Blaze Hair

STREETS OF RAGE 2
SEGA 1992
SEGA GENESIS

Luigi in Ur Doorway

SUPER MARIO BROS. 2
NINTENDO 1988
NES

Former Biden administration senior advisor Amos Hochstein says he supported last summer's Operation Midnight Hammer, in which the Trump administration struck Iran's nuclear facilities, because "we had thought internally in the Biden administration we may have to take [strikes] if there was a second term." "We did war games. We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into it, because that may have had to happen under

Biden's point man on Lebanon and one of his overall most important advisor for MENA said yesterday morning that he agreed with Trump's strikes on Iran last year lol.

Democrats really need to reassess how people like this were (and still are) allowed to be at the top of their foreign policy echelon.

#art #eldenring

#art #eldenring

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

a concert backdrop that says over 30 universities destroyed in iran against black and white picture of rubble

backdrop that says last standing university in gaza against a black and white image of al-israa university

giant three screen stage backdrop showing footage of the bombing of a university in gaza

The Strokes played Coachella against a backdrop listing all the world leaders that had been assassinated by the CIA, a count of the number of universities bombed in Iran, and footage of the bombing of the last university in Gaza

Pixie #SMT

A massive stone arch straddles the horizon. The milky white stone texture of the "rainbow" stands against misty lavender sky. Gray-blue lines mark randomly patterns of interconnected lines and shapes. Circle, egg, broken ladder, swirl, hour glass—none of the shapes or lines repeat. Transparent spheres, each containing a solitary flame, float toward the arch. A long causeway extends out across a channel of blue water to the center of the arch. The channel splits what appears to be a futuristic city as seen from very high up. Skyscraper-like structures appear tiny against a stretch of flat concrete as they cast long shadows that run parallel to the horizon.

In this week’s newsletter, Michael provides advice on airbrushing, makes a statement on humanity’s long walk off a short pier, and discusses his one true homage to Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps.

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An illustration of Professor Utonium, the Powerpuff Girls and their children. The Professor is sitting on a sofa while being surrounded and comforted by the Girls and their children (From very left, clockwise: Buttercup, Blossom, Berry, Bubbles, Beauty, Beam, Britt)

A man, his daughters, and his grandkids too

As a rule, nobody in a retro game ad is able to pause. Even in emergencies

Floating in a dark bubbly sea, a naked woman with flowing red hair spreads her arms wide, turning playfully to draw a transparently patterned cape behind her. Curious while passing by, a green sea dragon cranes its neck. Its sinuous body curves and rolls before finally looping back at the tip of its spaded tail. Foreclaws loll as it pauses between strokes, entranced by the aquatic dance. The woman holds out the ends of the jellyfish-like veil and it shifts in pattern as it flows in front of her. Leopard spots flare fiery in contrast passing over pale skin. Extending past her, the pattern morphs into abstract splotches much like the eyespots on a peacock feather, growing in size and shifting from green to blue to purple as the veil trails off panel.

DANCING IN STRANGE SEAS (2023)
Acrylic on Canvas - 8” x 12”

The other day I woke from a vivid dream. I was stranded on a deserted island—but quite happy about it as I was swimming! 1/3

#art

panel 1: “For today’s assignment, I want you all to draw what you think your 30’s will be like,” a teacher says. “Huh,” the kid says. panel 2: “Think about what will change about you and the world,” the teacher says. The kid begins scribbling. panel 3: SOME 30 YEARS LATER… “My old drawings!” panel 4: “Eerily accurate,” he says looking at the drawing. It is a picture of himself, bald, with multi-function arm canon, saying “everything is bad except for video games.”

the future (IMAGINE!)

How am I just now finding out about this 😭

Ukyo Tachibana in aerial assault mode

SAMURAI SHODOWN
SNK/SYSTEM VISION 1994
SEGA GENESIS

Veronica ordering a pizza I think

RAMPAGE WORLD TOUR
GAME REFUGE/POINT OF VIEW 1997
SEGA SATURN

Thomas Stewart "The Technician"

NEO TURF MASTERS
NAZCA 1996
NEO GEO

A person being stretched apart with arms representing war, news, career, relationships, finances, and beauty standards Text on the bottom that says damn why am I so tired

Just another stress doodle. Hoping to not break Bluesky again.

A picture of a man becoming a werewolf MONSTROUSMUSINGS Let Them Cook By Phil Nobile Jr. I had two utterly singular experiences at this year's Overlook Film Festival: I interviewed the great Rick Baker about An American Werewolf in London for a Future Fango Thing; and | moderated a Q&A for Larry Fessenden's "Monster Quadrilogy," which screened his films Habit, Depraved and Blackout before his new one, Trauma or, Monsters All, which ties the aforementioned three films together in an audacious and surprising way. In my interview with Mr. Baker, he talked about a frustration with the industry that led to his retirement a decade ago. I'm paraphrasing, but he said something along the lines of how, when you're at the point where you're getting notes from meddling producers about the shape of a monster's eyebrow, or the placement of its nose, you realize you're in a system where art and passion and creativity cannot exist, much less thrive. Mr. Baker decided that's not where he wanted to be, and promptly dipped. Now, he's still happily creating and blowing fans minds on Instagram, but he's following his bliss instead of dopey producer feedback, and the beautiful work on his account emanates pure joy. "I retired from the business, I didn't retire from being me," he told us. Thank goodness for that.

In today’s Terror Teletype: when producers hire artists and second-guess their every move, everyone loses.

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ENFRAMEMENT preview. To debut at @torontocomics.bsky.social 33 pages. b/w. Sci-fi.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

TV and vhs tapes

This is what going on the internet used to feel like

Rindaman skidding to a halt to read that sign behind him that says... Fu* You???

CROWS: THE BATTLE ACTION FOR SEGASATURN
ATHENA CO 1997
SEGA SATURN

Bonus: Godless Beast devouring its nasty little piece of cookie that fell on the ground 🔎🐰🍪👹

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it