The Breathtaking Horror of 'The Electric State'

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Not all nightmares are so easy to wake up from. An exploration of Simon Stålenhag’s brilliant worldbuilding artbook ‘The Electric State.’
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The Electric State is a beautiful nightmare. I don’t know how else to describe it.
I could say it’s an artbook by the brilliant artist Simon Stålenhag that explores an alternate version of the United States in the late 90s. This is true. I could say it’s a story where a young woman and a small robot venture across a ruined landscape littered with the skeletons of terrifying machines. This is also true. I could say it’s a poignant warning of how runaway consumerism can have apocalyptic consequences. This, I believe, is true as well.
Yet none of these descriptions tells the whole. So, for this entry into the archive, I’ll dive deep into this masterpiece of sci-fi worldbuilding. Now, let’s enter the world of The Electric State.
0:00 Enter The Electric State
1:10 A Girl and Her Robot
3:40 The Decay of that Colossal Wreck
5:28 Commercializing a Nightmare
8:45 Monsters in the Mist
12:13 The Dark Network
14:43 Drone Sweet Drone
16:33 Ends of the Earth
18:53 Support The Electric State
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@idavid8391 Год назад

I was just looking into this book because of this video when I found out Netflix is making a movie about it. I sincerely hope it delivers even half of the world that this incredible book displays!

@Coldwater-sw6me Год назад

Don’t get your expectations to high. The book has a pretty high bar.

@SergioLeonardoCornejo Год назад

There's so much you can make with such bizarre and fascinating settings tbh.

@1331423 Год назад

Narrator: It didn't!

@brtt1159 Год назад

holy shit no way

@callumbreton8930 Год назад

Dear God

@SYD.0_o Год назад

Simon Stålenhag has been my favourite artist for ages. His work really is a masterpiece

@MichelDood Год назад

same, even for another genre of art, his paleo art is amongst my fav

@ratboyOwO Год назад

same, I remember I used to see his art posted a lot on the wallpaper board on 4chan years ago.

@troythefrog4084 Год назад

I agree. Simon Stålenhag is GOAT.

@vangard9725 Год назад

The waffle House has found its new host

@hanknewman54 Год назад

@@vangard9725 🤓🤓

@SlashForeward Год назад

As someone who spent their childhood living in the Mojave, I think it's the perfect setting for this. There's... nothing out there. Barely any towns, and what towns there are, it's as if they're just clinging to life. There's hundreds of square miles of nothing at all. I love this. In a terrible way, I'd love to explore this world

@sovietunion7643 Год назад

i only know the mojave from fallout new vegas although im sure the nuclear apocolyspe changed very little about the desert's appeal

@threethrushes Год назад

Be careful for what you wish. It might just come true.

@edanpino-xt1ph Год назад

As someone who lives in the desert, I say there is a lot. Sure it isn’t human but there’s a lot

@leociresi4292 Год назад

Electric State, 50 % humanity, cancer rate 95%

@arcadeassassin7176 Год назад

It's no wonder that so many post apocalyptic stories take place there.

@Markus_Andrew Год назад

The concept of people losing themselves in addictive virtual realities is older than many may realize. The first work of fiction to explore this idea was a series of short stories, later condensed into a novel, called "The Man Who Awoke" by Laurence Manning. It was published in 1933. A similar work, "Pygmalion's Spectacles", was written by Stanley G. Weinbaum in 1935. This is certainly not to take away from Stålenhag's magnificent artwork and concepts. Quite the contrary, his work is breathtaking. I just mention it as a point of interest.

@lonewasp 5 месяцев назад

@@marzupalami I don't think the Allegory of the Cave is about losing oneself in an alternate reality, but rather having a blindness to reality. Similar concepts that overlap at times, but not exactly the same.

@hardbrocklife 4 месяца назад

Reddit = Neurocasters

@leociresi4292 2 месяца назад

Apple Vision Pro!

@klowen7778 Месяц назад

Gamers....

@thatkidmamboGaming Год назад

The sense of melancholy that Simon Stalenhag can convey simply through art is truly baffling

@brownbearboxproductions3458 Год назад

Devoid colours , dead ambience and empty environments…? That’s the cause surely?

@mrplanet752 Год назад

Nerd alert

@BroadcastingCN Год назад

@@mrplanet752 what

@teslashark Год назад

All he needs to do is to really like the 90s

@DEFGHST Год назад

@@BroadcastingCN 0:46

@cinders5305 Год назад

What I really like is how the main villain, the Intracerebral Intelligence, is only spoken of like 4 times, nothing is known about it except that it exists and it's trying to create a physical body to manifest in the organic world. No explanation as to why it does this, what it wants, what its end goal is. Just it's a thing that is there, and it's not going to leave

@OutOfWards Год назад

Why it does: What it wants: And it's end goal is to be able to replicate itself, just like humans. Parasites are we on Earth(as humans killing the organism we live on[the reality]); Parasitic it wants to be[Just like you and me].

@OutOfWards Год назад

Great comment, it got me thinking!

