#Film and television miscellaneous talk #Ancient film and television dramas, heroes will appear with such a reprimand: "Broad daylight, lang lang qiankun, you dare to make a mistake here!" "On the other hand, it seems that when the black light is blind and the light and shadow are ambiguous, something should come out and move."
Mysticism has always captivated us: spirits, ghosts, aliens, even supernatural powers. And science fiction movies are a collection of these inexplicable and slightly terrifying elements, giving us a surreal imagination.
This year is the time for science fiction writer H.G. Wells) 75th anniversary, the 70th anniversary of the publication of The Day of the Triffids, for which Royal Mail issued a set of science fiction stamps.
The stamp design invited six artists and illustrators, each stamp corresponding to a scene from a certain science fiction classic, vividly showing science fiction fans the "key evolutionary moment" of this genre. It is worth mentioning that the stamp, as a blank canvas, does not limit the creativity of the artist. Some combine it with traditional pencil and watercolor paintings, while others present them using digital artwork, collages, and photographic works.
Thomas Danthony's stamp for Brave New World
As the true originator of science fiction, The stamp design of Frankenstein is the most concerned. How does this novel involving artificial life ideas, organ transplantation, and slightly terrifying colors freeze into a picture? Sabina Šinko's depiction of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is presented in watercolors. Frankenstein's description of himself as "miserable than all living things" in the original book constitutes the main idea of the design, and in order not to scare consumers who love to lick stamps, it is no longer a terrifying, vicious image, but presents a sadness on a distorted face.
Doris Lessing's first science fiction novel, Shikasta, features a New Wave and is a search for the history of a home planet in a cosmic colony. The stamps are dominated by circles, symbolizing the planet and the historical circle that cannot be walked out, and the shadows of people come and go.
Francisco Rodríguez's The Time Machine illustration and Matt Murphy's stamps for Childhood's End are both strongly futuristic. The former takes the character of digital collage to the extreme, while the latter creates a surreal and dreamy picture.
It is worth mentioning that the outer packaging of this set of stamps is also very interesting. The whole font and color matching, at first glance, will seem to think that Adobe has a new product. Sci-fi elements are fused in modern architecture, and the electrocuted figures and the sunset of the apocalyptic sunset repeatedly jump in the cold psychedelic and grand tragic grandeur.
It is precisely because we no longer correspond that the stamp becomes a very ritualistic reliquary. The precious portraits scattered during the period believe that they can also evoke good memories in the hearts of science fiction fans.