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« Reply #15 on: 07/17/08, 08:25:44 AM »

Wonderful images. I'm reminded of a great videogame, Star Control 2 (or The Ur-Quan Masters, as the freeware/open source release is called.) Some of the aliens are pictured in a similar style.

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« Reply #16 on: 07/17/08, 10:57:39 AM »

Bruce, very nice! I love it! You should submit your series to Juxtapoz magazine- if- you are looking for some press. Can't wait to see more!
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« Reply #17 on: 07/17/08, 02:20:16 PM »

Bruce, very nice! I love it! You should submit your series to Juxtapoz magazine- if- you are looking for some press. Can't wait to see more!

Ya know he sorta does this stuff for a living right?
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« Reply #18 on: 07/17/08, 02:29:17 PM »

Bruce, very nice! I love it! You should submit your series to Juxtapoz magazine- if- you are looking for some press. Can't wait to see more!
Ya know he sorta does this stuff for a living right?

Wow, small world! I finished Snow Crash last week, and a now familiar-looking copy of Interface arrived yesterday. Been on a bit of a Neal Stephenson jag lately; I'm not sure, but I believe that this place is responsible (if so, thanks!). I also just read Zodiac, but it didn't have Bruce's cover art.
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Some to see a bear would pay a fee
Me, I just bear up to my bewilderedness
And some folks even see the bear in me
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« Reply #19 on: 07/17/08, 03:17:35 PM »

More of Bruce's work:

http://homepage.mac.com/brucejensen/PhotoAlbum15.html
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« Reply #20 on: 07/18/08, 06:17:34 AM »

Thanks for all the kind comments Smiley

I work as an illustrator professionally true, but these aren't part of any job. Usually i don't have enough time available to paint for 'myself'.
Mark- I'd approach JUXTAPOZ if and when I have more work like this. I'd like to be able to have this work seen in that context though!

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« Reply #21 on: 07/18/08, 09:15:54 AM »

They're absolutely wonderful and they look very friendly. Can I have one please?
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« Reply #22 on: 07/18/08, 10:38:20 AM »

Judy's right--they do look friendly.  Of course, perhaps that's just a clever disguise to lull us into a false sense of safety, and then when we try to pet them, they'll enslave us and take us back to their home planet to toil in the intergalactic salt mines.

Bruce, you have one heck of an imagination.  Please keep sharing!

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« Reply #23 on: 07/18/08, 03:16:42 PM »

Or perhaps my cats would eat them, unless they also have laser death beams shooting out of their eyes.

Sorry, too many Japanese monster movies.

Ara!!!! Go-jira!!!!!!
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« Reply #24 on: 07/18/08, 04:32:22 PM »

And why is it that #2 is obviously male, while #1 and #3 are obviously female?

#3, especially, is particularly elegant. 

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« Reply #25 on: 07/19/08, 02:20:44 AM »

Friendly indeed--well benign at least.  Smiley

When I planned these 3 out - I gave it a very simple narrative, maybe too simple to notice! Maybe it's a kind of adoption, or maybe parthenogenesis, either works for me. In the 1st there is a fruit or bud maybe- perhaps an egg. In the 2nd the alien has noticed it- perhaps it has hatched. In the 3rd the offspring is embraced. I'm sure it's obscured by switching alien design from one to the next, but it's the link in this particular series.
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