What is this science fiction image?
This image, drawn in ink on heavy paper, and annotated "3/4 in. connectors," was in a box of papers and files that I shipped from my storage locker in Toronto. It's incredibly familiar, but I have no idea what it is. Anyone recognize it?
Update: The mystery is solved! It was an icon drawn for a UI for a FirstClass BBS at ConnAd, an ad agency I was CIO at. It was drawn by Tara Tallin, and implemented by Michael Hainsworth! And yes, it was based on Silent Running.
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Is it from Slaughterhouse Five?
from that modular space colonization project you'd been working on
Looks like a derivation of bio-dome from Silent Running.
Isn't that Orbiting Meadows National Cemetery from Futurama?
sure looks like Silent Runnings
looks like a pod from Valley Forge from the film Silent Running.
It's a human-habitrail pod from Silent Running!
http://media.bladezone.com/contents/fan/submissions/doug/Silent_Running_Poster.jpg
Looks like the spaceship from the movie "The Fountain"
-D
Looks like a simplified version of the biosphere in silent running (see picture here):
Silent Running
looks like a 'pod' from the film 'Silent Running' starring Bruce Dern and a bunch of robots who orbit Jupiter (?) with the remnants of earth's plant life.
First thing it reminded me of was one of the Arcologies from SimCity 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Simcity2000_Arcology.jpg
Well, that sounds plausible except how did I end up with an original ink drawing from a film I never saw?
One of the ships from Battlestar Galactica looked like that (before it blew up).
Are you sure you didn't draw this, Cory? heh
Does remind me of a Sim City 2000 Arcology, too.
chronosynclastic infundibulum again?
Looks to me like a Dome Ship from the Animorphs series, but the fact that you'd wind up with a sketch of one seems unlikely.
Yeah, that's right, I read all 54 Animorphs books when I was in grade school. What of it?
this could be a tantalizing mystery, so many clues in the wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running
I believe it's some kind of futuristic air freshener. Dirty air goes in one nozzle, clean comes out the other.
Or maybe a futuristic grow your own salad.
Regardless, it's from the future.
Maybe the dog-walking park in The Jetsons?
(just kidding)
This is a forest dome on the ship "Valley Forge" from the 1972 movie "Silent Running". See the wikipedia listing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running
Almost looks like the Orbiting Meadows National Cemetery from Futurama, or one of the fleet ships from the Battlestar Gallactica pilot...
Another clue -- this material went into storage around 2000.
Its almost certainly from Silent Running, I love that film. I cant be 100% sure, but I think the same design (possibly even the same footage) was used in the original Battlestar Galactica series.
http://www.lunadude.com/pet_proj/valley_forge/prop.htm
The surviving dome is on display at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle Washinton.
Possibly from the Sci-Fi museum.
It's Sandy Cheeks' Treedome from Spongebob Squarepants. It's difficult to recognize because the base is buried in the sea floor.
I think that you must have, at some point in your childhood, seen the Canadian TV series "The Starlost". Here, this probably shows a model of "Arc", the generation ship that the series was set on, better than I can describe it.
http://www.highdefforum.com/no-topic-forum/86035-does-anyone-here-remember-starlost-tv-series-1973-a.html
It definitely was influenced by "Silent Running"
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Ever see The Fountain?
Reminds me of the sphere in the space sequence (mostly because of the tree).
Teenage mutant ninja turtles, triceratops asteroid habitat.
Clearly a bubble-hockey rink overgrown from lack of use. Come back to your roots eh!
Its possible from the The Star Lost a TV Series that pre-dates Silent Running.
http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/star.html
More bad Canadian TV Cory!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starlost
It's the African Rainforest pavilion at the Toronto Zoo - probably left over from a school project.
I also vote for Silent Running.
the side tubes more closely match Starlost
That's where Sandy lives in Bikini Bottom. Duh.
hmmm, wonder if Heinlein ever got a nickel from Starlost?
