carpecranium
Futuremall
The iHeel shoe-phone in the image is a reference to the hype surrounding the iWatch. App icons are displayed down the side of the shoe. "Episode XXII" is probably self-explanatory; we're on Episode VII now, so XXII would be the first film in the eighth Star Wars trilogy, some years from now, when there are holotheaters. The model at the top of the image is wearing a wraparound AR viewer. BofA or Bank of the West at this point has grown into Bank of the Northern Hemisphere. The vodka bottle, perfume bottle, ring, and the bistro's name are holograms projected into the air. Blue Lotus Herbals is a comment on how available recreational chemistry will probably be in the future. "Heather" instead of "Tiffany." "Farthingales" instead of "Bloomingdales." Maiden Celestial, which offers more non-stop flights to Mars, is a reference to Virgin Galactic. A line of sparkles is beginning to outline the Coke bottle. Patsy from AbFab (eyeing the vodka bottle) is an old reference by now, from the 90s (as well as 2011-12), but she is still a memorable pop-culture icon with no qualms about almost anything. Which would make Qualm ironic as a designer label. The car is an actual Audi concept car I was going to modify to make it more my own design. The computer screen on the back of the car includes a Geico-like ad ("Calco Ins: 15 sec save >15%") squeezed in among the other data displayed there. Bistro Devo displays items from their menu on the marquee screen, including their signature blue fries. They also offer green beans genetically modified into grape-flavored purple beans, and the T-bone has embedded electronic doneness indicators. Josh Groban at this point would be a centenarian. The word after "pizza" is "printer"; 3D printers probably already make a decent pizza. The two people by the car are just stand-in images; I was going to give them different poses in the final painting. The woman's nose piercing illuminates her face, vaguely reminiscent of Toulouse-Lautrec, and her ear piercings and fingernails are also lighted, as are their clothes.
The image is a mockup for an acrylic-on-canvas concept-art painting I was going to do but decided not to because of the amount of advertising text I'd have to paint. I didn't want to reduce the amount of text because the future advertising bombardment is the point of the picture. So I'll just let it remain a mockup. It was a fun image to work on, and I thought it would be an interesting intersection of old and new to create concept art on canvas instead of as a PSD and with acrylics instead of oils. The idea of every surface covered with advertising is reminiscent of the mall in "Minority Report." Part of the building resembles Wonder Mall in Shijiazhuang, China.
Futuremall
The iHeel shoe-phone in the image is a reference to the hype surrounding the iWatch. App icons are displayed down the side of the shoe. "Episode XXII" is probably self-explanatory; we're on Episode VII now, so XXII would be the first film in the eighth Star Wars trilogy, some years from now, when there are holotheaters. The model at the top of the image is wearing a wraparound AR viewer. BofA or Bank of the West at this point has grown into Bank of the Northern Hemisphere. The vodka bottle, perfume bottle, ring, and the bistro's name are holograms projected into the air. Blue Lotus Herbals is a comment on how available recreational chemistry will probably be in the future. "Heather" instead of "Tiffany." "Farthingales" instead of "Bloomingdales." Maiden Celestial, which offers more non-stop flights to Mars, is a reference to Virgin Galactic. A line of sparkles is beginning to outline the Coke bottle. Patsy from AbFab (eyeing the vodka bottle) is an old reference by now, from the 90s (as well as 2011-12), but she is still a memorable pop-culture icon with no qualms about almost anything. Which would make Qualm ironic as a designer label. The car is an actual Audi concept car I was going to modify to make it more my own design. The computer screen on the back of the car includes a Geico-like ad ("Calco Ins: 15 sec save >15%") squeezed in among the other data displayed there. Bistro Devo displays items from their menu on the marquee screen, including their signature blue fries. They also offer green beans genetically modified into grape-flavored purple beans, and the T-bone has embedded electronic doneness indicators. Josh Groban at this point would be a centenarian. The word after "pizza" is "printer"; 3D printers probably already make a decent pizza. The two people by the car are just stand-in images; I was going to give them different poses in the final painting. The woman's nose piercing illuminates her face, vaguely reminiscent of Toulouse-Lautrec, and her ear piercings and fingernails are also lighted, as are their clothes.
The image is a mockup for an acrylic-on-canvas concept-art painting I was going to do but decided not to because of the amount of advertising text I'd have to paint. I didn't want to reduce the amount of text because the future advertising bombardment is the point of the picture. So I'll just let it remain a mockup. It was a fun image to work on, and I thought it would be an interesting intersection of old and new to create concept art on canvas instead of as a PSD and with acrylics instead of oils. The idea of every surface covered with advertising is reminiscent of the mall in "Minority Report." Part of the building resembles Wonder Mall in Shijiazhuang, China.