{"id":7602,"date":"2019-12-30T22:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T05:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=7602"},"modified":"2020-01-01T03:51:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T10:51:33","slug":"syd-mead-artist-behind-blade-runner-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=7602","title":{"rendered":"Syd Mead, Artist Behind Blade Runner, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6269\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6269\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Alb23-1700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Alb23-1700-450x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>^ Use of this image courtesy of, and with permission from, the <strong>amazing<\/strong> Syd Mead, <a href=\"http:\/\/sydmead.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.sydmead.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 class=\"jsx-1622955855\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/12\/30\/syd-mead-artist-behind-blade-runner-dies-tron-aliens-star-trek\">Syd Mead, Artist Behind Blade Runner, Dies<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>Syd was a great visionary. He designed a lot of what modern Sci-fi looks like, and his influence extends into all kinds of art, commerce, vehicles, film, and more.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a BipTunia fan and allowed us to use his art on <a href=\"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=6266\">this BipTunia album cover<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He will be missed, but his influence is everywhere, including the Tesla Cybertruck&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m too in shock to write much, so:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sydmead.com\/syd-mead-1933-2019\/\">More on Syd Mead&#8217;s final day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=edVznYyqpJU\">Syd Mead&#8217;s art.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YkAMSnRvMBI\">Syd Mead interview.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6VPT-Ug-gF4\">Another Syd interview.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9VMW1UDd0w0\">Syd on creating<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>^ Use of this image courtesy of, and with permission from, the amazing Syd Mead, www.sydmead.com Syd Mead, Artist Behind Blade Runner, Dies Syd was a great visionary. He designed a lot of what modern Sci-fi looks like, and his influence extends into all kinds of art, commerce, vehicles, film, and more. He was also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biptunia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}