the funny pages

The blog of a girl of simple tastes: memes, 90s fashion, and carmen-colored wine

[hemistitch]

planning my tumblr queue more than my day

[queersatanic]

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[yimra-deactivated20250209]

What the fuck

[screampotato]

This is absolutely fascinating. I've now been looking at Alex Colville's paintings and trying to work out what it is about them that makes them look like CGI and how/why he did that in a world where CGI didn't exist yet. Here's what I've got so far:

- Total lack of atmospheric perspective (things don't fade into the distance)

- Very realistic shading but no or only very faint shadows cast by ambient light.

- Limited interaction between objects and environment (shadows, ripples etc)

- Flat textures and consistent lighting used for backgrounds that would usually show a lot of variation in lighting, colour and texture

- Bodies apparently modelled piece by piece rather than drawn from life, and in a very stiff way so that the bodies show the pose but don't communicate the body language that would usually go with it. They look like dolls.

- Odd composition that cuts off parts that would usually be considered important (like the person's head in the snowy driving scene)

- Very precise drawing of structures and perspective combined with all the simplistic elements I've already listed. In other words, details in the "wrong" places.

What's fascinating about this is that in early or bad CGI, these things come from the fact that the machine is modelling very precisely the shapes and perspectives and colours, but missing out on some parts that are difficult to render (shadows, atmospheric perspective) and being completely unable to pose bodies in such a way as to convey emotion or body language.

But Colville wasn't a computer, so he did these same things *on purpose*. For some reason he was *aiming* for that precise-but-all-wrong look. I mean, mission accomplished! The question in my mind is, did he do this because he was trying to make the pictures unsettling and alienating, or because in some way, this was how he actually saw the world?

[catasters]

[prguitarman]

[disableddyke]

onion not even doing satire at this point

[volcanows]

my friends keep trying to look in the mirror but i dont have mirrors in my car so i fixed it

[rebelrollerqueen]

trying to find something out so please rb and give your opinion on these cookies specifically in the tags

[apoliteia-deactivated20211209]

You are not like the unabomber. I don't think you've ever bombed anything. In fact, you're on tumblr.com making posts. The Unabomber would not have done that.

[turtlesandfrogs]

Queuing this for January too.

[dqnquality]

[lt-amazil]

Dat perspective tho

[pigknightwarrior]

Honestly this shit is impressive

[hemistitch]

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[guerrillatech]

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

cool. why the possum

[yourclashatdemonhead]

he's a comrade

[guerrillatech]

[commander--salamander]

Anti war activist Harvey Milk. That Harvey Milk. Cool cool cool cool cool

[big-pizza]

Fun fact. Harvey milk was dishonorably discharged from the military for being gay. Years after his death, the military sought to make amends and change the status of his discharge, however, Harvey Milk’s family refused. They preferred that Harvey’s dishonorable discharge stay on record indefinitely so no one would forget the military’s history of discrimination.

[hyrude]

ao3′s orphaning option is cool and a good idea but mostly very fucking funny. i posted this work for fun when i was younger and i still want people to be able to come back to it if they liked it, but now im an adult professional and i dont want it attached to my name. whats the word for that? umm, anonymously posting? no. i want something that indicates i murdered this story’s parents 

[kyraneko]

technically the story’s parents faked their own death and disappeared to go have an office job, and that’s even funnier

[bigstupiduglyogre]

[justsomeguycore]

if a post has over 10,000 notes you don’t need to say anything. they already know. whatever you’re going to say op has already heard it

[whitmerule]

yesbut. if it has over 50k notes. i am not talking to OP. OP has already tuned out. post is public property. I am talking to people on my dash. Sorry OP.

[azzandra]

So you’re just going to use eminent domain like that, huh.

[thatpreciousthing]

"stop adding things to my post"

OUR POST

[batou]

Wait youre telling me in the usa if youre sick you cant just show up to a hospital, get checked, sent home and get your day paid by the social security or sometimws your job?

[capacity]

Nope we just gotta walk it off

[capacity]

Americans after we get a life threatening disease:

[gayward-vagabond]

My favorite trope is “janitor in headphones continues cleaning through extreme action”

[adultdadfinder]

I’ve been the janitor in headphones and trust me it’s an act we just don’t wanna be involved in the nonsense