@disintegrated0576
It's sad that there will always be people who only know The Electric State from the movie that just came out, and not this masterpiece.
@sadufuds
this artwork is amazing, I'm so glad no company would make a soulless movie adaptation
@reaganation6000
Who, who looked at these illustrations and thought, "This'll be a great family fun adventure movie!"?
@SYD.0_o
Simon Stålenhag has been my favourite artist for ages. His work really is a masterpiece
@jamesmontgomery7074
When I heard about the movie I was like "Didn't I watch a youtube video about this like a year ago." I came back and just watched it again. I may need to pick up the book before I forget about it again.
@cinders5305
What I really like is how the main villain, the Intracerebral Intelligence, is only spoken of like 4 times, nothing is known about it except that it exists and it's trying to create a physical body to manifest in the organic world. No explanation as to why it does this, what it wants, what its end goal is. Just it's a thing that is there, and it's not going to leave
@joelleblanc8670
I just saw the trailer for the Netflix adaptation, and came here to feel clean again.... ðŸ˜
@thatkidmamboGaming
The sense of melancholy that Simon Stalenhag can convey simply through art is truly baffling
@SlashForeward
As someone who spent their childhood living in the Mojave, I think it's the perfect setting for this. There's... nothing out there. Barely any towns, and what towns there are, it's as if they're just clinging to life. There's hundreds of square miles of nothing at all. I love this. In a terrible way, I'd love to explore this world
@itsd0nk
This is an artist with some incredible understandings of lighting, light transport, and how photography functions with these elements. I’m amazed by how accurate his lighting is. Even the dynamic range of his hypothetical camera that’s taking these images seems accurate.
@furiouslydashing290
Anyone here after the movie flopped to point and laugh? God, I don’t know how Netflix fumbled the bag so hard. It’s like being handed an exquisite painting and told that you can be the one to sign it. But instead of signing it, Netflix took a knife to the canvas.
@georgemccartney8906
Oh my God, I just realized that 16:56 and 18:32 are a direct before and after of the same scene, probably only seconds apart given the man is still in the same position. It even shows the birds flying away just before the colossal machine wakes up followed by bits of debris falling off the monster after it stands up. That's how fast these things can come to life and move around, that is the most terrifying thing ever
@idavid8391
I was just looking into this book because of this video when I found out Netflix is making a movie about it. I sincerely hope it delivers even half of the world that this incredible book displays! Edit: I get more replies to this comment than any other, which I find fairly funny. Anyway, Youtube's recommending this more after the trailer and no, it doesn't like even remotely the same as the book. Might still be fun at least? Guess we'll see. Edit (3/21/25): W h e l p. That's a $320 Millie-on flop. At least the book is getting a little more attention off of it, and positive attention at that. I won't retract my former hopefulness, but this is likely my worst-aged comment to date, lol.
@Markus_Andrew
The concept of people losing themselves in addictive virtual realities is older than many may realize. The first work of fiction to explore this idea was a series of short stories, later condensed into a novel, called "The Man Who Awoke" by Laurence Manning. It was published in 1933. A similar work, "Pygmalion's Spectacles", was written by Stanley G. Weinbaum in 1935. This is certainly not to take away from Stålenhag's magnificent artwork and concepts. Quite the contrary, his work is breathtaking. I just mention it as a point of interest.
@user-bi4gw1xm9q
I like how the electric state isn’t entirely an apocalypse story. People are still alive, just… absent. If you really think about it, it’s the ideal status of earth. Humanity has given up against the forces of nature and left the physical world behind. And yet, it’s so terrifying.
@drewcifer1754
A lot of this reminds me of the imagery seen in Half-Life 2. Specifically the idea of old urban areas being overtaken by a sort of alien looking technology, wires, high tech doors built over tenement buildings, abnormal power sources, the awe and fear you get the first time you see the giant Striders (which are essentially huge robots themselves) Top tier stuff all around.
@hillwench
Your videos are becoming increasingly artistic over time, your passion for the material really shines through. One note though- Raw Fury is the publishing company for Norco, but the developers were Geography Of Robots.
@orionbarnes1733
I found this book once in a library when I was too young to understand all of it, but even at the time, I felt that it was something absolutely amazing. I didn't get the book, and just read it in the corner. I left and went home, and I didn't think about it for so long that I completely forgot the details, and I had no idea what it was called, so I couldn't search for it either. I didn't even know how to describe it, and I was beginning to wonder if it was even real. Today I found this video, and it's amazing to see these things that I was starting to wonder if they were just a dream. Now, as somebody with more interest in storytelling, I truly realize how incredible this book is. As somebody raised in the early 2000s, these images have an almost GMod like feel to them.
@Cthulhu_Cat123
Now there's a Netflix trailer for a movie that clearly doesn't pay any attention to the original story. Just amazing.
@akarts8854