Media Resources/Arts

Artists

• Brom:
• [Dale Chihuly]: Organic glass forms. Mm...tentacles. His Garfield Conservatory installation is heavy influence for parts of the Conservatory?.

For the record, a friend once referred to a particularly polyp-y Chihuly installation as a "postvixen hentai scene waiting to happen." -- OR O:)

• Salvador Dali, [Crucificion: Corpus Hypercubus]
• [Roger Dean]: He did all those great, funky album covers of Asia, Toto, Boston, Iron Butterfly, etc. An inspirational artist (Modular organic architecture along Bottom lines, and very cool animal-shaped robots.)
• [Brian Froud]: Concept artist behind some of Henson's later works. Lots of very friendly faces that would be scary elsewhere.
• Grandville: 19th-century French illustrator. Caricatures and fanciful, allegorical anthropomorphized everything, including [insects], plants and [steam-powered musicians]... [1] [2] [3]
• Marcus Gray:
• [Maya Lanski]: Gorgeous rubber-fetish jackals in a pseudo-classical science fantasy setting.

I'm stunned these haven't attracted fan characters yet. We'd bend the "media references" rule for something like this. They were probably also a subliminal influence on the SMC. -- OR

• Hajime Sorayama:
• [Steve Stone]: Eldritch cybernetic pinups. Also did a biotech dystopia RPG called [Zero] with heavy D/s overtones. Direct inspiration for Strangewarp's cybernetic moon.
• [The Digital Erotic Art of Tsubasa]
• [Julian Murphy]:

Fashion

• [AllyCat]:
• [Mariko Mori]:
• [Pretty Pervy's] fluorescent PVC section:
• [Prohibition UV]: ultraviolet-sensitive clubwear

Architecture

• [V&A exhibition on biomorphic architecture] (some images now broken)
• [Pulaski Skyway] Inspiration for Zip tracks, perhaps for a Down extention of the Ballard Memorial Freeway
• [Oil Refineries] provide a sort of natural beauty of science and industry.
• [The Chrysler Building] provides essential Art Deco style, especially the Lobby, useful for references for Up (especially if mixed with Top), or as a base for buildings in Down.
• [Frank Gehry]'s work veers from starkly modernist to gleamingly biomorphic to cartoonishly surreal and askew. It would probably be possible to drop at least one of his projects (only a few listed on this page) into each Warp without creating any aesthetic disharmony.