Also, I've had the NINoize version of Closer stuck in my head since we saw them live last fall, so I'm very happy to have an official recording of it.
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YES. We listened last night as soon as it hit streaming. Delicious.
One of the best NIN sets I’ve ever seen.
My only gripe is it could have used more Mariqueen but holy god the DANCERS.
The fuckin’ dancers dude.
One would think that it'd be impossible to come up with startling new visuals for "Closer" 30 years after it got one of the most iconic music videos of its decade, but the staging they just did at Coachella is a HELL of a thing.
Bunnies in a raft pull up next to a spaceship capsule, which has just splashed down and is floating in the open sea. Visible in the capsule, two bunnies wave at the ones in the boat.
Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely
US Astronaut Christina Koch using an experiment facility on board the ISS
Here's a picture of Christina Koch using hardware I designed the electronics for and wrote the firmware of
As a trans engineer who left the space industry in order to feel safe enough to transition: oof.
An ink drawing of a bunny rabbit sitting up on its hind legs.
A bonus art repost -- a bunny rabbit I drew in 2012 with a ballpoint pen on a piece of foamcore board. Happy Easter!
A comic page with three panels, rendered in watercolor. The first panel shows a mountain range, looking very red under a pale morning sky. The second panel is closer in to the landscape at the base of the mountains, with scrubby trees, yucca, and other desert plants. The third panel is closer in to the landscape still, to a spot where a brown van is parked next to a little campsite with a fire pit and some scraps of laundry hung on a line between two yucca stalks.
#RepostYourArt 5. Mountain
Here's the very first page of the very first issue of my comic, "The Makeshift Man"! Painted all the way back in 2009! Those are the Sandia Mountains, in New Mexico.
they're calling it the horniest millennials have ever been
FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.
A watercolor painting of Jones the cat, from the film "Alien", crouching in the wet chain room. The shadow of a xenomorph's tail falls onto the wall behind him.
#RepostYourArt 4. Cat or Dog
Jones, painted in watercolor for Alien Day (4/26) in 2022.
A colored drawing of Elvis the jackalope wearing a sheer, rainbow-colored ribbon bow around her neck, surrounded by different springtime flowers in bloom.
#RepostYourArt 3. Spring
Ink with digital color, drawn in 2013.
A loose watercolor painting of pink prairie flowers and greenery forming the rough outline of a heart.
#RepostYourArt 2. Bloom
Watercolor, painted in 2011. I did this as part of a wedding invitation set that I designed for someone. The couple had a theme of pink prairie wildflowers.
A silent full-page splash from "The Makeshift Man", wherein the titular Makeshift Man looks up from lighting a cigarette to find Grandmother Death looming over him in a dark room.
#RepostYourArt 1. Hello!
Here's a page from my original comic, "The Makeshift Man", issue 5. Watercolor, painted in...2017?
yes
Therapist: Miles Davis was an acclaimed 20th century jazzman who made some of the finest music the world has ever known. He is certainly not trying to kill you in your dreams.
Miles Davis:
The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Season 2, Episode 9: On Golden Pete
MINIDISC IS THE IDEAL MEDIA FORMAT OF THE FUTURE!!!!!!
I won't hunt you for sport. I'll hunt you for theatre.
Jeremy Strong as Charles Xavier and Kieran Culkin as Hank McCoy send tweet
An inked page from Epicurus the Sage, before colors or letters.
Whenever anyone asks me who my favorite artists are, Sam Kieth is always one of, if not THE first name I answer with, and has been so ever since I was fifteen years old and found a copy of "Epicurus the Sage" at the public library.
I dunno how else to express this, but this uncanniness is something Sam Kieth’s art always made me feel? Reading through his stuff, especially is fucking wild Batman forays as a kid, it felt almost exactly the same like stumbling onto that unsettling Adult Swim liminality between mediums?
Cover of THE MAXX issue 2. The Maxx (a big purple, inhuman looking character with weird singular claws on his fists), the Jungle Queen (a blonde woman in a leopard print bikini and surprisingly natural, human proportions, and an honest to god Leopard, grace the cover under the edgy logo.
The Maxx bears his claws on the cover of issue 3.
A splash page from the comic. The Maxx grumbles about being in his dream world one minute while being in the real world the next, while he is still chasing the weird little inky black monster he was chasing in his dream.
Art of The Maxx and the Jungle Queen (wearing street clothes), with her arm around him.
It cannot be overstated how weird & groundbreaking THE MAXX was upon release. It was this crazy culture grenade, bridging the Venn diagram between mainstream comics & Alt (not indie) comics. In an era of anti-heroes, The Maxx satirized that, redefining what mainstream comics could be. RIP Sam Kieth.
Man, RIP Sam Kieth. Nobody was doing it like him.
Sam Kieth has passed. There are so many great comics creators I love, but Sam is on my Mount Rushmore. The Maxx was a revelation when I first read it. What a sad loss. What a great creator. I will miss your light in this world intensely.
PSA: The manufacture-on-demand DVD of The Maxx you could order circa 15 years ago is long out of print, but it's on the Archive.
It'll give you that late-night '90s art-cable vibe that's so rare these days.
Aw, man. Just last night, we started a rewatch of the MTV Maxx series and we were talking about how, just like the comic, it holds up 30+ years later as a wild sort of mixed media experiment unlike anything else.
Just want to say thank you to everyone who shared the news of the Criterion series that we programmed. I hope everyone likes the films. 💙