Spaced Out: The Art of Kimmo Isokoski

If you don't know the work of Kimmo Isokoski, and you like sci-fi, or the idea of space exploration, you should check him out.

"Shores of Titan" by Kimmo Isokoski

Kimmo's body of work is just startling. I urge you to take a look for yourself at his gallery. Each picture is just beautiful, wonderfully executed. He's a free-lance commercial artist who lives in countryside in central parts of Finland. When he was ten-years-old he read the Finnish translation of Robert Heinlein's "Space Cadet" and found his life's passion.

It's a bit strange how I've discovered him. A few years ago when I was trying to teach myself a new computer and some new photo editing software, I'd stumbled across his art and saved a few pictures. Then, years later, in a post about a proposal J. Michael Straczynski and I had made about re-booting "Star Trek" I used one of the photos to spice it up. I'd cropped the photo and had no clue whose it was and where I got it. I figured that maybe I'd find out and credit it then.

Well, I found out the hard way. Cheryl Morgan from the Emerald City Blog set me straight about whose it was. Then Kimmo himself sent me an e-mail where he wrote:

As I understand, there was some misunderstanding concerning about my sci-fi art. It seems that some people were much more upset than I :)  I just took it as an compliment that you liked the picture. I have no problems if You still want to use it. And if you need more illustrations to your interesting blogpage you have my permission to use my art as you like (non commercial purposes only).

So, all's well that ends well. Kimmo is credited, as he should be. And you know about his work which is, as I say, fantastic. By the way, if you want to learn more about the entire sci-fi scene in Finland ("Finndom"), check this out. Meanwhile, here's a parting shot from Kimmo:

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Comments

[AlRo]

That is awesome stuff!!!
Thanks for sharing that..