Tested in 2018 - Favorite Coffee Table Books!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eneverybody's norm from tested and yes I'm back with one more video every year kind of my personal tradition I like to share some of the coffee table books and art books that I've collected and some of my favorite artists and authors from the year and I want to share those with you as one of my bonus favorite things let's start off with the category of art books if you've watched our videos of me going to conventions like comic-con and New York comic-con you know I had straight beeline to the artists alley where artists poster artists specifically work on paintings and posters and their takes on pop art essentially and sometimes the posters are kind of difficult to get whether it's through mondo or gallery 1980 a or bottle gallery that can be limited mission posters but more often enough if it's a poster artists or commercial artists with big body of work they may have art books you can pick up and so my recommendation isn't necessarily for one specific art book which I do have one here but for art books from independent artists in general this one is from one of my favorite artists I met him at New York Comic Con this year Jason Edmiston he's done a bunch of poster work for companies like mondo his takes on horror movie posters are just what I actually have this poster here from a Texas Chainsaw Massacre and this is just a way for me to see then his entire body of work things I didn't even know he had done because they weren't in Pop posters and just beautiful beautiful paintings from classic horror characters to things like Iron Giant and you got to see his entire process from first pen-and-paper sketches all the way to the final painting much easier than buying like 400 of his posters speaking of artists this is an artist who doesn't do posters but does concept art and you may have seen in his work this is simon stalin hog and this is i believe his third book which he launched via Kickstarter called the electric state now Simon here does beautiful beautiful paintings of not necessarily post-apocalyptic their alternate reality of futures they're kind of like in the 80s or 90s a world where humans and Road live amongst each other but something went wrong and there was a war but basically you have these landscapes that may seem familiar like along the California coast for example but they're litter in the background with robots that may be the size of mountains or the debris of robots living alongside rusted cars and specifically with the electric state he tried to do something different trying to tell a narrative so this follows the story of a 19 year old girl and her robot sidekick as they make their way through an alternate realities wasteland on the California coast toward San Francisco this is especially exciting because the Russo brothers have optioned it to turn this into a film in the future it could be directed by the director of the movie it's I can't wait to see this come to life on screen speaking of movies a couple years ago we went to the set of alien covenant directed by Ridley Scott and when Adam and I went on to David's laboratory one of the things that struck us was the set design the production design had filled that space with these anatomical drawings creepies scrolls and you could pick a scroll off the wall unfold it and see these beautiful surreal drawings well those drawings were drawn by two concept artists that worked on the production team Matt Hatton and Dane Hallett and Titan Books has released now a collection of their drawings their sketches of xenomorphs this is through the eye of David in the film of course he was studying xenomorphs studying humans so as you flip through and get to the end of the spoke things get a little more disturbing if you haven't seen the film he doesn't end well for some of the humans and even the aliens that David interacts with in the film but I'm so glad they were able put this out because I didn't know who did that art and it's that type of world building that made those films so awesome and interesting to look at now speaking of behind the scenes for productions when my favorite TV shows is black mirror can't wait for the new season to come out next year and Charlie Brooker has released now this compendium of behind-the-scenes stories of how each of us the episodes so far were made if you haven't seen black mirror it's totally worth watching it's the anthology series about our interaction with technology it's kind of set in the near future you don't know exactly how far in the future but you know it's it's the dark nightmare that technology brings as we look into the black mirror of our cellphones and this book is really an oral history of the episodes from the writers the actors the directors and how they approached telling their stories those cautionary tales about technology definitely worth reading if you love the episode like USS Callister or Sanjana Perot worth reading and picking up this book for those stories alone and then finally more behind the scenes work this is maybe my favorite coffee table book of the year from Dave addy this was a blog that he ran called type set in the future in every couple of months Dave would go into a incredible deep dive into the typography and design of the visual language of text in science fiction film from 2001 to moon to Star Trek kind of deciphering the logic and how the type of those alternate worlds relates to not only the era in which those that content and those TV shows in those films were made but the logic of the world and whether its schematics how that fits into design as a whole and so this is a book he just released called typeset in the future is if you're into science fiction and into typography I couldn't recommend this more now so just a few of my favorite coffee table books of the year we'll have one more favorite things video coming up you guess it's it's Adams so come back tomorrow for