over the Yarra. “What we are doing will change Earth for ever, Jim.” said Frankie grimly. All traces of the euphoria they had both felt at the end of the swoop, had evaporated like the fog over the Yarra. “Someone had to do it”, replied Jim softly. His eyes betraying a sadness, at odds with his clipped comment. They dipped lower and slowed, drifting silently forward about 100 metres above the dark waters, reflected like some giant metallic Krispy Kreme. They needed to be as visible as possible to the morning crowds. The time for pretending, misinformation and outright lies, was over. No-one could stop them now. Ever since the days of the USAF’s infamous “Project Blue Book”, cover up. There had been a small group of dissenters, effectively silenced, through means both fair and fowl. After secret and careful preparation, their time had come. They had finally decided to risk all and act. Frankie tweaked the controls and then let the craft settle into its auto landing function. They touched down near to the harbour entrance and within minutes, helicopters and fighter aircraft from the Australian Air force were buzzing overhead, like angry gnats ahead of a summer storm. The nervous and expectant crowds lined every vantage point and cameras, both official and private clicked and whirred away – capturing and sending information at light speed around the globe. The ramp lowered and the crowds hushed as the men walked slowly and deliberately down and towards the awaiting media. Jim grinned again, exposing row after row of very tiny, but very sharp teeth…
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I was hoping for a nice tree picture but what i got strikes me very differently. It’s like a shot from another planet. The lens flare would normally have ruined it but the very nature of the flare and thestyle almost seem to add to the interplanetary mood. The pic is totally unmodified. I’d be interested in your opinion – have i been watching too much Dr Who or does it really have an air of the outer worlds?
Orran has been destroyed by the evil Kurik. This image was created with Lightwave 3D and is a still from the TV Pilot Soulkeeper, currently in production.
sci fi, fantasy landscape, ruined spaceship, digital painting
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NEW PILGRIMS / OIL ON STRETCHED CANVAS / $900 US (12” X 16” ORIGINAL) / SIGNED DEDICATED PRINTS AVAILABLE I have always wondered exactly what is over that next mountain? What new adventure is awaiting my arrival? And when can I leave? It has always been that way with me. I’m not exactly sure why but it is the lure of travel and new vistas that has always captured my heart. Age has not diminished that lure. Age has actually made the temptation greater. Time, it would appear, limits me to one life and there is so much to see and so much to do that I find myself wishing for more minutes in the hour, more days within the week, more months within the year and if at all possible more life’s to live. So I have constructed a means, a way, a ruse to cheat Time. I can travel to places far, far away visit with whomever I wish and whenever I desire. Places that no one yet has seen. I can travel far into the future or if I wish I can go back deep within the past. The remarkable thing is that how I do this is not unique. I see it done, mostly by young children, when they play. This trickery, this means by which I travel is simply my imagination and with it I can do the most wonderful of things. By allowing myself to dream I can be transported anywhere and at any time I wish. So with my brushes and my oils I have traveled deep into the future where I beheld the most wonderful of sights. There before my gaze were the “new pilgrims”. They were landing on the shores of a “new world”. Brave new adventurers, romantics, and daredevils all. Not fearing the unknown. Intrepid explorers going where no one had gone before. So what a wonderful gift the Creator has given to me. The gift of imagination. When I feel too “adult” all I need to do is spend some time with some very young explorers. Children are the greatest of explorers, as they see for the first time the wonderful gift of imagination. What a joy it is to see them fashion new, vibrant ideas with supple minds that are open to all new discoveries. They leave “no stone unturned” as they explore everything and everywhere. Their minds are like “clean slates” waiting to be filled with the abundance of Creation. visionary imagist “Joey”
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Sales of this TShirt ? – 1 sale so far :) / Aki da Alien says / I Come In Peace / Tshirt design created by Karin Taylor / he is lime, but there are also other colours available / he comes in lime, orange, silver and yellow too / so just ask if you’d like one of the other colours / Aki Alien is disembarking his spaceship / the words say ‘I come in peace’
Ships, 3d models rendered in Carrara. HDR image lighting. Each ship was given a target to point at, thus creating illusion of similar trajectory. Planet-stock image of a hurricane-satellite view. An abstract of my own overlaid and screened. Planet in distance, rendered by Lunar Cell, Photoshop plug-in. Screened on top of planet. Engine flares-particule effects from Particle illusion, Lens flares (Genarts), Muzzle flash (Tinerbox); upper atmosphere haze on ships-Shine plug in. Composited initially in after effects; then into Photoshop for finishing.
