Visions Of The Future

Visions Of The Future - Part 1 of 5

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15 жыл бұрын

A 5 part audiovisual journey through some of the most amazing science fiction art from the imagination of some of the greatest artists of the 20th Century.
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ABOUT THIS VIDEO:
Part 1 of a 5 part montage of Sci-fi art from the second Golden Age of Science Fiction when books, magazines and films had some of the most amazing and memorable covers/artwork from artists like Peter Elson, Angus Mckie, Chris Foss and Tim White and John Berkey.

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@RIXRADvidz 2 жыл бұрын

nice to see somebody kept all their OMNI magazines. I recognize most of the art from that magazine.

@videojeff01 9 жыл бұрын

Now this is real sci-fi artwork. The best sci-fi artwork ever.

@esepaisakid9545 3 жыл бұрын

LSD and acid man

@wastelandgames9409 10 ай бұрын

Back when sci-fi was actually good to look at

@landryprichard6778 4 жыл бұрын

Takes me back. Born in 1970, I remember the books well. Aliens In Space being the first. And Mechanismo was next. Snowballed from there.

@pspboy7 10 жыл бұрын

Ah, the Terran Trade Authority! Where would we be without it hehe.

@russcowley5860 6 жыл бұрын

I have been fortunate not to be without it, Stewart Cowley is my father.

@jorgenpinoy1724 6 жыл бұрын

Wow.... Just woooooooooow.....

@xxnightopsxx 15 жыл бұрын

A lot of these images have been rattling around on my hard drives for some time after being downloaded (Google and Flickr are great for this) others I scanned from my collection of books. Namely - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Great Space Battles, Spacecraft 2000-2100 AD - as well as the actual classic book covers. Time allowing I may put the whole lot of what I have up on Flickr to keep these great images alive.

@grantmcgowan8399 4 жыл бұрын

As a kid growing up in the 70's, reading sci-fi and marvelling at book covers from the likes of Chris Foss.. I was very hopeful of a future where we could live our adult lives on a planet far from Earth...... What the hell happened to this glorious future? It still pisses me off!

@AtticTapes14 2 жыл бұрын

U have to play video games and movies for that

@ohem Жыл бұрын

This could have been our future, or our kid's future, had he chosen growth and prosperity instead limits and degrowth for a variety of excuses, like climate change, or back then global warming, as well as predation of the environment that could have been adressed, also the use of nuclear energy to make power a free utility.

@xxnightopsxx 4 ай бұрын

I can totally understand. Unfortunately, the future has been postponed - indefinitely….

@JackMyersPhotography 4 жыл бұрын

These five videos are really excellent, I grew up with this art and I recognize much of it, and it’s a great trip down memory lane to see and recall all this great stuff that has influenced me so much for so long. Thanks for putting the five videos together. The music by tangerine dream is a great added bonus.

@trnstn1 Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a quote, our current civilization is still nowhere near what these concepts dreamt of over 60 years ago. “Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software.” ― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

@nrqed 7 жыл бұрын

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe....Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.... I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser gate.......

@xxnightopsxx 6 жыл бұрын

Just scrolling through the comments and saw your classic quote, you might like this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q-CkiZpluNidg2Q.html

@fredflinston41 5 жыл бұрын

Coooool !

@CATMANDOO-yo7oi 5 жыл бұрын

Blade Runner

@anomalie3034 4 жыл бұрын

Rautger Hauer

@scottimo3671 2 жыл бұрын

All of those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. RIP RUTGER.

@appidydafoo Жыл бұрын

The work of Chris Foss pops like crazy in context, evergreen

@xxnightopsxx 4 ай бұрын

A unique style for certain....

@davidlewis1787 5 жыл бұрын

I have always loved chris foss

@pieterkirby9794 3 жыл бұрын

Grew up with a lot of these images in old hard cover books. Definitely influenced my own art style and taste. PS awesome to see you actually giving the artists credit and hopefully these KZfaq videos inspire people to look them up and maybe even collect some works/publications.

@glider208 6 жыл бұрын

The Tangerine Dream music is the topping on the cake. You should make some more videos using the Exit album.

@xxnightopsxx 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'm thinking about which way to go on that.

@glider208 6 жыл бұрын

Let me know when you get it done. Would love to view it.

@MrKirby2367 10 жыл бұрын

Even at 47 I still love these books, where did the time go?

