http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/spiritcementplant/
Lots of images, single page, ~12MB. Your browser might freeze for a moment. ;) 

Silly humans polluting decaying factory with dumb graffiti. At least have the decency to paint about azathoth and the old ones. 

it's too bad becuase they reduce half-life-2-quality inpsiration down to kingpin-quality inpsiration. 

Isn't that the game from 1997 made by Markus Fly? 

This guys goes into a crazy amount of detail in designing these alternate Earths, and other fertile planets:

http://www.worlddreambank.org/P/PLANETS.HTM

(ignore the fact that when he gets to the "biology" section, these planets always seem to be inhabited by furries.)

A lot of it reminds me of my days playing SimEarth in high school. I also liked to draw imaginary land masses and coastlines and stuff, and loved the made-up maps that come with fantasy novels and console RPGs.

And since I'm working on an MMORPG, i actually got to imagine and draw maps during the early pre-production phase of the game.

Maps are cool. 

postin' in a legendary thread

FOR EVIL >:{} 

EVIL++ 

http://www.flickr.com/groups/demolitionart/pool/

i hate flikr, but oh well 

http://www.sfarmory.com/index.php 

http://www.sfarmory.com/about.php

So apparently it was bought by a porn company, no doubt because it's full of dungeons and stuff.

If they open it up for tours, maybe I'll go there sometime. 

http://sleepycity.net/view.php?image=732&tag=surreal

thanks for the link, blackdog. this site is amazing 

http://textures.vertx.ca/

A few hundred pretty decent refs. 

http://www.confluence.org/

Pictures taken from literally every corner of the earth - the idea is to have photos from every point where longitude and latitude degree lines meet (that is on land).

Who the hell comes up with this stuff? 

I know I'm a one-trick pony in here, but this is some cool panoramic stuff I've never seen before: http://www.artfutura.org/02/moebius.html 

are there any good moebius art books? I've looked on Amazon etc. and they seem only to have comic books... I was hoping for a large coffee-table style art book... or even something smaller, if it has enough art in it. 

I've got one of them, entitled CHAOS -- it is really nice, covering a lot of his early output and two of his more recent series: Wonders of the Universe and Stories Inside Something -- the latter which led to his more abstract art. What's more, its got a look inside of some of his sketchbooks, which I really dig.

I'm sure there are more, but God knows where... 

I'll check out Chaos. 

There are some other unofficial artbooks lying around I think, but best solution is still to buy all his comics weee! 

ee 

http://questier.com/Photos/

Lots, and of cool places. Check out Syria 05 for some amazing ruins. 

Ooh, really nice stuff -- I can't resist hi-def pics of desert ruins =D 

http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/09/13/frederic-chaubin-soviet-sf-style/

These are awesome; I wish there were more/bigger pictures. 

So, 1960s futiristic architecture... I want to find more real-life examples. What I have so far:

The Space Needle in Seattle:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/commodores/NCC/NCAAWomen1st/images/The%20Space%20Needle.jpg

Pacific Science Center in Seattle:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/PACSCI6.jpg

Space Mountain in Disneyland:
http://disney.rocket9.net/images/DL_SpaceMountain.1280.jpg

BONUS LINK: Space Mountain concept art:
http://stetson.edu/library/SpecialCollections/images/img005.jpg

Habitat 67 in Montreal:
http://expo67.ncf.ca/expo_habitat_structure.jpg

More pictures from Expo 67:
http://www.space1999.net/~sorellarium13/expo67greatbritainandfrance.jpg
http://www.space1999.net/~sorellarium13/expo67israelpavilionatnight.jpg

That's all for now. 

If you like modern architecture, have a look at this building, a new sience museum in wolfsburg (home of volkswagen), by the great architect Zaha Hadid.
http://www.hiepler-brunier.de/phaeno/ 

Why are crazy designs like that usually reserved for museums and art galleries?