#trurl and klapaucius

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

me ??? making art for a BOOK??? in 2k24???

(grain-free on my cohost)

[featherglum]

Look at my updated designs for Klapaucius and Trurl, boy

[cyberiada]

who wants to be in like a fucked up gay robot divorce with me

[artvancer]

Art and cover art with the main characters of Stanislav Lem's novel "Cyberiada" - the mighty constructors Trurl and Klapaucius!

[bormgans]

THE CYBERIAD - Stanisłav Lem (1965)

Cyberiada is a short story collection by Stanisłav Lem. Michael Kandel’s outstanding translation appeared in 1974, but omits five stories that were in the Polish edition. Lem writes about Trurl and Klapaucius, two brilliant constructors living in a far-future, galaxy spanning world that’s populated by robots and humans, in a setting that borrows heavily from medieval tropes: knights, dragons &…

[featherglum]

OHHHHHH YESSSS YESSS NEW CYBERIAD FANART IN THE TAG!!!!!!

THESE GO SO HARD!!!!!

> "seven sallies" > looks inside > nine

[wyndford-dekarios-majima]

hmmm yes... may I get one of those... tricks maybe.... or perhaps even.. treats.....

TRICK! BOO! BOO!!!!! GET SCARED!!!!!!!!

im ngl i am still hazy on what trurl has done and what klapaucius has done . even to the point where when i was drawing him i was calling him trurl in my mind (shame upon my family) but i really love your designs for them and enjoy the robot science guys. man whose basement i would enter to look at the cool sciences

also a treat. For Me. the guy on the ground is named lambert he just got his ass beat in a sword fight with a french guy- (and the one standing is named eskel he is one of my witcher boobookeys)

[lacnunga]

Do you think Trurl and Klapaucius the constructors ever explored each others gearboxes

[marsnolias]

I was bored so I compiled a list of my favourite-ever media.

Books

Proofiness: the Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception, by Charles Seife

A nonfiction book about how statistics and math can and will be used for nefarious purposes.

Humble Pi: When Math goes Wrong in the Real World, by Matt Parker

(The UK version of this is subtitled “when Maths goes Wrong in the Real World”). Another nonfiction explaining how many disasters in many different areas of science and technology are caused by seemingly minor errors with basic math and geometry.

Flatland, by Edwin Abbott Abbott

The journey of A. Square, an inhabitant of a 2d plane called Flatland, and his encounter with a sphere from the third dimension. Though fiction, it presents a good picture of how two, three, and four dimensions are represented in math. It's also a satire of Victorian class structure.

The Cyberiad, by Stanislaw Lem

A collection of short stories about a pair of androids named Trurl and Klapaucius, who fly about the galaxy building machines and robots for various kings and such. A very nice blend of sci-fi and fantasy.

Mortal Engines, by Stanislaw Lem

Similar to the Cyberiad, except there are no recurring characters. Describes itself very aptly as “fairy tales for the cybernetic age”.

Aliens: Phalanx, by Scott Sigler

The first Alien media I ever experienced. It features a colony of humans on a planet where the most advanced technology is a crossbow, and where humanity lives in underground networks to avoid xenomorphs (which they call demons).

Alien versus Predator: the Rage Wars trilogy, by Tim Lebbon

Consists of Predator: Incursion, Alien: Invasion, and Alien Vs. Predator: Armageddon

Features the Rage, a rebel group of humans that have found strange alien technology that not only prolongs their lives, but allows them to control xenomorphs. The climax ends with the Rage returning to earth to attack the human sphere of colonization, and they fight against the earth humans and their temporary allies, the Yautja (predators). One of my favorites. It breaks from the antagonistic humans being Weyland-Yutani for once.

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

A classic. I love how the letter that lands Dantés in prison also sets in motion a series of events that basically ruin the people that conspired against him.

Short Stories

In the Hills, the Cities, by Clive Barker

This is the only media I've ever seen that emotionally moved me. It's incredibly vivid, and equal parts terrifying and sad.

The Transformers: Showdown! (US #20) by Bob Budiansky

My favorite issue of Marvel G1 Transformers. It features the Autobot Skids falling in love with a human woman named Charlene.