@xxnightopsxx 6 жыл бұрын

It drips away, sadly.

@fredflinston41 5 жыл бұрын

I Know What You Mean !!!!!!!!!!!!

@user-sz7bo6jn2k 4 жыл бұрын

the author of this comment passed away this year. RIP

@landryprichard6778 4 жыл бұрын

Same. Born in 1970. That decade produced so much greatness.

@StefanG5 4 жыл бұрын

@@xxnightopsxx Hi. Just wanted to know what movie your KZfaq profile pic is from? I remember it being from the 80's, but that's all.

@ttracemusic 12 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!!! Had a lot of these images in a book when a was a kid.

@kingtigerbooks1162 2 жыл бұрын

Great video from a wonderful channel. Art books have provided me a much-needed escape from real life. I have my easy chair set up with a desk, a lamp, a blanket and a cup of coffee. I spent many hours with dragons, unicorns, space battles, pixies, dark forests, giant robots and medieval knights. My art books are the best investments I ever made. My 3 favorite art books, all available from amazon, are: - Fantasy Art Paintings by Mike Hoffman - Infinite Worlds by Vincent DiFate - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson

@xxnightopsxx 4 ай бұрын

I'd add a few that come to mind apaprt from the TTA series - Sentinel by Syd Mead, as well as book of Tim White's amazing art - a lot of which featured on Heinlein covers, and The Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction which had some fantastic art in it. I would repeatedly go back and study those images endlessly....

@milxl 12 жыл бұрын

AND THE MUSIC MATCH PERFECTLY THANKS !

@TheUndert0ker 14 жыл бұрын

oh man i love these old books. food for the imagination. the terran trade authority series and galactic encounters series are some of my favorites.

@MadCat-75 10 жыл бұрын

So many chris foss pictures... i love his art!

@pspicer777 11 жыл бұрын

Brings back some very fond memories and feelings that anything is possible - heart's desire and longing. Read the books these images were associated with... what a time it was. Thanks for posting this.

@BruecknerAmbient 6 жыл бұрын

Great to see that You also included work by Jim Burns. Next to Foss and Woodroffe, he was one of the most brilliant artists in this genre...

@xxnightopsxx 6 жыл бұрын

Yes, he certainly had a very unique and recognizable style.

@billallen2126 10 жыл бұрын

anyone can posit a sick future where all negative things are magnified. dystopian futures are dreamt up by those with a paucity of imagination; one could merely strive for something better: it begins with visualization.

@luckyfair4174 3 жыл бұрын

So true.

@frankreynolds445 3 жыл бұрын

Great Artwork.

@mcpb9722 4 жыл бұрын

And yet we see "Hollywood recycling" when each artwork is a new story to explore. Cheers

@81mrlz 4 жыл бұрын

I remember when I was young and was in the library i found a book with these pictures, until today this fascinates me

@DavidBoura 9 жыл бұрын

Tangerine Dream awesomeness

@user-vs4wl3mv3s 2 жыл бұрын

すごいきれい❗

@pspboy7 3 жыл бұрын

You can always tell Jim Burns art from the rest. So organic!

@freedomvigilant1234 5 ай бұрын

This is an amazing exposition of art and imagination.

@seantobey3492 3 жыл бұрын

Love the artwork and great choice of music. Tangerine Dream is the best synth band.

@danielduran7266 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing!!!! i love it so much.

@elidrissii 11 жыл бұрын

Instead of looking at the glass half empty, look at it this way. You're at literally the best time that any human has ever lived in. Be grateful.

@iamatardis 6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@unclesloppy8518 Жыл бұрын

this video is what introduced me to Tangerine Dream. they quickly became my favorite band of all time. in a way, this video changed my life. thank you, Nightops.

@xxnightopsxx 4 ай бұрын

You know, it's all the great posts and particularly posts like this that make all of this worthwhile. I have a very broad taste in music, and was introduced to TD in Serbia when I was gifted a copy of Stratosfear on a visit there. Amazing album, I've read many books to their music, especially that album, including Dune. The two go together brilliantly....

@xxnightopsxx 14 жыл бұрын

Thanks, even finding this stuff online was difficult and I had a feeling i wasn't the only one that loves these amazing works. I'm glad fans are locating and enjoying it.

