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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!