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It has been a long, stressful week so far. I haven't read much since Friday. We did watch an excellent movie last night, though; Tokyo Godfathers. An irreverent story set between Christmas and New Years where a trio of homeless find an abandoned baby. The story is constantly surprising and wholesome, and the animation is fantastic. We also recently watched A Christmas Story Christmas (both too reliant on nostalgia and refreshingly it's own thing)↩

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Before YouTube or even the trailers at the beginning of VHS tapes, movie posters were sometimes the only source of information a viewer had about the movie before going to see it. And perhaps no one understood this quite like Drew Struzan, who died yesterday. His name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Lucas, Spielberg, and Williams for his part in Indiana Jones, Star Wars, E.T, and more.

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This is the best song and video ever. Every October, I put this song on my phone as a ring tone. #HauntsandHexes Zombie @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Truly amazing artwork of Star Wars characters, places and spaceships. A must read for any Star Wars fans.

If I had a coffee table, this would definitely be on it. This book indicates that there are variations in Harris's style, not all pieces are the same carefully-coloured, impressionist brush-stroke versions of sci fi scenes shown to such great effect on John Scalzi's Old Man's War series book covers.
A large portion of the art in this collection is similar in style however, and surprise, all are my new favourites.
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Last look: toasty alien landscapes. 🔥🐦‍🔥

Does anybody else see a happy little bug?

Like the palette of an autumn day brushed over the scene of new visitors. 🍂🍁

You know that quote from Last Holiday, where Queen Latifah's character is admiring the hotel and asks : “don't that ceiling ever just make you want to cry?“
THAT'S how I feel about John Harris's impressionist sci fi art. Forgive the genre pun, but I find a lot of typical, modern sci fi art to be alienating. It's sharp and cold. Even if the subject matter is about what is unknown, I need to know there can be warmth and softness and colour.