@fredflinston41 5 жыл бұрын

My TTA books by Stewart Cowley burned in a fire...Thanks for putting music to the images !

@xxnightopsxx 5 жыл бұрын

Glad there's people out there that love this stuff. I'm planning on doing an updated series as time allows.

@SocksWithSandals 4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of my childhood reading Asimov and E.E. Doc Smith. It was always a good moment to get to the point in the story where the scene on the book cover was unfolding. I used to imagine the artist being inspired by the same paragraph to visual the drama unfolding. Do children even read books these days?

@romario9158 4 жыл бұрын

Very expressive

@Restitutor_Orbis_214 Жыл бұрын

It is remarkable how much creative inspiration is sparked and depicted by these images alone. Everything in in 21st century science fiction seems so derivative and repetitive.

@xxnightopsxx 4 ай бұрын

Totally agree, we're already hitting that wall with most AI "art" copies of copies of copies....

@astralandreid 8 ай бұрын

Tangerine Dream!!!! ❤

@RedSunCZE 12 жыл бұрын

Awesome all 5 videos

@Ahibasabala 10 жыл бұрын

It's really strange seeing these paintings, just an opinion of course but i think they are made even more beautiful by their age, some look a little dated but not in a bad way, it's like they depict an alternate fantasy future of that particular time, i'm probably not making any sense :D

@fredflinston41 5 жыл бұрын

Don't Worry......You are making sense !

@walter0bz 13 жыл бұрын

nice nostalgia, i can't remember the book i remember some of these from..

@DawidMichalczyk 13 жыл бұрын

Wonderful Sci-fi art! This is the type of artwork I grew up with and still love it. A great source of inspiration.

@Peppermint1 11 жыл бұрын

This five videos are ones of a kind. I'm downloading and bonding all five and I'll be watching this as a movie since soundtrack is perfect too. Reminds me the short stories from S.F. publications back in the 80's

@MrKirby2367 10 жыл бұрын

Still have those books from when I was a kid. I feel so old…..

@AiVaultGuy 3 ай бұрын

this is the most magical stuff I've seen on youtube, this channel deserver millions of subcribers and I'll make sure that happens

@konpaku7416 11 жыл бұрын

A lot of dedication was put into these work, which are truly master pieces considering they were done by hand.

@Talcarnan 3 жыл бұрын

The background music is Tangerine Dream's Stratosfear issued on the Virgin label October 1976

@elevatorisland 12 жыл бұрын

Wow this stuff is beautiful.

@git1958 14 жыл бұрын

Great post xx. I recognise most of these images from my collection of SF pb's and hc's. I have a bedroom stacked and shelved with about 4,000 titles. I stopped this obsessive pursuit about 10 years ago. One of the reasons should be obvious. Did a bit of artwork myself,years ago, covers and illos for the BSFA. Love Hays and Whites work, for their detailed realism. In these post- airbrush days of CAD it's a pity that the pen and ink era is somewhat underappreciated. I.E.Virgil Finlay.

@WormulonDCP 10 жыл бұрын

I prefer the style of science fiction aesthetics that these images demonstrate to the "Everything is an Ipod trope" that is getting over-used in games and movies. I don't mind that either, but these spaceships from the second golden age look meaner to me, more like industrial machines without the pretty casing, and perhaps more variety in styles. The Ipod trope will be retro eventually.

@rolandlemmers6462 5 жыл бұрын

This video made me a Tangerine Dream fan.

@xxnightopsxx 5 жыл бұрын

They definitely had some great albums.

@robertdavidson8932 10 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video

@MoneyIsuseless 12 жыл бұрын

Very nice pictures!

@jefftappan3091 2 жыл бұрын

I had a hardbound book dealing with this topic years ago. Interesting artwork.

@perferstrategy 10 жыл бұрын

Syd Mead is a good artist too

@pspboy7 6 жыл бұрын

Peter Parker syd mead worked on bladerunner.

@stevejordan7275 6 жыл бұрын

...and Tron, Aliens, 2010, TimeCop, Strange Days, Elysium, Tomorrowland, and a bunch of video games, articles, several really lovely books of concept art, and loads of other stuff. When Hollyweird needs to know what he future could look like, Syd gets a call.

@medoasiri2010 12 жыл бұрын

I do like it !!

