#brian calvin

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Raf Simons SS13 - Brian Calvin Modelo Tee

As seen in HBO's We Are Who We Are

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Brian Calvin - Lifelike (2024)

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Art| Brian Calvin's "Still" Exhibit Is The Latest Allure at Palazzo Cavanis

Cubist-enthusiastic artist Brian Calvin surfaces with a portrait exhibit stationed at Palazzo Cavanis for his first solo exhibition in Venice dubbed “Still“. A sight to see for sure, this eye-ear-nose themed delivery of vibrant colors adorned on images of women luring viewers in with their apathetic gaze. Calvin’s pieces a yet another great presentation of his ability to provide subject without…

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Some gift sketches for the lovely @the-blueish-trashcan . More mechs, of course

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theres something weird in rosswood park...

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PROM GOERS!

I love prom goers. You should join us.

Context for the last photo(@caseyqz):

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ENGLISH OR SPANISH 😈

brad huff: *frozen* 🥶

sus calvin: *moves* CAN I GET A HOYAAAA?

me: AYOO- 😳

andre: Why so serious 👽

those who know:💀(only in balkans)

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credits ; @ciitor 🤎

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I gotta say, this last panel from a nightmare sequence in Calvin & Hobbes, where Miss Wormwood spontaneously transforms into an alien monster as she maniacally pours gasoline onto Calvin right next to his burning homework paper, always freaked me out growing up!

Giving me some serious flashbacks to that scene of Peter suddenly transforming into Venom from Ultimate Spider-Man!

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Honestly why didn’t I discover comics sooner?

I mean, I’ve loved Calvin and Hobbes since I could read, but I didn’t discover the rest of what comics had to offer until I was an adult. No one told me how fun they are!

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CHAPEL

Written by Brian Witten & Eric Stephenson Drawn by Tom Tenny & Calvin Irving Published by Image Comics

The character of Chapel is a standard Big Muscular Soldier With Lots of Guns that Rob Liefeld is known for, making his debut in the very first issue of Youngblood, the series that launched Image Comics. He was former U.S. soldier and CIA operative named Bruce Stinson who was recruited onto the first Youngblood team and given the codename Chapel (I don't think it was ever explained what the name is supposed to mean). His distinguishing characteristics are that he’s a Black man, and he wore face paint of a white skull on his face. In an early synergistic connection of the burgeoning Image Comics Universe, it was eventually revealed that Chapel was the man who murdered Al Simmons, who then came back as Todd McFarlane’s Spawn. When Spawn finally remembered that, he tracked down Chapel looking for revenge, but instead of killing him he burned the paint on Chapel’s face, now giving him a permanent skull-face (the implication is that this would make Chapel, who was a notorious womanizer in her personal life, look like a freak and that would scare women away from him, which is something that would be worse than death for a man like him).

I'll note that when the character appeared in the 1997 Spawn animated series he was named Jess Chapel. Chapel was also revealed to have HIV (which was purposely injected in him by his old boss, Jason Wynn, another character from Todd McFarlane's Spawn series), which got him removed from Youngblood and sent to the covert ops Bloodstrike team.

This two-part series, published in February 1995, takes place during that time, as Chapel is alone and feeling like his life is spiraling out of control, and he flashes back to a mission he had when he was still a U.S. Government soldier.

It’s 1983, Chapel leads a handpicked squad of soldiers to Nicaragua, where they’ve been sent to assassin a man identified only as Col. Black, said to have been a former U.S. ally who’s gone rogue and set himself up as some kind of warlord. We’re introduced to his team of six soldiers but even though Chapel notes the specific skills of each one (one is a martial arts expert, one speaks multiple languages, etc.), it’s pretty clear that these guys are basically red shirts, just there to further Chapel’s story. The only notable thing about any of them is that one is named Billy Zane and one is named Jet Li. The team lands in the jungle where they immediately encounter some of Black’s soldiers and a massive gunfight ensues, which Chapel and his team win. But Chapel has noted that there were rumors of Col. Black engaging in voodoo and necromancy, and he sees evidence of that when one of the dead soldiers speaks to him after Chapel killed him. The team continues exploring the jungle, cutting through a lake where Chapel is suddenly dragged underwater by a giant anaconda.

