The Futurists You'd Like To See...

[Deebrane String]

Here's a question: which futurist/architects' work would you like to see represented in our builds? We've a goodly dose of Fresco, some Coruscant by way of ILM, and increasing amounts of high-raygun. But who else's work do you think ought to inspire builds?

I have an inherited fondness for Paolo Soleri and Syd Mead. Soleri's work is of a daunting scale... tho' I dream fondly of a commission to build one of his arcologies out of City In The Image Of Man.

Mead... I am working on. ;-)

[Truthseeker]

I've always been a huge fan of Moebius/Jean Giraud. His vibrant futuristic environments (not to mention unparalleled costume/character designs), so exotic but always familiar somehow, always filled me with hope for a future that would just be so much COOLER than our present...

I'm at work right now, so don't have much time to google-up some imagery, but I'll see what I can find later

[Vidal Tripsa]

Coo. Soleri's work reminds me of Mos Eisley and Jabba's Palace from the Star Wars universe, rather than the Ralph McQuarrie type stuff I've been into recently over at the follies. It's interesting to see raypunk applied to desert materials. It takes me back to imaginings of a far-off Extropian sim expansion some day, if truth be told.

Who else would I want to see...? Well, Santiago Calatrava's another architect I see as having Extropian relevance. His City of Art & Sciences installation in Valencia takes many a gasp away, albeit more of a generally futuristic look than a raypunk one. Oh, and I've always been a few steps away from attempting an homage to A.I. Artificial Intelligence's Rouge City.

[Truthseeker]

http://goneelsewhere.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/speed-racer.jpg

yeah, yeah, I know, again with the Speed-Racer movie...

[Vidal Tripsa]

Oho my, that looks fun. I'd forgotten about that film, too. I'll add it to the pile, alongside Love Story 2050. :)

[Deebrane String]

Vidal Tripsa said:

Coo. Soleri's work reminds me of Mos Eisley and Jabba's Palace from the Star Wars universe, rather than the Ralph McQuarrie type stuff I've been into recently over at the follies. It's interesting to see raypunk applied to desert materials. ...

Dr. Bill, looking over my shoulder, says it's even more amazing in person. (He's *been* to Arcosanti. ALMOST as cool as living in Extropia.)

(Heh.)

[Deebrane String]

Truthseeker said:

I've always been a huge fan of Moebius/Jean Giraud. His vibrant futuristic environments (not to mention unparalleled costume/character designs), so exotic but always familiar somehow, always filled me with hope for a future that would just be so much COOLER than our present...

I'm at work right now, so don't have much time to google-up some imagery, but I'll see what I can find later

I know Moebius/Giraud's work. I'd never thought of him in this light, which is frankly silly of me; especially after Fifth Element. That could lead to some cool avatar-fu...

[Vidal Tripsa]

Deebrane String said:

I know Moebius/Giraud's work. I'd never thought of him in this light, which is frankly silly of me; especially after Fifth Element. That could lead to some cool avatar-fu...

Ahh, he did work on that? My own Google Image searching came up somewhat light on futurism done Giraud. I'm not sure if any of this is his work, but it's more architecture to get my Extropian blood pumping despite that. Don't tell me he designed that gorgeous opera singer...!

Hmm.. I think I may have distorted the original question a bit. The topic's become something of a love-in! My apologies.

[Deebrane String]

Vidal Tripsa said:

Deebrane String said:

I know Moebius/Giraud's work. I'd never thought of him in this light, which is frankly silly of me; especially after Fifth Element. That could lead to some cool avatar-fu...

Ahh, he did work on that? My own Google Image searching came up somewhat light on futurism done Giraud. I'm not sure if any of this is his work, but it's more architecture to get my Extropian blood pumping despite that. Don't tell me he designed that gorgeous opera singer...!

Hmm.. I think I may have distorted the original question a bit. The topic's become something of a love-in! My apologies.

*chuckle* No apologies needed. I <3 me my Soleri and Mead...

About The Fifth Element: "... Luc Besson, an admitted comic book fan, had two famous French comic book artists in mind for the film's visual style when he started writing the movie in high school. Jean Giraud (Moebius) and Jean-Claude Mézières. Both artists have long-standing comic book series in France. Moebius is best known for "Blueberry" and the (French) Magazine and (US) movie Heavy Metal (1981). Mezieres is best known for the "Valerian" series. Both series are still in production today. Mobeius and Mezieres, who attended art school together but had never collaborated on a project until The Fifth Element (1997), started renderings for the film in the early '90s and are responsible for the majority of the over all look of the film, including the vehicles, spacecrafts, buildings, human characters and aliens."

-- from the IMDB entry (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/trivia).

[Truthseeker]

here's a quick image illustrating the kind of Moebius work I was thinking of, but yes, 5th Element is a splendid example, too. Also Tron (hoo!!)

I can't believe how hard it is to dig up images of his stuff outside of Blueberry. Please, Internet: Don't make me break out my scanner!!!

[Vidal Tripsa]

Truthseeker said:

here's a quick image illustrating the kind of Moebius work I was thinking of, but yes, 5th Element is a splendid example, too.

It reminds me a little of the illustrations in Ralph 124C 41+ - very much an early 1900s view of the future.

By the way, with all this talk going on, I decided I had to re-watch The Fifth Element. Anyone not sure what we're blethering about can see screenshots a-plenty of an overgrown Manhattan, the shiny Fhloston cruise ship and the deee-lectable Diva Plava Laguna here.

[Cral Denimore]

Moebius' forms are quite "organic," in which there is an ever-present, slightly disturbing, element of "decay." Even the Fhloston Cruise ship looks like a futuristic art deco version of the doomed Titanic.

I must admit, that I was quite a fan of the "Metal Hurlant," in my day, as my closet will still attest...

[Cral Denimore]

I think perhaps, since we're on the subject of artists with an "organic" bent, I'd like to suggest Roger Dean. He worked with a number of futuristic "pre-fab" construct concepts as illustrated in "Views." (Another resident of my well-stocked closet, lol)

Also, his futuristic "Planet Seeding" concepts were quite interesting, along with some of his landscapes. I particularly like those that seem to illustrate elevated waterfalls apparently at the edge of the world...