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too bad there's no chtulhu comic :(
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Hi fist of all love your blog I've checking it for years. Second thing, my wife makes notepads and stationary with lots of these prints you can see them at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5858020 keep up the great posts
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Thanks for the very interesting selection. Speaking of italian sci-fi covers... be sure to check out the work of Karel Thole! His eerie covers got me interested in sci-fi literature when I was a little boy!
http://www.mondourania.com/urania/u301-320/urania301-320.htm
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Wow, gorgeous, amazing stuff. Artist buddy of mine, Jason Chalker, does a lot of pulp inspired paintings - well worth checking out http://www.manlyart.com/
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Man, I need to go to space, that's where all the lusty, well-endowed woman have been hiding themselves all these years!
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FREDRIC BROWN
not
FREDRICK
the typo is on the cover too
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WOW, incredible stuff!!
THX & best wishes
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What, no Ed Emshwiller? No Edd Cartier? No Jack Gaughan?
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Son geniales las ilustraciones de las revistas de ciencia ficción futurista, sobretodo las que continenen tentáculos y robots.
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Great art & artist...
But... no Richard M. Powers!
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjk5/
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Have you guys heard about Alex Ross? Check this link:
http://www.wildsvillegallery.com/catalog/index.php/artist/alex-ross
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Richard Powers... Ed Emshwiller... Edd Cartier... Jack Gaughan - wow, we definitely need part two!
Mind you most of these artists were famous for their paperback covers.
Wildman, thank you, Alex Ross is one the best artists for comic heroes.
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Absolutely impressive precis of a long neglected field of art.
Would be rendered more perfecter if only the awful neologism 'scifi' was replaced by the true shorthand phrase, SF or if you prefer sf.
Scifi is a ghastly term.
SF is soooooooooooooooooooooo much more sophisticated
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Badger42 - I would agree with you, but there is a very respectable site
Sci-Fi.com, so the tide of using this word is turning...
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Really very nice space..on day i have to show you my vision's of future... huts, and confratulations for the work!!
Do you know Mas Yendo? Search for it, you will be happy
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I believe that there is only one golden age of every art form. Perhaps visit me sometime at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/silverghost1951/ThePerilsOfKarenMorrow#
SG51
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Thank you Silverghost, this link has made my day... what a treasure trove of cool pulp art, fantastic.
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The pic of the baby deer is from www.cuteoverload.com.
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I think that the mystery pic is something from WarHammer 40000 or Warhammer online...
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The mystery pic is indeed something to do with that gaming stuff...
It's the exterior of the Games Workshop building in Lenton, Nottingham. More pics and info here:
http://www.lentontimes.co.uk/streets/willow_road.htm
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The clouds looks like the logo of Hi3G "3".
http://www.three.co.uk/personal/index.omp
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That tank is an American Stuart. Not a Soviet tank
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The clouds could likely be conical residue from a missile launch. Seen fairly commonly in Los Angeles from Vandenberg AFB launches.
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The mystery plant is Hydnora africana, a parasitic plant from Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnora_africana
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The jumping tank is an American Stuart model, showing a white star typical of the USA army camo scheme of the time.
The mistery place is Games Workshop's central office, makers of the Warhammer 40.000 strategic game (that's a Space Marine statue).
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I'm pretty sure the Warhammer stuff is out in front of their main offices in Memphis TN
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Thank you guys - post updated.
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The "Nortilucent clouds" appear to be instead the after affect of an early morning launch at the White Sands Missile Range, as seen from the Phoenix Metro area. The residue rocket fuel in the atmosphere is "lit up" by the rising sun. I at least THINK that is Superstition Mountain on the horizon.
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Why is the fan on the Lego V8 going backwards?
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Love this site.
"Rocket trails"
"Atmospheric Optics" is another good site that has some great stuff on atmospheric phenomena. Looks like they have another shot of the very same cloud:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/rktr1j.htm
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...by the way those rocket trails look a lot more like nacreous clouds.
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/highsky/nacr1.htm
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Here are some pix from Switzerland. This is a private park dubbed the "car graveyard" :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32819147@N00/tags/carcemetery/
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Julie, what an interesting article. they're all look beautiful.
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I think we really feel the soul of the abandonned place in her photography.
