If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.
Intro image for the original series of Twin Peaks - a mountain roadside with a town sign and an indefinable uncanny.
Well, damn. RIP to a master storyteller and wise worldbuilder of the weird.
In mourning for David Lynch.
Never forget. In sequel season of Twin Peaks he plays an FBI boss who says to agents who disapprove of trans agent Denise
'Fix your hearts or die'
R.I.P.
The only Thanksgiving tradition I have is posting this. It's never felt more apt.
Presented by Tate Gallery Publications 1979
William Daniell, The Bass Rock, 1814
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Mashup: Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow (1565) versus Rick Guidice's space colony painting for NASA's Ames Research Center (1975).
Mashup: Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow (1565) versus Rick Guidice's space colony painting for NASA's Ames Research Center (1975).
It's meant as a satire of some description, which I can't put into words right now because I have a migraine.
I love this image - collision of old school art & atomic age SF is absolutely my jam! It's also managed to pull from the depths of my memory how Tarkovsky uses that Breugel painting in Solaris - which leads me straight on to: god, I *really* need to watch Solaris again.
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."
One of the toughest problems Microsoft has to solve is that Windows has to serve two very different types of users: business users who don't want this at all, and home users who don't want this at all.
Rishi Sunak announcing the general election, looking like a wet cat in the rain
Withnail declaiming Hamlet to the wolves in the zoo, in the rain. For all his faults he has more dignity than the current PM, plus he's got an umbrella
#GeneralElection
This one wins. Genuine lol.
But thank you for checking, I definitely owe you a proper message soon! xxx
Oh no, I'm fine! Just having cause to be wry and cynical about the creative process - doing lots of (somewhat circular) thinking, but very little writing :)
Mood.
This really works; delete the gobbledegook after your search term (in my e.g. this is q=recipe+for+bread) and add &udm=14 and all the top tips, AI summaries, 'also searched for' and video (1st image) vanishes. You just get actual search results (2nd image).
Gas / Essence - 1940
Gas / Essence - 1940 https://www.wikiart.org/fr/edward-hopper/gas #Hopper #Art
A painting of a bird beside the text "I really could go for some good fuckin' news right now"
Something something blood of empire etc.
Portrait of Charles Windsor looking very 'masque of the red death' by Jonathan Yeo
I was conflicted, but fair play - the matted, bloody audacity of this portrait is mesmerising me. Was he meant to look like the porter of the hell dimensions crossed with an escaped SCP? Who knows, but it's giving absolute Screaming Pope levels of unheimlich and I reluctantly love it.
Not short (both run to 6 volumes) but Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang and Descender by Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen are outstanding all-ages SF comics. Hugely recommended.
It's more short-novel/novella length, but Grinny by Nicholas Fisk is the right age range and remains brilliantly scary.
4 screens from the movie. First: a large, muscled man with his shirt off at night stood infront of a digger. Second, a naked man on the ground at night surrounded by lightning. Third, a man pointing a gun saying “what day is it? the date!” Fourth: the man he’s speaking to, a cop, replies “Twelfth, May”
May 12th 1984 - 40 years ago today, a T-800 Terminator arrived from the future to kill Sarah Connor before she could give birth to the future resistance leader, John Connor. Kyle Reese arrived from the future to stop it.
📽️📅 Terminator (1984)
A gif from the opening credits of the 1981 BBC adaptation of The Day of the Triffids. Blue-lit, fearful faces staring upwards.
Also, thanks to all the twitter folk who got The Day of the Triffids trending earlier. A moment of the old, fun twitter humour, it made me smile.
View of the aurora last night from my back yard. Blurred, but vivid.
View of the aurora last night from my back yard. Blurred, but vivid.
View of the aurora last night from my back yard. Blurred, but vivid.
View of the aurora last night from my back yard. Blurred, but vivid.
Thrilled to have seen the northern lights for the first time, in (to quote Dorothy) our own back yard. Couldn't see the colours at all with the naked eye, just a wispy purple-grey, but the night setting on my phone camera revealed them. Glorious.
Todd Klein's The Art and History of Lettering Comics is now online...for FREE! Each section is expandable via a link! kleinletters.com/Blog/the-art...
🧵Recently, I set out to create new digital artwork that can't be replicated/imitated by AI. It seems to me that AI's Achilles heel is its failure to deliver true details, or rather that its seemingly complex imagery is actually specious - the illusion of detail; it often doesn't stand up to scrutiny
Beautiful work.
This is absolutely gorgeous, and a perfect demonstration/affirmation of the limits of AI. With the added bonus of enabling bookcase nosiness :)
You're very welcome!