@SandraRodri7726 Год назад

The purpose is to trap you so you lose your soul and eternal life if you believe in Jesus Christ. AI is the image of the beast

@sovietunion7643 Год назад

i mean hell for all we know it could be trying to transform humanity into robotic bodies. we know it essentially has all human brains and emotions downloaded into itself, it could genuinely still see itself as human and wanting the best for humanity. of course being a bio-technological hivemind means its ways of doing so will be strange and borderline grotestque but still. i personally think that's even more strange, scary and offputting. not some malicious hivemind AI (which has been overdone in terminator and in so many others) but an hivemind AI made up of human brains that wants to transcend humanity. something that does the grotesque because it sees it as good for the whole. a hivemind that wants to do what it sees as help humanity. not only does it grey the moral lines but it make the reason for all this be.. strange. the catastrophe that ended a nation has melded said nation's minds together into something alien but still thinking. for me that's even stranger and more off putting as its like seeing something you were at a long time ago but different.

@TrashGoblin824 Год назад

I like how it's just kind of in the background of this world while the story focuses on the main character's journey, somewhat ironically since it's implied there's a connection between them and the hive mind

@kentslocum Год назад

I'm mostly just grateful that Simon doesn't feel the need to explain or explore every single detail of the lore and backstory of the world he's created through his incredible art. So many game developers, writers, illustrators, and filmmakers leave nothing to the imagination when it comes to the worlds they create. But that sense of mystery and intrigue regarding the unknown is exactly what makes these worlds so captivating.

@alejandrorivas4585 Год назад

i think there is room for both. Part of what makes 40k interesting is that literally any question you could possibly have has an in lore explanation, and it makes the setting feel extremely fleshed out and real. But there is something to be said of the allure of the unknown.

@kentslocum Год назад

@@alejandrorivas4585 Good point! I was mainly thinking about the Star Wars universe, where the lore is no longer cohesive, there is extremely detailed information about some things and no explanation for other things, and where any sense of mystery has disappeared because literally anything can happen without following any pre-established rules.

@hermestrismegistus3417 11 месяцев назад

The original Silent Hill game haunted me for years, in part because so much of the story was left open to interpretation

@Selrisitai 10 месяцев назад

I've never seen this "leave nothing to the imagination" thing. Every time I hear about world-building it's in the context of "good" or "I'm not reading a million in-game books just to know what the eff is going on here."

@kentslocum 10 месяцев назад

@@Selrisitai Then you've been extremely lucky. I got fed up with Star Wars precisely because they decided to try to explain and explore every single part of it, only revealing how nonsensical it really is.

@Gfors85 Год назад

Ive actually worked with Simon on a smaller company and I remember seeing his stuff being totally blown away. supernice guy aswell.

@itsd0nk Год назад

This is an artist with some incredible understandings of lighting, light transport, and how photography functions with these elements. I’m amazed by how accurate his lighting is. Even the dynamic range of his hypothetical camera that’s taking these images seems accurate.

@Salty010 Год назад

agreed the lighting ambient its invoke the mystery feel and unknown.i heard russo brothers gonna make a movie or series out of it...i dont even know they can do justice about it though...

@josephnerney4823 Год назад

Have a look at his Instagram, I'd imagine he uses a lot of reference photos but super impressive.

@AJTheInvisibleGirl Год назад

I thought it was from a movie…

@jacobshort6528 Год назад

I bought an art book of similar quality to this one from Bud Plant's Incredible Catalog. It is called The Alien Race.

@jacobshort6528 Год назад

Aliens land a gargantuan ship in the middle of the East River of New York. It is totally automatic. It starts to broadcast a signal calling for the best of Earth's racers to come participate in the Alien Race on their home planet.

@drewcifer1754 Год назад

A lot of this reminds me of the imagery seen in Half-Life 2. Specifically the idea of old urban areas being overtaken by a sort of alien looking technology, wires, high tech doors built over tenement buildings, abnormal power sources, the awe and fear you get the first time you see the giant Striders (which are essentially huge robots themselves) Top tier stuff all around.

@keithwasntbarrumsing483 Год назад

This is exactly what I was thinking! What makes the imagery so dramatic isn’t the technology, which looks like reasonably standard sci-fi engineering, but the fact that everything around it is so… normal. It almost seems old fashioned. Of course central to this is Stålenhag’s art. I have seen very few illustrations that give such a convincing impression of light.

@wingy200 Год назад

@@keithwasntbarrumsing483 I've never seen such realistic water droplets on a window from someone's art before. That blew my mind.

@kenrickbaughman992 Год назад

Half Life 2 imagery is about ALIEN take over fool, this imagery is in a different reality ding ding

@drewcifer1754 Год назад

@@kenrickbaughman992 No, the the plot is about an alien take-over, the imagery has a lot more going on artistically and thematically, and as I said there are robots in it e.g. the Manhacks, Dog, and the Striders. I said the imagery here reminds me of some things in Half-Life 2, not that they were the same. You don't need to be an internet tough guy. Think before you type.

@kenrickbaughman992 Год назад

@@drewcifer1754 dude im an retired 20 year travelling tattooer and artist, Stalenhag story to this movie is the Electric State retard it has nothing to do with Half Life and im not gonna play patty cake with some dork talking about video games pffft.... Watch the movie!!

@BelelEscabel 9 месяцев назад

Love how you mentioned Norco. Not enough people have played that absolutely magnificent piece of art.

@Zayza12332 9 месяцев назад

Bro I live in louisiana and I was just thinking about narco and then BOOM

@ravenmeyer3740 Год назад

If you noticed, even the abandoned cartoon type characters that were supposed to be happy and smiling, looked angry and evil.

