Ed Emshwiller
I just finished reading a great new biography of artist and film-maker Ed Emshwiller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Emshwiller
The book is EMSHWILLER: INFINITY X TWO.

http://tinyurl.com/35dbee
I'll have more to say about the book in my ASIMOV'S review column. But let me just state here that author Luis Ortiz has done a superb job. You need this book if you're at all interested in the history of SF illustration or avant-garde film-making or the fiction of Carol Emshwiller, Ed's partner and spouse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Emshwiller
And here's a little online lagniappe that the book, however marvelous, doesn't provide.
Two of Emsh's videos are available for viewing on YouTube.
One of the first professional computer-rendered animations ever made, 1979's SUNSTONE:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0348146/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8KU-g_zCfIM
And from 1962, THANATOPSIS.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0297426/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JlWiF0o2q2o
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Emshwiller
The book is EMSHWILLER: INFINITY X TWO.
http://tinyurl.com/35dbee
I'll have more to say about the book in my ASIMOV'S review column. But let me just state here that author Luis Ortiz has done a superb job. You need this book if you're at all interested in the history of SF illustration or avant-garde film-making or the fiction of Carol Emshwiller, Ed's partner and spouse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Emshwiller
And here's a little online lagniappe that the book, however marvelous, doesn't provide.
Two of Emsh's videos are available for viewing on YouTube.
One of the first professional computer-rendered animations ever made, 1979's SUNSTONE:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0348146/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8KU-g_zCfIM
And from 1962, THANATOPSIS.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0297426/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JlWiF0o2q2o