Movies

Quasi at the Quackadero by Sally Cruikshank

A somewhat surreal and very fun animation about a couple of strange creatures and their adventures at a fair.

The Treasure Planet (1982), directed by Rumen Petkov

A Bulgarian animated film, not to be confused with Disney's Treasure Planet. Basically a retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, with a sci-fi twist. Contains some of the strangest, most off-the-wall scenes I've ever seen. In the English dub, Felipe, this movie's version of Jim Hawkins, is voiced by Bryan Cranston. Yes, the same one that would go on to play Walter White.

The Swindlers, directed by Jang Chang-Won

A Korean movie about a group of Swindlers banding together to take down another, bigger swindler that was the head of a giant ponzi scheme. Absolutely needs to be watched twice because, boy. The twists in this one.

Bongyi Kim Seon-Dal | Seondal: the Man who Sells the River, directed by Park Dae-Min

A movie set in the Joseon Era of Korea about Kim Seon-Dal, a legendary con man of Korean folklore.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, directed by Robert Zemeckis

The only one I like for the cinematography and behind the scenes stuff more than the actual plot.

Kshay | Corrode, directed by Karan Gour

A black and white Indian movie about a woman who desperately wants to conceive, and becomes obsessed with a statue of Lakshmi, Hindu deity of fertility and wealth.

[camilieroart]

My last attacks of the year ! Princeton by @poorlemons Grim by @mellcnimx Fae by @olivashko Trurl and Klapaucius by @spectrumspace DRAKA by @/irrealice on insta Reedly by @/nebushi on toyhouse Comet by @sibillascribbles08 !

You can really pinpoint the moment it got way too hot for me to continue.

ART FIGHT ! DAY 1 !

ROOMBA by Times Black hole by @devogamer Sheldon by @olivashko Effie by @avephelis Meli by DRAKA

Guys i'm on fire and also should definitely slow down a bit

[featherglum]

Klapaucius and Trurl ponysonas. If you even care.

[cyberiada]

breaks through wall. you ever heard of the cyberiad?

[artvancer]

By order of Klapaucius, the N-things doing machine turned "Negative". Art based on the chapter "How the world was saved" of the novel "Cyberiada".

[automatonknight]

dream blunt rotation etc etc. image id under the cut 

image id: a digital drawing of trurl and klapaucjusz from the cyberiad standing side by side, facing the viewer. 

trurl is on the left, he’s a humanoid robot with chassis composed of white and brown parts, as well as some black flexible springs in place of joints. he has a tail ending with a flashlight. he’s wearing a red headband, a white tanktop, a brown apron and black boots. one of his hands is in his apron’s pocket while the other is holding a sort of welder. he’s looking to his right, at klapaucjusz.

klapaucjusz is also humanoid, but his chassis is composed of elements in different shades of grey.  he’s slim and a bit taller than trurl. he also has four arms. he’s wearing square glasses, a black shirt underneath a dark turquoise jumpsuit and brown shoes, as well as a beige apron with a brown belt that has some extra pockets attached to it. he also has a tail that ends with a diode.his upper right arm is resting on his hip, while in his upper left arm he’s holding up a screwdriver. his bottom left arm is gesturing and his bottom right arm is resting at his side. he’s shown talking and looking down at trurl. both of the robots have long, thin antennas. 

above their heads, they have their names written, trurl’s name is written in blue while klapaucjusz’s is written in brown. there are also additional notes next to certain parts of their bodies: next to trurl’s head a note says “mustache is a fan (it spins when he’s angry, excited, embarrassed etc.), the end of his tail is labeled “flashlight”. there is a note related to both of them stating “clothes usually stained”. the notes for klapaucjusz say: pointing to his glasses “glasses attached to head”, next to him “jumpsuit plus shirt”, and pointing to the end of his tail “diode”. the background is very light blue. end id

[spectrumspace]

if porfirio ends up getting less attacks during art fight than got dam Trurl & Klapaucius this is going to be really funny

[mrsheo]

My diploma! How The World was Saved by Stanisław Lem.

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