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Rui Huang's Transcendant Science Fiction Art - Yazata - Apr 23, 2025
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
RE: Rui Huang's Transcendant Science Fiction Art - Magical Realist - Apr 23, 2025
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!