March 11, 2010

Frans van Lamsweerde

frans_van_lamsweerde.jpgLovely illustration by Frans van Lamsweerde from an old Ideals magazine (though, not being familiar with that publication's modus operandi, he may have created it for other purposes or it may have been published elsewhere first -- no idea).

March 07, 2010

Margaret Bloy Graham's "The Plant Sitter"

mbg_ps (0).jpgSeveral pages here from the husband & wife team of Margaret Bloy Graham and Gene Zion's delightful The Plant Sitter, from 1959. I love Graham's drawings and wonder why she isn't more well-known today; I could find hardly any biographical info about her online. I also especially like her book Dear Garbage Man. At any rate, this one seems to be out-of-print and going for ridiculous prices, so if you like these images and want more, check your local library.


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March 06, 2010

Cartoon Crybabies #6

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March 04, 2010

Rhythms of Mental Life

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March 01, 2010

Battery

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February 28, 2010

Crystallography

cryst_ (0).jpgSeveral beautiful images from a crystallography book... I'm afraid I didn't record the actual title or date of publication or artist info (if anyone knows, please say so).


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February 26, 2010

Adventure in Forgotten Valley

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February 25, 2010

Bassoon

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February 24, 2010

Babylon

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February 23, 2010

Movie Review: The Double Life of Veronique

mr_double_life_of.jpgI suppose the notion that you have a perfect twin somewhere in the world is just as frightening as it is reassuring... and then, which is worse: meeting or not meeting that person? Is your soul yours, theirs... or does it belong to no one? Superior in every aspect to its insipid half-copy, Amelie... Kieslowski's best film, IMHO. 9/10

February 22, 2010

B-70

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February 19, 2010

1948

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February 18, 2010

Moon Maid

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February 17, 2010

Breakfast Club

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February 16, 2010

HAHA, It's Funny Because It's...

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February 15, 2010

Awwwwww!

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February 12, 2010

Astrian

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February 11, 2010

Angler Fishes

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February 10, 2010

A Good Hair Day

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February 09, 2010

What's Up, Bitches!

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February 08, 2010

Variation No. 7

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February 04, 2010

Odor Germs

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February 02, 2010

Hello Sucker!

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February 01, 2010

Movie Review: Badlands

mr_badlands.jpgSheen's "Kit" is as much a "walking contradiction" as De Niro's later "Travis Bickle" would be, and both films are far funnier than they get credit for. 10/10

January 31, 2010

Shapes of Wings

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January 29, 2010

Brando Prepares for the Role

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January 28, 2010

"Star Wars" in National Geographic World

ngw_sw (1).jpgA few pages from the June 1980 issue of National Geographic World magazine detailing some of the creative processes utilized in the making of The Empire Strikes Back. As a child I incessantly studied this and similar articles about the making of Star Wars, and credit this popularization of "how to" information with my own interest in the arts (for better or, more likely, for worse). At any rate, these images - as much as the films themselves - have been hung like wallpaper behind my eyes for the last 30 years.


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Scribble This

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January 27, 2010

Fuller Lips

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January 26, 2010

Prehistoriduck

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January 25, 2010

Sometimes Worshipped

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January 22, 2010

Shut Up

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January 21, 2010

Pink Clouds

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January 20, 2010

His Yellow Hair

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January 19, 2010

Blue-Eyed Rose-Colored Glasses

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January 18, 2010

A Golden-Brown-Green Age

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January 15, 2010

Green Coctails

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January 14, 2010

Fear Destroys Confidence

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January 13, 2010

"First Steps" by Mitchell Jamieson

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January 12, 2010

Eames Ply

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January 11, 2010

Catalytic Converter

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January 08, 2010

Camera Arms

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January 07, 2010

Air Flow

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January 06, 2010

Absinthe Monk

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January 05, 2010

9 Lives +1

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January 04, 2010

3 Bears

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January 03, 2010

Flaming Magritte

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December 25, 2009

Krazy Karen Black

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December 24, 2009

Authors (plural)

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December 23, 2009

Cartoon Crybabies #5

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December 22, 2009

Beer Making

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beer_making (7).jpgAs you can see, it all comes down to BEER in the end

December 21, 2009

Best Picture EVER

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December 20, 2009

Vandarian Incident

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December 18, 2009

Sillie Willie

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December 17, 2009

Bob Kuhn - Childcraft

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December 16, 2009

Straight Hair for Boys and Girls

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December 15, 2009

Gold, Silver & Bronze Balls

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December 13, 2009

200 Colors

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December 11, 2009

Movie Review: Stalker

mr_stalker.jpgThe best film ever made based on a videogame where nothing happens for three hours. 10/10

December 10, 2009

Alice Golden

alice_golden.jpgCharming, epic illustration by Alice Golden, appearing in the May 31, 1977 issue of Woman's Day.

