The Colony, created in Affinity Designer. The landing party greets a gathering of the locals

The Colony, created in Affinity Designer.

The landing party greets the locals

Red Spherical Spaceship

Red Spherical Spaceship

Red Spherical Spaceship

Original art

I've decided to have a go at an Ed Valigursky spherical moon lander.

Looks like it's about to say "My eyes are up here, buddy," but that doesn't clarify anything.

Galaxy art a swirling galaxy

star with swimming light

stars and a meteor belt

The Big Bang Book cover

Space! full of wonders.

Here is some of my art from THE BIG BANG BOOK, from a few years ago. A nonfiction picture book written by astrophysicist Asa Stahl and illustrated by me in pastel, acrylic paint, charcoal and digital colour.

info: www.crestonbooks.co/bigbangbook

#SciArt #KidlitArt

Usual anime caveats apply. I don't love it yet, but I love things about it for sure.

Collage of 9 UI screens from Outlaw Star.

They also have some of the most creative UIs I've seen in an anime. Again, all these from just the first two episodes.

Collage of 9 stills from the first two episodes of the Outlaw Star (1998). An incredibly colourful, at times fluorescent palette with really creative spaceship designs, neon-soaked cities, and dynamic streaking light everywhere.

Since people kept mentioning it when the animated Firefly reboot was teased, I had to watch Outlaw Star. I've only seen the first two episodes, but it's a lot of fun! I especially love how *vibrant* it is. Incredibly energetic animation too.

Tommy Lee Jones as Dallas is the one I could see potentially elevating that role.

I used to be pretty good at HTML & CSS. Hand coded many websites and WordPress themes. I miss that web. 👴🏻

This would be a hell of a remake of The Final Countdown.

Painting of the crew of the USS Enterprise 1701-d From right to left 1st row Geordi LaForge Data Worf 2nd row Riker Troi Wesley Crusher 3rd row Tasha Yar Picard Dr Crusher Warp trails and the enterprise flying towards the viewer

I thought I had lost this - one of the few paintings I've done that I don't hate :D #startrektng #startrekfanart

Did Wesley Snipes actually audition for Geordi, I wonder? That would be a fun tape to watch.

Shortlist of actors for TNG

I'm not even selling anything. I just want internet points. 😆

There's also a slight atmosphere to the foreground moon on the right side; that crater has signs of water erosion; the Artemis module appears to be the size of the ISS… people fall for it tho.

I called someone out on it the other day. I should probably delete that post now…

The colors of the Moon Post Content

It's not from Artemis obviously, but I think the pictures are 'real', at least in the sense that they're a hyper-exaggerated representation of the Moon's actual colours.

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It does annoy me tho. I was thinking about this kind of thing today because a recent render I posted got the most likes I've ever gotten on here. A mere 580+

And I shouldn't complain because I know I get more engagement than many, but it's still quite dispiriting.

Nice / my commiserations, as appropriate.

I'll delete that if you like, but since I wrote it I wanted to send it. 😅

Not wasted, but we know that many of these artists, architects, composers etc. took the work simply because the Church was an incredibly wealthy patron. What might Michelangelo have accomplished instead of the Sistine Chapel ceiling? We will, of course, never know.

I always find them incredibly sad places. If only all that talent and wealth could have been channeled into something more beneficial for all.

Yeah, I think they've just got too many balls in the air. Shang-Chi did well and we probably should have had two sequels by now, but instead it feels forgotten. Many such cases.

How ironic.

Hell yeah!

Hang on, let me write that down. Kinda dumb.
Got it, thanks. 👍

Well, well, well. Despite all of the tiresome culture war noise, She-Hulk in fact became one of the MCU's best performing shows. Gooooo figure.

Best Star Trek crew. Wrong answers only

From Clickhole's "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space," Barry Wilmore: You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.

One of the very best from Clickhole

There's about half a dozen big tells, but those are the two biggest.

“That is such a beautiful tribute. Everyone here at Ground Control is choked up. Moving on to our next astronaut, is there anyone you’d like to name a lunar feature after?”

"I also choose this guy's dead wife."