The Illuminated Tweets of Elon Musk is a selection of 52 editorial illustrations taken from tweets by Elon Musk and turned into a coloring book. Tweets cited range from Jul 2016 to May 2020 and appear in chronological order. The book was self-published and fully funded in under 48 hours HERE ON KICKSTARTER
"Finishing off the plan while listening to the soundtrack from Gatsby. Seems appropriate..."
"Gigafactory in units of hamster"
"Sure feels weird to find myself defending the robots"
"Over the entrance of @OpenAI"
"Good Forbes article on Tesla/SolarCity merger"
"SpaceX propulsion just achieved first firing of the Raptor interplanetary transport engine"
"According to experts, Hyperloop is both obvious and impossible. Maybe pick one or the other?"
"Rainbows, unicorns and electric cars"
"Long Neuralink piece coming out on @waitbutwhy in about a week. Difficult to dedicate the time, but existential risk is too high not to."
"If heat death of the universe is the destination, it really is all about the journey"
"The race between Gary, our pet snail who lives in a pineapple, and Godot, our tunnel boring machine, begins soon!"
"Falcon 9 boost stage on droneship Just Read the Instructions"
"Putting together SpaceX rocket blooper reel. We messed up a lot before it finally worked, but there's some epic explosion footage..."
"BFR will take you anywhere on Earth in less than 60 mins"
"Jupiter is big"
"Tesla Semi"
"Mars sky is the opposite of Earth Blue sunrise and sunset Red during the day”
"I love Twitter"
"Apparently, some customs agencies are saying they won't allow shipment of anything called a "Flamethrower". To solve this, we are renaming it "Not a Flamethrower"."
"Live view of Starman"
"Printed on the circuit board of a car in deep space"
"Today's Falcon launch carries 2 SpaceX test satellites for global broadband. If successful, Starlink constellation will serve least served."
“Life cannot just be about solving one sad problem after another. There need to be things that inspire you, that make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity. That is why we did it. We did it for you.”
“New Boring Company merch coming soon. Lifesize LEGO-like interlocking bricks made from tunneling rock that you can use to create sculptures & buildings. Rated for California seismic loads, so super strong, but bored in the middle, like an aircraft wing spar, so not heavy.”
"SpaceX will try to bring rocket upper stage back from orbital velocity using a giant party balloon"
"Oh btw I'm building a cyborg dragon"
"La la la"
"Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda ..."
"This is why we must preserve the light of consciousness by becoming a spacefaring civilization & extending life to other planets"
"7000 cars, 7 days ♥ Tesla Team ♥ "
"Catching rocket fairings falling from space has proven tricky, so we made the net really big"
"Just between us, I have a teleportation stargate to the Andromeda galaxy. It's amazing."
"Yusaku will be bringing 8 (brave) artists & cultural figures with him on the journey around the moon!"
"Falcon has landed"
"Tesla exists to help reduce risk of catastrophic climate change, which affects all species on Earth. Even if your faith in humanity is faltering, this is worth caring about. Support makes a difference. Thank you."
"It is time to create a mecha"
"Join our underground movement!"
"Engineering is true magic"
"All parameters in a simulation are necessarily quantized"
"And now ... we dance!"
"The new Roadster will actually do something like this"
"Starship test flight rocket just finished assembly at the @SpaceX Texas launch site. This is an actual picture, not a rendering."
"Make the Mars Technocracy real"
"Starhopper completed tethered hop. All systems green."
"The Falcons have landed"
"Starship on the moon"
"Starships on Mars"
"Ms. Tree caught the Falcon fairing!!"
"The @Space_Station is moving at ~25 times the speed of sound & orbits the Earth every 90 minutes"
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
"Tesla Cybertruck (pressurized edition) will be official truck of Mars"
Retweet of SpaceX's "Liftoff!" (Crew Dragon Demo-2 Mission)
SAMPLE COLORING PAGES
A sampling of some of the colored pages from The Illuminated Tweets of Elon Musk coloring book.
ILLUSTRATION
From the Cyborg Dragon coloring page
From the "Engineering is true magic" coloring page
From the Why Falcon Heavy & Starman page
From the “La la la” coloring page
From the Not A Flamethrower page
Doctor Who: "Divide and Kiss"
A rendering of the Ninth Doctor's regeneration cause.
Detail from “Divide and Kiss”: Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) from a scene in Doctor Who