@hillwench Год назад

Your videos are becoming increasingly artistic over time, your passion for the material really shines through. One note though- Raw Fury is the publishing company for Norco, but the developers were Geography Of Robots.

@orionbarnes1733 Год назад

I found this book once in a library when I was too young to understand all of it, but even at the time, I felt that it was something absolutely amazing. I didn't get the book, and just read it in the corner. I left and went home, and I didn't think about it for so long that I completely forgot the details, and I had no idea what it was called, so I couldn't search for it either. I didn't even know how to describe it, and I was beginning to wonder if it was even real. Today I found this video, and it's amazing to see these things that I was starting to wonder if they were just a dream. Now, as somebody with more interest in storytelling, I truly realize how incredible this book is. As somebody raised in the early 2000s, these images have an almost GMod like feel to them.

@nickmaclachlan5178 Год назад

I have a similar experience with a different, but similar book from my childhood. In the eighties I remember a school friend having a large coffee table type book full of illustrations of long since crashed and decayed Alien Spaceships on far flung planets. I have no idea what the book was called or who the artist was, but I remember being captivated by it and I'd love to find out more and maybe even track down a copy.

@RCAvhstape Год назад

@@nickmaclachlan5178 Look up Stewart Cowley's "Terran Trade Authority" books, I bet that's what you were looking for. I had one of them in the 80s and a few years ago I found two more my local library was trying to get rid of. Cowley is a Brit who compiled a bunch of unrelated space art works and compiled them into these volumes that loosely tie them together as part of a future history. One of the books is called "Spacewreck" and sounds like what you describe.

@nickmaclachlan5178 Год назад

@@RCAvhstape Many thanks for that, I will have a look.

@cesarsain3731 Год назад

How old are you cuz the book was published in 2018

@tnttiger3079 Год назад

They could be an 18-y/o adult now but 12 or 13 when the book came out tbf

@MasterShade32 Год назад

My wife bought me this book as an anniversary gift after she saw I had a couple wallpapers on my PC from it. What an incredible piece of art.

@greenberrygk Год назад

This really reminds me of the original Siren Head video. I know it seems kind of stupid because of how the internet obsessed over that video, but it really gives off the same feeling of nostalgic dread and of looming lifeless machinery. It shares the sense that whatever these things in the sky are have somehow gone unnoticed for so long despite their incredible size, and only now make their presence known.

@krissleo5374 7 месяцев назад

I was thinking the same thing, especially seeing all the lose wires and stationary structures that may or may not remain stationary and just waiting for someone to get to close.

@Wepawnet Месяц назад

Siren Head video? It was originally an artpiece.

@Coldwater-sw6me Год назад

This is probably by far my favorite piece of printed art in the last decade. Its very nuanced tale about our current obsession with interconnectivity and the very human things that might get lost with it are just topped by stålenhags iconic art. Every single artwork makes you stop and pulls you in. I have it standing visible in my bookshelf together with things from the flood. Thank you for covering this. It really can’t hurt if it gets a more wider public range. Let’s hope the upcoming TV-Series can draw some more people in. Again Thank you a lot. Great work👍

@romanhamala2127 Год назад

Well, darn... one of us is going to have to change!

@Coldwater-sw6me Год назад

@@romanhamala2127 no😀 I think we both are pretty fine🫡✌️

@sovietunion7643 Год назад

i mean yes the internet has its issues and isolation and other problems are at a high but that's not really just the internet's fault. its more of a lack of social boundries and norms around the internet because its so new. give it 100 years and we will have traditions and certain areas to be respected which will make people fair better. also societal trauma from post WW2 area has effected a lot of countries negatively (see declining european birthrates/religocity as a good example) so overall the internet will be a net good once society and social norms catch up to it.

@juimymary9951 Год назад

What tv series? We getting tales from the loop season 2?

@jamzee_ Год назад

Having visited Norco during a trip through Nola, its the spitting image of “painful industrialism.” It’s so surreal to drive through those streets, to smell the fumes of the factories, the rust in the air even miles away. You can smell the gas even from Kenner. Where we live, we consider the entirety of the Nola side of Pontchartrain as part of New Orleans, but to say the parts of it like Norco are part of New Orleans is a strange contradiction to the picturesque beliefs people have towards New Orleans. In reality, New Orleans is the real life equivalent of a catholic and gothic Night City from cyberpunk. High crime included. It feels the same as these games and images. Its a city gone wrong. Nola screams decay. Norco just happens to be the best example of how it does so. But just like the images… the billboards and commercial chains stand defiant against the decay around it. Theres a few McDonalds in Norco and New Orleans that are surrounded by rusting sheds and rundown houses probably older than the United States itself. Its, creepy.

@unaif.2171 Год назад

There is a visual adventure also called Norco, set in the close future. I didn't even knew the place existed irl but your description matches the game.

@bluest1524 Год назад

I agree that McDonalds is creepy. The hideous, mechanized and traumatizing cruelty to animals at the core of their product, the horrific destruction of the planet for profit... one of the most creepy things I've ever seen.

@whit9250 Год назад

I'm from Baton Rouge. I've driven through Norco many times, and lived in New Orleans. Your description is very accurate.

