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The Jolly Cat at the Fish Parade

incredible sky, this is one of my favorites

40k Chaplain fanart -
oil painting on panels 12"x18"
#oilpainting #warhammer40k

Too long for full alt text, the gist is that genre fans have "a limited frame of reference" to genre work. Fans try to link things in Babylon 5 to Lord of the Rings, but JMS was thinking about Orpheus. Or more broadly, that genre works have broad and deep inspirations, in ancient, classical, and medieval stories, themselves that genre fans are ignorant of.

I've quoted this post by JMS (Babylon 5, Sense8, etc) for years now. It's long, and he's talking about genre fans here, but genre fans of the 1990s are now genre writers. www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/0...

had this same feeling from Pulse by the same director

"NORCO finds the sublime at the heart of the perverse. It seems to suggest that setting your sanity adrift is the only way to float." Very enjoyable article by @groan.bsky.social!

pluto tv now, the license jumps around every few years 🙄

classic twilight zone always hits, babylon 5, fringe, futurama, trailer park boys

repackaged auteur worship

A Great Egret gliding towards the marshy part of the lake to do some fishing.

From: The Little Mermaid (1968), dir. Ivan Aksenchuk, Soyuzmultfilm

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The Ocean in early spring has a nice bloom to it. So active like ink in a water glass

love this composition

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Cover illustrates Jenny's Junk yard -- used spaces ships and second hand robots. The titular Jenny sits on a captain's chair, behind here is a junkyard with crushed robots, floating cars, spaceships, etc.

Ed Emshwiller's cover detail for Galaxy magazine, ed. H. L. Gold (February 1960)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

Vantage point. #pixelart

morning waters

three safecrackers wearing protective gear and working on opening a safe, with gold sparks in the air, surrounded by a smoky-looking fog from a fire extinguisher

closeup on the black hood of a car at night with city lights reflected on its glossy surface

James Caan in the middle of a used car lot that's on fire. there's a pink and blue neon sign in the background and strings of white lights above that are reflected on the cars' surfaces, especially one black car that takes up most of the foreground

closeup on a gloved hand holding a metal rod, the other hand holding a blowtorch being applied to the metal creating a spray of pinky gold sparks

Thief remains one of the best-looking movies I've ever seen in my life

Queensborough Bridge - 1913

oh love this

Early visual explorations for the Common Side Effects title sequence.

Episode 9 is now streaming! It’s the third and last episode I got to direct on the show.

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oh peak

🔥🔥🔥 cosigned

existing product going viral =/= custom made-to-order client work, not that committed lowballers can ever be convinced

if it seems genuine, I assume they want to see more like it so I name drop a few influences. steering away from labels and toward the process

oh love this