#war of the worlds
In 1953 mysterious objects plummet to various points on earth. Soon the objects open, revealing themselves to be transportation pods for alien craft, from the planet Mars. Emerging in groups of three, the seemingly unstoppable Martian war machines wreck havoc on planet Earth, and it’s people. Now, one could argue that these machines aren’t really ships. In fact, they even sorta explain that they are lifted by invisible legs in the movie. But, I’m calling them a spaceship, cause they come from space, and they fly. And they’re pretty darn badass too. And legit scary for a 1950s movie.
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October 30, 1938: Many listeners tuned in to CBS radio become frightened while listening to Orson Welle’s production of “War of the Worlds,” not realizing it was a play. Listeners also wondered why they were compelled to buy several bottles of Dr. Swifty’s Fast-Acting Laxative.
I got very into the musical version of war of the worlds and so I dug up some old boards from a college assignment and tried to edit them together to the music (this explains the continuity errors that show up)
My recent illustrations for the upoming book “Philippine Mythopoeia,” a high-fantasy epic set in Southeast Asian and Philippine Mythology, Folklore, and Alternate History.
Available as NFT: https://rarible.com/aericangelo
Original drawings by the Brazilian artist, Henrique Alvim Corrêa, from the Belgium first edition of H. G. Wells’ classic science-fiction novel, War of the Worlds, published in 1906.
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