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the mostly dormant collective archive of rockhyrax and longunevenhair.

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Adam Putnam's Reclaimed Empire (2008-2018). The current version is 2008-2025, runs 42 minutes, and contains a few images even more striking than these.

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Snack Bar Budapest (Tinto Brass, 1988)

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Sometimes I find film stills I screen grabbed months ago and I have absolutely no idea what I was watching, and the feeling that they evoke is probably more compelling for it.

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Gregg Araki's 1987 first feature Three Bewildered People in the Night

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Burning Beds / Brennende Betten (Pia Frankenberg, 1988)

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From what I can tell, the “Space Crowd” trope really thrived in the 80s and 90s. Here’s a great example: Gary Ruddell’s cover art for “Shufflepuck Cafe,” a 1988 Broderbund Software computer game about playing air hockey against aliens in a space cafe.

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Who else played this? It was just a monochrome mac classic-era air hocky game where you had to twitch the mouse around to hit the puck back, but setting it in a spacebar full of animated weirdos with different playstyles (not to mention methods of cheating!) made it such an experience. I'll always remember these characters, not all of whom I was ever able to best. By the creator of Carmen Sandiego!

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The things we left behind, Kearny Marsh.

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Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986)

Manhunter (Barry, Dave, and Dee Dee Murry, 1988).

For many years, not having directly experienced either, I assumed these two rather different examples of serial killer media were telling the same story.

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Ideal 80s NYC grime and jumpsuits in Mutant Hunt (1987)

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Polish Batman and others in Jan Lenica's 1968 feature, Adam 2.

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Not Yet Out of the Wood (Jennet Thomas). Some bat with a message at Antimatter 2021.

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Chiru! Chiru! Stop that animal divination and open up!

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Important Templar research.

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Time capsule, Long Island 1983.

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The only holiday cards I need this year. (Marker as… Krampus cat? What is this folklore I should know more about?) 

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Queens of Evil.