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Between dreams and waking. Martin Stranka is a self-taught professional photographer, born on April 13, 1984 in The Czech Republic. His images seem to "exist in that narrow space of a few seconds between dreaming and awakening."
David Bowie's original storyboards - in his own sketchbooks - for the "Ashes to Ashes" pop video (1980). The video was directed by Bowie & David Mallet came out a year before MTV was launched. It proved that music videos could be a viable way to use art to reach an audience.
The violent side of Melancholy.
Here, Saturn, the God of melancholy, devours one of his sons, while men hang themselves from a tree and man tries to measure the globe with a right angle.
Engraving by Harmen Jansz Muller (1566) after: Maarten van Heemskerck
Hold on - Jah Wobble, Tangerine Dream, and Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden were also inspired by William Blake
The "dark and twisted Wonderland" of Aleksandra Waliszewska (1976-). She has said "First and foremost, I paint for myself. I would not like to shock anyone with my pieces. If anything, possibly to make them a bit depressed".
Problems depicting HEAVEN # 1: Overpopulation.
Renaissance painters attempted to depict the vast number of saved souls in heaven plus the hierarchy of angels. The result: heaven ends up depicted as overpopulated & cramped - hellish.
Correggio - Assumption of the Virgin (1522-30)
Z.P.G. is a cult 1972 sci-fi film about an overpopulated future with a World Government that kills all those who violate a 30-year ban on having children. It was inspired by "The Population Bomb" - a 1968 book by a Stanford Prof, that predicted worldwide famine in the 1970 & 80s.
Bridges made of Skyscrapers, in the New York City that never came to be.
These are Architect & illustrator Hugh Ferriss’s 1925 plans for "Raymond Hood’s Skyscraper Bridges" with apartments lining both sides of the road & planes & ships docking near the bridge base.
The cult 1979 sci-fi dystopian film "Warriors" was based on a 400 BC event. In the "Anabasis", Greek soldier & historian Xenophon (430-354 BC) recounts "The March of the Ten Thousand": an army of Greek mercenaries stranded in Persia who must fight their way back home.
"1997. New York city is a walled maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane"
Classic Retro Futurism - the original film posters from the cult classic science fiction action film "Escape From New York" (1981).