I remember a drawing show on PBS in the 80s that had a lot of elements like this.
I think it's from a role-playing game.
Perhaps Gamma world
the 3/4 in connectors lead me to think it is very small, so ZIPR is on the right track.
First thing that came to mind was the artwork from the old Dungeons & Dragons module Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. I couldn't find the image anywhere though, and can't imagine why you'd have an original. Comic-Con?
Kinda sorta reminds me of the Triceraton space domes in the original 1980's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles graphic novels:
http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage/five/pg36.htm
But I also vote for Silent Running.
The real mystery here is how you managed to get this far without ever seeing Silent Running.
Looks more like a Star Lost eco-pod, not SR.
I go for the air freshener concept. Perhaps some kind of eco-friendly inhaler?
And Silent Running == kick ass movie. I DL'ed it to my iPhone a while back for a long flight & loved it "all over again"
It's from the Space Age collection for your hamster's Habitrail!
The hat for your year 2000 Silent Runnings Halloween costume? Plans for a high-end gerbil terrarium?
I don't know, did you attend any Cons that year? Have any artist friends who draw in that style? Need more clues!
Made me think of Star Trek Voyager episode "Flesh and Blood" (had to look it up)...
I was thinking of the Hirogen Station...
It seems it had more than one dome however...
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Image:Hirogen_Station_Flesh_and_Blood.jpg
It's a schematic for one of the Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee.
http://www.county.milwaukee.gov/TheDomes22802.htm
Kidding of course, but being in one of them does feel like you're in "Silent Running."
Isn't this where Montana Wildhack and Billy Pilgrim were supposed to live on Trafaldamor?
I actually want to say it is from an old TSR gaming supplement, maybe a Gamma World book.
It looks like Biodome, but I'm not sure where Pauly Shore is.
I second Bobbcorr's answer: it's Sandy's dome, except space-ified.
Mr_Voodoo: I was thinking the same thing, but 3/4 is far too small for a gerbil. Perhaps insects, or shrunken people... or shrunken people riding insects.
It is almost certainly a prototype for an environmentally-friendly sex toy.
I'm surprised no one said that it looks like the final room in Botanica where you fight Warp Splinter.
ugh, somebody delete Adult Toys's account. Lack of that tripe is one of the reasons I enjoy BB's discussions so much@
But on topic- The first time I saw "Third Encounters" recently, I was shocked at how familiar the spaceship seemed. Finally realized I'd seen the model at an Air&Space museum. So you could still be copying Silent Runnings without having seen it- stranger things happen!
I vote for Starlost - anyone know where to get a copy of the series? I only ever saw the first episode and would love to see the rest.
Is it the zoo on Tralfmadore (Slaughterhouse-Five)?
Reminds me of the mini-biospheres featured in Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness In The Sky
And it's worth pointing out that The Starlost played in Ontario when I was a young teenager; I think I saw all the episodes at the time (more out of boredom than any real interest). Cory and I are of an age, so I imagine he may have seen it as well.
On the other hand, the Ark's biodomes weren't transparent (the pictures I'm seeing on the web are, unfortunately, of really terrible quality). They were made up of closely spaced geodesic members, and faded into a golden mesh unless you were right close up.
It's a consumer-oriented desktop hydroponic grow-bubble for your, um, bonsai trees. Yeah, that's what I'm growing in it, bonsai.
Is it possible that it's just one of those ideas people easily converge to? I mean, if your going to have an arboretum in space, this seems like the most natural design. Unless you pay attention to the lack of gravity in space, but nobody ever does.
First thing I thought of when I saw it was the very first episode of Star Trek Voyageur called: Caretaker.
Pretty sure that was the dome he was living in while pulling ships from around the galaxy to him.
Some say porn, some say information, I say this is it, this is the primary usefullness of the internet; I look forward to the day I will clean out my parents garage and post pictures of all of the weird stuff they have on boing boing to ask the internet "What is this"?!?!
