Tony Stephens / Simian Design

Wow. I’m a fan of Dune, both the books and the movie, but this blows me away.   I was not aware that this ever was conceived.

Alejandro Jodorowsky worked at creating a truly amazing Dune movie in 1975.  He worked with H.R.Giger (!!), Jean Giraud, Chris Foss, Pink Floyd (!!) to do the score.  Funding stopped the process, and it’s a shame.

Casting, sound, art, it was all planned out to be a beautiful, weird movie (and yes, I know Lynch’s was the same, but go look at the art and tell me that this wasn’t going to be magic.)   I mean, check out his description of Emperor Padishah Shaddam IV.

The Emperor of the galaxy is insane. He lives on an artificial gold planet, in a gold palace built according to not-laws of antilogical. He lives in symbiosis with a robot identical to him.

 

 From his summary of the script:

Already 20,000 years ago
        that the Earth burst…
Man conquered the Galaxy,
        but he realizes
        that he still lives on an Island:
the Galaxy itself is encircled by
        an insuperable Magnetic Wall.
No one could cross it.
Not having anything more
        to discover,
        to conquer,
Man delivers himself completely
        to the pleasure,
give his capacity to machines
        and degenerates in the luxury.

Oh how I wish this was made.  The imagery just brings the books to life, just so much more in line with the books tones.

He-Man was a cartoon I am very familiar with.  Grew up with He-Man, the show, the toys, all of it.  Having a little brother allowed me to be more than familiar with a lot of toys and cartoons, longer than I might have normally.

Marko Djurdjevic created a series of He-Man designs.  They are just beautiful.  I want to see the entire case redesigned.  He-Man, Teela, Battle Cat, Castle Grayskull, all of it.  He has a very nice collection, I just crave MORE.

Ray carves pumpkins.  Really amazing pumpkins.  He shows you how to carve your own amazing face on a pumpkin.  Something worth-while to try.

Just a quick break to show you this brilliance. He also does Aliens,  Cthulhu, Predator and more.

I love this pumpkin.  It’s brilliant.  There are a bunch more Star Wars themed pumkins over here.   I very well might be trying this in a week or so.   I guess the real secret here is to find the perfectly round pumpkin.

John Seavey is undertaking a pretty massive project.  He’s been reading through Marvel’s Essentials and DC’s Showcase Presents reprints, and find the underlying story and themes in each title, what he’s calling the storytelling engine.

Each series has these elements, and each series evolves over time as different writers take a hand at the character.  What type of elements?  Starring character, recurring cast, supporting cast, locations, settings, antagonists, tone and others.

Really, it’s a fun read through some of your favorite comic books.  The idea of tracking the meta-elements of what basically started as cheap pulp fiction is a pretty neat idea.  Very meta. Below is a list of links I just shamelessly ripped off of this mefi post.

Adam Strange
Ant-Man
Aquaman
Batman
Brave and the Bold
Captain America
Challengers of the Unknown
Classic X-Men
Conan
Daredevil
Dazzler
Doctor Strange
Flash
Ghost Rider
Godzilla
Green Arrow
Green Lantern
Hawkman
House of Mystery
Howard the Duck
Hulk
Iron Man
Jonah Hex
Killraven
Man-Thing
Martian Manhunter
Marvel Horror
Marvel Saga
Marvel Super Villain Team-Up
Marvel Team-Up
Marvel Two In One
Ms. Marvel
Nova
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe
Phantom Stranger
Power Man and Iron Fist
Punisher
Savage Dragon
She-Hulk
Silver Surfer
Spider-Man (Part One) (Part Two) (Part Three)
Spider-Woman
Supergirl
Superman Family
Superman
Teen Titans
The Atom
The Avengers
The Defenders
The Elongated Man
The Fantastic Four
The Haunted Tank
Thor
Tomb of Dracula
Uncanny X-Men (Part One) (Part Two)
Werewolf By Night
Wolverine
Wonder Woman
World’s Finest
X-Factor

Xerox, another classic logo destroyed.  That’s right, Xerox recently had it’s classic logo redesigned.

Horrific, isn’t it?  They changed the color, the shape, added 3-D.  BLEECCCH.

I’m putting a fair amount of blame at the feet of Intrabrand, who designed this monstronsity.

“The new Xerox logo is now a lowercase treatment of the Xerox name — in a vibrant red — alongside a sphere-shaped symbol sketched with lines that link to form an illustrative “X,” representing Xerox’s connections to its customers, partners, industry and innovation, and designed to be more effectively animated for use in multi-media platforms.”  -Official Press Release

Words just fail me.  This is full of fail.  You suck Xerox, and you suck Intrabrand.

Okay, rather than end it on this awful note, I’ll leave you with a utterly fantastic logo I ran across yesterday in my surfing.

It’s for a recycling center in Taiwan.  I _love_ the use of negative space here. Note the lack of 3-D, X’s, animation or other useless crap.

I am blown away by Brian Dettmer. His work is stunningly complex and fascinating.  He cuts books into complex works of art.  I’d love to see this in person.

The moon Mimas, poses in front of Saturn’s rings.  And the result is STUNNING.  I want this as a poster.  Life imitating art indeed.