The second page? For shame!

I'm a sucker for landscapes - and an even bigger sucker for urban exploration. So I saw this tonight and thought, "Shadowrun!"

I saw that tonight and got homesick.

Large thanks to the wife for finding it

Photogtaphy=Art so here's a photo dump of stuff that's inspired me lately.

I don't really know, just seems like the kind of guy you'd want to run into.

Just has the right feel.

Now *THIS* is an armored jacket. (I've been looking at this image for days tempted to pull out my sewing machine!)

Graffiti from a few years back. Fashin warz.

Right kind of armored dress.

Imagine taking a swift kick with one of these suckers.

I don't trust her but I don't think it matters.

Apparently you can really buy the arm! $900 and its yours!

Can't explain this one. Haunting in all the right ways. Just need a dragon flying by.

New meaning to cage dancer?

Rant rant rant, there really needs to be more jewelry weapons.

I seriously want to see more than one photo of this... Can't find any more though!

Just creepy enough to work.

And again. More weapon jewelry needed!

The first link didn't work for me. It is funny how in some ways our visions of the world that is Shadowrun overlaps, and yet can still be vastly different in other areas. To me it's a sign of healthy setting.

I was having issues with it too. Tried to fix it again.

It is odd what different paths our visions take us. I'm sure a female perspective also turns things as well, at least one who tends to be interested by pop (and pulp) culture.

If Shadowrun weren't such a fantastical setting, I'd seriously consider moving a substantial portion of the art to photography, but...well, let's say early attempts weren't encouraging. I'd still like to find room for more of this; perhaps as an element in mixed media, if nothing else.


Is it just me, or does that sort of look like a TARDIS? I don't think I know more than one Doctor on sight; could that be one?


Yeah, I wouldn't have picked about half of that...which tells me that if I'm ever looking for art for Shadowrun, tehana is a good person to call, because Shadowrun doesn't look like I'd design it, any more than our whole existence does. If Shadowrun is going to look real, seem real, it has to include both "guys wearing functional black clothing" and "women with dresses made out of series of rings." I often forget that Shadowrun should be more radical than the most radical things we've seen, and considering our people, that's pretty radical. I'd definitely tap Prime Duchess's sense of dystopic cyberpunk aesthetic, as well: a lot of these images remind me of her vision of fashion design, as well.

Alright, pulled some stuff together. No photography this time although I have a bunch of that I'll post later

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The bit lip on this one sends my art nerd into heaven. Can't explain it.

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I don't know! I'll have to poke my Dr Who friends. I don't think I've ever seen an episode, I'm a bad geek!

I remember seeing a couple episodes when I was a kid of the OLD Dr. Who, and I caught an episode when it was first revived a handful of years ago. It didn't catch my attention then or now. So I'm a bad geek too

Bull

Nah, it's just that folks in the US have poor taste in excellent cinema.

Tis Dr Who! Asked on facebook and got a reply within seconds. Oh the love of geek friends! 11th Doctor apparently. Off to Google!

Wow siberia under locations by kingjamesuk is pretty epic

Some stuff dug up from around deviantart -

Dragons of the Sixth World

Dumpshock

Aztlan Warrior and Shaman.

The Matrix - This is basically our team techno, Bug.

Have another Matrix shot

Street Sammies - One, Two, Three, Four. And five, Heartbreaker.

Hackers! (which are surprisingly hard to find good images of) - One, Two, Three, Four

And to round it out, some landscapes -

Future Bombay

Sixth World Streets

Get a total Bug City vibe from this one.

Another random Sixth World street - pick out the references!

Robot Bartender

You can see what else I've got up on my favorites.

I see you found Shortcake too! Or did I lead you to her?

I'm too lazy to post a bunch of stuff, just look at my Favs.

There's more Shadowrun in these few minutes than in any feature film I've yet seen. You have to look sideways to see it, but it's all there: living between the cracks, high tech and low life, the social engineering and the legwork, a small international community connected online, publicly and privately. It's strange: I've been doing this a couple decades now, and it's not until I saw this - from the outside looking in - that I made the connection.

I love love love urban exploration, though I'm not the kind of person that could actually go out and do it I have a thing about heights and about wading through muck high water. Just my thing, I guess.

But I've linked to good stuff for it before, like -

Infiltration.org - Where I first started learning about UrbEx.
The Australian Cave Clan - Aussie based sewer delvers.
Ruins of a Forbidden City - Japanese UrbEx. Over there it's called haikyo ("abandoned place"). This guys blog is amazing.
From the same writer, exploring the Paris Catacombs.
(And this is the best Paris Catacombs story - Underground Movie Theater discovered in Paris Catacombs. Done by these folks.)

And if you're into this, you may be into the graffitti scene too. The best movie for that, bar none, is Exit Through the Gift Shop, by Banksy. Though we're still trying to decide if its Banksy's attempt to epic troll, or if the movie just is that surreal.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Aztlan.