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Star Wars Uncut – A New Hope. You are gonna die laughing so, please, make sure to be near an emergency exit
Joseph Campbell on Darth Vader
“Star Wars deals with the essential problem: Is the machine going to control humanity, or is the machine going to serve humanity? Darth Vader is a man taken over by a machine, he becomes a machine, and the state itself is a machine. There is no humanity in the state. What runs the world is economics and politics, and they have nothing to do with the spiritual life.
“So we are left with this void. It’s the job of the artists to create the new myths. Myths come from the artists.”
Joseph Campbell, interviewed by Chris Goodrich, Publisher’s Weekly (1985)
Speaking about the machines – a conversation about the machines in the Matrix Reloaded. It is not really about moving parts… it is about power and control. We truly are godlike thanks to the power machines give us – we stomp the land for resources and run around in space. It is truly sad also that we often unleash machines on each other, as if we have run out of beasts to conquer.. but this is another, and long, conversation.
Just binged on Silicon Valley Season 3 – it is the most accurate description of common ways of communicating and joking in the Valley where geeks rule – one day i am gonna share a typical Valley thread of pretty pics… where lonely geeks working late photoshop each other into things – it is much worse than you think
Purple Yoda
The case with CG art – with love as well as a bit of regret
My first love is creating background art for games and it really is one of the greatest commercial jobs an artist could have. It is fun on steroids, never ending diversion and never ending engagement because after you are done with the art you get to play it..
What happens with commercial CG assignments is that artists usually need to get it done and get it over with, this is the purpose of a commercial project – to get it out to consumers. It is only right to never get attached to your work if you work commercially. With all the shuffle from a project to project it happens that artists rarely get a chance to develop a personal brand.. as they are often in service of a brand to begin with.
There are several extraordinary artists working commercially today that have developed a personal brand – Craig Mullins, Doug Chiang, RYAN CHURCH, but the best and most recognizable art style remains Ralph McQuarrie’s. Ralph’s work is painterly and stylized but at the same time all is drawn up with clarity and radiance (even the gloomy parts) – a world you’d love to be in.
