It’s funny how a project I worked on a decade ago anticipated the recent work of a space artist, Ron Miller, who has created a series of images that depict what our sky would look like here on Earth if some of the planets were the same distance from us as our own moon.
For instance, here is the moon in its relative smallness as it appears one night over Death Valley:
Here is Venus:
The gigantic Jupiter:
And the rendering that really fascinated me, Neptune:
As you can see, this looks strikingly similar to the image below, without the people. In 2003, I finished an amateur-ish self-recorded album of original songs, and one of the songs was called, “Neptune Winter.” A fellow Counting Crows fan, Oshyan Greene, graciously agreed to create the artwork below after I gave him an idea of what I was looking for. As you can see below, Oshyan did a pretty good job of estimating perspective for the album cover way back in 2003:
Here is the song that inspired the above artwork:
If you are interested, you can listen to more songs from this album by going to this YouTube account. It’s definitely the work of an amateur, but I still go back and listen to those songs to reminisce about the place I was in during that time in my life. But pointing out this coincidence of artistry, I couldn’t pass up.