The artist: http://www.simonstalenhag.se/es.html

I always really liked these pieces. Mixing the mundane with scifi.

My friend does something similar and paints scifi elements on top of old boring prints from second hand stores. I’ll have to get a picture and share.

  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
    2·
    16 hours ago

    This reminds me a lot of that area in Norman Reedus And The Magical Feetus… where you meet Mama I think?

  • PennyRoyal
    21·
    2 days ago

    I love his work, I’m in the kickstarter for his new book and I can’t wait to see it

      • PennyRoyal
        3·
        1 day ago

        Yeah, I supported his Labyrinth book (which is great) on there a while ago, so I got notified when the kickstarter for Swedish Machines was launched. It should be getting delivered fairly soon, I can’t wait!

    • Hideakikarate
      21·
      1 day ago

      Wasn’t they’re also a game that was based on the art coming out soon? I think I remember a bit of controversy thanks to the game makers not really asking him for permission.

      • PennyRoyal
        1·
        1 day ago

        You may have conflated two separate things there. There’s a table-top game that, if iirc, he had a hand in making, which gets fairly well reviewed I think. There’s also a TV series (loosely) based on Tales From The Loop, which has essentially lost everything of value from the narrative of the book.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 day ago

    I LOVED the adaptations of Tales From The Loop but the trailer for the film based on this series was…incredibly disappointing

    • Ænima@lemm.ee
      1·
      14 hours ago

      Maybe they didn’t want just another trailer that gave away the entire movie? I haven’t seen the trailer, myself, but in the books there seems to be a slow-build to revealing the whole story of the world. I’d imagine this would be hard to make a trailer for without giving away key details that might ruin the movie.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        3·
        12 hours ago

        The trailer looks like a typical hyped up Hollywood scifi movie. Instead of the introspective vibe that makes Simon’s work so iconic, it stars Chris Pratt and plays a booming orchestral cover of Somewhere Over The Rainbow. It’s VERY in-your-face…give it a watch and I think you’ll understand why I’m disappointed

          • glimse@lemmy.world
            3·
            7 hours ago

            Yeah…

            I know Tales From The Loop wasn’t for everyone but it did a remarkably good job of translating it. It felt like the show runners really “got” his work. The score, the cinematography, the pacing…I think it’s a beautiful series. It reminded me of Battlestar Galactica in the sense that the sci-fi was just the backdrop for the story, not the whole point of it.

            The trailer for The Electric State is one catchphrase away from being a Marvel movie. I don’t mean that as an insult to Marvel, though - it’s just the wrong aesthetic for a slow, grounded story by Simon Stalenhag.

            • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
              3·
              6 hours ago

              Giant robot explodes and the head lands 5 feet from Chris Pratt. He looks at the camera and says "well that just happened.