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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 12d

Last day to sign up for my art blog before the next issue's out! This one's about retro tech illustration of computer plant life. 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io

Here's the sneak peek, featuring Hom & Hom, Paul Kratter, Robert Tinney, and Michael Green

A selection of 1980s-era consumer technology grows out of a patch of green leafy plants. Several desktop monitors and landline phones sit on plants, two plants have floppy disks for leaves, and one tree has radar dishes for flowers with cables for vines. The artist is credited as "Hom and Hom," 1989.

A frog sits on a microchip that's floating in a pond.

A field of crops is growing computers on the left, game consoles on the right, and a row of "hybrid" labelled gaming computers in the center.

Black and white pixel art of a desktop computer with vines and a tree growing on it, in a jungle, with old stone steps leading up to it.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 4h

I don't like to burst bubbles, but this is from the Mar 1938 issue of WEIRD TALES, and was in a letter from Gertrude Hemken (1912-1992). Who was not a teenage girl, but one of the prolific letter-writers in WEIRD TALES during its initial run (1923-1954).

archive.org/details/wt_1...

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · May 25

Tekla Aleksieva, cover art for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1988

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 1d

Banger

Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 1d

Goskino Orchestra - The Moment of Success (USSR) (Soundtrack) (1981)
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Goskino Orchestra - The Moment of Success (USSR) (Soundtrack) (1981)

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ghost ship gore @britneyspheres.bsky.social · 2d

'Edge of Time.' Art by Frank Kelly Freas 💫

Woman clutching to an illuminated ball on belly height, below a futuristic cityscape in the dark, orange and yellow flickers of light haunt the nightly air

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Ranaroth @ranaroth.bsky.social · 2d

Jean-François Pénichoux. From Robots: Historique de la robotique mobile du XXIeme au XXVeme siecle, Messidor/La Farandole, 1981. #Jean-FrançoisPénichoux

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 5d

Karl Kofoed's interior art for D. D. Storm's "Mud/Aurora" in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (November 1981)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Two humanoids walk past what looks like a large vegetal structure with a small lizard-like creature (with wings) on top. There are. various flowing plants with their flowers aimed at the people.

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 5d

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978, Ralph Bakshi)

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 7d

That’s a great one!

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Ranaroth @ranaroth.bsky.social · 7d

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Jean-François Pénichoux. From Robots: Historique de la robotique mobile du XXIeme au XXVeme siecle, Messidor/La Farandole, 1981. #Jean-FrançoisPénichoux

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 8d

Worst part of writing alt text is revealing my lack of tech knowledge haha 😅

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 8d

How I'm posting this month

A hand emerges from a pumpkin, covering in gross innards, to type into an old word processor, c. 1983.

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · 8d

Art by • Gary Leach

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 8d

Ed Emshwiller’s 1964 cover art for "The Radio Beasts," by Ralph Milne Farley

A human wearing metal antennae and headphones on his head and riding on a weird vehicle platform helps lead a charge of humanoids with bug wings against an army of giant ants with rifles.

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 8d

I just learned Thomas Cahill's "Looking for Books: How to Find Hard-to-Find Books" is both A) real and B) impossible to find a copy of

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 9d

I love this 1978 Don Davis cover art for Carl Sagan’s "The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence" - anyone have a less blurry version? chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2010/03/vint...

Two ape-like early humans sit under a tree, looking over a lush pastoral landscape dotted with prehistoric animals and dinosaurs.

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Jun 11

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𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · 11d

🕯️𝕴𝖓 𝖏𝖚𝖘𝖙 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖉𝖆𝖞 🎃🅷🅰🅻🅻🅾🆆🅴🅴🅽🦇𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖇𝖊𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 𝖞𝖊𝖙 𝖆𝖌𝖆𝖎𝖓!! 𝕴𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖓𝖊𝖜 𝖙𝖔 𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙, 𝖆𝖑𝖑 🕷️𝕆𝕔𝕥𝕠𝕓𝕖𝕣🕸️ 𝕴 𝖕𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖘𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖞/𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖉 𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖞 𝖆𝖗𝖙.⚰️

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · Oct 31

Art by • Tim Hildebrandt

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Dream Chimney @dreamchimney.com · 11d

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OriginalVideoGameArt.com @ovga.bsky.social · 12d

Turns out those initials are actually MD and the artist is UK illustrator Mark Duffin, who also did the Atari ST box art for Tempest, though Mark confirmed for OVGA that neither original painting was ever returned. Mark said both were a rush and had to be done overnight!

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 12d

It's up now! Check it out! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/computer-pla...

Here are a few more artworks, both from ads with no artist credited.

A black and white illustration of a retro desktop computer sinking into a prehistoric swamp, with volcanos and a flying dinosaur in the background.

A collection of animals including a puffin, cheetah, dinosaur, groundhog, giraffe, and others crowd around a desktop in a savannah.

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Hawklorddragon @cimerians.bsky.social · 12d

Theodore Sturgeon's 'The Stars are the Styx' book cover by Rowena Morrill (1979)
#scifiart

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It Came From Blog @itcamefromblog.bsky.social · 12d

I love how the Aurora Prehistoric Scenes models of my ‘70s childhood, with their epic box art, actively reinforced the idea that humans and dinosaurs battled & co-existed. I used to marvel at these colorful box covers, which fired up my imagination. I don’t blame them for not knowing any better!

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lookcaitlin @lookcaitlin.bsky.social · 16d

Jean-Louis Rigaud #1986 rb.gy/nw7yac

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 12d

Shoutout @lookcaitlin.bsky.social who surfaced a lot of that retro tech art in their tumblr! You should follow them