I vote for Silent Running. There is some confusion in the movie about the design of the enviro-pods. Many of the shots from outside do not show a horizontal access tube underneath as in the illustration.
But the last exterior shot of the movie shows the end of something. And the interior shot at the opening of the movie leaves no doubt about one being in use.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oani3-RDvHw&feature=PlayList&p=FBCC4694171E3906&playnext=1&index=45
It's most likely been sent back by your future self so that you'll build it in time for the upcomming apocalypse.
re: 21
Silent Running = 1972
Starlost = 1973
as for not seeing Silent Running... perhaps you did as a child. after all, you don't remember the drawing.
Silent Running
Or any myriad of toys from the 1970s inspired by the "bio-dome" idea.
Is the annotation in the same ink and hand as the drawing?
If involved w/ TV it would most likely be Starlost - filmed in Hamilton if I'm not mistaken, w/ the scaling of 3/4" for connectors most likely a sketch of a model to be built.
-Rod
No.
No.
No.
We're all* far too casually ignoring the fact that Cory Doctorow hasn't seen Silent Running.
More wooping and pointing please.
* ArtBot@44: pass
1969, got an older one?
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/1007/50251025.JPG
Looks like Sandy's home on Sponge Bob Squarepants
I think it's the Atomic Chihuahua prop from Infocom's Hollywood Hijinx.
Futuristic bio-domes like this are frequent subjects of magazine articles about "what the future may bring" in a variety of publications, from Discovery to (now defunct) OMNI to Popular Mechanics. Architects seemingly draw these constantly. As do concept artists for film and other entertainment venues. Could be from any one of those. Or a game, as suggested several times. Most owe some debt to Silent Running as inspiration, but there are literally thousands of places this could have come from.
I would guess that the "3/4 in. connectors" is reference to a model you intended to build, or that someone intended to build, perhaps of the Starlost vessel (8,000 miles in character).
Let's get to the important part. When are you going to sell signed, numbered, color prints, and donate the money to the EFF or someone equally worth?
I'm ready to order now.
My guess:
Ant-farm habitat or hydroponics.
Or worms. If the connectors are for living critters to pass through, the 3/4" size is pretty limiting. (ie, no hamsters.)
The connectors could be used for other purposes. Structural connex to other pods?
Perhaps a water flow system to other bonsai domes?
Hrmm... is this a hydroponic grow setup that you just tried to make look innocuous by drawing in trees and a pond?
Do the other papers this was found with give any insight?
You readers are all too young. This is a drawing of a kids toy circa late 1950's, or early 60's. It sat on the floor and was operated by pushing in the two handles on the sides, thus causing the interior scene to spin. They were made with a variety of interior spaces including park scenes, rail roads, cars, etc. It was not meant to be futuristic, or space related. It was simple 50's kitch.
>>I remember a drawing show on PBS in
>> the 80s that had a lot of elements like this.
This rings a bell. I remember a show with some guy dressed up in a sci-fi space uniform. 'Commander Mark' or something like that. He would draw city scapes with buildings like this one.
Starlost... created by Cordwainer Bird, right? Harlan Ellison gives an account of how badly the show got f-ed up in his "Somehow, I Don't Think We're in Kansas, Toto."
I'd point you to an online copy, but we all know how Harlan reacts to his work being posted for free online... he shouts big words at the post-ers until they shoot themselves in the face. Or something like that.
An excellent read, though, if you can find it.
As for the drawing, I'm still waiting for more clues. C'mon, Cory. There must be something else you can give us on this.
when you build models you use what is available,
http://www.fdsons.com/images/elect/conduit_emt_setscrew_connector.jpg
probably pods strung on conduit.
Regardless of the mystery of the drawing, you have to see Silent Running - an inspiration to MST3K among other things.
