finally got into my account again, ill be back sometime, idk when im kinda burnt out on keeping up a tumblr, im not even sure why im posting this i guess this is mostly for my friendos, laters!
Ron Cobb concept art for The Last Starfighter (1984).
The Last Starfighter completely passed me by when I was a kid. Maybe it wasn’t ever released here in Holland, I don’t know; there were so many movies to see back then anyway. I only learned of its existence much later—but I’ve still never seen it.
What interests me about art like this though, first of all, is the art itself: the craft, the imagination, the talent. Talent is always inspiring. Second, the period: it’s the 1980s, and that’s when I grew up. Third, and this connects to the second reason: the genre, the sci-fi stuff, the ships, the stars, the aliens.
A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really… “Do the stars gaze back?” Now that’s a question.