Visions Of The Future - Part 1 of 5
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2009
- A 5 part audiovisual journey through some of the most amazing science fiction art from the imagination of some of the greatest artists of the 20th Century.
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Part 1 of a 5 part montage of Sci-fi art from the second Golden Age of Science Fiction when books, magazines and films had some of the most amazing and memorable covers/artwork from artists like Peter Elson, Angus Mckie, Chris Foss and Tim White and John Berkey. - Фільми й анімація
nice to see somebody kept all their OMNI magazines. I recognize most of the art from that magazine.
Now this is real sci-fi artwork. The best sci-fi artwork ever.
LSD and acid man
Back when sci-fi was actually good to look at
Takes me back. Born in 1970, I remember the books well. Aliens In Space being the first. And Mechanismo was next. Snowballed from there.
Wow.... Just woooooooooow.....
These five videos are really excellent, I grew up with this art and I recognize much of it, and it’s a great trip down memory lane to see and recall all this great stuff that has influenced me so much for so long. Thanks for putting the five videos together. The music by tangerine dream is a great added bonus.
The work of Chris Foss pops like crazy in context, evergreen
A unique style for certain....
Reminds me of a quote, our current civilization is still nowhere near what these concepts dreamt of over 60 years ago.
“Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves
Grew up with a lot of these images in old hard cover books. Definitely influenced my own art style and taste. PS awesome to see you actually giving the artists credit and hopefully these UA-cam videos inspire people to look them up and maybe even collect some works/publications.
Ah, the Terran Trade Authority! Where would we be without it hehe.
I have been fortunate not to be without it, Stewart Cowley is my father.
Great video from a wonderful channel.
Art books have provided me a much-needed escape from real life. I have my easy chair set up with a desk, a lamp, a blanket and a cup of coffee. I spent many hours with dragons, unicorns, space battles, pixies, dark forests, giant robots and medieval knights.
My art books are the best investments I ever made.
My 3 favorite art books, all available from amazon, are:
- Fantasy Art Paintings by Mike Hoffman
- Infinite Worlds by Vincent DiFate
- Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson
I'd add a few that come to mind apaprt from the TTA series - Sentinel by Syd Mead, as well as book of Tim White's amazing art - a lot of which featured on Heinlein covers, and The Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction which had some fantastic art in it. I would repeatedly go back and study those images endlessly....
A lot of these images have been rattling around on my hard drives for some time after being downloaded (Google and Flickr are great for this) others I scanned from my collection of books. Namely - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Great Space Battles, Spacecraft 2000-2100 AD - as well as the actual classic book covers. Time allowing I may put the whole lot of what I have up on Flickr to keep these great images alive.
The Tangerine Dream music is the topping on the cake. You should make some more videos using the Exit album.
Yes, I'm thinking about which way to go on that.
Let me know when you get it done. Would love to view it.
As a kid growing up in the 70's, reading sci-fi and marvelling at book covers from the likes of Chris Foss.. I was very hopeful of a future where we could live our adult lives on a planet far from Earth...... What the hell happened to this glorious future? It still pisses me off!
U have to play video games and movies for that
This could have been our future, or our kid's future, had he chosen growth and prosperity instead limits and degrowth for a variety of excuses, like climate change, or back then global warming, as well as predation of the environment that could have been adressed, also the use of nuclear energy to make power a free utility.
I can totally understand. Unfortunately, the future has been postponed - indefinitely….
Tangerine Dream!!!! ❤
I have always loved chris foss
THANK YOU!!! Had a lot of these images in a book when a was a kid.
AND THE MUSIC MATCH PERFECTLY
THANKS !
Brings back some very fond memories and feelings that anything is possible - heart's desire and longing. Read the books these images were associated with... what a time it was. Thanks for posting this.
So many chris foss pictures... i love his art!
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe....Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.... I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser gate.......
Just scrolling through the comments and saw your classic quote, you might like this:
ua-cam.com/video/uztV74Sr9S0/v-deo.html
Coooool !
