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Rui Huang is a Chinese video artist, from Shanghai I believe.

He does extraordinary Science Fiction art, that makes Sci-Fi look like I feel it should look like.

The thing that first attracted me to science fiction as a child was an almost religious sense of transcendence. Something I never got from the Bible, but did get from looking at the sky at night.

The idea that things totally unimaginable could exist out there in the infinite darkness.

I still feel it just as strongly today. (Which might help explain my antipathy to the "skeptics" who believe that they already have it all figured out, and also why I love SpaceX so much.)

And I think that Rui Huang feels it too.

(Watch these in full screen with the sound on)

A cryptic megastructure, perhaps created by an alien civilization billions of years ago to harness cosmic energies unsuspected by humanity, to achieve some grand unknown purpose.

https://x.com/RuiHuang_art/status/1902730934325301474

I like this one because of the company name on the flying car and because it expresses a natural extension of the grand engineering that we see at Starbase.

https://x.com/RuiHuang_art/status/1914726004842701267

https://x.com/RuiHuang_art/status/1902341016407175472

https://x.com/RuiHuang_art/status/1902027807900959049

https://x.com/RuiHuang_art/status/1902237253419819211

Elon reposted this one

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1885192169893335118

I loved science fiction on TV and film before I was ever interested in science. Rushing home from 7th grade to catch the latest Star Trek rerun. Then getting blown away in my teens by the effects of Close Encounters. I only came to appreciate the Star Wars universe much later in its realistic depiction of run down droids and dirty planetary outposts, which lends it a sort of nostalgic atmosphere. Alien and Bladerunner also had that industrialized dystopian feel to its technology. Tks for the art!

The vision in the post below speaks to my religious sensibility.

Somehow ancient Hebrew mythology doesn't speak to me at all, doesn't capture my imagination.

But the idea of the unfathomable secrets of the universe, the deepest and most fundamental truths about reality, as far beyond human comprehension as our ideas are beyond an earthworm's ability to conceive... does speak to me. The idea of an infinite universe of infinite possibility, with no end of amazing things left to discover.

To the extent that I'm religious at all, that's it: My God is something like The Cosmic Mysteries. Hierophany you might say.

(Yes, this is what happens when you read too much science fiction as a kid.)

https://x.com/RuiHuang_art/status/2043163710265672061

Many more here

https://x.com/RuiHuang_art