@DavidDrouant 2 месяца назад

@@whit9250 Fat City boy here

@katefresina832 2 месяца назад

I've never been to Norco but I have seen pictures, and good grief they are just as you described it.

@ya_dude_himself Год назад

Does anyone else think that something like this would make an amazing futuristic-dystopian souls like game? Like you've got the gigantic monsters and the weird zombie-like humans. Combined with a few stranded survivors and upgrades with cybernetic or digital upgrades. I would sell my soul for that game.

@wagahagwa6978 Год назад

yeah, id love to capitalize on a free market economy, selling cola to any consumer, using money printers and hoping the government doesn't stop them, by making a labyrinth with a building system and armed guards

@Whalebun248 10 месяцев назад

⁠what

@2homies1kfcbucket 9 месяцев назад

only real ones understand this reference.@@wagahagwa6978

@noahsains6227 9 месяцев назад

Its called the surge / the surge 2

@ya_dude_himself 9 месяцев назад

@@noahsains6227 yeah, in between the time I posted the comment and now I actually played them both, loved them lol

@Grim_sights 11 месяцев назад

His art borders on the “AI” look simply because of how uncannily realistic a lot of these look whilst having a derelict and horrifying feel

@BeastyBundy 11 месяцев назад

Probably because they were digitally painted, but this was made far before AI was advanced enough to generate imagery as good as this.

@danbellian5617 10 месяцев назад

His art borders on the “ai” look because despite his constant pleas that people not use his art without permission a bunch of dicks trained their ai models on his art.

@bennbritton 9 месяцев назад

It might be that AIs are trained using this art so actually the AI art has the Stalenhag look

@franki1990 9 месяцев назад

AI doesn't exist

@user-burner 6 месяцев назад

@@franki1990bit if a bizzare way to word it but yeah we only have large scale computing/data models. AI is just a marketing gimmick

@doppy8682 Год назад

During the bit where the Neurocasters were compared to the internet, I momentarily felt like the internet was being judged too harshly because I would argue that it's a tool to be used and that we use it for our livelihoods, but now I wonder if the people in the Electric state similarly had to depend on the neurocasters in a similar fashion

@funkuro Год назад

Dystopias always make a comment about the society they were created in. Obviously we haven’t had an apocalypse yet, but it’s fun and maybe even necessary to consider.

@Vivian-eo3qc Год назад

@Capital J good post OP

@johnmicheal3547 Год назад

Blame on capitalism is like blame your parents for giving birth to you. Just look at the countries that practice capitalism vs countries that worship socialism, you will see a huge different. People were more free and happy when america was practicing capitalism. Now you find yourself working 12 hrs a day to pay for your car to get you to work because america is socialism. Look at china were socialism had always been at their core. People there are practically slaves. Capitalism is at fault just like your parents at fault for giving birth to something so stupid that bites the hand feeding it. Kinda ironic.

@johnmicheal3547 Год назад

Washing machine is the result of Capitalism. Don't worry, thanks to the progressive socialism you will get to experience hand washing soon and not by choice.

@Vivian-eo3qc Год назад

@@johnmicheal3547 okay can't even spell your own last name right-kun

@quanzoboi420 Год назад

This story has horrified and enchanted me beyond any description of words. I absolutely love Stalenhag’s work here as well as “Tales from the loop” and he has quickly become the artist that inspires me the most.

@Skumrasket Год назад

Yet you cant spell his name right, shame

@trc8197 Год назад

@scumbasket wow guy, you've got such a good outlook and perspective to be able to correct someone's spelling of their fav author the way you do. No one will pity you. And no one will recall what you've done or said. Or even how you've made them feel. Fade away little person.

@uhuh9859 Год назад

@Skumrasket All they did was type å as a, they might not have that letter on their keyboard.

@uhuh9859 Год назад

@T r C Holy shit that's the biggest overreaction I've ever seen. All they did was say some (probably sarcastic) dumb thing about a misspelling, and you're telling them to "fade away", and that they're insignificant and worthless? Calm down and touch some grass.

@Stp1497 Год назад

@@Skumrasket not everyone has the letter used in his name, it's from a different alphabet to english.

@Lenape_Lady Год назад

As impressive as this art is…so is your ability to explain it, to put into words the *feeling* of it all. I wouldn’t have been able to explain how this art makes me feel, but you did. And you did it with such accurate poignancy that it blows me away as much as the art does. Thank you.

@jaykelley103 9 месяцев назад

sycophant

@glowcube1244 3 месяца назад

@@jaykelley103?

@matthewacemusic Год назад

What a fascinating segment this was, sci-fi needed an incredible work like this lately..if anyone was curious, the main car that the characters are driving is a 92-94 Oldsmobile Delta 98 which was a great car and considered quite high-end in the 90’s! 🤠

@jeremyruiz4741 Год назад

I remember buying this book in 2019. As a photographer I was astounded by Simon’s use of atmospheric lighting, especially when the protagonist reaches Linden Point. By far my favorite artist so far.

@wesleymiles8756 Год назад

Simon has been my favorite visual artist for years. The landscapes he recreates invoke a kind of nostalgia and familiarity I have yet to see elsewhere. Growing up in the New York/New Jersey region, I find a lot of his pieces to be very reminiscent of the sights I see on a daily basis. Thinking about it now, i’m pretty sure he inspired me to pursue an art career.

