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Space Colony Art from the 1970s
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 4:31 pm
by MachineGhost
In the 1970?s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.
http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/2 ... the-1970s/
Re: Space Colony Art from the 1970s
Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:00 pm
by Storm
I love this art. Really amazing stuff.
Re: Space Colony Art from the 1970s
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:18 am
by dualstow
These really are great. I don't comment in all your threads because I usually don't have anything to add, but I do enjoy them.
Re: Space Colony Art from the 1970s
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:22 pm
by MediumTex
This type of artwork will one day be studied as expressions of our current mythologies.
Many of us don't see them as mythology because if we did they would no longer fulfill their cultural purpose.
In many ways, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the real-world NASA manned missions created a generation of people who essentially made science fiction their religion, though what they thought they were doing was simply looking into the future. Instead of looking into the future, however, what they were actually doing was looking into their own psyches.
I believe that some people in the distant future will worship Neil Armstrong as a Jesus-like figure. Buzz Aldrin will be St. Peter. You heard it here first.
Re: Space Colony Art from the 1970s
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:27 pm
by dualstow
You've been dipping into the Joseph Campbell again.
Re: Space Colony Art from the 1970s
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:41 pm
by MediumTex
dualstow wrote:
You've been dipping into the Joseph Campbell again.
Oh sure. All the time.
He helps me to understand a lot of things that otherwise wouldn't make any sense.
Re: Space Colony Art from the 1970s
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:57 pm
by Gosso
MediumTex wrote:
This type of artwork will one day be studied as expressions of our current mythologies.
Many of us don't see them as mythology because if we did they would no longer fulfill their cultural purpose.
In many ways, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the real-world NASA manned missions created a generation of people who essentially made science fiction their religion, though what they thought they were doing was simply looking into the future. Instead of looking into the future, however, what they were actually doing was looking into their own psyches.
I believe that some people in the distant future will worship Neil Armstrong as a Jesus-like figure. Buzz Aldrin will be St. Peter. You heard it here first.
This will be the opening sermon at every church, "The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe" (3:34 (I've posted this a couple times before, but it's awesome!)):
http://youtu.be/9D05ej8u-gU