On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:53:06 +0000, Jim Oberg wrote:

Russian Moonbase Art -- Original or Stolen??

Here's a newspaper image from Moscow
about a possible moonbase built by Russia:
http://www.kp.ru/upimg/photo/57527.jpg

Is that art original, or is it copied from an
existing Western illustration? I don't
recognize it right away.

(The zapkitty saves the image to desktop, zooms
and zooms again in the Gimp, and tries to decipher
the resulting pixelated hash with his fragmentary
vision...)

Certain elements seem to give it a Vincent DiFate
look, especially the helmets, but it's nowhere near
blue enough

Also, I think I'd recognize that semi-2001 lander
in the background if I'd seen it before.

I say original, but very derivative. Or I could
be wrong

--
Chuck Stewart
"Anime-style catgirls: Threat? Menace? Or just studying algebra?"