that and again Happy New Year we'll see you in 2019everybody's norm from tested and yes I'm back with one more video every year kind of my personal tradition I like to share some of the coffee table books and art books that I've collected and some of my favorite artists and authors from the year and I want to share those with you as one of my bonus favorite things let's start off with the category of art books if you've watched our videos of me going to conventions like comic-con and New York comic-con you know I had straight beeline to the artists alley where artists poster artists specifically work on paintings and posters and their takes on pop art essentially and sometimes the posters are kind of difficult to get whether it's through mondo or gallery 1980 a or bottle gallery that can be limited mission posters but more often enough if it's a poster artists or commercial artists with big body of work they may have art books you can pick up and so my recommendation isn't necessarily for one specific art book which I do have one here but for art books from independent artists in general this one is from one of my favorite artists I met him at New York Comic Con this year Jason Edmiston he's done a bunch of poster work for companies like mondo his takes on horror movie posters are just what I actually have this poster here from a Texas Chainsaw Massacre and this is just a way for me to see then his entire body of work things I didn't even know he had done because they weren't in Pop posters and just beautiful beautiful paintings from classic horror characters to things like Iron Giant and you got to see his entire process from first pen-and-paper sketches all the way to the final painting much easier than buying like 400 of his posters speaking of artists this is an artist who doesn't do posters but does concept art and you may have seen in his work this is simon stalin hog and this is i believe his third book which he launched via Kickstarter called the electric state now Simon here does beautiful beautiful paintings of not necessarily post-apocalyptic their alternate reality of futures they're kind of like in the 80s or 90s a world where humans and Road live amongst each other but something went wrong and there was a war but basically you have these landscapes that may seem familiar like along the California coast for example but they're litter in the background with robots that may be the size of mountains or the debris of robots living alongside rusted cars and specifically with the electric state he tried to do something different trying to tell a narrative so this follows the story of a 19 year old girl and her robot sidekick as they make their way through an alternate realities wasteland on the California coast toward San Francisco this is especially exciting because the Russo brothers have optioned it to turn this into a film in the future it could be directed by the director of the movie it's I can't wait to see this come to life on screen speaking of movies a couple years ago we went to the set of alien covenant directed by Ridley Scott and when Adam and I went on to David's laboratory one of the things that struck us was the set design the production design had filled that space with these anatomical drawings creepies scrolls and you could pick a scroll off the wall unfold it and see these beautiful surreal drawings well those drawings were drawn by two concept artists that worked on the production team Matt Hatton and Dane Hallett and Titan Books has released now a collection of their drawings their sketches of xenomorphs this is through the eye of David in the film of course he was studying xenomorphs studying humans so as you flip through and get to the end of the spoke things get a little more disturbing if you haven't seen the film he doesn't end well for some of the humans and even the aliens that David interacts with in the film but I'm so glad they were able put this out because I didn't know who did that art and it's that type of world building that made those films so awesome and interesting to look at now speaking of behind the scenes for productions when my favorite TV shows is black mirror can't wait for the new season to come out next year and Charlie Brooker has released now this compendium of behind-the-scenes stories of how each of us the episodes so far were made if you haven't seen black mirror it's totally worth watching it's the anthology series about our interaction with technology it's kind of set in the near future you don't know exactly how far in the future but you know it's it's the dark nightmare that technology brings as we look into the black mirror of our cellphones and this book is really an oral history of the episodes from the writers the actors the directors and how they approached telling their stories those cautionary tales about technology definitely worth reading if you love the episode like USS Callister or Sanjana Perot worth reading and picking up this book for those stories alone and then finally more behind the scenes work this is maybe my favorite coffee table book of the year from Dave addy this was a blog that he ran called type set in the future in every couple of months Dave would go into a incredible deep dive into the typography and design of the visual language of text in science fiction film from 2001 to moon to Star Trek kind of deciphering the logic and how the type of those alternate worlds relates to not only the era in which those that content and those TV shows in those films were made but the logic of the world and whether its schematics how that fits into design as a whole and so this is a book he just released called typeset in the future is if you're into science fiction and into typography I couldn't recommend this more now so just a few of my favorite coffee table books of the year we'll have one more favorite things video coming up you guess it's it's Adams so come back tomorrow for that and again Happy New Year we'll see you in 2019\n"