Speaking of Earth domes, does anyone remember the following SF short story logline? I first read it in junior high, but have forgotten the title & author:
Family goes camping (I seem to remember Monument Valley as the locale). They wake to find they’ve been enclosed in a dome. They fret, they argue, they fight – what does it mean? Then the dome expands, presumably covering the entire world. The end.
An illustration from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction.
I bet its from that movie where the two stoners get locked in the self contained science experiment- wasn't that called bio-dome or something like that? I think it starred Pauly shore oe brendan frasier or keanu.
Here are the reminiscent images from AD&D module S3: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks from TSR:
http://tinyurl.com/77o9n2
http://tinyurl.com/6ttsdv
@#74 POSTED BY MINDERMILL:
I actually had one of those. But the one I had you had to constantly push a thing at the top up and down for it to spin.
Anonymous @ #32,
“More bad Canadian TV...â€
You shut your mouth!
=P
I think that's where Sandy Cheeks lives
The bio-dome concept is certainly older than Starlost or Silent Running.
The line style is very reminiscent of Kelly Freas -- a lot of his original art was up for sale before and after 2000, including a large number of line drawings he did for interior illos for magazine stories.
Regarding the '3/4" Connectors' I have one of his original line drawings, and it has a bit of scribbling in one corner -- I think once it sold, it was all just paper.
You're all wrong. It's the bio dome from the movie, "Bio Dome." You can see Pauly Shore behind the big tree.
Few know that Darth Vader got funding for the Alpha version fo the death star from the Audubaun Society.
I'm with #38 Anon above. It looks like something I might have drawn while watching The Secret City with Commander Mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAhdWmzbAuM&feature=related
Looks like a side dome of Terra Venture, from Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy. Sort of. They were more like flying saucers, with a large saucerish base and a proportionally smaller dome.
http://www.rovang.org/wg/tvdomemenu.htm
(The show contained a bunch of cute homages to Silent Running, 2001: A Space Odyssey, & others. Spoiled when the giant technicolor plush toys showed up and turned into robots.)
Everyone has overlooked the obvious answer:
Far from 'never seeing' Silent Running, you are in fact the central character as played by Bruce Dern . You slid into a delusional cataleptic state, dreaming you are back on good old Earth, running a blog and writing SF.
Unfortunately that delusion is starting to break up and little clues as to your true state are appearing within the fantasy.
See, simple!
Oh look, here's PKD, he wants his plot back.
Reminds me of ST:DS9's Deep Space 9 station.
@arkizzle
Exactly.
Cory, hie thee to a dvd rental store.
In a different direction, the first thing that popped to mind for me was "Sealab 2020". It would explain the ink drawing, the scale, the base of the dome (looks like it could rest on the sea floor), and the connectors. But I looked and could find domes quite like that in any Sealab 2020 (or 2021) art. Maybe some other undersea animation show?
Air Helmet(TM), for the oxygen-party, fraternity crowd. Gets you all sorts of effed up.
Takuan @37, why in the whorl would Heinlein be owed anything for Starlost? Harlan Ellison is the one who wrote the treatment for the studio.
Heinlein didn't invent the generation ship, and even if he had, he would happily admit that SF writers swipe ideas from each, and other sources, all the time, and that the important thing in which ownership resides is the actual story, not the ideas behind it.
Or did Heinlein owe money to Anthony Hope's estate for Double Star?
Anonymous @39, you're thinking of Metamorphosis Alpha.
It reminded me also of a stubby Andalite Dome Ship.
I'm pretty certain that it's a salad bar fixture from a 1970's era Bonanaza/Ponderosa Steakhouse.
The 3/4" connectors are for the refrigerant (Dichlorodifluoromethane R-12, of course) to keep all the iceberg lettuce, blu cheez dressing and pithy salad tomatoes crisp and flavorless.
The "trees" are simply the broccoli florettes having gotten a bit out of hand.
it reminds me of an early AD&D adventure where you would end up in a space ship that had crash landed and was covered in moss...
