Astrid Nielsch
Asni’s Art Blog: Space Shuttle
Having a permanent space station in orbit is all well and fine, but how to get people and materials on and off it?
Asni’s Art Blog: International Space Station
It is time I picked up the thread of my series on art inspired by real existing space exploration.
Asni’s Art Blog: Star Wars Popularity Contest: Boba Fett
I've come across quite a staggering amount of Boba Fett art considering that this is at best a secondary character.
Asni’s Art Blog: Star Wars Popularity Contest: Old Friends
What other trilogy has brought back the original actors, playing the same parts, 40 years on?
Asni’s Art Blog: Star Wars Popularity Contest: Rey
if I had been privileged to see this movie as an impressionable teenager, I would have been profoundly in love with Rey.
Asni’s Blog: The Peahen Incident
New Zealand has become a clean, green, and liberal Utopia to a lot of people. For the last thirteen years, I have experienced something very different.
Asni’s Art Blog: Drop whatever else you’re doing, Star Wars is...
Enjoy! And may the force be with you in the new year 2016.
Asni’s Art Blog: Moon Landing
I belong to a generation who have grown up in the knowledge that humans can fly to the moon.
Asni’s Art Blog: Astronaut / Cosmonaut
A whole difference in cultural outlook, summed up in a slight difference in terminology.
Asni’s Art Blog: Sputnik
Let's see if we can throw a ball into space so it stays in orbit, and attach some radio antennae!
Asni’s Art Blog: Magic Goose
If you thought baby rabbits were the pinnacle of cute, I recommend you try goslings.
So What Does a Rapist Look Like Then?
George Lawlor has publicly posed the question. Maybe we should ask DeviantArt?
Asni’s Art Blog: Satellite Dish
Satellite dishes aren't usually considered to have great visual appeal, but the collection of images I found is surprisingly poetic.
Asni’s Art Blog: Laser
Who can resist a laser gun wielding blonde with a tattoo on her ass, riding a dinosaur? Not me.
Asni’s Art Blog: Refugees
Images have power. Nothing has shown that more clearly than the sudden turn of the tide in the current refugee crisis.
Asni’s Art Blog: Escalator
Stairway to Heaven, Highway to Hell – escalators symbolise glitzy promises of glamour, or the grunge of broken down technology.
Asni’s Art Blog: Robot
So what’s the difference between a robot, an android (or droid), and a cyborg?
Asni’s Art Blog: Space Station
Space stations are a technological reality, but also a quintessential locus for projecting dreams about a bright technological future which might take humans to the stars.
Asni’s Art Blog: Cosmic Peacock
Did you know there is a whole religion involving the worship of a cosmic peacock? You'd never know where poultry keeping could lead you!
Asni’s Art Blog: Chickens in Armour
Turns out there is a veritable sub-culture of Chickens in Armour.
Asni’s Art Blog: Space Rabbit
I’ve been a bit stuck for a topic, so I punched “space rabbit” into DeviantArt's search field. This is the result: Enjoy!
Asni’s Art Blog: Legends of New Zealand
New Zealand is an island of birds. So it is not surprising that birds feature in many Maori legends.
Asni’s Art Blog: Feng Huang
The Feng Huang is often referred to as the "Chinese Phoenix", but similarities between the two mythological birds are superficial: rather than death and resurrection, Feng Huang symbolises balance between yin and yang.
Asni’s Art Blog: Garuda
Continuing my survey of magical bird creatures from West to East, the next stop is India.
Asni’s Art Blog: Simurgh
The Persian Simurgh – always a female – is known to be a defeater of poisonous snakes, and knowledgeable in the healing arts.