Voynich Manuscript

 The Voynich Manuscript, described as "the world's most mysterious manuscript", is a work which dates to the early 15th century, possibly from northern Italy. It is named after the book dealer who purchased it in 1912. The author and language it is written in are unknown.

Some pages are missing, but the current version comprises about 240 vellum pages, most with illustrations. Much of the manuscript resembles herbal manuscripts of the time period, seeming to present illustrations and information about plants and their possible uses for medical purposes.

However, most of the plants do not match known species, and the manuscript's script and language remain unknown and unreadable. Possibly some form of encrypted cyphertext, the Voynich manuscript has been studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including American and British codebreakers from both WWI and WWII. As yet, it has defied all decipherment attempts, becoming a cause celebre of historical cryptology.

None of the many speculative solutions proposed over the last hundred years has yet been independently verified.

Full Manuscript at Yale Archives

Tatsuyuki Tanaka

[From: Desparchando]

Tatsuyuki Tanaka is a fantastic Japanese Illustrator who caught my attention quite a while ago. Here's what io9 has to say:

Tanaka was one of the key animators on Akira and was responsible for, among other things, the animation of Testuo’s rapidly mutating arm. His still illustrations draw from similar imagery, telling stories of young people set in a crumbling future, and filled with grotesque experiments and bizarre creatures.

Eric Carl

Here's an artist I've been following for a while now - Eric Carl. He's an LA Designer/Illustrator working for the Gnomon School of Visual Effects. Check him out here:

http://www.sans-concept.com/
http://blog.sans-concept.com/

Evegny Kiselev - Acid Dreams

Evgeny Kiselev (Spb) - http://www.ekiselev.com/

"The diverse work of Evgeny Kiselev oscillates between the rigors of symmetry and prolific excess. Several compositions begin with vivid tiled patterns that are mirrored again and again until they can no longer be contained and are forced to push beyond the confines of their logic. Others, emerge from a single outline that manifests the controlled lawlessness of the work. Each piece achieves a complexity of color and layer that continues to build infinitely into the space of the page creating a warping spatial depth". 

Forgotten Monarchy

The Work

Silence Television, Gianmarco Magnani's Portfolio. The works are digital illustrations printed on premium matte 270 gm photo paper.
For better care, printjobs are covered with a clear film that protects and gives them a matte tone.
Each series are composed by 4 prints and the title of each print is the corresponding number.

Ordering

For ordering single pritns or complete series please contact us at: prints@silencetv.com

Silence Television Prints

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Blog: www.silencetv.com/blog
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How to cope with insanity, and other trivialities.

The secret: Smile :) and act like you're not causing any pain to anybody.

The Work of Fred Tomaselli via Synaptic Stimuli

Tebe Interesno?

tebe-interesno.livejournal.com

AJRMS - The Burning Star Core of Robert Beatty

Robert Beatty, artwork for Burning Star Core, Challenger lp, front

Found on A Journey Round My Skull

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AJRMS - Dedicated to you but you weren't glistening

Illustrations from the 1979 children's book Your Name? Robot.

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Previously in this series of scans from the AJRMS Soviet-era kids' book collection:

--Mummy was a robot, daddy was a small nonstick kitchen utensil

Also see: Smoking Crack in the Cosmic Egg

Source Update: The illustrator's name is Mikhail Romadin, and he was an art director for Tarkovsky's Solaris!

AJRMS - Mummy Was A Robot, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil

From A Journey Round My Skull:

Illustrations by E. Benyaminson for Hello, I'm Robot! by Stanislav Zigunenko (Russia, 1989).

This is the first post of a series featuring my recently-acquired collection of Soviet children's books from the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

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SFOR - Werner Rhuner - Der Purpurne Planet

From Sci-Fi-O-Rama:

The above images are taken from the 1971 German Sci-Fi Novella “Der Purpurne Planet” (The Purple Planet) Illustrations are from excellent Werner Ruhner, whom I confess to know little about!

Werner Ruhner born 27 May 1922 in Meerane, Sachsen, Germany – According to the very short entry at Wikipedia, he is or was an assistant at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (where the artists Neo Rauch and Peter Piller teach, for example). In the former East Germany, Ruhner was among the busiest illustrators for a variety of genres, science fiction (Verlag Neues Leben Berlin) among them. He allegedly lives in Borsdorf near Leipzig.

Scans via http://www.houdinination.de/

Lord of the Flies - Illustrated

Lord of The Flies | Sam Weber
A new illustrated edition of William Golding’s Lord of The Flies. Art Director: Sheri Gee.

ONECITY

ONECITY by Will Insley

ASTRONOMICA by Larry Carlson

ASTRONOMICA

BDIF- Architectural Review

By abandoning fantasy for the more pragmatic aspects of building, the profession has lost some of its capacity for self-criticism, not to mention one of its most valuable imaginative tools.

BDIF- Record Covers

And then when I went to Chicago, that’s when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets

Illustrations by Sarcoptiform

Sarcoptiform's flickr

ScribblerToo

Cool drawing app.

Dan McPharlin