@Vivian-eo3qc Год назад

new jersey hell YEAH!

@michaelperks4416 Год назад

Simon's work is absolutely groundbreaking. Even without knowing the story and seeing some of the images on their own, my imagination was able to run wild. I may have to get hold of the book after watching this.

@sparklespartan935 Месяц назад

🏳️‍🌈⚠️Warning ⚠️ 🏳️‍🌈 A big chuck of this book is just the protagonist having flashbacks of her and her girlfriend. She goes into detail about her relationship (kissing, rubbing). It really didn’t seem to have anything to do with the plot so if you’re not interested in a lesbian love story, just enjoy the video!

@DiamondChicken10 Год назад

I got this book after watching your video on Tales from the Loop, and I'm so glad you made a video on it. The story is incredibly haunting but hopeful in a kind of singular way for the protagonist. It feels like she deserves the ending she gets after her background and the twist at the end of the book are revealed. How you narrate and talk about these stories makes them resonate with the mysteriousness and dread that seems so inherent in most of Stålenhag's work. So thank you for covering these stories and introducing me to a new world of fantastical settings.

@stinkletoes8285 10 месяцев назад

This is the comment I was looking for...Couldint rememebr the name of the show( Tales from the Loop)..really want that second season..?

@triprpc01 Год назад

You have to love how only the best modern artists actually have true lore behind their paintings.

@CindyandRicoTheCoonhoundCross Год назад

I went to the library to get Tales from the Loop and found Electric State instead. Very fascinating concept. She can't use neurocasters due to something being wrong with her eyes.

@TheFirstCurse1 Год назад

Oh that's super cool. I wish that he would've talked about that.

@joostine3720 Год назад

i’m not sure when i’m going to be able to get my hands on the book but i’m very curious how it ends, would you care to explain?

@CindyandRicoTheCoonhoundCross Год назад

@Joostine they get to their old home and the robot is her younger brother.

@Ramekinnz Год назад

this feels like a silent warning of what might become of our nation if we continue to feed into mass consumerism

@StylizedStation Год назад

The art is beautiful, but I really apprecieate the brilliant writing you did for this video!

@RBLXProd Год назад

I agree

@MichelDood Год назад

Simon Stalenhag is a LEGEND. He's also done paleo art which yall should check out since this audience is similarly into spec evo.

@Slovflyer Год назад

I was about to post this. I've been aware of this group of sci-fi paintings for almost a decade, and about 4-5 years ago found a load of his paleoart on his website. Very cool renditions of traditional favorite dinos/prehistoric reptiles. I actually use those as slideshow wallpapers for my laptop. 😄

@nix-cipher Год назад

Absolutely fantastic video! This 'Electric State' is both mesmerizing & terrifying. I hope someone does fanfiction on this.

@Dirtfire Год назад

Isn't there a movie being made of this?

@nix-cipher Год назад

@@Dirtfire i dont know,but if its half as cool as the artwork it should be awesome. Im gonna look online

@bogahaneesh Год назад

@@Dirtfire Yeah the russo brothers are working on it

@uhtred7860 Год назад

@@Dirtfire Yeah, its going to be Netflixed, so prepare to be disappointed.😏

@NAF275 Год назад

@@uhtred7860 and?

@bonus_boss Год назад

i was up all night, i have never seen or herd anything about this author or book, and watching this short overview has me compleatly captivated. The way you Narrated this, covering all of the major points was spectacular. You are very skilled at this Narrative. Thanks for this, you have brought me a new obsession. This type of sci-fi isnt really so far from our actual reality is it.

@cubbyduck9018 Год назад

The fact that when the people are laying in their backs the Nerocasters look like gravestones is so terrifying to me

@leociresi4292 9 месяцев назад

The people sitting in a abandoned church holding what appears to be fleshy computers is disturbing

@noahmook5814 Год назад

This is like a perfect combination of artistic illustration and storytelling.

@DrCruel 9 месяцев назад

It's really short. Took me about three hours to zip through it, like a graphic novel.

@tmseh Год назад

I bought this book last year. Excellent read. I've heard it may be adapted for film/streaming.

@housewilma4904 Год назад

it already has a show called "tales from the loop" that launched in 2020.

@fireblade295 Год назад

@@housewilma4904 but not Electric State.

@oriyo899 Год назад

@@fireblade295 Netflix is making an Electric State movie, full of big name actors (as far as we know). I really wish it was more similar to the Amazon Tales from the Loop adaptation where most of the actors weren't too recognizable, cause imo that makes it fun to see new people instead of the same person we've seen act 500 times. No shade at the casting (maybe Chris Pratt because...really?) but I don't know, could be good, could be really bad.

@RominaJones Год назад

The movie started filming this October past. There is already a full wikipedia entry for it with the cast list.

@jasondashney Год назад

@@oriyo899 I 100% agree that "fresh" actors are best. There are about a zillion talented actors out there and you 100% buy into a world more if you haven't seen the person 10 times before, and the effect triples if they've made idiotic comments on social media. There are a few stars I look at in a completely different light because as soon as I see them I'm instantly taken back to their real world lunacy instead of focussing on their current character.

