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Published: 2016-07-22 15:59:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 26903; Favourites: 1369; Downloads: 0
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Well it's a week late but this was supposed to be my birthday submission for this year. Almost wasn't going to bother with it anymore since after so many of these related scenes being made it was getting harder to think up something that looked new yet still stuck to the theme of the others, then this idea popped in my head just a day or two before it was "due" and so I went for it. Something more surreal this time, so don't bother questioning the physics of it (like that floating ball of land atop the middle) it's just meant to look cool
The idea did evolve over time, the black hole up top was eventually just going to be a Saturn-like planet instead but this felt more unique and dynamic and even a little more eerie, and it was a good way to substitute a light source for the scene too with something other than a sun. Most of the work was done in Vue with a little help from C4D and Photoshop.
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This is really cool, and I typed that before I saw what you wrote.
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This is an excellent piece of imagination here. Great work!
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It's a little over-active at times though
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Jaw dropping<3
mah guuuuh (My god) <3
sweeter than a dream so beautiful<3
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Ooohhh this is very cool O.O Great idea!
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What comes to my mind is the line from Interstellar "7 year per hour!". Great scene!
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That tripped me out when I heard it
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Go to the 5D meta-corner and think about what you've done!
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Kind of reminds me of The Titan's Goblet by Thomas Cole (see: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti… ). Yours looks spacier and more like Dubai construction project though. I also instantly thought of that cool back-lit Saturn photograph, and still think that looks like a Saturnian planet. I like how this image is kind of a cross-between fractals with the symmetric emphases and typical surrealism, plus landscape/space art -- like a whole new genre where the unreal/abstract merges with the real/concrete. I think this would look even better with dramatic contrast and rays, although that would admittedly take away from the relaxing feel. But that would enhance the inherent eerieness. 
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Can you imagine the cost of a property on that thing 
It would be an interesting thing to see more space + surreal art, but a lot of the older sci-fi drawings could probably pass for that these days as they have been debunked by modern science
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I guess the property is reserved for the Titan's minions. Yes, the title is poignant. Now the moon was called 'Titan' by Herschel in 1847, whereas Cole finished this picture in 1833. Otherwise, I'd suggest the rings of Saturn might remind one of the rim of a cup, so a Titanic cup could allude to its rings. Too bad you didn't sneak in any Titan reference here! Although arguably the colours look a bit look Titan, actually!
That's a good point about surreal space art and older space art. However the older traditional space art/sci-fi drawings often attempt to illustrate a contemporary scientific outlook. The really essential comparison here is in approach. There is a continuum between 'realistic' and 'surreal', which I'd like to expand upon in a fuller piece elsewhere. But I think it's interesting to note how most digital space art has tended more towards 'surrealism', without having any particular aim of realism/illustrating some other end. Most however attempt not to look too hard-to-believe, so I can see how you might compare them to older (especially much older) sci-fi art.
I would like to see more surreal/space-art however, because being unconstrained by any other purpose like 'realism', art has an unconstrained domain to express its full potential. It's like the upgrade from 'tradition' to 'digital' more generally -- painting with one brush to unlimited custom digital brushes, composing for piano versus composing with electronic software (totally optional limitations), or calculating on paper versus generating fractals on computers.
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I think most space art of today (almost exclusively digital nowadays, it just works better for the genre) tends to fall halfway between realistic and surreal. realistic in terms of detail - the planets, stars etc are usually very fine-tuned, more than you'd get out of traditional media most of the time. But often the colours and composition used are more fantasy-like. Though this is probably to keep it interesting. Even I know a realistic space scene would rarely consist of much more than alone planet against a very drab background, any additional planets would be so far away that you wouldn't really be able to distinguish them anyway. But such a scene sounds kinda a boring, usually they're used for illustrating newly-found planets though.
I think the reason why intentionally surreal space scenes don't happen often is because its contradictory. When people think o space they thing of science fiction, a scene that can be backed up (however loosely) with some sort of explanation of the physics of it. Surreal is too "anything goes" for the science-oriented who may not be too fond of art themes that they know are impossible. Even I have a hard time breaking from what's considered passable at times
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"almost exclusively digital nowadays, it just works better for the genre" I really think that applies to everything, to echo my previous sentiment 
"I think the reason why intentionally surreal space scenes don't happen often is because its contradictory." I'd criticise this as excessively narrow thinking, or taste. I suggest that an 'unrealistic' work can either (i) represent an unexpected universe (e.g. one with different laws) or (ii) a coherent composition of meaningful allusions (a universe of artistic meaning, call it 'psychological' or metaphysical). By the second one I would point out the impression of shapes in nebulae/clouds, and Chinese landscape painting (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Sp… ).