@paddoww 12 жыл бұрын

I've finally found this footage. @felcas.. I used to have this book. There were city ships, ships shaped like birds or cranes and war birds with ion engines, even a tarantula like atomic bomb craft that crawled around leaving craters and destruction. That book was way before its time

@MrKFNeverGiveUp 12 жыл бұрын

Excellent vid, the music worked perfect with the art. Faved.

@ConstantXplorer 11 жыл бұрын

Such stunning beautiful works.

@ComplexIdealism 11 жыл бұрын

i used to sit and look at these pictures for HOURS .. I remember as a kid I didn't have a lot of money so I would go to the old B. Dalton Books Store (remember those places? they were something like B&N but not as cool comfort wise) and I would just sit and look at the collections of this sort of Sci-Fi art. People say there is nothing to that. But those books that artwork, lead to me going into what I do today :) and even more .. to pass THAT hope to today's generation.

@revzillo 13 жыл бұрын

spectacular visions of Sci-Fi artwork

@a428858 12 жыл бұрын

even as a child I had a lot of these images in books I owned. and even then, I learned their will always be conflict, where technology will be the major deciding victor.

@anomalie3034 4 жыл бұрын

My soul is a combination of tekno and 70s sci fi art

@camcordernonsense5264 4 жыл бұрын

Love this stuff

@WatchmenDrManhattan 11 жыл бұрын

oh my word exactly :)

@guygruwier9665 5 ай бұрын

Extremely beautiful SF-Art ! Dating from the 70's (I recognize Chris Foss, Peter Elson, and many others). Made with their hands and minds, not from AI...

@xxnightopsxx 4 ай бұрын

Absolutely, these are some the great masters of our time, not the stuff that poses as "art" whether it be much of the modern stuff or AI. Having said that, I have, out of nostalgia and a homage, thought of creating a video using AI images based on these greats. However, in my experience so far, I haven't found the technology quite up to it - yet. This also raises the prickly question then; what happens when we are able to create perfect projections of their art simply from a prompt...

@danielmorse6597 11 жыл бұрын

Love it! Amazing stuff. Thank you!

@sharkcellar 15 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@duanemcclure8324 4 жыл бұрын

Tangerine Dream! Now, this is something I haven't heard in more than 30 years! They were way ahead of their time. Very cool background music! And, very fitting! I dig it. They've got ALLOT of good stuff like this. You may have just started a new trend with an old band. Their time has come - again! What made you think to use them? You must be around my age. I'm 52 and grew up listening to them. Good tripping music. I wish I would have got to see them but they weren't around very long. About 10 years if I remember right. They were very exploratory like Pink Floyd but, you never heard them on the radio. You had to know somebody else that knew of them. At least, that's how I heard about them. I am a lifelong Floyd fan so someone thought I'd like them too, which I do. I guess you'd say they're prog like Floyd, ELP, Rush etc..Very cool video. Keep using them, please. Now, on to pt. 2. I hope you used them there too!

@LandersWorkshop 13 жыл бұрын

Really ringly and dingly tunes on this video :) Thanks for uploading!

@guthpiddi 2 жыл бұрын

So wonderful , watched it so many times. So sad that Part 2 is no longer available 🥺

@xxnightopsxx 4 ай бұрын

No, it's still there as far as I can see....

@pedrodiaz5540 Жыл бұрын

Great, all I have to do was turn the sound to mute and really enjoy the drawings, awesome work of art.

@xxnightopsxx 4 ай бұрын

Each to his own, try some Beachhouse or Max Cooper. Whatever get's you into the void....

@ArtAgent13 12 жыл бұрын

I have to say that I too did it the old way. When I was growing up, and even into my early to middle age adult life, the tools for digital art were nonexistent. I still have some of my oldest paintbrushes. Now I am able to produce art like never before using the digital art software. I still like to draw & paint the old way though. Not saying I;m as good as these old classic Sci Fi artists, but I do have a small following.

@TheSanien 12 жыл бұрын

Great art and great music, makes you feel all nostalgic :-D

@az0963818 12 жыл бұрын

Well said.

@pierrepaul591 8 жыл бұрын

All this stuff was envisioned in the 70s when NASA had grand visions. Now the only place you can find them is 40 plus years later on KZfaq. What happened?

@xxnightopsxx 7 жыл бұрын

We lost our way...