@user-zr1og9qx5i 3 месяца назад

Watching this for the second time and it's very good. The local cancer clinic where I live has video advertisements running in the exam rooms on flatscreen 2'x4' monitors. They run ads for various commercial messages about drugs and treatments while sometimes terminal patients sit trapped in a tiny room alone with the screen, probably wondering WTF am I in this scenario? IDK but this video just reminded me of it.

@Spork-Art 7 месяцев назад

i picked up 'The Electric State' at the library after watching this video and i cannot recommend reading it enough. There's a wonderful humanity in the story told to us by the protagonist that i'm glad Curious Archive didn't spoil, but I fully sobbed through. there is a familiar and haunting parallel in the main narrator's backstory and the world she's traveling through. Can't thank this channel enough for dissecting the book and inspiring me to read it!

@NeosAvias Год назад

I ready need to check out more of Simon’s art, just simply due to his sense of scale and atmosphere. That liminality conveyed with his lighting and color is friggin’ phenomenal.

@TheGreatAuk Год назад

Always love it when you talk about some underrated stuff, keep doing what you do best man!

@hyakin7818 9 месяцев назад

Patrolling the Mojave Almost Makes You Wish For a Nuclear Winter

@dookie7299 Год назад

I never saw these images as scary at all. They were actually calming.

@devonterminator2697 Год назад

like looking at a picture that's supposed to scare you only for it to calm you but what im with you it does look calming

@leociresi4292 9 месяцев назад

4:52 Sonic!

@Wnick1996 Год назад

They should make a game out of this. I would love to play it!

@Nindroid-zw7zc Год назад

There’s a roleplay game on Roblox 💀

@brunitop4753 Год назад

Brought to you by Hideo Kojima

@RominaJones Год назад

There is a movie currently in production. If it is successful there will probably be a game too.

@yehooz2150 Год назад

@@Nindroid-zw7zc there is but after reading the book at looking back to my memories in-game it honestly feels like two different subjects.

@BlackvvvFist Год назад

The game Generation Zero is seemingly inspired by his work

@ihaveateaaddictionhelp5876 Год назад

I'm praying this becomes a show, the horror, mystery, and unique concepts.

@RominaJones Год назад

Netflix is making a movie. It is already in production, release date estimated January 2024.

@zefft.f4010 Год назад

Don't worry, soon enough it won't be far from real life.

@minamotonoyoshitsune6081 Год назад

@@zefft.f4010Ahhahaha I mean you'll never know but very possible

@56postoffice Год назад

*"Black Mirror,"* anyone?

@richardskinner4198 Месяц назад

This is all completely new to me and completely fascinating ,so thanks for this I would never have discovered the artist without you .

@MorrisJones-ne1nf 7 месяцев назад

Simon Stålenhags art is so special especially when you’re Swedish, all the settings are so familiar(the ones set in Sweden) I feel like I’ve been in most of his pictures, and the creepy feeling mixed with nostalgia and dejavú is just so… One of the coolest artists ever according to me

@ven7165 Год назад

id totally be interested in a series about surviving the leftovers of humanity, with the everlooming temptation of submitting to a force that makes you feel at peace in return for your freedom.

@jasondashney Год назад

You're in luck! It stars Keanu Reeves and had ground breaking special effects.

@MitchellDouglas4933 Год назад

its called The Matrix

@sovietunion7643 Год назад

@@MitchellDouglas4933 i would argue the matrix doesn't really take your freedom, you can still move around and live in the late 20th century life as you would. you think and do things of your own devices. hell that's why at the end of the matrix the deal between humans and robots was "ok you can live in real life if you want and anyone can chill in the matrix should they choose" because living in first world country standards even if its fake is nice than living like a refugee in the real world.

@Erichiper Год назад

Simon Stålenhag introduced me to conceptual artists while I browsed Art Station a long ago and I've never looked back. I love his work.

@robh3007 Год назад

Neurocasters....Giant neurocaster towers...giant rusting behemoths.... Makes me think of the metaverse, virtual reality and 5G towers. Add a little self-sentient AI in there, and we'll have a real nightmare on our hands that'll make this art look like a Dr. Seuss children's book.

@Thailerr 9 месяцев назад

For anyone who likes this kind of melancholic, apocalyptic, "make you think" artstyle. The video game Neir Automata is an incredibly similar and incredibly well written story that plays on similar tropes and artstyle. Highly recommended. It gave me that feel like after you finish a really good anime or movie that your mind escaped into. Almost empty and sad.

@hoshii_5797 6 месяцев назад

Nah that shits gay asf

@creme-glacee Год назад

I just wanna say, thanks for making the captions yourself! It makes your already amazing videos accessible to more people and although I don’t need captions to enjoy videos, they improve the experience for me a great deal.

@crypto-radio8186 Год назад

What captions? @solus_ren? I don’t need captions too? I just wanna say, thanks for making the captions What captions? Netflix is making a movie. It is already in production, release date estimated January 2024. ##@@?This story has horrified and enchanted me beyond any description of turds.

@whannabi Год назад

Ice Cream

@creme-glacee Год назад

@@whannabi Yup, it’s my favourite food

@victoriouswinner7745 Год назад

I've never heard of who this is, nor have I heard of this art but this seems really cool. The story is really interesting, and the art is stunning. I'll need to give this a look.

@mrdeer111 Год назад

🔥🔥

@RanWhenParked1021 9 месяцев назад

15:54 That's a cool AMC Pacer.

