Astronaut Dinosaur

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, which was about 8 years before I was born, so I have no firsthand knowledge of how it was received. I do not know if people genuinely believed we'd be living in space in 2001. If we'd have robot butlers and flying cars, geodesic lunar homes with sustainable gardens, and genetically reconstituted dinosaurs helping or eating the human population. But from Lost in Space to the Jetsons to Jurassic Park, it seems that popular culture craved and fomented this space-age perception of the future. Generations raised on these programs, movies, comic books, and novels are now grown and living in a future filled with mini vans, Starbucks, iMacs, and Hip Hop videos. In many ways, the year 2001, like 1984 before it, failed to live up to expectations. In hindsight, these expectations appear almost comical. And yet the world today is strange and unusual in ways unimagined in 1957, when Sputnik was launched, or in 1968, when 2001 was released, or even in 1990 at the dawn of the world wide web. The present is in fact a very unusual place, and it's strangest in the ubiquity of things we take for granted.

The astronaut in my paintings is simply here to explore the present.

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Oh Yeah Studio

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Shadow Figures

London-based artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster use lighting on carefully placed rubbish to produce unexpected shadows.

YUSUKE SAITOH サイトウユウスケ

Born in Kanagawa,Japan,1978
Graduated from Vantan Design Institute in 2003
Freelance illustrator since 2003.

http://www.saitoh-yusuke.com

Robert G Bartholot

Odd beauty dipped in colour.
Gentle melancholy adorned with sweet fears.
A pleasant response to an eerie matter.
Robert G. Bartholot is a freelance designer with an emphasis on photo-graphic illustration & art direction. He was born in 1971 in Southern Germany & became a graphic designer in Aachen. He gained experience working in Lucerne & Zurich, before he moved to Madrid to join photo-graphy legend Álvaro Villarrubia's team. He's been exploring his particular imagery ever since. Beside his interest in dollish characters he certainly has a weakness for dusty shine, trendless fashion & striking gloom. His work has been published in magazines such as Objects (Berlin), Novum (Munich), Neo2 (Madrid), Vnfold (Buenos Aires) & Schön! (London). He recently relocated from Madrid to Berlin. 
http://www.bartholot.net/info.html

Alessandro Maffioletti aka alvvino

Freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Berlin, Germany.

Studied design at the Politecnico di Milano and Birmingham Institue of Art and Design, UK.

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