Blade Runner
Rautger Hauer
All of those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. RIP RUTGER.
oh man i love these old books. food for the imagination. the terran trade authority series and galactic encounters series are some of my favorites.
Great to see that You also included work by Jim Burns. Next to Foss and Woodroffe, he was one of the most brilliant artists in this genre...
Yes, he certainly had a very unique and recognizable style.
Even at 47 I still love these books, where did the time go?
It drips away, sadly.
I Know What You Mean !!!!!!!!!!!!
the author of this comment passed away this year. RIP
Same. Born in 1970. That decade produced so much greatness.
@@xxnightopsxx Hi. Just wanted to know what movie your UA-cam profile pic is from? I remember it being from the 80's, but that's all.
すごいきれい❗
Love the artwork and great choice of music. Tangerine Dream is the best synth band.
Great Artwork.
this video is what introduced me to Tangerine Dream. they quickly became my favorite band of all time.
in a way, this video changed my life. thank you, Nightops.
You know, it's all the great posts and particularly posts like this that make all of this worthwhile. I have a very broad taste in music, and was introduced to TD in Serbia when I was gifted a copy of Stratosfear on a visit there. Amazing album, I've read many books to their music, especially that album, including Dune. The two go together brilliantly....
Amazing!!!! i love it so much.
I remember when I was young and was in the library i found a book with these pictures, until today this fascinates me
This is an amazing exposition of art and imagination.
Tangerine Dream awesomeness
Brilliant!
Instead of looking at the glass half empty, look at it this way. You're at literally the best time that any human has ever lived in. Be grateful.
Thanks, even finding this stuff online was difficult and I had a feeling i wasn't the only one that loves these amazing works. I'm glad fans are locating and enjoying it.
Very expressive
You can always tell Jim Burns art from the rest. So organic!
this is the most magical stuff I've seen on youtube, this channel deserver millions of subcribers and I'll make sure that happens
My TTA books by Stewart Cowley burned in a fire...Thanks for putting music to the images !
Glad there's people out there that love this stuff. I'm planning on doing an updated series as time allows.
Great post xx. I recognise most of these images from my collection of SF pb's and hc's.
I have a bedroom stacked and shelved with about 4,000 titles. I stopped this obsessive pursuit about 10 years ago. One of the reasons should be obvious. Did a bit of artwork myself,years ago, covers and illos for the BSFA. Love Hays and Whites work, for their detailed realism. In these post- airbrush days of CAD it's a pity that the pen and
ink era is somewhat underappreciated. I.E.Virgil Finlay.
nice nostalgia, i can't remember the book i remember some of these from..
And yet we see "Hollywood recycling" when each artwork is a new story to explore. Cheers
A lot of dedication was put into these work, which are truly master pieces considering they were done by hand.
anyone can posit a sick future where all negative things are magnified.
dystopian futures are dreamt up by those with a paucity of imagination;
one could merely strive for something better: it begins with visualization.
So true.
This five videos are ones of a kind. I'm downloading and bonding all five and I'll be watching this as a movie since soundtrack is perfect too. Reminds me the short stories from S.F. publications back in the 80's
Wonderful Sci-fi art! This is the type of artwork I grew up with and still love it. A great source of inspiration.
Awesome all 5 videos
Fantastic video
It is remarkable how much creative inspiration is sparked and depicted by these images alone. Everything in in 21st century science fiction seems so derivative and repetitive.
Totally agree, we're already hitting that wall with most AI "art" copies of copies of copies....
I had a hardbound book dealing with this topic years ago. Interesting artwork.
Reminds me of my childhood reading Asimov and E.E. Doc Smith.
It was always a good moment to get to the point in the story where the scene on the book cover was unfolding.
I used to imagine the artist being inspired by the same paragraph to visual the drama unfolding.
Do children even read books these days?
Wow this stuff is beautiful.
Very nice pictures!
Still have those books from when I was a kid.
I feel so old…..