@dropmaestros3680 Год назад

This book has been one of my favorites for the past few years and I am happy to see that so many people are also interested in this sort of stuff.

@benjaminrude3814 Год назад

I've always been a big admirer of Electric state's work, and it's definitely had an influence on my pixel animation creations.

@brothermaleuspraetor9505 Год назад

I love the way the artwork is rendered. There are many different sections that are rendered differently, giving rise to complexity mixed with photographic accuracy, especially when it comes to light and colour reflection on surfaces. It's as if the artist is aware of Ray-Tracing tech as it is evident in the artwork. Then you see a simplistic interpretation- level quality afforded to the background, such as in mountain ranges and the sky. It's also as if the artist has been influenced by Japanese Anime, such as Appleseed, Gundam or Akira. Love it!

@grim782 Год назад

I would totally buy this video game and play it constantly, especially if there was a vr version.

@The1stDukeDroklar Год назад

lol, a bit of irony there

@reddragon4482 Год назад

Yeah that would be very ironic for sure lmao. I don't disagree though lol.

@jayl5032 Год назад

The closest we have currently is Cyberpunk 2077. Its... something. I played it when it first released, not since though. It was buggy, but kind of alright.

@Ramekinnz Год назад

Irony-

@johnnyhunter Год назад

Pretty sure the machine at 10:00 is a demented Uncle Sam. Complete with starred top hat, wires as beard and the "I want you!" pointing, gloved hand.

@lovesick_loser Год назад

oh hey, i own this book! its truly heartwrenching, and i feel it's way scarier in a more psychological way than his other books. the artwork is incredible and the story is written in a way that really captures the reader... i still think about how haunting the images of the people in headsets looked!!

@7vector Год назад

I'm so glad this channel exists, the videos are amazing and you can tell how much passion is put into them.

@georgemccartney8906 2 месяца назад

Oh my God, I just realized that 16:56 and 18:32 are a direct before and after of the same scene, probably only seconds apart given the man is still in the same position. It even shows the birds flying away just before the colossal machine wakes up followed by bits of debris falling off the monster after it stands up. That's how fast these things can come to life and move around, that is the most terrifying thing ever

@wesleyward5901 10 месяцев назад

It's amazing how much story is conveyed just by a few pictures. That's a sign of a great artist..

@thegammingbolaschannel7529 Год назад

You should explore the plane of New Phyrexia from Magic The Gathering as it is such an interesting yet twisted world of mechanical horrors

@jimihatten1958 Год назад

Fuck wizards.. you're cool, just had to say it.

@Riddle.Monster Год назад

Agreed

@heliotoro Год назад

I love your videos, the editing is so good and your naration is top tier.

@festersmith8352 Год назад

The irony. I stumbled onto this video and became intrigued by the narration, visuals, and story. This couldn't have happened without the net. As one who does not enjoy reading, I was a little disappointed by not finding out the end of the story. But I do understand the concept of spoilers. Good video production!

@NoNameTaken117 Год назад

Reminds me of how the Combine took over Earth, literally placing cables and machines on buildings, destroying houses just for for space etc.

@brittany9414 Год назад

Combine? 🚜

@NoNameTaken117 Год назад

@@brittany9414 Search up Hl2 Combine Architecture, you will see what I mean

@arcosprey4811 Год назад

Hey Curious Archive, it’s Ernesto Marrero one of your first subscribers. You’ve grown like crazy! I love your channel. Hope you continue in your success! PS: I changed my name, lol.

@koriw1701 Год назад

I must tell you how much I enjoy your work. Do you write your own scripts or does someone prepare them for you? Your explanations and observations are often so poignant and deep that I have come to expect to see your videos every month or so. I am very proud to know about someone such as yourself who takes the journeys for us, and then returns to our world to give us your report (that's how it feels!) Thank you once again for a very exciting foray into "Electric State."

@ianevans8939 Год назад

Thank you so much for bring this title and author to my attention. Stunning artwork and gripping gritty dialogue. Haven't seen anything like this in many years.

@mike-pm6xn 9 месяцев назад

The narrator sounds like he has been in this futuristic meager world for a while, as if the controllers finally captured him and told him he must narrate this video or they will end him. It sounds like he's reading from a dark underground dungeon where he is being held by the evil robots and forced to record his voice, with an electric zapper gun aimed at his head.

@TheSteven00 Год назад

I dig when this script veers off from being about the Electric State specifically, and becomes more about a peculiarly specific aesthetic rising in prominence. I started watching your channel for the spec evo, but I would love to see more of that popular art criticism out of ya

@juliashenandoah3965 Год назад

Never heard of Simon Stalenhag, but I love how he created a postapocalyptic scenario purely based on the existence of oversized VR headsets and strange amusement park robots. The creators of Atomic Heart should make a VR game of this scenario!

@426F6F 9 месяцев назад

It would be so cool to see Simon's work get made into a TV series or a movie, whether live-action or animated!

@ianlevi9195 Год назад

i really like the contrast betewen the old and the new, simple suburban houses with gigantic ultra technological structures in the background.

@Dwendele Год назад

I've been into this type of art since probably the late 70s. I remember a couple album covers my brother had that were very similar to this and I was always transfixed by the images. I can't believe I've never seen this guy's work!

