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Sketch by Georges Méliès depicting the costume of the title character in The Damnation of Doctor Faust (1904).
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Salvador Dalí’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Illustrations (1969)
"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams." - Salvador Dali
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Roman Charity is the story of a woman whose father is sentenced to death by starvation and so secretly breastfeeds him to keep him alive. She is caught, but the authorities are so moved by the tale they release them. The motif has been visited by many artists over the centuries.
The Black Hole (1979) Dir Gary Nelson
Concept art by Peter Ellenshaw for the Disney oddity..
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Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)
Created to illustrate a government report on “the nature and origin of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River”. The maps are incredibly detailed and made with an artistic eye.
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The Antennae Galaxies photographed by ESA/Hubble & NASA (2013). The Galaxies were discovered by William Herschel in 1785.
2 Milky Way type galaxies that have been colliding over the past few hundred million years. The are currently going through a period of rapid star formation.
Joe Petagno's facehugger concept art for Alien (1979)
Dan O'Bannon's original idea was that the facehugger would have a phallic tube that would ejaculate a semen like fluid into Kane's throat to impregnate him. Ridley Scott rejected this as too explicit.
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@Fly_Cuttlefish They always remind me of the Salt Vampire from "The Man Trap" Original Star Trek episode..