It dawned on them fairly early that I didn’t have a big enough whiteboard for the job so the windows of the farm where pressed into servi…
It dawned on them fairly early that I didn’t have a big enough whiteboard for the job so the windows of the farm where pressed into service. Peter, Fran and Ed had gathered with me, to think about PR at RedBubble. At least that is where it started but it rapidly became about communications. And at that point we had to ask what is we wanted to say. Hence the need to bring the windows into service. There was surprising unanimity. We have never seen what we do as being a print-on-demand site (a sort of tarted-up Kodak) or even an “art” site exactly. We believe creativity is important because it deepens our humanity. We aspire to enable people to be more creative and to share this creativity. What will come out of all this. Firstly you get to see Fran on a trampoline. Normally, I would be happy with this from the day. But there is more. Mostly it will be about more engaging, interesting (possibly strange) things from us. Things that speak about our own creativity. Why? The why is because this is the richness of life. This is what we want to do. A child picks up a box, gets inside it and finds a spaceship. We don’t want boxes at the Bub, we want spaceships. And we want to help others to make spaceships also. Sometimes we will share each others and sometimes we will travel alone. We may have to write a little about this but mostly it will be about doing. The swords will be melted down and turned into sculptures speaking of a higher reality. Martin (aka Pilgrim)
My space ship has found a girlfriend I think… ;-)
Lisa C. Weber ©2008 (Created with Bryce 6.1) / Visit My Complete Redbubble for all My 3D Artwork & Products
Nothing like heading in for a landing at a nice hotel to start one’s vacation off right.
WIll always be one of my top fav sci-fi baddies.
Finally – the scanners at World Famous Guitar and Plunger Studios are working again! So here are another series of collages – old school cut-n-paste – from the InterWebMegaLink’s very own mastermind and psychonaut, Mat Blackwell, circa May 2009. This image depicts the metallic angels descending upon the hapless folk of the Endtimes – to cleanse the Worlds of their petty humyn folly and return them to Mecha-God. (we can but hope.)
The Midnight Star is a very cold, very old and barren planet, apparently uninhabited, and the Coliseum is one of the few ruins discovered so far of a long departed civilization. / This gigantic structure is carved out of a single mountain, and if you look at the 3d sample below, it appears to be a type of race course, or a consecutive series of smaller arenas or training grounds. Possible seating as carved levels for over a million beings our size, less if they were larger in size, more if they were avian. There are no indications of dwellings as we know them, so maybe they just commuted for scheduled events. It’s difficult to date, as no artifacts were found. Here we see one of the six interior sections, or arenas, looking in towards the center from atop the outer wall; this one is worth a long close look, the details are intense. Yet another collaboration with Owlspook and another of her lovely fractal creations, Midnight Star: Here is the converted artifact, notice the six chambers with adjoining gateways: Hope you like these, Owlspook, imagine pod racing, or perhaps chariot relays with a melee in between, or maybe ballet, or multiplex movie theaters!
They came, they destroyed and they now live among us. Add Diesel Laws: /
Went to “the Falls” yesterday. It was slightly overcast and quite warm. Having grown up in Western New York and living here my whole life, everyone refers to Niagara Falls as “the Falls”. / While there, you see people from all over the world, coming to see this magnificent natural wonder. / I was lucky enough to capture this shot which shows that that sight-seeing nature of humans, is not ours exclusively. Beings from everywhere want to see “the Falls”!!
Abstract Macro Photography – Spacescape
FEATURED IN Out of the Blue / made in bryce and adjustments in photoshop today Oct 11th 2009
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