@gatopandillero7899 Год назад

This channel is great, but the thing I like the most is discovering the works where you get the ideas for your videos

@charlieianzo5513 11 месяцев назад

It's like you're not just having to believe in the truth, you're always experiencing it. It's a sort of melancholic circumstance that many of us live day by day, reminding of us what was and still is. Liminality only complements it's nature by compelling the viewer into the world where something has happened and no one was meant to forget it.

@IrishTechnicalThinker Год назад

What a fantastic concept and excellent writing with art that's almost hypnotic but terrifyingly brilliant.

@larrysmellbutts2002 Год назад

Damn I don’t know why I thought this video would have like 1mil views despite being uploaded today

@SonRiseforNathaniel Год назад

Simon is a great artist. Way back we actually exchanged a few emails before he got so widely known. Seemed like a good guy.

@henryd.4802 Год назад

I think this is by far the best series of videos on Stalenhags work that I've seen. I've only read through The Electric State but I've been a hugue fan of his artwork for years now and these are the only good exploration videos into the themes and stuff about his work

@fizzyizzy8261 7 месяцев назад

I wish some one would make a feature film of this art book. Most innovative work, I've seen in years.

@britfox7766 Год назад

Great video, always enjoy coverage of Simon Stålenhag. Clarification: both films of "Village of the Damned" are adaptations of the book "The Midwich Cuckoos", by John Wyndham, better known for writing sci-fi horror stories like "The Day of the Triffids" and "The Crysalids". "The Midwich Cuckoos" is set in England, like most of his books.

@awsomeness Год назад

What a masterpiece! I’m working on writing a post-apocalyptic road trip novel and definitely want to pull from some of these visuals for the setting.

@xXJAng3lXxx 9 месяцев назад

As an artist, I'm glad you didn't give away the end cause I was really contemplating stopping the video to buy the book but didn't, but now I'm going to

@chillhour6155 Год назад

The detail of the atmospheric lighting in these works of art is on a different level, they fall somewhere between real life in 2D and videogame concept art that's semi alive

@adolinkholin Год назад

One of the coolest things I've ever had the opportunity to experience, and such an incredible video covering it as well!

@qanitro8657 Год назад

1:15 "Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear Winter"

@smakfu1375 Год назад

Stalenhag’s book is an absolutely gorgeous, and profoundly sad, masterpiece. Beautifully woven into the books visual narrative is the slow revelation of the individual impacts and horrors of the depicted technological apocalypse. The illustration of unintended consequences, large and small, is both striking and disturbing. But it’s how those consequences manifest in the deceptively simple story that packs the emotional punch. It’s the impact to the most vulnerable, that underscores all the exquisite world building. It feels real because it is made real: from the careful interplay of light with the droplets of rain on a car window, to the malevolent neurograph towers, this isn’t so much a glimpse into a world that could be, but one that is. It’s a remarkable piece of work.

@Captain_MonsterFart 3 месяца назад

This reminds me of the uncomfortable feeling I had when smart phones came along. I still have it. Human behaviour changed in a very noticeable way, very very quickly.

@DaveS1969 Год назад

What fantastic artwork and the fact he pegged the internet back in the 90's as the electric state is unreal, like he had a vision of the future. Beautiful work.

@ZekwaldIX Год назад

Stålenhags artwork is pretty thought provoking You might also find Wiliam Gibson's books interesting, if you haven't read them already

@helmaschine1885 10 месяцев назад

Who do you mean? The artist was born in 1984 and the book was published in 2018.

@rickwrites2612 10 месяцев назад

There was a fear of this very present in 80s and 90s

@sphinxtheeminx Год назад

12:03 Side note these films are based on John Wyndham's novel The Midwitch Cuckoo - lovers of sci fi will know him as the writer of The Day of the Triffids.

@joeyj6808 4 месяца назад

You have a real talent for highlighting excellent artists I have never even heard of, and showing why their visions are worth examination. Thank you for doing that! This was another eye-opener for me. Amazing work! And yes, his work IS better than a hug from Stalin!

@LihimSidhe 3 месяца назад

Because of your vids I purchased all of Simon Stalenhag's books. Set time aside for myself to read through them with music to accompany the reading. I have to say in my honest opinion that your videos were a far better experience than reading the actual books. I'm glad I financially supported Mr. Stalenhag but as far as value, your vids far outstrip the actual source material. Maybe I'm just brain rotted by watching too many RU-vid vids but that's how I feel. thanks for making these.

@upresins 3 месяца назад

Same here

@DGEddieDGEtm Год назад

I am seriously debating writing a short story to either _Things from the Flood_ or _The Electric State_

@nanotyrannusisnotvalid4820 Год назад

things from the flood is cooler in my opinion

@diogene_s8032 Год назад

Simon Stalenhag is one of the best artists I've ever heard about, and I'm trying to get a hold of all of his books (I recently got Things from the Flood). I love what you did in this video. Great work!

@Grasses0n 6 месяцев назад

I absolutely love artists that can build a whole world just from art. This one seems extremely interesting. It makes me think of how many incredible stories are out there that have yet to be discovered. I almost wish this would become a movie or something, but with the way most modern films are, I doubt anyone could do this justice. Maybe a graphic novel or something lol.

@Waiakeawaterbottle Год назад

Simon's work is an inspiration for me, I'm working on a game that doesn't exist now but I could make it in the future that takes many inspiration from his artwork.