modern special effects are soulless garbage

drew struzan airbrushes your childhood

drew struzan
It’s impossible to overstate how closely this man’s poster art was inextricably linked to my entire idea of “movies” when I was a kid. Browsing the gallery, its clear that I didn’t always even realize it; there are posters he did that must have clicked with me on some level, but I’m only now seeing them and thinking “oh YEAH he did that!” Struzan’s art might not be the most high-brow, but it definitely captures a childlike sense of wonder and adventure that few others would be able to acheive.

satan does not want you to read

Lady Omega – The 13 Most Unreadable Metal Logos

I loooooooove metal logos. I was pretty proud of myself for being able to read the Impaled logo on a shirt the other week without asking, but that was NOTHING compared to these logos. It must have been so much fun to create these. I went with the Absu logo for this post cuz I love Absu, but you should see the other ones!

kim asendorf/pixel shifting

but does it float
I strongly, strongly recommend that you head over to But Does It Float and check these images out, and if you click the images there, you’ll be taken to Kim Asendorf’s flickr page. I saw this on my friend Catherine’s feed and was blown away. The images remind me a lot of the album covers for the band Growing, as well as album covers for Autechre. So awesome (in the traditional sense of the word)! I tried to look up pixel shifting to try and understood how this was acheived, but I’m still clueless. Does anyone know?

the musee mecanique

from morbid anatomy

Some fantastic gifs and pics from the Musee Mecanique in San Francisco. I love that place. The rest of Morbid Anatomy is great too! Be sure to see the full site.

extinct animals

rare photographs of extinct animals

I love this kind of thing. The question of extinction, particularly human-caused extinction, and the extent to which we should stride to prevent it, is very interesting to me. How much do we miss the Tasmanian Tiger?

white rainbow on tumblr

white rainbow

My good friend jon brought this one to my attention… Adam Forkner splits this blog between White Rainbow news, and things he finds interesting- which are often things I find interesting. Worth checking out!

hitchhiker’s gifs

from analog medium

I found this blog in my bookmarks folder, and don’t recall the exact reasons for bookmarking it. However, given that they talk about NES art, cult movies, game genie cheat codes, and hip-hop, I am guessing that I bookmarked it for those reasons. Check out the full site.

muni graffiti

Like yesterday’s post, this example of graffiti is way old. But then, it’s also way awesome. I’d much rather ride a bus covered in graffiti than a bus full of trash, although the two often go hand in hand.

hacked billboards

textually.org

This is from a couple years back in L.A…..