@JB52520 7 жыл бұрын

There is still hope. If we manage to master consciousness, all of the current limitations of humanity will be swept aside. There are many brilliant minds working on this problem. I hope they crack it soon, because beings as aggressive and foolish as ourselves cannot be trusted with the future of all known life.

@pierrepaul591 7 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I wonder if we Care for hope.

@mega-bustershepard5537 6 жыл бұрын

Truth be told this is in part due to the Shuttle program. Nixon wanted a cheap workhorse that was reusable. Nasa did have plans for a moonbase by the eighties and a mars mission by 2000 but it was deemed too expensive. Nixon slashed the space budget and we were stuck with a smaller program.

@xxnightopsxx 6 жыл бұрын

John Bryant - I just watched an interview with James Cameron about the Terminator sequels. He was saying they interviewed a lot of experts on AI and most of them were scared shitless. Maybe that is the next phase in evolution, the machines takeover while we're busy with Facebook and Snapchat. One thing is certain, machines will be able to go into space more easily than humans.

@LordSatanspriest666 12 жыл бұрын

retro futuristic :D cool :)

@lonasimpresasmonterrey7599 3 жыл бұрын

AMAZING

@trackwalkman 12 жыл бұрын

i have this book...its totally underrated...its what inspired me to go into conceptual design as a graphic artist..visually...you have to know your roots of passion before you set of to create something totally out of the box...these fine artist knew that...I just one day we will catch up with our dreams before the future becomes our past.

@uncleshan 12 жыл бұрын

its cool to see how alot of these iseas have filtered thru into modern sci fi movies. ( like those floating islands which look heaps like scenes from avatar etc ) i was telling my kids how all the sci fi was in books when i was their age and was glad you had posted this so i could show them exactly what i was on about. they were totally excited by it, just like i was. thanks for posting!

@Caligula138 13 жыл бұрын

Great music choice!

@melkorsring 12 жыл бұрын

love the books got them for christmas back in the day

@ArtAgent13 11 жыл бұрын

I could not agree more. I myself use multiple media to produce my art. I now own and use several digital art applications on the very computer I am using to type this message. I regularly submit my art at sites like Renderosity, and PDFLives. I am a member of several artist's communities. As an artist from before the digital age, I still like to do it the old way as well, and I am practicing at combining the old and the new. My avatar pic is digital made by me.

@tweakiepop 13 жыл бұрын

@trevizons Thats the exact book I have, somewhere, back at home haven't seen for 20 odd years....was trying to remember what it was called to look up again, cheers! Great smashed robots in deserts I remember....

@nexpro6985 2 жыл бұрын

Chris Foss FTW!

@3Jane_TA 12 жыл бұрын

Plus the imagination that goes for it.

@fennellgames2785 6 жыл бұрын

Great Videos ))))))))

@xxnightopsxx 15 жыл бұрын

My intention was to to try and group the images by artist and add titles of the book/magazine/film the image was done for - but realised I was going to create an impossible job for myself in terms of trying to organise and research it along with the time involved.

@Toolpusher 11 жыл бұрын

I remember a time when it seemed like every scifi paperback you picked up had art by Chris Foss on the cover, he did some superb stuff.

@derIImperator 3 жыл бұрын

People of the 60s thought the world would look like this in 2000. Today 2000 felt like an century far away and cars still not fly... wich is sad 😞

@futurehistory2110 12 жыл бұрын

great video.

@minuteman360 12 жыл бұрын

The future never seems to be what we think it will. So I am not so broken up about not seeing these things come to fruition. Who can even say we as a species will live to see those days.

@xxnightopsxx 15 жыл бұрын

Thanks Trevizons for all your comments, glad you like the video/s. I've checked out the cover of the book you mention and it does ring a bell but I'm not sure if I have seen it first hand. I see Amazon have a new collector's copy for US$59 and have added it to my list of books to grab.

@xxnightopsxx 15 жыл бұрын

Yes, and now they say in twenty years they will solve the issue of mortality. At least then we will all have more time to wait for all the other miracles of technology that have been promised over the years.

@sharkcellar 15 жыл бұрын

Awesome! What is this music, Tangerine Dream what? Love it, brings back good memories.

@electricdisk 15 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. The music choice is perfect. It would be nice if we could get a picture list/artist credit (where known) so we could collect some of these prints!