February, 2012
Darling Mutants: The Art of Karolin Felix
Karolin Felix is a Dublin-based artist who creates sweet, pretty, sensual, pastel-colored digital paintings featuring dainty women, often mutated or in some way deviating from the physically normal but delicately beautiful, with just an edge of evil or menace flickering like a tongue around them.
Tags: candy-coated deformity, innocence/menace, lolitaism, neo-victorian, nouveau circus aesthetic, pastel, pop surrealism, sweet/melancholy
“Deus Ex: Human Revolution” Trailer
Another upcoming game I’m excited for is Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the third installment in the Deus Ex series.
Categorized as a “cyberpunk action RPG,” Human Revolution takes place in a dystopian world in 2027, where there are great technological advancements, particularly in biomechanical augmentations, but also the attendant upheaval and corruption. The trailer opens with a dream sequence/metaphor for the protagonist’s bionic enhancement, related to the story of Icarus, which I love.
A longer/more elaborated version of the trailer can be seen here, with a clever/dorky [h+]³ symbol appearing at the end to represent the concept of the game (“Transhumanism cubed”/“Deus Ex 3”).
With lush visuals and an intriguing storyline, Deus Ex: Human Revolution looks to be promising. It’s certainly one of the best game trailers I’ve ever seen. It will be released on August 23.
Tags: biomechanical, bionics, cyberpunk, dystopian, futuristic, icarus, renaissance, trailers, transhumanism, video games
Trailers for “Alice: Madness Returns”
Several months ago I posted the short teaser trailer for Alice: Madness Returns, the upcoming sequel to American McGee’s Alice which will be released on June 14th of this year. Here are three more trailers which give an enticing taste of the game:
Tags: alice in wonderland, colorful, dark fairy tales, dreamscapes, hauntingly beautiful, horror video games, innocence/menace, insane asylum aesthetic, insanity, madness, neo-victorian, psychological horror, surreal, trailers
The Stunning Sculpture of Motohiko Odani
Tags: conceptual, installation art, medical braces, realism, sculptures, textured, white
Casey LaLonde’s “Thank You”: Album Art
This is the packaging design for Casey LaLonde’s album Thank You centering on a cyborg deer which I quite like:
Click to enlarge Tags: CD artwork, deer, illustrations
Nicola Samorì
Nicola Samorì‘s beautiful, technically accomplished, dark-palette paintings are distorted renditions of Baroque works, giving new life to an old style. Her “Neo-Baroque” art is “aggressively overwhelming and beautiful.” Often the faces of the figures in these paintings are obscured with a surreal, milky veil or a tempestuous, boldly structured smear of gray.
Tags: (twists on) traditional art, baroque, classicism, dark ethereal, flour-white flesh, gloomy color schemes, hauntingly beautiful, historically inspired, neo-baroque, realism, virtuoso
