welp. this is it. the project i’ve been working on for a full year
an abecedary of 24 epithets for hermes
lino prints with gold ink and dyed paper, bound together
what on earth do i do with my life now
I'm deeply late to this but I was very, very close to seeing that Crime 101 movie that came out a few weeks ago solely because he did the soundtrack
The house, like the oldest ghost, grants wishes.
Writing is like 80% walking around coming up with it and 20% feeling like Sisyphus in front of my computer and the 20% feels like 80%
PAIN THRESHOLD - Dance till you drop. Dance till you die, if you must.
Two dark figures in a turquoise and orange landscape under a dark symbol sun. Each has an x for a face and wears a barbed wire halo
Keepers of the Gate
#fantasyart
Pale orange background and pale periwinkle ground. Two figures embracing. One holds a sword that pierces them both.
Love Like Mortal Wound
#fantasyart
1 Screenshot from the movie "The Matrix" (1999): A close-up of a document titled "Database Record" with "Security Clearance Factor 7" at the top. The page displays personal details of Thomas A. Anderson, including date of birth, place of birth, and educational records. The document is held in a green file folder, and the text appears in a typewritten font.
Mar 11th 1962 - Neo's date of birth according to his criminal record. His passport in another scene has it as Sep 13th 1971.
📽️📅 The Matrix (1999)
Yesterday’s #Wordle: hefna (vb.): 148 cits, e.g. [GoogleTrans: to avenge (someone/something), to take revenge (on someone/something) (for someone/something), to take revenge on (someone/something) (for someone/something)] https://onp.ku.dk/o32161 #OldNorse #OldNorse
Nightbreed (1990, dir. Clive Barker)
I Am Not A Prison, Digital Collage, 2026. #artsky #blackandwhite #collage #grunge #graphicart
Exter, Digital Collage, 2020. #artsky #collage #graphicart #blackandwhite #grunge
A hooded dark red figure with a pale X for a face holds a skull. the background is beige and pale blue with faint patterns like worms
rtfff_DFCCCCCCPØåååå (piece named by my cat)
#fantasyart
the record company that does those Ellis Dee represses is UK based and they were awesome about shipping when I contacted them directly but also earlier this week I sure, uh. made some decisions (justified them with the birthday loophole but also spending most of this week eating soup worked out)
oh christ I wasn't even thinking about the hassle of resetting the cat for DST
An illustrated diagram showing how country houses go through cycles of building up and breaking down as humans come and go from them. How through Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Elbow Grease a house is built up, then decays through Condensation, Pollination, Captivation, and Evaporation, aided and and abetted by both the eye of the occult and buried secrets.
How Houses Re-Enchant Themselves
From the essay "The Ecology of The Abandoned Farmhouse" found in Beyond The Fields We Know: An Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.
NEW PROJECT FROM THE MINDS OF KLACK!
NERDY SANCHEZ has been a thang we've had for a decade but it only spawned a remix and a track for our favorite local radio show. Now we're BACK with INDOOR OUTER SPACE!
Like The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The KLF, and Propellerheads? Well check this out! PWYW!
Warp-1
Ink/Acrylic
48”x24”
Canvas
You shiver, and the city shivers with you.
The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.
Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.
A black dragon with flame smoldering in its mouth and lines of magma burning between its scales spreads mighty wings as it emerges from the ocean. Water spirals and froths, rising at opposite edges of the panel with the massive displacement of the dragon rising. The rib supports of its wings are thick and spiked, but the flesh between is tattered and showing through at the edge of its wings. A cloud of orange billowing smoke rises behind. Lines of fiery debris launch in random directions. A spire of rock rises from the ocean as a tiny figure perches atop faces the massive beast.
Tomorrow (March 4, 11am ET) we’re offering a pair of dragon paintings including a preliminary for DEATHWING from World of Warcraft as commissioned by Blizzard Entertainment.
A preview is now available for our paid subscribers on Substack:
theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/world-of-w...
A chalk drawing on a green subway pillar of a stick figure head wearing a wizard hat. Below the head, the words "Gnome Lord"
Omens of the underground, he approaches
The drones fly through the woods like comets, and the light of them filtered by the trees, flashing, reminds you of driving at sunset
word from a dream: knool (n)
the empty space that follows the knitting needle
Feeling like posting this one again
John Glenday Imagine You are Driving Imagine you are driving nowhere, with no one beside you; with the empty road unravelling and ravelling in sympathy as the wheel turns in your hands. On either side the wheatfields go shimmering past in an absence of birdsong, and the sky decants the shadows of the weather from itself. So you drive on, hopeful of a time when the ocean will rise up before you like dusk and you will make landfall at last – some ancient, long-forgotten mooring, which both of you, of course, will recognise; though as I said before, there is no one beside you and neither of you has anywhere to go.
Imagine you are driving
nowhere, with no one beside you;
with the empty road unravelling and ravelling
in sympathy as the wheel turns in your hands…
—John Glenday, “Imagine You are Driving”
published in GRAIN (Picador, 2009)
#poem #poetry
The girl, like the lawyer, whistles an idle tune.
no problem, hope at least a few are enjoyable! (also ran out of room last time but props for that Isis choice; love that band/album)
The verb ‘to see’ is very distantly related to ‘to sue’ – and also to ‘segue’, ‘second’ and ‘sequence’.
They all come from a Proto-Indo-European root whose meaning can be reconstructed as “to follow”. In Germanic, it shifted to “to follow with the eyes”.
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