December 09, 2009

60,000 ft

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December 08, 2009

Cartoon Crybabies #4

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December 07, 2009

Practical Descriptive Geometry

pdg (0).jpgFrom William Griswold Smith's Practical Descriptive Geometry, 1936.


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December 04, 2009

Learning How Our Bodies Work

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December 02, 2009

Marylin Hafner

marylin_hafner (0).jpgA couple images by Marylin Hafner, from Woman's Day magazine, 1967.


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marylin_hafner (2).jpgThese two drawings appeared in a 1966 issue of the same publication but I lost the credits, so I'm not sure who is responsible - though I think it looks, perhaps, like Hafner's work.


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December 01, 2009

Anonymous Rocket Book

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November 30, 2009

Greatest Yearbook Photo of All Time

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November 29, 2009

Comic Technique

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November 24, 2009

Euler's Spiral

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November 22, 2009

Im Neuen Styling

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November 19, 2009

The Red Unit

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November 18, 2009

Alex Ebel - Childcraft

ae_childcraft (0).jpgSome amazingly rendered illustrations by Alex Ebel, from a mid-70s Childcraft Encyclopedia -- always a source of fine commercial artwork. This guy is good.


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November 17, 2009

Steak & Gravy

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November 16, 2009

Exploded Television

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November 15, 2009

A Type of Daguerre

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November 13, 2009

Primates

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November 12, 2009

Reviving the Dead

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November 11, 2009

Sense of the Heavens

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November 10, 2009

Toy Soldiers

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November 09, 2009

The Workings of the Human Body

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November 05, 2009

Spots

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November 04, 2009

Mysterious Photo

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November 02, 2009

Square Head

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November 01, 2009

Movie Review: Au Hasard Balthazar

mr_ahb.jpgOne day I hope to remake this with a talking chimpanzee in the Balthazar role. 10/10

October 30, 2009

Narwhal the Best Whale

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October 29, 2009

Pigs & Bugs

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October 28, 2009

Limbourg Bros.

Limbourg_Bros (0).jpgAn illumination from Les Tres Riches Heures, painted by the Limbourg brothers in the 15th century. Scanned from a repro in Bible Review magazine, December 1998.


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October 27, 2009

Industrial Still Life

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October 26, 2009

Your Voice

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October 22, 2009

Betty Fraser - Childcraft

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October 21, 2009

Lion & Lamb

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October 20, 2009

Flames Under an Alien Sun

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October 18, 2009

B. Greenwald-R

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October 14, 2009

Uintatherium

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October 13, 2009

Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery, 1966

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October 11, 2009

Rusty Sullivan

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October 10, 2009

Conchae

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October 07, 2009

Swiss Screw

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October 06, 2009

More Ginnie Hofmann

ginnie_hofmann_awhmgafhr (0).jpgFrom American Weekly Home Medical Guide and Family Health Record, 1958.

More here.


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October 05, 2009

Entire Swiss Army

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October 02, 2009

Raimondi's Carcass

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October 01, 2009

Obese Dwarf

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September 30, 2009

Oil Painting Chart

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Movie Review: Lost Horizon

mr_lost_horizon.jpgVery flawed in many ways (questionable "cultural" attitudes, occasional lack of focus, etc.) but also very wonderful in as many ways, this is my favorite film about "utopia". And while every era has the dreams and nightmares it deserves, this couldn't have been made at a more opportune or interesting juncture: the end of the Great Depression and the cusp of WW2.

There are lots of interesting ideas and themes here as a result: is utopia an inclusive, collective ideal or a selfish retreat from an increasingly complicated world? is genuine growth and happiness possible in such a state when all your needs are met? are all members of a utopia equal, or should they be? don't all utopias fail? and so on.

Despite the beauty and hopefulness of much of the story, the film itself seems aware that something has passed -- there's a lingering sense of sadness at something lost, or about to be lost. If the utopia in this film is not real, only a reverie, is its loss any less disparaging? The notion of utopia is as important as the actuality of it, and isn't a world whose inhabitants can't imagine a better place as unfortunate as one whose inhabitants must resort to fantasy?

(For similar consideration, see Terrence Malick's grotesquely misunderstood The New World, which is not about specific historical characters as much as about the ideals we attribute to the creation of America -- ideals which are beautiful and noble but which may have never actually been allowed to flourish, not then, and certainly not now.) 8/10

September 29, 2009

Time Make Hulk ANGRY!

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September 27, 2009

Holds Used in Wrestling

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September 25, 2009

Denver Gillen

denver_gillen (0).jpgA few images by Denver Gillen from an old Reader's Digest Condensed Book. For a lot of info on Gillen's life (and many more samples of his work) have a look here (and the following days' postings at that site as well).


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September 24, 2009

Inside and Outside of Me

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September 22, 2009

Wo Sitzt Die Katze?

