there should be more problems that I can cleave in twain and fewer problems that my friends and I have to quietly endure day after day and week after week and year after year

Photography by @nonalimmen

the particular grief of losing a piece of graffiti that was part of your everyday routes through the city. congratulations "anti-vandalism initiatives" you painted over my dear friend and neighbor

Gouache Painting 🖌️

you used to be able to put a dvd in your laptop and play it. you used to be able to burn cds.

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this quote from hbomberguy’s plagiarism video really resonated with me:

your craft is and always will be valuable, please never let anyone make you doubt that

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What the fuck

This is absolutely fascinating. I've now been looking at Alex Colville's paintings and trying to work out what it is about them that makes them look like CGI and how/why he did that in a world where CGI didn't exist yet. Here's what I've got so far:

- Total lack of atmospheric perspective (things don't fade into the distance)

- Very realistic shading but no or only very faint shadows cast by ambient light.

- Limited interaction between objects and environment (shadows, ripples etc)

- Flat textures and consistent lighting used for backgrounds that would usually show a lot of variation in lighting, colour and texture

- Bodies apparently modelled piece by piece rather than drawn from life, and in a very stiff way so that the bodies show the pose but don't communicate the body language that would usually go with it. They look like dolls.

- Odd composition that cuts off parts that would usually be considered important (like the person's head in the snowy driving scene)

- Very precise drawing of structures and perspective combined with all the simplistic elements I've already listed. In other words, details in the "wrong" places.

What's fascinating about this is that in early or bad CGI, these things come from the fact that the machine is modelling very precisely the shapes and perspectives and colours, but missing out on some parts that are difficult to render (shadows, atmospheric perspective) and being completely unable to pose bodies in such a way as to convey emotion or body language.

But Colville wasn't a computer, so he did these same things *on purpose*. For some reason he was *aiming* for that precise-but-all-wrong look. I mean, mission accomplished! The question in my mind is, did he do this because he was trying to make the pictures unsettling and alienating, or because in some way, this was how he actually saw the world?

omf i never thought i'd find posts about alex colville on tumblr, but! he's a local artist where i'm from & i work at a library/archives and have processed a lot of documents related to his art. just wanted to give my two cents!

my impression is that colville did see the world as an unsettling place and a lot of his work was fueled by this general ~malaise?? but in a lot of cases, he was trying to express particular fears or traumas. for instance, this painting (horse and train) was apparently inspired by a really tragic experience his wife had:

iirc she was in a horrible automobile crash, as the car she was in collided with a train. i find it genuinely horrifying to look at, knowing the context, but a lot of colville's work is like that? idk he just seems to capture the feeling you get in nightmares where everything is treacle-ish and slow and inevitable.

Oliver Clegg (British, 1980) - Rocky (2021)

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In trainspotting (1996) renton repeatedly complains about being unable to pull birds but also spends the entire film walking around dressed like the gayest man on the planet. idk lad judging by the bright yellow crop top and short shorts in the diane scene I think you should just try fucking sick boy

used to be people would say things like "avast" or "hither and yon". nowadays folks mostly say stuff like "ethernet cable"

The ideal Valentines meal is roasting a whole beef heart to share with your sweetheart. There is nothing more romantic.

Look her in the eyes and tell her your heart goes beefy for her 🥰😘

Another romantic meal is to hunt down, kill, and process a wild animal while she’s at work and serve it to her shirtless so she sees your battle scars

You can trust me. I’m a romance expert.

Listen to Scout.

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

Nara, Japan.