Strange New Worlds
September 9, 2012 8:53 AM Subscribe
Let's take another look at Chris Wayan's PLANETOCOPIA (previously): A series of detailed conceptions and paintings of vastly different Earths based on differing climates and land mass position. A planet designed to speed up East-West cvilization development! A life-bearing super hot world! An Earth with most of the seas missing! Forever Ice Age Earth!
Related XKCD What-If: What if The Earth's surface as rotated 90 degrees?
Related XKCD What-If: What if The Earth's surface as rotated 90 degrees?
Cool. Those Wayans brothers are into everything.
posted by pencroft at 9:46 AM on September 9, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by pencroft at 9:46 AM on September 9, 2012 [2 favorites]
Well. I think that ate a good hour or two. Neat!
posted by egypturnash at 10:19 AM on September 9, 2012
posted by egypturnash at 10:19 AM on September 9, 2012
Really cool stuff. Love that there are people out there doing this kind of thing. Extra points for the I-don't-give-a-fuck late-90s-style web design.
posted by threeants at 10:25 AM on September 9, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by threeants at 10:25 AM on September 9, 2012 [1 favorite]
What's with the furries?
well, they're a "subculture interested in fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics".
My guess is too many Disney movies at a young age, but who knows?
posted by dubold at 12:01 PM on September 9, 2012
well, they're a "subculture interested in fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics".
My guess is too many Disney movies at a young age, but who knows?
posted by dubold at 12:01 PM on September 9, 2012
He gets a little whoo at the end with the bare breasted centaurs, but 99% of these essays are fascinating. As in "I think I'll just read a couple of sections, holy crap the afternoon disappeared!" fascinating. There's endless room for speculation and imagination in those maps...
posted by Kevin Street at 4:18 PM on September 9, 2012
posted by Kevin Street at 4:18 PM on September 9, 2012
Metafilter: little whoo at the end with the bare breasted centaurs
posted by The Whelk at 4:30 PM on September 9, 2012
posted by The Whelk at 4:30 PM on September 9, 2012
Does anyone have a link to the really odd hand-drawn Warlord of Mars comic (I am sure I read about it here, but cannot find it). This thread could really do with more big-breasted hermaphrodite centaurs.
posted by Mezentian at 4:43 PM on September 9, 2012
posted by Mezentian at 4:43 PM on September 9, 2012
Darn it, now I want to hear the song about fat, stupid otters of the Ganges Plateau.
posted by homunculus at 5:31 PM on September 9, 2012
posted by homunculus at 5:31 PM on September 9, 2012
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posted by Renoroc at 9:39 AM on September 9, 2012