Conceptually Soon

One of the things that I used to love as a kid, and still do, was concept art of people in space or in far off lands. Things like a Stanford torus or an O'Neill cylinder like in the Rama series. I lose myself in those images.

Last Friday we went to the Star Wars Identities and saw some of the concept art. I love the early stuff so much. The stuff from when they were trying to sell the idea of the story rather than a rough sketch of what the camera crew was supposed to shoot. One of my favourite shots from was Ralph McQuarrie of "Luke" (pictured as a girl) overlooking ‎ Mos Eisley. Is it really that different than something that you could take a picture of today? No, except when you notice that the car is floating and there are two suns.

These are the things that dreams are made of. Dreams today, destinations tomorrow.

I can almost feel the crunch of stone and sand under my shoes