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Published: 2012-07-04 17:48:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 119450; Favourites: 5400; Downloads: 2846
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Hey! This was a shitload of fun to make
I was thinking about how creepy it would be if in the future, people start neglecting their real bodies to exclusively live in downloaded indistinguishably real simulations. There would be all kinds of interesting philosophical debates to have, and loads of conflicting opinions on the technology. It's an idea I might explore more, especially if people dig it.
Hope you like, please let me know what you think!
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This is awesome! Totally reminds me of the song Cinema. Love the coloring with the two differentiating sides.
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Me and my buddy talked about this... We can imagine that the wealthy of this world would be able to afford both the program AND life-support form hospitals as to make sure that they could be in there as long as they wished and still be healthy, where as it was more risky for the middle/lower class if they can even afford it to begin with as they would have to know what the limit is before their physical body would give out. Perhaps some poor people in who are/getting evicted from homes or losing their family use this program as a way of suicide, buy the program with the last of their money and never disconnect, "living" a happier live and forgetting what they're leaving behind.
Depending on whether or not people would be connected to each other I could imagine that an entire other civilization would begin growing inside the program, Governmental regulations made by "Plugged-In Politicians", making people not only be charged to HAVE the program but to simply EXIST within it, being forced to endure labor. I think it would be at THIS point, where even the Utopia becomes painful for some, that the program becomes COMPLETELY indistinguishable. This idea may make some people paranoid, even after leaving the program, they would fear that they're still in a program and be constantly trying to find ways out until they commit suicide (little Inception-y, but still). In the real world, slight acts of kindness could cause people to question which existence they're in. A father of 2 in one world is also a father of two in the virtual world, but he becomes confused and scared, worried that he's putting more effort into the wrong family, in a last resort effort after therapy can't help, he decides to kill one of the families so that way he can focus ALL of his time on one, and ends up killing the real family. The man is given a death-penalty, he please guilty and his last wish before being put down is to be put into the program as he's being injected with the venom so that he can spend his last minutes with the family that he has truly come to love.
With this confusion of world's, people could be forgetting who their REAL loved one's are, and who they're virtual lovers are. They're could be love triangles between people inside the program and people outside. Hell, if the program really IS sort of an MMO-connection, there could be people who fall in love IN the program, and then leave the program for the rest of their lives and spend their lives looking for those they fell in love with.
God, There is SO MUCH THAT COULD GO WITH THIS!!!
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It's really inspired. Personnaly I'm writer and this work make my brain in movement : Ideas, colors and feelings beyond, everything is totally awesome. So, yes, It's a really good work. Keep this way !
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Love the oil spill rainbows. Like a poisonous dream.
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this image totally reminds me of some of the images about Aries and Aphrodite when they were caught together.
marvelous representation of your idea though. aries was just my first thought.
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Wow, that would be a scary situation...This is beautiful! Great job, and I definitely want to see you explore more!
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reminds me of the Matrix....... same concept....
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Well, i would think tech like this would be good for old people in rest homes who don't really have anything going for them.
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This is so freakin amazing. I always wondered what it would be like to live in a virtual reality that you make in your head. It would be so difficult to want to come back to reality. So many people would die. It would be bittersweet. Many movies come to mind. You are great at what you do, thanks for sharing!
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"indistinguishably real simulations" Count me in! I'd go to the world of X-Men and marry Nightcrawler <3
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I was actually discussing this in my philosophy class the other day! A dude name Jeremy Betham came up with the idea of a 'pleasure' machine and instantly your piece, reminded me of his idea. (Not saying that your idea isn't completely original just that it made me think of what we discussing in class.... pardon me if I've offended you.) Anyway~ This is a really awesome piece, I love the idea behind it and love the piece itself.
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I lack the means to tell you what I think of this. So in layman's terms I'll say that this is absolutely marvellous. I'm amazed how well the colours come out.
I'd love to trade my life for an artificial environment, though I actually care about my health.
Grats on the DD, it's well deserved. Keep it up.
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I have to say this is absolutely beautiful in a sense that I'm so glad I can say that. I've never used it to describe art before, but this, this is just... fantastic. Your painting is so.. amazing~! you definitely deserved the DD and all the new watchers you get c:
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Hm.... You, good deviant, may have just given me the pinnacle of my writing career.....
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this is so beautiful and incredibly heartbreaking at the same time
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This is extremely beautiful! It makes me think of Sword Art Online(anime/manga), the concept is kind of similar. ^.^
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Well executedand a interesting concept
A well deserved DD :3
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wow, this is a very dark topic that honestly scares me a little. The contrast between the two images is awesome, though (especially the darkness vs. the color.)
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I love the imagery, but I think this time is already here, with all the online communities, etc.
Now, if you'll excuse Me, I need to get back to My virtual dinner. We're having spaghetti and meatballs. Yum!
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The movie "Surrogate" is about that... Their bodies becoming frail while they live life through perfect looking robots.
That's a cool painting!
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I'd be happy with people doing the "real" thing...but, personally, I'd rather permanently hook my brain up to a simulation. Technology is just as amazing and beautiful as nature, in my opinion. And, uh, cleaner. XD
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Well, I would say that people dig it. Great work--I love the contrasting colors between reality and simulation, and the anatomy is superb.
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reminds me of the matrix a little.
really cool!
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the matrix.... lot to be explored! beautifuly done
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Amazing and breaktaking concept. This has often been mentioned in movies and it always interest me thinking about it. You can already see a beginning of sorts with this with the internet, so many people is stuck to the computer instead of living a life outside of the networkk, so I don't think it will take so much for this to actually be real. All it takes is the science for it to be real, many people would throw themselves at this. And it's both exciting thinking about what we can possibly in the future see but at the same time terrifying with how it can in many cases end up just like in your art.
Love it, keep up the good work, and love to see more of this in the future!
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I think my favourite part is the petroleum spill-like iridescence in the background. It's beautiful, but also frightening and artificial.
Great work
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Awesome work.
Regarding the idea, check out Surrogates with Bruce Willace.
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What a great way to deliver such an idea... i was just left speechless!
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this is very intersesting
i like the polar change in colors from the yellow and brown to the swirl of color in the dream world.
i like this a lot! Nice work!
and you some how make the real-life guy look not creepy..
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Wow! This is amazing! And I like the artist statment as well, it really helps add depth and thought to the illustration.
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Reminds me of the people addicted to dreaming in "Inception"
Amazing and very disturbing concept. <3
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It's a lot like the Epic, Saga, Edda trilogy. They boot into other characters in a game world and interact with each other in their virtual, incredibly realistic forms.
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wow - love the concept and the message - the colors are great - the anatomy is well done
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Uh this scares the shit out of me, so .....bravo! Lol
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