Posthuman

Abhominal / Posthumans

Sixgun: Tales from an Unfolded Earth

Sixgun - Surreal-noir from a world where reality is broken.

Ideas
Mage: the Ascension - Paradox realms.

Chthonians in Guatemala

Cement Surroundings are no defense.

Via Boing Boing, via the Guatemalan government's Flicker feed.

Gone to Sleep

Moby and Kelli Scarr make a song based on this picture by artist Phil Toledano.


The video about their creation process (and the song itself) gives a great vibe of eerie desolation.




Author's note: the first night I watched this it inspired a fascinating nightmare about Changeling: the Lost's "Gentry", so I'm considering it prime fodder for that game at least.

Transportation Accessability

Need to strand your PCs far from hope of backup?

This should help you hit the right ballpark:


The New Scientist article also gives maps of world-wide roads, railways, and navigable rivers.

Via Fast Company, via the Delta Green Mailing List.

Metatron

I'm not a huge fan of the idea that the Gentry of Changeling: the Lost must be completely inimical to humanity. But there is a certain appeal to a portrayal of the fae as juxtaposing concepts in a way which does not make sense to the human mind:

A realm of darkness and cold metal populated with horrifying mechanical creatures and devices. Yet strangely the existence of this nightmare relies on the fact that a lone woman peacefully knits at the heart of the machine.

Print by Ray Caesar.

Please Don't Worry

Please don’t worry.
When I wake up I'll be something new.

Painting by Daniel Danger.

Decemberists Poster 5

Steamech Bibliophile Chimera.

Via Gig Posters.

Decemberists Poster 4

Sidhe minstrel.

Via Gig Posters.

Decemberists Poster 3

Hedge Assignation.

Via I Have a Yellow Hat (though who knows where she got it).

Decemberists Poster 2

The great Forrest Whale chimera.

Art by Daniel Danger.

Decemberists Poster 1

Most likely a region of the Dreaming or Arcadian Realm.


Drawing by Jay Ryan.

Rescue Pod

Click for more detailed image.

Also more sketches by Evgeny Buryat Onutchin for the Core77 sketch contest.

The Ice Plane Scavangers

It is said that in the olden times our ancestors often found treasures in flying houses such as this one. But it was still strange to us and we approached it with caution none the less.

Photo by Darran Rees.


Via Presedia Creative, via Core77.

Island of the Dead

By Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin. Likely based on the similarly fascinating Greek isle of Pondikónisi:

Extra-terrestrial anomalies

UFOs and other oddities caught on NASA film and imagery.

Ice particles and photographic artifacts? Or evidence our secret masters don't want you to know about.


Via Dirty Russia.

Steampunk Monkeys

From Chet Phillips "Steampunk Monkey Nation" card set of assorted steampunk monkeys.

Check it yo.


Via Boing Boing.

Terrain Adventurer

Futuristic off-road capable truck designed by Patrick Clark of Diseno Art.


Link via The Design Blog.

Abandoned Places (etc.)

As a source for desolate, claustrophobic, and/or seedy locations to set a game I highly recommend the Abandoned Places blog. A smattering of it's more famous or interesting areas includes:

Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong

Abandoned Places:

Kowloon used to be one of the areas of Hong Kong city. By the end of 1970s Walled City began to grow. Square buildings folded up into one another as thousands of modifications were made, virtually none by architects or engineers, until the entire City became monolithic. Labyrinthine corridors ran through the City, some former streets (at the ground level, and often clogged up with refuse), and some running through upper floors, through and between buildings. The streets were illuminated by fluorescent lights, as sunlight rarely reached the lower levels.

. . .

By the early 1980s, Kowloon Walled City had an estimated population of 35,000. The City was notorious for its excess of brothels, casinos, opium dens, cocaine parlours, food courts serving dog meat, and secret factories.

Centralia, United States

The moderately well known Pennsylvania town where a mine fire, raging unchecked since 1962, occasionally still opens smoking rents in the ground and chars hillside foliage.

Gunkanjima, Japan

Abandoned Places:

Mitsubishi bought the island in 1890 and began the project, the aim of which was retrieving coal from the bottom of the sea. They built Japan’s first large concrete building, a block of apartments in 1916 to accommodate their burgeoning ranks of workers (many of whom were forcibly recruited labourers from other parts of Asia), and to protect against typhoon destruction.

As petroleum replaced coal in Japan in the 1960s, coal mines began shutting down all over the country, and Hashima’s mines were no exception. Mitsubishi officially announced the closing of the mine in 1974, and today it is empty and bare, which is why it’s called the Ghost Island. Travel to Hashima was re-opened on April 22, 2009 after more than 20 years of closure.

Pripyat, Ukraine

Ukrainian community built to house workers at Chernobyl. Evacuated and abandoned after the 1986 disaster.

Photo by Artem Grinchenko.

Link.


Thanks to Mike Lake of the Unknown Armies mailing list for pointing out the site.

The Horned Man in Sports

One of the old gods proving his mettle against these modern human contrivances. Probably a Firbolg or Runnerswift.

Image originally from Mutantti aamulenkillä.

Via Dirty Russia.