She had a good sense of composition and light too : )
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Check out
www.opacity.usits the best collection of urban decay photos I've found
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I really love these. Julie, you do AMAZING work, I am really drawn to the staircases and the dryad image particularly! :) All of your artwork is so textural and really brings out the interestingly beautiful features of these abandoned places. Great interview, I enjoyed reading it!!
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great profile of a great photographer! Wonderful work, Julie!
-- flashframe
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Julie's work is amazing, so glad you featured it here - it deserves to be noticed by the world. Way to go, Julie.
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Check out Tarkovskiy's "Stalker". It's full of this.
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That church reminds me of the chapel at which I used to dump all my gold in the original Diablo. Weird!
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Wonderful pictures...I fell in love with the orange house =)
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These are just incredible. What's even more unbelievable is that you found them and take such exquisite photos and capture their energy and tragic beauty.
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Ouch @ 7:50 ramp guy landing on his face...
But man, that must've been such a fascinating age.
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>> "maybe we're just out of touch
>> with Japanese school girl culture."
If you turn your back for 5 minutes, you'll get out of touch with Japanese school girl culture!
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Avi, it would be great if you did a piece on Yorkshire's beauty it's self, it would go quite nicely with the other beautiful parts of the world you've covered.
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I actually got to see some of Yayoi's work at the Phoenix Art Museum. It was absolutely stunning. You walk into the room and, well, it lives up to it's name "You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies” I could have stayed in there for hours.
A short blog about it can be found here: http://www.theelementsite.com/blog/?p=66
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The singing-while-smoking guy is some indian actor, not Sultan Rahi. BTW, IIRC Sultan Rahi (dead now) once held the world record for making the most killings in movies.
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What are those buildings behind "Train your cat to watch LOL-cats"?
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Hmm.. my understanding is that the bathing machines weren't for
nude bathing. (See the wikipedia article that was linked, as well as
this page.) The 'naked bathing' quote seems to be talking about the time
before the bathing machines on the National Maritime Museum description on the image.
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Tometheus - "...enabled the bather to enter the water, sometimes naked, without being seen"
sourceNot everybody used this possibility, though.
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Absolutely beautiful! I'd love to travel there someday, as well as Turkey and Jordan... if only the political atmosphere was a little more confidence-inspiring.
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Avi, your posts on the beauty of Middle Eastern countries has been very inspirational, I am all ready to do a full tour.
Has anyone had any experience traveling to these parts? Would it be a very bad idea at the moment? I really want to go! Stupid wars...
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Fantastic pictures. Thanks
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I love it. I have been to the cedars. Absolutely Amazing
http://www.bucketbeats.com
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Thank you, I'm from Lebanon and these pictures brought tears to my eyes. The people of Lebanon are Beautiful as well. It's a tragedy what that the world has decided to use it as a battleground for Israel and Syria related conflicts.
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Just stunning. What a magnificent place.
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Wow, those are some absolutely stunning photos! Amazing!
Jlff
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By far the most beautiful place in the middle east. Great People and Food as well.
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Thanks for sharing! Gorgeous! I've been there before the war (70's) and I always wanted to go back. Amazing, fun, open-minded people.
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Marvelous! I been to Lebanon, and I think it's even more magical when you're there!!
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I was just in Lebanon this past August, and I spent a year there from 2004-2005. I figured it was time to get the hell out when the ex-prime minister was assassinated. During the summer, Lebanon seemed stable enough to visit. I don't think it would be bad at this very moment to visit, but because it's so unstable, there's no way of really knowing. Ugh... indeed, stupid wards.
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Thank you all - glad you like the article.
Leila, these are "wards" (creatures like goblins) who wage wars, correct.
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Thank you. It is refreshing to find a positive article and photos from Lebanon. As usually, people in the Media are always covering and portraying the negative aspect of the country.Please keep up the good honest work.
We look forward to seeing more good coverage from you on this beautiful country. Thanks again.
Gladys M. Wehbe
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I am from Turkey and I had the luxury of seeing most of these beautiful countries, the security is not an issue, the government takes care of security unlike USA military is very active which is not scary but comforting so don't let ifs and buts stand in your way of seeing these beautiful places.