I never played it, but I received it in my uncle's 1st Edition stuff that was bequeathed to me.
made me think of this:
http://www.thegreenhead.com/2008/05/bel-air-plant-powered-air-filter.php
I'm with sinclair_mckay and the Starlost genesis theory.
Look at the image: http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/props/image/ark02a.jpg
... in the forum he points to:
http://www.highdefforum.com/no-topic-forum/86035-does-anyone-here-remember-starlost-tv-series-1973-a.html
The tubes connecting those hemispheres look like they could be 3/4" PVC pipe, which would explain the annotation.
And the show is out of Canada.
I sent that to you in 2000, Cory. We had an understanding that you would supply me with 3/4" connectors for my fine piece of original art.
Still waiting on those connectors. Flux capacitor won't work until I have them.
its definitely sandy cheeks' (the squirrel from spongebob squarepants) underwater abode.
It's a sauerkraut starter kit.
It seems too small for one of the domes from Starlost (which I watched religiously as a child) or Silent Running. However, the Starlost domes were opaque, and the SR domes were not. So I have to go with Silent Running.
P.S. The droids cheat at cards.
#78 posted by mindermill , January 13, 2009 10:49 AM
You readers are all too young. This is a drawing of a kids toy circa late 1950's, or early 60's. It sat on the floor and was operated by pushing in the two handles on the sides, thus causing the interior scene to spin. They were made with a variety of interior spaces including park scenes, rail roads, cars, etc. It was not meant to be futuristic, or space related. It was simple 50's kitch.
Any specifics you can remember for searching that would be wonderful.
Looks like you were drawing something for John Kessel's Baum Plan for Financial Independence ^__^ picture the whole thing sunk into a lunar crater, and the bits on the sides running underground to other domes :)
who's got a generation ship older than Heinlein?
Wikipedia's entry on bioships has a nice list of references in fiction.
It's a writing prompt for a creative writing class, grades 2 through 10.
This might be from Silent Running, but to me it looks more like one of the enclosures from Sealab 2020.
Whoa, Cory who gave you the blueprints to my beach house on Antarres IV?!
Looks like I've got a serious security breach...
Also, #78 sounds pretty plausible. As does the RPG sourcebook origin theory.
The river around tress seems familiar.
Some sort of Garden of Eden allusion maybe (any garden image would be, but small river and few trees and bushes seem to be obligatory features in Eden depictions).
Maybe it was an illustration used in some article/column you wrote.
Come to think of it, in an alternate Universe, Cory D. is the Bruce Dern character.
By extension, then, Mark, David and Xeni are the cute little robots? And John is the faithful mission commander who tries to effect a rescue?
It's a set of commemorative fingercuffs from Yellowstone National Park.
DRATS! How did Cory get THE PLAN? Now he can analyze it and find the Spaceboretum weaknesses!
I stared at it for a long long time before it finally hit me, well, actually I fell asleep and hit the monitor.
This is a very simple device made by aliens, don't ask me which ones, could be the greens, greys, saurians, I honestly am not sure which. It is designed to suck in oxygen on one side and spit out green house gasses on the other. The bio materials in the dome die and are burned in the base creating CO2 and also heating the mini enviroment helping to regulate the temperature.
Also this model doesn't show it, but miniture cows live in it eating the grass. Their farts, which as everyone knows is pure methane, is spit out the side ejector portal as well.
They drop 150,000,000 of them on the planet and terraform(I don't know what planet they are from so once it's known replace 'terra' with the latin name for their planet) it to their gas level.
Once the transformation is complete, then they move in and have a huge kegger type party, by the time the party is over, the next planet is ready and they move on.
Has no one else actually read Watchmen?
Looks like the tropical bio-dome Ozymandias keeps at his arctic hideaway.
It was not meant to be futuristic, or space related.
Maybe not the toy, but look at the detail in the picture. All sorts of sci-fi vents and lines.
It's a streetlight!