In issue number two, which came out a month later, Chapel of course survives the anaconda attack, and the team makes it to a local village where they see that all of the villagers had been slaughtered and had their hearts ripped out. Even Chapel is outraged at the loss of all those innocent civilians and is determined to make Col. Black pay for them. They then get attacked and surrounded by another batch of soldiers, but these are zombies, making them extra difficult to “kill.” Most of Chapel’s team gets killed (like I said: redshirts) and this leads to Chapel’s one-on-one showdown with Col. Black, who does turn out to possess demonic powers.

This series is heavy on action, and lots of brutal gun violence, ably illustrated by Tom Tenny and Calvin Irving in the first issue and just by Irving in the second issue. It’s like a Rambo movie on paper. The story itself shows that Chapel is not the unfeeling brute that he often appeared to be, through the anger he felt at the deaths of the villagers and his team members, plus at one point he admits to himself that he’s scared. He also shows intelligence in figuring out how to defeat Col. Black. Thus it's an entertaining little series for what it is.

Unfortunately, the series is long out-of-print and not available for sale digitally, but I'd recommend tracking down copies if you're a fan of Rob Liefeld's Extreme Universe characters. Chapel (02/1995 1st Series) comic books 1990-1999

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Mechanisms fandom take my offerings (scraps)

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Uma cópia de Alien e Predador que ninguém viu: O Último Predador (Within the Rock, 1996)

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Hey this is kinda Breg

The song:

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#oh look it's my feelings about the current AI boom #automation can improve life if the wealthy and powerful are not the ones that controls what gets automated #and if we let go of the notion of the 40 hour workweek (tags courtesy of @zanzibarhamster)

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This and also respect work that humans enjoy doing. Creative work, problem solving, working with plants and animals and other people, raising a family or caring for elders, etc. Let us thrive in work that is fulfilling and find the time to do so thanks to the automation that assists us. (comment courtesy of @rum-and-shattered-dreams)

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This is literally what the actual source-of-the-name Luddites advocated. It is in fact what they lived Centuries of improvement in loom technology slowly reduced the working hours of weavers down from something like 50 hours a week to something more like low 30s.

What changed was that business entrepreneurs realized they could make incredibly low quality cloth with machine looms which didn’t require any more still than a child could have. So in places where the regulations were weak, they enslaved orphan children and force them to work 16-hour days pretty soon low quality cloth which they use the variety of false pretenses and unethical fiscal strongarming to sell it as if it was worth the same as high quality cloth.

This wasn’t even particularly effective, the vast majority of those machine room owners went out of business. But it was an enticing enough possibility for the capitalists in Britain that entire regions saw so many people go out of work that there was widespread starvation. The quality of cloth went down and never came back up, modern cloth is still of lower quality than the handmade stuff used to be despite the ostensibly higher threadcount (threadcount is not the end all be all of quality). And the amount of human labor involved is not actually substantially reduced. The limitations of machine weaving mean that more sewing is necessary than ever, and all of that is done by hand in sweatshops.

The Luddites absolutely had the right idea, and they lived it. Their work wasn’t always easy, but by and large they described liking their lives, feeling a sense of pride in their trade, and had good qualities of life. And they sunk the benefits of their productivity, as technology improved, into a combination of reduced work hours and better quality of life. (Though it is important to note that as being a weaver improved in terms of job quality the work was increasingly transferred out of women’s spheres and into men’s spheres. This was not a social structure devoid of oppression.)

So yeah. Read Blood In The Machine if you want to know more it’s a really good book. (comment courtesy of @crazy-pages)

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Yep. "Luddite" is a term of ridicule only in the sense that socialist, communist or union are: they were opposed to the enshittification of their day, and wanted the advancement of human knowledge and productivity to go towards reducing the burdens of life rather than into some murderer's pocket. (comment courtesy of @aquietwhyme)

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Absolutely.