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A truly awesome place, a damn shame it been used as a pawn in whatever geo-political, religious struggle that might be going on that day, week, month, or year.
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Gracias por esas preciosas fotos del paraiso terrenal destruido por el odio , las guerras injustas y el fanatismo.
ya era hora de hacer justicia y enseñar el verdadero Líbano, antigua Fenicia, cuna de la civilizacion, inventora del alfabeto, la moneda, la purpura y transmisora de las culturas de oriente para el mundo entero. allí se encuentran las ciudades de Biblos, Baalbeck, Sidon y Tiro. fundaron Cartago (actual Tunez), Cadiz, Cartagena y Sagunto entre otras muchas ciudades a las orillas del Mediterraneo. de Tiro viene el nombre de Europa ( hija del rey Ahiram. Carece de petroleo pero por su suelo fluyen 14 rios principales ademas de sus afluentes y regatos.
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thanks for sharing. it was a piece of heaven...
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Thanks for these pictures. They are very beautiful and only make me dream of being in Lebanon all the more. :)
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Thank you for these pictures, my late father was of lebanese ascendence and told me stories about the land, it saddens me to see how the wars are affecting such a beautiful country
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I really want to travel there, and Syria too. I'm a little daunted by the language barrier, and how a Brit would be seen in the region. I wonder if we're seen as supporters of Israel, or aggressors in Iraq. Both are totally understandable, thanks to Tony Blair!
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thx 4 these amazing pic. im lebanese i adore lebanon itis a peace of paradise god bless lebanon and keep it always beautiful
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Thank you for posting some of my images.
A.Saleh
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Your definition of "Cool Retro" must be different from mine.
I'd swear they tore that stuff from the pages of "Interior Desecrations".
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Hi,
AFAIK, loads of other people know batman's identity, not just the 8 people you listed.
For example, Wonder Woman, J'onn J'onzz , Aquaman, Green Arrow, Zatanna, Black Canary, The Atom, Hawkman, Green Lantern, Flash are just the JLA members who know.
There are villans who know it as well, like The Riddler, Ra's Al Ghul, Catwoman etc.
And, there are more people in the "bat-clan" who know, as well. The Oracle (Barbara Gordon), the new Batgirl (Cassandra Cain), all the Robins, Dr Leslie Thompkins.In fact, even Lois Lane knows!
Anyway, great post as usual. Just ignore the rabid comic fan :)
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If I'm not mistaken, the Brooklyn Superhero Supply store is a front for a writing workshop for kids set up by Dave Eggers. There are several, located in major cities across the U.S. and they typically have some insane amazing fake front to them (pirate store, spy supplies, etc.)
Just in case anyone was interested...
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Love your blog!
I want to make a contribution to this posting by giving you the link to that atrocious Bollywood movie (not all Bollywood is atrocious, you know?). Here's the absolutely horrible clip of Superman and "Mary" (apparently that's how Superman called her in private):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXUmGm38zV4&feature=related
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Awesome post!
Do we know who will be playing the Green Lantern in the upcoming movie?
I didn't know so much about his background before seeing
this sometime last year.
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haha at the photoshop of the crooked man!!
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This was my first visit to your blog, thanks to a friends referral, but definitely not my last. I loved this blog today! I thought I knew something about the JLA members, but not very much apparently. Enlightening and enjoyable.
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cathikin - welcome to DRB! Glad you like it :)
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The shop in Brooklyn is a writing workshop. You can here Dave Eggers speak about it on TED. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school.html
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"Trust Japanese to bring schoolgirls into everything".
And that's a bad thing because...???
Regards & all,
Thomas L. Nielsen
Denmark
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Hi. umm. Batman in pink looks like my little brother when I was little and I put him in my Sleeping Beauty nightgown. I also dressed him as Supergirl.
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Thank you :)
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Great!
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The "Mystery Photo" very much looks like something of Hundertwasser, but I do not recognize or know it, as a matter of fact.
Could also be Gaudi/Dali.
~lImbus
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Its the hunderwasser building in Darmstadt. Every window of the tausend windows is an unicate an handmade.
A friend lives there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldspirale
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Sorry for the mistakes.