/sorry, this is the second "identify this" post today and I figured it was just as sound a guess as "Silent Running".
It looks a lot like one of the segments of the giant starship in Phantasy Star III (once you finally get to see them all at once, anyways).
TAKUAN @112
To quote from Wikipedia: "Generation ships are often found in science fiction stories. The invention is credited to J. D. Bernal in his 1929 novel The World, The Flesh, & The Devil. A common theme is that inhabitants of a generation ship have forgotten they are on a ship at all, and believe their ship to be the entire universe."
I agree that it looks most like the top of a Sim City 2000 arcology. However, it could be one of any number of glass biodome structures, such as a space colony from Mobile Suit Gundam, or a certain structure from Watchmen.
It reminds me of one of the locations in Space Quest 5. There's what looks like a small building on the left end that leads to an underground lab.
Has anyone said Silent Running? Bruce Dern....Huie Dewie and louie? This is the last module he sent off after he had to return to Earth and left the little droid to maintain the "forest"
I think I've seen this somewhere too.
If it's from neither The Starlost or Silent Running, how about from a Canadian SF anthology? Or maybe Semiotexte SF?
I know there are lots of similar images,
But Silent Running, is the thing I think of
instantly!
Uh that's my apartment, creep!
I guess I'm not the only one who thought of the underwater terraria from Sealab 2021 and Spongebob instead space stations...
Portland, Oregon, circa 1969
It looks like something out of the old Paranoia role playing game...
kind of reminds me the project entropia biodomes. though the PE orbiting station went live in 2004-2005 could it be that someone gave you a concept sketch for the orbiting station?
My guess is it represents a model from some sci fi show like Silent Running.
I seem to remember something like it from an episode of Blakes Seven too.
Perhaps this guy was channelling you:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/03/a_lego_space_odyssey_disc.html
Agreed with the people who claim Arcology. Hi def.
1971 sci-fi ecology drama "Silent Running"
beat him by 12 years eh?
I presumed that you drew this, and that the notation "3/4 inch connectors" was related to the image.
If you didn't draw it (just how well can Cory draw?)
maybe it's an illustration from a Tesseracts edition or other anthology like the unusual suspect suggested.
That, or it's something a junk hound slipped it into your stuff to mess with your head.
Angstrom@89: FTW!
My first thought was one of the domes from 'Silent Running', but I don't think they had those side connectors.
It's not Silent Running; the Valley Forge's domes were geodesic and had a lower profile, though it might have been inspired by it.
I was going to mention Metamorphosis Alpha but I see someone has already mentioned it.
Slient Running or StarLost
Looks to me like a student version of Thom Yorke's ''House of the Devil'' (inside flap of ''Airbag/how am I driving'' import), which itself was an homage to one of Stanley Donwood's earlier concept pieces.
Also, my captcha says ''Bends'', so serendipity booyah!
It's from an episode of Rocket Robin Hood.
Hey Phikus, where've you been?
My first reaction to this was "Jim Woodring", not for the subject matter, but for the quality of the lines, especially around the trees. My gut is notoriously misleading however.
looks like a conceptual (early) drawing of the space borne arboretums from "Silent Running" w/ Bruce Dern
Hmmm. Maybe its a bio-pod-human-habitrail-dome from that film, err, "Silent Running"? I haven't checked any of the other posts but I'm pretty sure I'd be the first person think of that.
I'm misting up right now thinking of the lilting hippy theme song.
@#108 Antinous
If it is a sauerkraut starter kit, it appears to have a nasty fungal bloom. I'd be tempted to scrape that off before enjoying the delicious treats inside.
has anyone else suggested Silent Running yet?
Looks like Sandy the Squirrel's oxygen pod home in Spongebob Squarepants.
not sure I can take much more.
Aw c'mon Takuan, the crowds just getting started. I mean heck, noone's even mentioned the Citadel Station Groves from System Shock yet, and I'm sure there's still scads of folks who won't bother to read the discussion thread to date and toss out Silent Running yet again...