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Cartoon Crybabies #3

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September 21, 2009

Separated Liver Cells

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September 20, 2009

Assorted Fruit

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September 18, 2009

Adolescent Encyclopedia

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September 17, 2009

Cats & Owls

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September 16, 2009

Tom Hill

tom_hill.jpgArt by Tom Hill from a Readers Digest Condensed Book volume.

September 15, 2009

Creative Computing

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September 14, 2009

Family Tree

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September 12, 2009

If It Weren't for Gravity

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September 11, 2009

Squids

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September 10, 2009

Many Kinds of Disasters

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September 09, 2009

Brownieland

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September 08, 2009

Electrophorous

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September 04, 2009

The Computer

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September 03, 2009

Soda Ash

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September 02, 2009

Modern Dramatic Masks

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September 01, 2009

Almost Perfect Beauty

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August 31, 2009

Nine Profiles

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August 28, 2009

Uterine Sutures

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August 27, 2009

Your Guess is as Good as Mine

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August 26, 2009

And How She Did it!

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August 25, 2009

Garten

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August 24, 2009

Spot teh Errors

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August 18, 2009

Mexicali

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August 15, 2009

Betty Fraser Talks With God

bf_igtttsg_1958 (0).jpgNice line art from 1968. I believe I have more examples of her illustration work done for the Childcraft Encyclopedia series, which I will post eventually (here).


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August 11, 2009

Biomorphs

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August 10, 2009

Balloon

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August 05, 2009

Humor

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August 03, 2009

Larfing

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August 02, 2009

Oh My

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July 31, 2009

Grotesque Mask

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July 29, 2009

Super Great Iron-Ons

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July 27, 2009

Cigarette Burns

cb_ie.jpgHere's a collection of screen-caps where the reel change markers are visible. The fact that these are evident on the DVDs I was viewing means, I guess, that these particular discs were sourced from less than ideal materials (theatrical prints, etc.) rather than whatever they might use in more ideal situations, but I don't really know enough to say for sure. I do notice that most newer DVDs, or newer films on DVD, lack these artifacts; perhaps they've been digitally removed, or, if the film is shot and projected digitally, they simply don't exist at all?


cb_ap13.jpgThe example above is an actual cigarette burn through fabric - almost literally through the fabric of the screen, evoking Alice's looking glass - from David Lynch's Inland Empire.

The image to the left is from John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, one of the leanest action films ever made, a fantastic, harsh film, riddled with startling violence -- even the marker here seems portentious.


cb_apt.jpgThis is Billy Wilder's The Apartment. I'm assuming that where the reel markers are an oval it means the film was shot anamorphically.


cb_bbs (01).jpgThese two are from Jimmy T. Murakami's Battle Beyond the Stars.


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cb_daisies (01).jpgTwo pics from Vera Chytilova's psychedelic masterpiece Daisies. Interesting that here the markers are obviously hand drawn or scratched, perhaps a function of limited budget or technology?


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cb_fpr (1).jpgA couple from Toshio Matsumoto's amazing Funeral Parade of Roses. The image below is, again, like the Lynch image above, of a literal cigarette burn.


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cb_ftm (1).jpgThese two are from Lesley Selander's Flight to Mars, a real celluloid turd. One frame has the traditional "mechanical" mark while the other has what appears to be a smear of grease pencil.


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cb_grad (1).jpgMike Nichols' The Graduate.


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cb_image (1).jpgRadley Metzger's The Image.


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cb_kk (1).jpgStanley Kubrick's Killer's Kiss.


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cb_ll (1).jpgEngel and Orkin's Lovers and Lollipops. These are my favorite -- apocalyptic, terrifying.


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cb_mb.jpgMonsieur Beaucaire, 1946.


cb_mwga.jpgOtto "Mr. Freeze" Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm.


cb_nadja.jpgMichael Almereyda's Nadja.


cb_rs.jpgPowell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes.


cb_sadist.jpgArch Hall, Jr. is The Sadist!


cb_sofp (1).jpgBob Hope's Son of Paleface.


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cb_ss (1).jpgJack Hill's Switchblade Sisters.


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cb_vww (1).jpgJaromil Jires' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. These are odd: One frame square, the next circle.


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cb_wb.jpgEngel's Weddings and Babies.


cb_wtl.jpgWhere There's Life, 1947.


cb_zp (1).jpgAntonioni's Zabriskie Point. Fuck America!


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July 26, 2009

Silent Running

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July 23, 2009

Anonymous Cookbook Art

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July 21, 2009

Sex Problem

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July 20, 2009

Nine Tomorrows

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July 19, 2009

A Nun in the Closet

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July 17, 2009

Sammy Safety Says

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July 15, 2009

Dolphin Fresco at Knossos

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July 14, 2009

Asteroids in Collision

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