As my examples indicate, some sense of the real needs presence to ground the surreal. After all, I do think the real reveals essential meaning after all. Hope you don't mind my off-loading of thoughts here!
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Wow. So I'm receiving some awesome esoteric stuff when I look at this. The Tower of Babel, the Central Sun but backwards, which is why the tower is black. The floating portion of the tower looks similar to the crown chakra, so it appears to be that in-between step before you access God. And it makes sense even more when you say you were thinking of Saturn for the planet, as he is not a benevolent God, for the most part, and would explain the inverted star/black hole and the black tower. It also relates to the current obsession of occultists and the Black Star or Sun phenomena. Awesome stuff.
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I gotta admit the whole occult scene is quite lost on me, so any references to that are purely coincidental 
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That's some impressively balanced gravity, though.... I'd kind of expect the water to overflow the island rings.
Still, this is beautiful, elegant and thought provoking. Great work!
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Haha, yeah - there would be some serious tides - though in this surreal themed work I'd say anything goes
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Fair enough. ^_^ Great work as always.
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This is certainly an interesting piece, with a composition that just gives off an almost 'cultist' vibe. What I mean by that is how all the palm trees are surrounding the main center focus of attention, where the action truly is. And there's not just one but multiple outlaying rings of palm trees...and it's almost as if I can hear them chanting quietly in unison "All hail the black hole!" Strange way of looking at it, I know, but I find it more of a humorous interpretation than anything serious.
Beautiful work dude! This is one of your most thought-provoking pictures yet even outside of my own initial viewing of it. The shiny reflection work combined with the incredible circular panoramic perspective....and the lighting and scenery details of course as usual....all sum up one amazing eye-catching canvas. Love it!
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I can see how you'd think that - cults do love their circle patterns after all
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True that, it's just one of those things!
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This is totally WICKED!! I love the repetitiveness of the beach that leads to a statue, which kinda looks like a chess piece to me, in the center with a black orb hovering above it. AWESOMENESS!! The sky is so beautiful and I am wondering what the "Ripple Effect" will do to the center of the island. Is it the black orb that's causing the sky to change or is it the sky that is causing the black orb to effect the island? It can go either way.
JAW DROPPING, AMAZING, IMPRESSIVE, EXCITING, EXCELLENT, ETC!!! THIS IS HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS PIECE!!
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I never would have imagined it as a chess piece, but I can see that now
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Has an ancient "Wonders of the World" type of vibe to this although its looking futuristic at the same time. The sight of the palm trees and land formations circling the site and the floating ball would make this a sight to be in awe over, but it's so strange it's almost terrifying
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Perhaps it's an "ancient aliens" kind of structure
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looking great! There are definitely not enough black holes around here on DA! How is this related to your birthday (conceptually)?
Happy belated birthday btw!
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Technically it isn't, I just started the series years ago when I was new here with the intent to have each one being a combination of an inviting tropical landscape with an unusual alien sky since I like those things, and now - more out of habit than anything, I just keep doing them as a way to help break the mid-year blues (since the weather on my end is always terrible around this time of the year and there's not much else going on either
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thanks for explaining! I thought it had to be a recurring theme or something, but I couldn't be bothered to browse for your previous birthday submissions 
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And thus it is revealed, the culture that came to worship lava lamps as their one true god xD
Seriously, though, very impressive piece, and great job on the lighting from the rings!
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Somebody gave rockets to people in the 70's did they?
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Very cool concept, maybe some gravitational - magnetic anomaly is the cause of the floating sphere, the thing that looks like a black hole could also have something to do there.
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I think magnetism might work better on a smaller scale situation like here. That's how they explained away the floating mountains in Avatar - they were laden with a mineral that was repulsed by a strong magnetic field. Here though the formation is too perfect and balanced and could likely be the work of aliens who were feeling creative
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You mean the black hole from Chris Nolan's movie Interstellar? 
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Ever since that movie I think everyone illustrates black holes like that now. You can copyright the images but you can't copyright the true-to-life physics
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