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The Magic Order #1

it is a crime that olivier coipel doesn’t do more work

MUTE | BERLIN 2052

Artist Covers Entire Walls With Incredible Large Murals of Cities Around the World

Blade Runner 2049 - Vegas development by Jeremy Paillotin

I was listening to the song “My Friend Dario” by Vitalic while driving around alone in Yosemite. I hadn’t seen the music video, and the image of the steward bobbing her head while rising out of a metal grate in the ground is what I thought the singer might look like. Then, when the fast guitar riffs come in on that song, that’s when I imagined those guns sprouting from her eyes and shooting everything. 

At the time, I had just discovered Lucian Stanculescu’s artwork and was really really into it. Lucian Stanculescu is one of my absolute favorite artists:

I even own a couple of his pieces and have them hanging in our hallway:

I’ve also always been a big fan of interesting masks. I used to like making and designing them as a kid. A highly influential mask for me was the Couple’s Mask from Zelda: Majora’s Mask. I’ve always found it to be very striking because of its unexpectedly simple design. I love it:

These are the things I was thinking about that combined to create the Steward. 

When I first imagined her, I didn’t think of her in context of Infinity Train as it is now. She was just some random being that I thought someone should have to run from. I really imagined her in no other context than calmly rising out of a metal grate to a song, then wildly shooting at someone who had to go dodge behind pipes and boxes and things.  I also had a generally different, smaller vision of how the cars worked then. Eventually when I thought of the corgi car, I realized that she would be a very unexpected foil to all of the cute stuff we’d seen up to that point.