#dead motels

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I should start advertising my series to folks who love the Poconos and defunct hotel/motels. bc that's what this series is, at it's heart. a tribute to all those amazing hotels that have been lost to time. while also building a modern romance story on top of it.... one last hurrah for the old place, if you will.

[redscrawl]

no i will not make separate blogs for my fandoms, everyone who follows me must experience ALL my insanity

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: campy

[williammarksommer]

Boots Court Motel

66 series 

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

[adarkrainbow]

When niche interests like "dead motels" and "the history of Mother Goose" cross...

The Mother Goose House of Hazard, Kentucky dates back to 1930 and operated as a bed and breakfast. In 2021, the goose’s head fell off after being damaged due to a heavy fall. It has since been repaired and reattached but the bed and breakfast operation remains closed for now.

[mayanhandballcourt]

Photographer Alain Matthew Paras

[fascinationstreetmp3]

CHAINSAWS IN HORROR MOVIES 🪚

Evil Dead II (1987) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) Motel Hell (1980) Mandy (2018) Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) [•REC]³: Genesis (2012) Tokyo Gore Police (2008) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Evil Dead Rise (2023)

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[deadbeat-motel]

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The last two designs for the main cast. With these two done, I can finally work on miscellaneous characters that I've been eyeing the most.

Again, thoughts below the cut:

My issues with their Original designs:

Sir Pentious:

I thought I would only have one thing to say about him (the unnecessary eyes) since he was my favorite in the entire original cast but having taken a closer look at him for this, I saw a lot of things that bothers me.

Too many eyes. specifically the lower half of his body has too many eyes and it seems detrimental to him. It's kind of painful to think about it since I do not think we ever see those eyes close. Is he just slithering on the ground with those exposed eyes? That's got to be irritating at best and damaged at worst as he continuously slithers on them.

There are eyes on the bowtie and the hat? There are already 4 extra eyes on his hood, so why have even more? I get that the original Pentious design was basically a monsterous amalgamation of eyes but the eye thing could have been scrapped altogether.

While his palette was the least red out of the cast (More so composed of yellows), it still blends in with the rest of the reds.

The claws are an unnecessary repeating design trait (Alastor and Vox notably have them too). I don't think it would've been too big of a difference to just keep his fingers fully black.

The stripes on his suit are too thick. It's called pinstripes for a reason.

I don't like how the hat is shaped to fit the head, It's awkward.

not a point, but I just wanted to say how the blue color palette works really well with him in that last episode.

CherriBomb:

She's not that bad of a design (She's sort of bland in my opinion) but it's the little small details about her that makes her so simple and also so complicated at the same time. There are so many batches of freckles scattered everywhere, little explosion lines on her skirt as well as the X on her chest, the tattoos are a jamble of random loops and bombs, and her tattering doesn't have an easy shape to consistently draw.

The thought process for these two:

Mx. Pentious:

Pentious goes by both Sir/Miss/Mx. but uses she/they pronouns.

Minimized the actual amount of eyes on her, I kept it only to her actual eyes and those on her hood.

Gave her a butterfly-shaped hood. It's nothing deep since it stems from the fact the notches in Sir Pentious' hood almost looked like one to my bad eyesight. I decided to play more into that idea.

I read some posts where people talk about how Sir Pentious should have a snout and while I understand why and fully support people giving him one, I really didn't want to add the snout to this design. It drove me crazy since I'm not a big fan of it. I tried a compromise where her head was shaped more like Phineas.

Kept the tophat but removed its eye and mouth. If I remember correctly, Viv took that from one of her co-workers from the pilot. I decided to just have it as a regular tophat.

It doesn't have all the colors, but her design does have the Neptunic flag.

I'm not sure if this even is a real snake but I based Mx. Pentious' design on this:

CherriBomb:

Scraped most of her features in exchange for a sukeban theme. I personally have zero knowledge about the punk scene in Australia.

A majority of the suggestions I received for her rough draft had something to do with the skirt. I elongated it and gave it a slit in which the magenta from the inside is able to pop out.

Thought it would be a cute detail to have her hair explode if she's angry.

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Apologies this took too long to be posted, Life got in the way as well as the fact I was feeling shitty about Pentious' first draft. Her skin was an awkward and ugly shade of green and seeing some posts critical of Pentious' design got me to think a little bit more about what direction I'd like to move her redesign.

You could see this in the earlier rough sketches but this was how Pentious' first redesign looked like

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you've unlocked..... hhmap2024.png !!

here is the rough sketch for my fictional totally real lil Resort in the Poconos 🏩🌲

colored & finished version coming soon :-)

[theshineegirl]

rewatching dexter is so funny to me after seeing so many actors in other shows over the years like oh rita's ex husband is lucifer but also that guy who held eddie diaz hostage that one time and huh debs dating young john dorie senior and oh there's bobby singer being a deadbeat dad and omg baby finn wittrock?? wait isn't that the guy from bates motel hunting down hannah??

[the-gone-ton]

Breezewood, PA was once the motel capital of the state due to a quirk of the Interstate Highway System which dumped drivers right into town. These are just some of the remnants of those motels.

Despite appearances, that yellow one was never a Howard Johnson's. It was the Traveler's Rest Motel, whose office was the A-frame building also pictured. There once was a real Howard Johnson's in Breezewood, but it is long gone and a Holiday Inn Express is on the site today.

Also pictured is the bright red Wildwood Motel & adjoining restaurant, the Wildwood Inn, as well as the Panorama Motel's damaged sign & former rooms up on the hill behind it. Notably not pictured is the famous Penn Aire Motel, demolished before I got to it. The other Motel sign is a bonus from nearby Bedford, PA. It got turned into apartments & businesses, but the original hand-painted sign remains. You can read "Roll Arena", the original name of the motel's rollerskating rink, which is still in business today as the Moon Glo II Skating Rink. At the bottom of the sign you can read "Air Conditioned".

[deadmotelsusa]

After being sold out for over a year, 5 discounted copies of Tourist Type: Dead Motels have been added to the shop. Please note: these are SCRATCH & DENT copies. In most cases, expect small blemishes or bends on the cover. Otherwise the internal content is exactly the same as a "good" copy from the original runs. Here’s the link if you’re interested! https://vahalla-studios.myshopify.com/collections/all-products-custom/products/tourist-type-volume-1-first-edition

So excited to announce the release of Tourist Type: Dead Motels! 

I teamed up with visual artist & designer Dustin Williams to create this unique compendium, which offers a look at pure typographic Americana through the lens of over a hundred logos and images from dead and defunct motels around the United States. This book is a love letter to the mom and pop motels of road trips past, an era of design that continues to inspire even as the physical locations themselves are razed year after year. Many of the beloved motels that you have seen featured on this blog have been included!

This edition is 48 pages, annotated, screen printed and bound in a perfect travel size. It is printed by Vahalla Studios and is available now by clicking here or visiting: https://vahalla-studios.myshopify.com/products/tourist-type-dead-motels

[williammarksommer]

Easy Rest Inn

California series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Gold 200iso

[americaisdead]

americana motel. flagstaff, ariz. december 2024

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Photographer Robert von Thaden