Test cards (test patterns) of old. Young people: imagine having to wait for a show to start on TV. There's nothing to see yet, just a test card. The image was like promise. Waiting, you studied the colors, the shapes, the patterns, seeing things the way you see figures in clouds.
Illustrations by Jean-Georges Cornélius for Baudelaire's LES FLEURS DU MAL. 1951.
Pixar animation art for Monsters, Inc., A Bug's Life, Toy Story, and WALL-E.
Animation art from the very first Tom & Jerry cartoon, PUSS GETS THE BOOT (1940).
Transgender synth pioneer, Wendy Carlos (1939). She composed the TRON score-one of my favorites. She also composed music for A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and THE SHINING (you remember the main theme & Rocky Mountains). Much more commercially successful perhaps was SWITCHED-ON BACH (1968).
Italian artist, Dino Buzzati (1906-1972). 1963.
Concept art by Claire Keane for unmade Disney feature, MORT.
Zombie designs by William Stout for RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1984).
Art from the Rankin/Bass version of THE HOBBIT (1977).
Illustrations by Tove Jansson for a Swedish edition of THE HOBBIT. 1962.
Halloween card by Jack Davis. 1959.