It's the Waldspirale from Hundertwasser in Darmstadt. Every window of the tausend windows is an unique and handmade.
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Pet peeve: It's tentacles, not tenticles! :)
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Wow, Thats a good use for books no doubt. Quite fascinating indeed.
Jiff
www.privacy.es.tc
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Wow that is amazing. Who comes up with this stuff?
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Some of this stuff is gorgeous. I'm one of those people who is a little iffy about destroying books, but I think the only person who's really *destroyed* anything is whoever created the first eight pieces. Using a book to make art is not so bad as long as that art is beautiful; the first few just look like piles of trash.
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s'better than readin' 'em!
FilthyRichmond.com
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I know shameless self promotion is in bad taste, but my work is very similar in that I deconstruct books to create new books. Feel free to check out
www.matthewhall.info to see it.
My compliments to the artists and author of this post. It is always nice to see that I am not the only one that finds old books to be a wonderful medium for new work.
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and only 6 comments for so great post? wow quite impressive.
thanks for the great collection, you must have spent lots of time to collect them
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Ah yes, the heady aroma of rotting paper, foxing and mildew...my nose hurts--somebody open a window!
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Excellent post - it's also very nice to see the care you put into crediting and linking the original artists.
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wow. great collection. I love these images. Its great to see how creativy is taken to such a detailed level
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Readful compilation! ;D
But you mean "Instructables", not "Inscrutables" (altho that could've been a funny Freudian slip).
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Biografias - Buechersturz: http://www.ok-centrum.at/presse/downloads/schaurausch/DSCF7643_40.jpg
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It's the information conveyed by books that's critical, not books themselves. Books are analogous to hard drives, TVs, radios; not to data, movies, or music. Lining walls with books that aren't read -- most homes and libraries -- provides good insulation, especially from radiation. Merely possessing a book conveys no information.
My only comment is that I'd value most of the art illustrated less than I would recycling books into coffee cups or napkins. Simply burning books adds to greenhouse gases without much redeeming value.
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It's hard to explain poetry to those who only see prose.
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That's splendid !
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@ Isa, I do think the first eight are beautiful !
I am iffy about destroying books, but with the caveat that there must be a purpose, and also my thougths about printed material have changed over 15 years, with digital saving of printed materials, and as long as the books treated in this way are not rare
i see many books throw out on trash day, and also old books thrown out by our local library when they reach a certain stage of wear
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The best comment I've ever heard on the ethics of book-cutting art was in an article that involved cutting up a thesaurus. The dilemma was solved: "... but that's ok, because I don't believe in synonyms."
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These are fabulous! I'm making mail art out of my own book and loved seeing what others are doing.
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If you are looking for free books that are otherwise going to be thrown out, you should try checking your local ReUseIt Network group. It's a great place to find things like this for free!
http://www.reuseitnetwork.org/
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Some of this is quite nice. Although I can't see using any of my own books for art, I would like to have some of these pieces.
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I don't the mind the use of the newer fiction novels or the stuff bought in bulk via Goodwill for the art installments but things like the desecration of the original Alice in Wonderland leaves me rather speechless. I have a love of books and it's great to see that they are a popular medium but to see antiquarian books destroyed like that doesn't sit with me at all. As the world turns more digital with the E-Books and the Kindle- printed books will become much harder to keep and preserve.
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interesting that you pick a sculpture from the monastic library at melk.
adso of melk was the viewpoint character in eco's "name of the rose", which centered on a monastery library.
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:(
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I've seen some of these before and I always enjoy seeing them. Yours seems to be the best compilation of them. Nice job.
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if you want to find out more about brian dettmer, the man and artist, check this post out
brian dettmer: book autopsieshe was so incited by herocious that he personally left a rather lengthy comment.
got a laugh out of it at least.
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The humanoid book sculpture linked to at Aron Packer Gallery is also by Brian Dettmer.
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I think it's just recycling books that would end up in the trash. It looks like many of these books were already damaged. At any rate, it's beautiful art work, extremely creative.
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I used to work at a major big box bookstore. Most people would be amazed and disgusted at the number of books and magazines that are THROWN AWAY every single day. Making art out of a book that would otherwise be tossed or disregarded, is called recycling and it's one of my loves!! These are all AMAZING works.
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