{"id":1673,"date":"2007-11-16T23:55:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T06:55:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-18T00:25:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T07:25:29","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1673\/","title":{"rendered":"See George Martin&#8217;s world come to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually fantasy art destroys the sense of wonder you get from a book. You imagine scenes in your head and when you see them portrayed you are always deluded by the result.<\/p>\n<p>This is a rare exception. I&#8217;ve read the news from <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/castles-of-westeros.html\">Most Popular fantasy blog<\/a>, Martin is at work to make a sourcebook\/encyclopedia on &#8220;A Song of Ice and Fire&#8221; and there will be 13 illustrations by Ted Nasmith to give life to some key locations in the books. One artist I&#8217;ve never heard about but obviously talented.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tednasmith.com\/other\/grrmartin.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cesspit.net\/misc\/dragonstone.jpg\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see eight of these masterpieces on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tednasmith.com\/other\/grrmartin.html\">artist&#8217;s website<\/a>, by clicking on one of the small images at the top, then clicking the image appearing for a full-size version.<\/p>\n<p>This *does* justice to Martin&#8217;s work. It is as powerful as you can imagine, and actually adds to it. These illustrations wouldn&#8217;t be out of place inside the books themselves, they would complement them perfectly. As opposed to WoT&#8217;s sourcebook, where the illustrations would kill every attempt at keeping things cool in your mind. Awe-killers. Too often no art is much better to something mediocre.<\/p>\n<p>Not in this case, those paintings would make some gorgeous covers for the books themselves. Why we never get cover art this good?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually fantasy art destroys the sense of wonder you get from a book. You imagine scenes in your head and when you see them portrayed you are always deluded by the result. This is a rare exception. I&#8217;ve read the news from Most Popular fantasy blog, Martin is at work to make a sourcebook\/encyclopedia on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[39,33],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-a_song_of_ice_and_fire","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}