@154 Takuan
I'm pretty sure that it's Sandy's biodome as seen on Silent Running
..please...please...kill me now.....
wait.. if you look at the center of it... yes, right in the middle...it's Master Shake..isn't it?
I've been at storage facilities where the walls don't go all the way up to the ceiling.
Perhaps this item floated in from next door, and the unit next to yours is rented by Douglas Trumbull, director of Silent Running? Yeah, I know, I'm reaching.
tell me I'm wrong
http://z.about.com/d/animatedtv/1/0/0/R/MAsterShake.jpg
Arkizzle@148: You know... new year... new job... new girlfriend... =D Glad to be missed.
Ok, I'll take a stab: It's a Dr. Seuss-o-phone. You blow in one end and Dr. Seuss-like worlds plop out the other end, accompanied by music, of course. It sounds kinda like: yaboo-dorray-yaboo-dorray... With 3/4 inch connectors, it easily attaches to your family-three-handled-credenza. How else do you think they get covered in moss?
#155 IS RIGHT. SYSTEM SHOCK2
"grudunza" dammit!
further, felicitations on your successful breeding, may your mate bear burgeoning egg sacs.
There were space faring hydroponics units in the old space war game "Supremacy" for Amiga (circa 1990) that looked a lot like that. But as some others have said it's a pretty generic "biodome in space" kind of design.
Tak: Yes, grudunza. My spell-checker can be overzealous at times.
Another side effect is that it makes you spit out two comments with a single click. ;D
Tak@165: Eh... Thanks, I think.
You guys posted a picture of my house? WTF!
for those nay sayers who say the dome in the drawing is too small to be the domes from Starlost it is just a concept drawing so I dont hold it to any continuity and I dont' remember anyone pointing out it was shot in toronto by ctv so at least effluvia from Starlost would make its way around toronto. and the person who mentions Battlestar Galactica, they actually used some of the pods off the ark in starlost to make that very ship he reffers to.
feh on silent running as a source for the pic.. (great movie though)
It's the Jetson's getaway space park.
It obviously isn't any of the things suggested thus far.
The mystery is solved! It was an icon drawn for a UI for a FirstClass BBS at ConnAd, an ad agency I was CIO at. It was drawn by Tara Tallin, and implemented by Michael Hainsworth! And yes, it was based on Silent Running.
so if Douglas Trumbull was involved in both Silent Running and Starlost, all we need is someone to impersonate his pool-boy and find out the truth.
well?? The back story??
Wow, based on "Silent Running" you say?
Amazing no one thought of that.
It looks like almost everyone posting here is making the same mistake - it almost certainly isn't a copy of an image of a specific sf movie or tv show etc. It's exactly the kind of thing you drew, though, if you loved that kind of stuff (my faves mentioned so far include Heinlein and Ellison's Starlost pilot script which was published at one point).
I know this beyond the shadow of a doubt because I was one of those kids in the seventies, drawing this stuff (he fits it on a page, but makes the scale WAY off for even a movie prop). Brings back memories of Gamma World campaigns, lavishly illustrated... sigh...
Phikus, sounds like you're on one of life's happy upswings. Great!
I thought it might have been a module from the Shee Ark in the PC game Creatures 3 - the vintage is about right.
to all those suggesting this is Sandy Cheeks treedome, look more closely - Sandy's only has 1 airlock and 1 tree.
http://spongepedia.bimserver.com/images/b/b8/Treedome.jpg
http://spongepedia.bimserver.com/images/f/f6/Sandys_kuppel_winter.jpg
Holy cow, I drew that!! It was part of a series of interlocking modules that was the basis of some sort of website design, I think. Cool, thanks for the blast from the past!
Uh, I've never seen Silent Running either...?
looks like you, Cory and Micheal have an hour and half of pleasurable popcorn coming to you.
I still think it would make a compelling sex toy.
-- MrJM