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Syd Mead art
« on: August 18, 2013, 09:13:40 PM »
Outside of the TG16 shooter and his popular movie work, I've never gone out of my way to look at Syd Mead's art before. Just stumbled across this: http://imgur.com/a/s9Oyr#0

Pretty awesome. The same and more comes up in google images, but the link is a good start.
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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2013, 10:31:45 PM »
best evar :)
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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2013, 12:28:51 AM »
Sydney Mead's vision is how I view the future...3 years from now  .
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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2013, 12:36:55 AM »
Strange, I'm counting 6 years and 3 month from now  :-k
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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2013, 06:57:55 AM »
I just missed out on a eBay auction for his Kronolog book/LD combo. I thought I might get it at $200...

It went for $700...

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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2013, 07:10:39 AM »
Wow that stuff is fantastic!

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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2013, 05:14:39 PM »
That was pretty rad.  Reminded me of Futureland at Disney.

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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2013, 06:53:52 PM »
Very Cool thanks for posting this site.
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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2013, 12:29:15 AM »
I just missed out on a eBay auction for his Kronolog book/LD combo. I thought I might get it at $200...

It went for $700...

I had no idea anything like that was created for LD... I have it on VHS. No, he would never have allowed it on VHS.

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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2013, 03:47:15 AM »
Yeah, I had to do a bit of Googling and found this guy's discussion of it:
http://someartbooks.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/syd-mead%C2%B4s-kronolog/

Very neat stuff, but apparently it's only white people in the future.  :P
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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2013, 12:22:33 PM »
I'd never seen any of this before, so beautiful. Just has that mystery and uncertainty about it that really captures me, like many games do. Leaves so much to the imagination. I see one of his books is in print for a pretty low price, I may have to buy myself a copy. Thanks for posting this.

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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2013, 02:37:32 PM »
Yeah, I had to do a bit of Googling and found this guy's discussion of it:
http://someartbooks.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/syd-mead%C2%B4s-kronolog/

Very neat stuff, but apparently it's only white people in the future.  :P


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I enjoyed the "reveal"...nice pictures and description.
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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #12 on: August 20, 2013, 04:05:13 PM »
I just missed out on a eBay auction for his Kronolog book/LD combo. I thought I might get it at $200...

It went for $700...

I had no idea anything like that was created for LD... I have it on VHS. No, he would never have allowed it on VHS.



It was also released on VHS, but in much fewer numbers.

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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2013, 03:00:03 AM »
Yeah, I had to do a bit of Googling and found this guy's discussion of it:
http://someartbooks.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/syd-mead%C2%B4s-kronolog/

Very neat stuff, but apparently it's only white people in the future.  :P


Kronoblanco.

I enjoyed the "reveal"...nice pictures and description.


That does look fantastic, but I was hoping for a 'Terraforming' box set discussing his creation and the gameplay/grafx..  Oh well.

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Re: Syd Mead art
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2013, 10:24:38 PM »
That artwork is fantastic.

It's a bit embarrassing, but I watched Blade Runner for the first time yesterday (got the blu-ray version of amazon) and it was very fun seeing that design artwork and concept sketches by him shown in the documentary that came with it. :)

Why haven't I heard about this guy sooner?!
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