New Video: "A Thousand Years of Solitude"

"A Thousand Years of Solitude" from Earth and Exile...

In which the Spaceplayer finds solace in his exile on the moon by paying homage to Stanley Kubrick:

Beyond the Music: The Art of Marco Djurdjevic

Before music won out, I was pursuing my dual love, the possibility of being a comic book illustrator. I wasn't up to the task, skillwise; the speed wasn't there to meet a monthly deadline. And I thought Alex Ross had no competition...his work was everything I wanted to see and do, so I left it to the experts...

Then I saw The Marvel Art of Marco Djurdjevic, a collection of covers by this rising star of the comic book world. Marco takes the realistic stylings of Alex Ross and combines it with the current innovations in graphic design (my other aspiration), bringing to maturity the artistic concepts started with Dave Gibbon's work on Watchmen and the design sensibilities of George Perez. Definitely eye candy on par with some of the great gatefold covers of classic prog.

Here's a sample of my favorite pieces; I love his webbing on Spider-Man, his work on Magneto is particularly moving, and the rest are simply striking in their use of design space. As it's been said, music is the space between the notes, and Marco's visuals certainly carry that principle forward in his art.