Carter Samuels, aka The Wolf Spider. Dark Avenger of the mean streets, battling Klan agitators and Fifth Columnists in the toughest parts of town...
'Sup.
As the Muskpocalypse continues over on the Cursed Birdsite, I figured I'd rev up the turbines on this ancient, disused wreck and leave the flaming wastelands behind. In the past, I've found Tumblr is almost useless for engagement, but it IS a good place to free the stuff that's trying to chew it's way out through my skull.
So, hi everyone. Feel free to say hi back.
Sorry for the dust.
I guess I need to go back to using this.
Syd Mead [1933 - 2019]
The image of two suns colliding 7,500 light-years away. 📸 NASA
The Last Dragon (1985)
WHO
IS
THE
MASTER?!
Vanity as Laura Charles in Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon (1985)
Nnf.
Taimak Guarriello vs. Julius Carry III - The Last Dragon (1985)
God I love this movie so much
people I still want to stab over a decade later:
Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way, you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”
What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?
I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.
I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.
Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.
Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.
Mine was Dr. Peter Korodimas at SUNY Plattsburgh. You've described him perfectly here.
I’ve packaged up all 31 reticles from my “Reticle A Day” Experiment in one master file, which also includes five bonus vectors that I won’t be putting up for individual sale.
The collection is $30US, and can be purchased here: https://gum.co/TWbLt
Adobe Illustrator CS6, stock vectors, licensed for commercial and personal use.
© 2019 Eric Trautmann / Fedora Monkey Studio
www.erictrautmann.us
RETICLE A DAY: 031
Purchase Link ($1US): https://gum.co/nmBUc
Stock vector, Adobe Illustrator CS6, licensed for commercial and personal use.
© 2019 Eric Trautmann / Fedora Monkey Studio
www.erictrautmann.com
And…that’s a wrap on the RETICLE-A-DAY project. Thanks for the reshares and support.
RETICLE A DAY: 030
Purchase Link ($1US): https://gum.co/wDgcz
Stock vector, Adobe Illustrator CS6, licensed for commercial and personal use.
© 2019 Eric Trautmann / Fedora Monkey Studio
www.erictrautmann.us
RETICLE A DAY: 029
Purchase Link ($1US): https://gum.co/mSFcx
Stock vector art, Adobe Illustrator CS6, licensed for commercial and personal use.
© 2019 Eric Trautmann / Fedora Monkey Studio
www.erictrautmann.us
RETICLE A DAY: 028
Purchase Link ($1US):
Stock vector, Adobe Illustrator CS6, licensed for commercial and personal use.
© 2019 Eric Trautmann / Fedora Monkey Studio
www.erictrautmann.us
No. 400
A new geometric design every day
400 of these?
I’m exhausted by the 31 I just did.
…oof. There’s a lot to unpack here.