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SILK 2

Classic Movies (art series 1)

Silk 2 is a wonderful stupid movie. I don't really like to make paintings from zero. I like to intervene into something that is there. I have to admit this. So here goes. Some paintings done into or on top of screenshots of Great Classic Movies.

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got scolded for drinking coffee in front of god :-/

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The only movie I've seen where you get a glimpse of the clapboard in the actual released final cut is "Young Rebels."

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Rule of Rose (PlayStation 2, 2006)

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I made a little drawing of Robert Z'Dar.

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Young Rebels (1989)

Strange faces.

A world without a past.

Can a story really be a story if there are no footprints left behind each new step? Things happen in a sequence. Sometimes you can discern a chain of events. A - B - C. But nothing “stays.” Nothing means anything because it isn’t written into a future that holds onto it.

Geography makes no sense either.

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tokyo drifter, seijun suzuki |1966|

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not to be dogmatic but one of the funnier but also depressing things about postmodernism and the total abandonment of socialism and materialism is how sometimes you’ll read a new essay from some very seemingly radical scholar of decolonization or something who has so taken for granted that marxist theory is like eurocentric and marginal and hasn’t seriously studied it and then there’s a section where they’re just unknowingly trying to reverse engineer some very basic principle of marxism and can’t quite get there

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"The Good War on Terror" written by Christopher Hayes.

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The moon is amazing tonight. Stark shadows of trees outside my kitchen window. I drink wine. I am lucky. I hate that this is lucky.

Cat cries. She’s lonely, as we’ve had to be out more than usual.

Been thinking about ego, and loss, and destruction. Also about leaving no trace. Trace is a time/space specific concept. On a long enough timeline, there are no traces. Why do we care?

The problem, it really seems now, to me, is “we.” Or “I.” Not that I don’t like something, but that there is an “I” to like or dislike things. We have to stop with that. It doesn’t work. It is destructive.

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Yes, to all of this. And I think it really hits on something. Not sure where the egg and the hen are but here we are and this is absolutely important.

I lived in the last moments of that world committing to the bit. It was just normal and real. Now, nobody seems to even know what that is. And fuck it even the 90s was full of cynicism, and pastiche and so on. That was 30 years ago now. There was still a "something." Like it's silly but

I dunno

Weirdos and racists all hate this Dragon Age game because politics or something, some stupid ass shit, I don't care, but having reviews on while I do my paperwork, the question again arises-- why is this what nerd shit sounds like, anymore???

The easy answer is "Joss Whedon fucked society" and I get that, fuuuuck that guy, but I think the thing that interests me is they're doing this Insincere Millennial Dreamworks Smirkface dialogue in a fantasy game.

It's the inability to modulate-- this is what Star Wars sounds like now, this is what Star Trek sounds like now, this is what Marvel sounds like, and so on and so on, all the franchises that are just shedding young men while shooting them like a rocket into a Youtube ecosystem that's probably pretty bad for them spiritually, I'd say definitely politically. (e.g. if you ask "why does this suck ass so bad", you're probably going to get an answer on Youtube from unrepentant racists giving you some wackadoo loser-fucking answer about "woke" or whatever).

But it's ... to me, fantasy is a genre where the audience wants a level of sincerity to the bit that yeah, absolutely is ridiculous, but... that's the genre. That's the sell. You get Viggo Mortensen staring at a camera saying "the elves of Rorrarrhura have a complicated lore which I will explain to you as though you will violate my grandparent's graves if I crack a smile." Conan the Barbarian is funny, but it's always at a 1000 in its sincerity, that's part of what makes it great. What is more sincere on this Earth than Star Trek... before this dialogue took over there, too?? So if they're writing fantasy, why can't they just write fantasy?

Why can't writing for nerds be sincere, anymore? Nerds are still nerds. I don't think nerds have changed.

Just hearing dialogue this fucking bad and obnoxious, like, I do get why you'd come up with a political answer to that question, or questions that kind of lead to madness. I don't go that way myself because Video Game Racists are so fucking pathetic and cretinous, eunuch behavior. But I think my answer would involve the internet and how that's made younger people more afraid of being judged, even if ... having myself been judged on the internet, the repeated lesson is you shouldn't care at all, not about that. But "because the internet" feels kind of cheap, too.

What happened to committing to the bit? Why would you want to do a fantasy story or any kind of high fantastical story (space opera, haunted house, whatever) if you didn't get to commit to the bit, to feel the pleasure of putting your flesh suit into that fiction suit, you know? ... Maybe it's just Whedon/Dan-Harmon's fault. Maybe it's politics. I don't think it's as huge a priority as fixing like The Economy, but I do wonder if maybe fixing whatever the hell is happening here might not help with the What's Up with Young Men thing, a little, so their anger is at least getting channeled into their actual conditions in the material world rather than their inability to escape into fantasy. (Ideally they wouldn't want to escape as much, but with like ten thousand asterixes by that).

I haven't thought all this out. I'm taking a break from work, and I mean, the topic doesn't really deserve thought, at all, not with finite time on earth. But. Still, this is awful. ""Why do you run around in fancy mage clothes?" "Because I like them." "Everything alright?" "We're fine-- just trading fashion tips." What is this???

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I've got a life.

It kept reminding me of something else. Eurythmics, of course. So here's a mashup.

I think it's funny.

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start seeing everything as God, but keep it a secret

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Spacemaster was published in 1988 (is this 2nd ed?).

And I just want to talk about this one image. A small black and white illustration on page 10 of the GM book. Utterly forgettable and silently amazing. An amazing mix of sci-fi and kitchen sink realism. This is the influence of “Alien”, of course. I just love this combo. I also want the experimental art-novel space opera (are there ones? Is there? Let me know!! Like Robbe-Grillet or Proust does Dune). There's a bit of 2001 also. This man looking out into space, with a (styrofoam?) coffee cup. Just perfect. This is where we are (in game terms): space, but real. It’s perfect for what the game is. And it’s just fun. Also being such a simple drawing just adds to the effect.

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X-files s01e11 EVE

First of all: Twin clone psychic girls? 100% scary. Just right away a winner. Shining-vibe and everything. Psychic powers, secret government experiments, mental hospital-prisons. All great! Some genuine tense moments. The ending could have gone a lot of other ways. All good. And we see some of Scully being moved by children. And the image of them buying sodas with the girls is so good. This is them in some alternate reality, just another happy family.

But that’s the thing maybe. There can be no happy families in the X-Files. For a little while, maybe, at most. Then it’ll turn to horror or sadness. It’s almost always families being broken apart most episodes, I mean. The episodic thing. Look at these people here, having life torn asunder. And then Mulder having his trauma, and Scully her always unfulfilled hopes.

A really good episode.

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A Princess In Peril by Clyde Caldwell