Zak Jarvis
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What an amazing winner!
Also, I started out sure I'd seen it and I've been getting less and less sure of that the more I think about it (and look at the cast list).
No, no… I need to know how the warp and weft interact with the cut for the drapery if I *draw* it.
Kicking off today’s writing with this one:
grails.bandcamp.com/track/a-mans...
A Mansion Has Many Rooms, by Grails
from the album Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 4, 5, & 6
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Excellent rules!
Maybe just the inspiration I need to do something similar with the characters in the novel I’m working on. I keep toying with it, but my urge to research everything down to the machines used to make the thread woven into the fabric of the clothes gets in the way.
It's really good Bill Hicks died so we didn't have to see him become an Alex Jones fan.
With regards to the cursed Alien/Gremlins crossover image that's burning Bluesky bandwidth: folks on here talk a good game about their love of monsterfucking and monsterfuckers, but somehow when presented with two monsters, fucking, it's all "AAAAAAHGH! MY EYES!".
Weak.
And yet... Strangely, David Byrne was able to!
Okay, it wasn't precisely CELEBRATING as much as examining...
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Shriekback - Hammerheads = album Oil and Gold - 1985
Shriekback's 1985 opus, "Oil and Gold," is a bold testament to the band's adventurous spirit in the realm of post-punk and beyond. In this audacious collecti...
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Yeah! I mean... Bill Paxton rescuing the safari guy from Jurassic Park from Mark Hamill!
It's a really odd little film.
The only reason I'd ever heard of it is because my dad worked at a comic shop and knew all the distributors and thus also got all kinds of screeners.
Kicking off tonight's writing with this track:
hanneskretzer.bandcamp.com/track/pressu...
Awesome! Thanks!
I'm a little surprised this has fallen off the face of the earth as much as it is.
I haven’t looked at what Amazon has, though it claims to be “re-mastered” SD.
Come to think of it, it was probably more than a little bit inspired by Nausicaa.
It reaches for profundity that it can't quite grasp, but is still pretty fun & interesting.
Part of a lesser traveled branch of post-apocalyptic settings in film (but much more traveled in fiction and games).
He had a good string of charismatic pseudo-asshole roles in the late 80's & early 90's.
A couple of fun ones I don't see talked about: Pass the Ammo (at the time sold as "From friends of the Producer's Petsitter of Raising Arizona!" or some such tenuous connection) and Slipstream.
I had a lot of fun making it! And apparently, I've still got the old ZBrush model.
Here's how you can tell I was doing work for someone else -- the side of the critter that you can't see isn't fully sculpted:
A mere 4.5 million polygons. God. I think I only had 8 gigs of ram then.
That is an absolutely wild movie and was definitely influential on me.
Here's some quick design sketches I did and a final render of a thing from a project long, long ago (2006). Sadly never saw the light of day.
I am not feeling particularly nostalgic for the rendering tech I had back then.
I'm kind of idly considering designing and 3d-sculpting some hideous, obscene monsters. Might even print'em out'n paint'em.
Cat balance is restored. Thomas is still a bit drugged, but he’s back to wanting to be close to people (he hid for most of the night).
Every time someone in a movie has visibly wet blood on them from exposure more than a minute or two previous that annoying, detail oriented part of my brain winces.
Don't get me started on head injuries.
Blood.
Blood has extremely specific properties.
It's a pigment, not a dye, so it appears mostly opaque on glass and shows as vividly red on dark surfaces.
It also coagulates and dries quickly, which means dripping blood makes stalactites and stalagmites. A behavior I've never seen modeled.
what is your biggest cinematic pet peeve?
one of mine is when characters brush teeth w/o toothpaste and suds
That site was pretty vital to me when I was invited to contribute to a book of new Hyperborea stories.
I think I’ve got a scene like that coming up in the novel I’m working on.
Also, I managed to do this despite being extremely chemically impaired (which was required by the exigencies of the day).
For ... Reasons, I have successfully updated my unsupported 2017 MacBook Pro to the newest version of the OS.
This was the background annoyance chewing at me through the many fucking trials of the day, and it feels liberating to have accomplished it.
The large cat is at least not blocked. He’s headed back in two weeks to get a urine sample and he went home with antibiotics and some good pain drugs. Looks like everybody but the gray cat gets good drugs tonight.
We have got so many darkling beetles marching around on the trails I walk.
And now we’re at the vet. At least Sharon’s feeling better!
Got my laptop mostly fixed. Still no idea what’s wrong with the power in our house though. Probably need to call an electrician.
I also fucked up the OS install on one of my computers this morning and it’s being a real hassle to fix.
At least we’ve got a vet appointment for 5 to see our very sad boy cat.
Also there's something up with the power in the kitchen. All the outlets on the counter are behaving like the breaker's been tripped when... The breaker has not been tripped. Then they just come back on of their own accord.
I would really prefer to not need to take the cat to the vet while Sharon is still recovering from *her* doctor's visit this morning. But Thomas the very large cat is behaving suspiciously as though he's got urinary crystals.
It is now my head cannon that this is also how it goes for your dog's namesake.
Legolas: A fell wind. And this? What fiend could have created such a midden?
Gimli:
Finished the extremely difficult staging chapter last night. Smoother sailing ahead. Kicking off with this.
theneatsthem.bandcamp.com/track/skelet...
I’m hobbled by having never been much plugged into pop, but even in the musical circles I travel I can’t think of many at all.