This video made me a Tangerine Dream fan.
They definitely had some great albums.
I do like it !!
Tangerine Dream! Now, this is something I haven't heard in more than 30 years! They were way ahead of their time. Very cool background music! And, very fitting! I dig it. They've got ALLOT of good stuff like this. You may have just started a new trend with an old band. Their time has come - again! What made you think to use them? You must be around my age. I'm 52 and grew up listening to them. Good tripping music. I wish I would have got to see them but they weren't around very long. About 10 years if I remember right. They were very exploratory like Pink Floyd but, you never heard them on the radio. You had to know somebody else that knew of them. At least, that's how I heard about them. I am a lifelong Floyd fan so someone thought I'd like them too, which I do. I guess you'd say they're prog like Floyd, ELP, Rush etc..Very cool video. Keep using them, please. Now, on to pt. 2. I hope you used them there too!
spectacular visions of Sci-Fi artwork
Such stunning beautiful works.
Excellent vid, the music worked perfect with the art. Faved.
It's really strange seeing these paintings, just an opinion of course but i think they are made even more beautiful by their age, some look a little dated but not in a bad way, it's like they depict an alternate fantasy future of that particular time, i'm probably not making any sense :D
Don't Worry......You are making sense !
The background music is Tangerine Dream's Stratosfear issued on the Virgin label October 1976
i used to sit and look at these pictures for HOURS .. I remember as a kid I didn't have a lot of money so I would go to the old B. Dalton Books Store (remember those places? they were something like B&N but not as cool comfort wise) and I would just sit and look at the collections of this sort of Sci-Fi art. People say there is nothing to that. But those books that artwork, lead to me going into what I do today :) and even more .. to pass THAT hope to today's generation.
Thanks!
So wonderful , watched it so many times. So sad that Part 2 is no longer available 🥺
No, it's still there as far as I can see....
Love this stuff
Extremely beautiful SF-Art ! Dating from the 70's (I recognize Chris Foss, Peter Elson, and many others). Made with their hands and minds, not from AI...
Absolutely, these are some the great masters of our time, not the stuff that poses as "art" whether it be much of the modern stuff or AI. Having said that, I have, out of nostalgia and a homage, thought of creating a video using AI images based on these greats. However, in my experience so far, I haven't found the technology quite up to it - yet. This also raises the prickly question then; what happens when we are able to create perfect projections of their art simply from a prompt...
I've finally found this footage. @felcas.. I used to have this book. There were city ships, ships shaped like birds or cranes and war birds with ion engines, even a tarantula like atomic bomb craft that crawled around leaving craters and destruction. That book was way before its time
I have to say that I too did it the old way. When I was growing up, and even into my early to middle age adult life, the tools for digital art were nonexistent. I still have some of my oldest paintbrushes. Now I am able to produce art like never before using the digital art software. I still like to draw & paint the old way though. Not saying I;m as good as these old classic Sci Fi artists, but I do have a small following.
Great, all I have to do was turn the sound to mute and really enjoy the drawings, awesome work of art.
Each to his own, try some Beachhouse or Max Cooper. Whatever get's you into the void....
Well said.
Great Videos ))))))))
Chris Foss FTW!
even as a child I had a lot of these images in books I owned. and even then, I learned their will always be conflict, where technology will be the major deciding victor.
I prefer the style of science fiction aesthetics that these images demonstrate to the "Everything is an Ipod trope" that is getting over-used in games and movies. I don't mind that either, but these spaceships from the second golden age look meaner to me, more like industrial machines without the pretty casing, and perhaps more variety in styles. The Ipod trope will be retro eventually.
AMAZING
retro futuristic :D cool :)
Love it! Amazing stuff. Thank you!
Really ringly and dingly tunes on this video :)
Thanks for uploading!
Great music choice!
