#simon stalenhag

[theelectricblog]

Is this still Active? Ok probably a dumb question. Also are vagabonds allowed.

Business has been slow, but I’m game if you are. What dod you have in mind?

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

Simon Stalenhag

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

Simon Stalenhag

[curatorofthisdigitalmorass]

Simon Stalenhag

[bordeauxlips]

watched Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die last night and went on letterboxd to put it on my watched-list, as one does

but then I sadly found out again that the illustrated novel The Electric State got a movie release and apparently it already came out??

and as it is a Netflix production it totally looks balls and Crisp Rat has a role in it so I'm not even intrigued anymore

anyways as the The Electric State (the illustrated novel by Simon Stålenhag) has been on my NEED-IT-list for years I've finally decided to buy it in an impulse to spite the movie.

I'm EXCITED!!

[documentary-surrealist]

Simon Stalenhag

[off-the-beaten-timeline]

“Let’s go poke around in the Forbidden Zone” is one of my favorite science fiction subgenres.

[goobertronics]

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written yesterday pubished today:

Just back form a cold brisk walk in my neiborhood. that kind of nose hair iceicle cold where you know you can't make it for long as a sqishy liquidy furless humanoid. But even the fured ones here at home are not interested in the slightest at the the prospect of the frosty wind that blew in with me as I shut the front door and take off my walking sneakers. as I was walking I maveled at the detail the fresh springkleing of power was leaving on the iced over crusty mud that formed the sides of the salt speckled road I walked apon little divots in the snow plowed grime filled in with white due to eddies and low preasure zones in the flow of blistering wind. Doubtless this could all be convincingly simulated realtime with a Geforce GOATblaster or RTX eggfryer but the sheer amount of variables that go into the real thing the mindbogling combination of mud, salt, complex organic material, photons and cosmic rays would crash any consumer ram before looking behaveing and feeling as real as the real thing. without overthinking it i should say it looks verry pretty. and desolate.

The snowy grain fields, ageing red barns and outdated tractors of my Upstate NY home stir in me a feeling of unplaceable nostalgia. A feeling I curiously found again in the work of my creative hero Simon Stålenhag. His meticulously detailed canvas textured digital photo overpaintings he depicts snowy 1980s Sweeden as an alternate timeline. oh! the retro is so good, and then he adds on the futureistic. His artwork is delicious like a strawberry milkshake and a game of Galaga. In his world a breakthrough partical phisics advancement has taken place catipulting the world into a strange splt in normality. He has really flushes out the lore of this alternate timeline and reading one of his artbooks you can really get a sense of how the retro future of boxy volkswagons and towering agricultural robots came to be and how the every day continues on for most poeple even though weird things are beginning to happen. I shoulden't try to do his work justice with my fawning, but I am cinsere. I imagine most nerds my age have been esposed to Simon's worldbuilding in some way or other since as he has gained more and more fame for the strange hobby of his and now has produced a fully flushed out roleplaying game set in this universe and a atmospheric whistfull netflix addaption of his "Tales from the loop" book.

Though he is a middle millennial and I, early genZ I can't help but think that Simon and I grew up with similar vibes seperated by time and geography.

thankyou for reading, I still have to write my log for today though.