X (2022) dir. Ti West
Mia Goth as Maxine Minx in X (2022)
Pearl (2022) dir. Ti West
Home
no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark.
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city
running as well.
your neighbours running faster
than you, the boy you went to school with
who kissed you dizzy behind
the old tin factory is
holding a gun bigger than his body,
you only leave home
when home won't let you stay.
no one would leave home unless home
chased you, fire under feet,
hot blood in your belly.
it's not something you ever thought about
doing, and so when you did -
you carried the anthem under your breath,
waiting until the airport toilet
to tear up the passport and swallow,
each mouthful of paper making it clear that
you would not be going back.
you have to understand,
no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land.
who would choose to spend days
and nights in the stomach of a truck
unless the miles travelled
meant something more than journey
A selection of images generated by the MidJourney AI by graphic designer Johnny Darrell for a “Tron” directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. I lifted these from facebook but you can see a slideshow of the work here. According to Darrell, “The poster’s main image was MJ and I added the Disney logo and typography in Photoshop. All other images are pure MJ exports with no post-work funny business.” Darrell also said, “My prompts were simple variations of “production still from 1976 of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s TRON –ar 3:2” and then added in extra details like film lenses and “light cycle” or “disk” or “Recognizer” etc.“ I’m still not sure who I feel about AI created “art” but I have to say that these images are reminiscent of Jean Giraud (aka Mœbius) with a very strong 1970s era science fiction art style. Part 1
TRON Ektachrome pre-color filter shots (1982)
PLEASE
Little Shop of Horrors (1986) dir. Frank Oz