I could not agree more. I myself use multiple media to produce my art. I now own and use several digital art applications on the very computer I am using to type this message. I regularly submit my art at sites like Renderosity, and PDFLives. I am a member of several artist's communities. As an artist from before the digital age, I still like to do it the old way as well, and I am practicing at combining the old and the new. My avatar pic is digital made by me.
Syd Mead is a good artist too
Peter Parker syd mead worked on bladerunner.
...and Tron, Aliens, 2010, TimeCop, Strange Days, Elysium, Tomorrowland, and a bunch of video games, articles, several really lovely books of concept art, and loads of other stuff. When Hollyweird needs to know what he future could look like, Syd gets a call.
oh my word exactly :)
its cool to see how alot of these iseas have filtered thru into modern sci fi movies. ( like those floating islands which look heaps like scenes from avatar etc ) i was telling my kids how all the sci fi was in books when i was their age and was glad you had posted this so i could show them exactly what i was on about. they were totally excited by it, just like i was. thanks for posting!
My soul is a combination of tekno and 70s sci fi art
All of this art was done before the digital age. There was real talent behind it, and great dedication to the work. I'm not trying to put digital art down, but when you look at what was accomplished using only paint brushes and airbrushes can you say it was not good? I say you cannot. If you do then you don't see very well.
Brilliant. The music choice is perfect. It would be nice if we could get a picture list/artist credit (where known) so we could collect some of these prints!
@trevizons Thats the exact book I have, somewhere, back at home haven't seen for 20 odd years....was trying to remember what it was called to look up again, cheers! Great smashed robots in deserts I remember....
i have this book...its totally underrated...its what inspired me to go into conceptual design as a graphic artist..visually...you have to know your roots of passion before you set of to create something totally out of the box...these fine artist knew that...I just one day we will catch up with our dreams before the future becomes our past.
love the books got them for christmas
back in the day
Great art and great music, makes you feel all nostalgic :-D
great video.
I remember a time when it seemed like every scifi paperback you picked up had art by Chris Foss on the cover, he did some superb stuff.
Plus the imagination that goes for it.
Awesome! What is this music, Tangerine Dream what? Love it, brings back good memories.
All this stuff was envisioned in the 70s when NASA had grand visions. Now the only place you can find them is 40 plus years later on UA-cam. What happened?
We lost our way...
There is still hope. If we manage to master consciousness, all of the current limitations of humanity will be swept aside. There are many brilliant minds working on this problem. I hope they crack it soon, because beings as aggressive and foolish as ourselves cannot be trusted with the future of all known life.
Sometimes I wonder if we Care for hope.
Truth be told this is in part due to the Shuttle program. Nixon wanted a cheap workhorse that was reusable. Nasa did have plans for a moonbase by the eighties and a mars mission by 2000 but it was deemed too expensive. Nixon slashed the space budget and we were stuck with a smaller program.
John Bryant - I just watched an interview with James Cameron about the Terminator sequels. He was saying they interviewed a lot of experts on AI and most of them were scared shitless. Maybe that is the next phase in evolution, the machines takeover while we're busy with Facebook and Snapchat. One thing is certain, machines will be able to go into space more easily than humans.
Yay Chris Foss!!!!!!
The future never seems to be what we think it will. So I am not so broken up about not seeing these things come to fruition. Who can even say we as a species will live to see those days.
Oh Thank you so much! I love this kind of art, it's so inspiring. Just looking at them makes me want to create stories or draw some on my own.
How old are you Trevor? All these illustrations were done in the 70's and a bit in the 80's. I grew up on this stuff...made ,e want to be an artist. I know it's not the cgi we have today but it was all done by hand and for its time I think pretty original and pioneering as far as sci-fi illustration goes.
Simply beautiful, you couldn't have chosen better music for your video, Tangerine Dream gives it the perfect depth for your depiction, I still have a wonderful book from 1979- 1980 called SPACE WARS WORLDS AND WEAPONS by Steven Eisler, I don't know if you are familiar with it, it's got some of the images and drawings you've chosen for this posting, and it's really great to watch even more of these concepts in a way you could only have done it ...