It even plugs into Calvinism: Very little of what we call work brings us any closer to the Kingdom of God. But doing math? making art? gardening? running institutions justly and fairly? That's not only work, it's the best and most productive kind. And if it's something you love, you'll do it better, longer, than if you were just worried about having your family on your health insurance policy.

In addition, there are a lot of good and necessary jobs that are poorly regarded and badly compensated. That needs to change. The idea that the people we need should be treated poorly, and the people we don't should be abundantly rewarded, comes from diseased thinking. (comment courtesy of @raleigh-straight)

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Yes, but the idea that leisure is wrong and that we must work constantly is driven largely by religion. That's where the concept is leisure as a sin comes from.

Every time I've heard someone dismiss the concept of a universal basic income, shorter work weeks, or any plan that would reduce how much people are forced to work, the excuses are always based in the persons faith. That we must work or we inevitably will fall to sin and do bad things. Or however they want to rephrase the concept.

That's the dragon we must slay first, if we want to find a path to a better world. (comment courtesy of @thenightgaunt)

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It’s stunning, in archaeology, to realize that if you find a place which would have been accessible to people 10,000 years ago, and which has by whatever chance been preserved since that time, there’s a high chance that you will find art from that time.

Now, it’s possible that people back then were very selective about where they put their art, certainly. But it beggars the imagination, it does, to think that they only saw fit to chip rock petroglyphs in an inhospitable desert, only made paintings in a handful of caves, only scratched out their memories in tucked-away rock shelters.

It seems vastly more likely that, given time and opportunity, people simply made art as often as they could. That there is an inherent impulse to learn, grow, and create; anything other than those things should be viewed as a distraction.

Yet, in our modern times, while in theory we could easily exist in considerable luxury, instead there are those who make great effort to assure the majority of people devote the majority of their time to toil, for no tangible value to anyone at all. One might even go so far as to suggest that the actual goal of this is to blunt that human desire to grow and create. That what they truly fear is a world in which every person is free to pursue beyond the needs of food and shelter and health, to contribute to humanity in a way which has the potential to change our world rather than merely maintaining it. (comment courtesy of @hasufin)

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Based on historical evidence that we do have, I see no reason to think that pre-historical people who were as human as we are, biologically, wouldn't have done the same things as we do, re: art all over. So yeah, they probably did paint outside and carve trees and decorate trade routes and whatever, but it's just the hidden away stuff that's lasted this long*.

I 100% believe that squashing that impulse is baked into how we're currently living now, same as how schools work is meant to train up good employees rather than people who know how to think and learn well, etc.

if time travel is ever invented, I want someone to go back and check this for me, and take pictures. I bet they hung things from trees and painted way-markers and carved totems and painted themselves and all sorts of stuff. (comment courtesy of @samiholloway)

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Don't forget how addictive control over the lives of people is. (comment courtesy of @antarctica-starts-here)

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[Image 1 ID: A quote by Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick.

If one machine can cut necessary human labour by half, why make half the workforce redundant, rather than employing the same number for half the time? Why not take advantage of automation to reduce the average working week from 40 hours to 30, and then to 20, and then to 10, with each diminishing block of labour time counting as a full-time job? This would be possible if the gains from automation were not mostly seized by the rich and powerful, but were distributed fairly instead. Rather than try to repel the advance of the machine, which is all that the Luddites could imagine, we should prepare for a future of more leisure, which automation makes possible. But, to do that, we first need a revolution in social thinking.

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[Image 2 ID: A quote by Buckminster Fuller, 1970

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living It is a fact today that 1 in 10,000 can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody must be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, we must justify our right to exist The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they have to earn a living

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[Image 3 ID: Two panel comic of a man in front of a workplace full of robots operating the computers. In the first panel, the man is crouched over on the curb, bemoaning:

Damn, a robot took over my job! Now I have to look for a new source of monetary income…

In the second panel, the man has his arms raised to the heavens triumphantly crowing:

Yay! A robot took over my job! Now I am free to actually enjoy life!

/end ID]

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Today's Chores, Homework, and Fortnite comic book recommendation is Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Waterson