The Visual Diary of an Artist & Filmmaker

Motion Picture and Art Appreciation: horror, fantasy, sci-fi, SFX makeup artistry, production design and behind-the-scenes; burlesque, typography, oddities, creatures, dancing skeletons, fart humor and the like; feminism, vegan food, and not being a dick; The Walking Dead, The X-Files, Star Trek, Vincent Price, and... did I mention skeletons? (cis lady - she/her - old as fuck - sex positive)

[vincentpricemustache]

hello, old tumblr account.

maybe I’ll start using this thing again!

[wilwheaton]

Hi Becky! You are awesome! I understand if you don't respond to this, and I not am trying to cause trouble in your comments, but what is your opinion of Jo Jorgensen, the presidential candidate for the Libertarian party? Just out of sheer curiosity!

So none of this is directed at you, personally, but I despise Libertarianism. I flirted with Libertarianism in my youth, when I was totally unaware of my privilege, and the function of government in a Western Liberal Democracy. I guess I believed in the basic pitch, but once I learned more about what it meant in practice, and the more I met pasty white revanchists who made up the majority of party members, the more I saw it for what it was. My flirtation lasted about a year, when I was maybe 21, and then I grew out of it.

The selfishness, the inherent racism, the commitment to turning their backs on everyone who isn’t as privileged as they are, it all disgusts me.

No Libertarian will ever be elected president in America, and I all I can hope is that whatever clown is running as a Libertarian candidate will suck votes away from Turmp to increase Biden’s win.

[gwenhara-deactivated20250421]

Libertarianism is a philosophy followed by college-aged young men who have never lived on their nor paid any bills nor struggled in any appreciable manner.  (The only people I ever come across to actually call themselves Libertarian tend to be my college students, outside of Montana where I grew up and that’s another joke).  In order for it to work, it has to be a form of communism (the true meaning of the word, not the way it’s used in politics) because it’s virtually impossible for a bunch of people to be that selfish and have a functioning anything (this is why every attempt at Libertarian community has failed).  Never forget, Ayn Rand hated the Libertarians because they bastardized her Objectivism which for her was an entire way of life, you don’t just apply it to politics and economics (Steve Ditko is an actual Objectivist).  I find Libertarianism to be one of the most dangerous, navel gazing, selfish, brutal, and fool hardy philosophies one can follow.

[micdotcom]

7 queer icons you might not know about

[wilwheaton]

Unsurprisingly, this guy deleted his account.

[elliescully]

The Scully Effect - the increase of women going into careers of science and law enforcement because of Dana Scully

The Gillian Effect - the increase of women realizing they are gay because of Gillian Anderson

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Famous Monsters of Filmland's 1965 guide to home monster makeup

The Do-It-Yourself Monster Make-Up Handbook is a 1965 classic: Famous Monsters of Filmland founder Forrest Ackerman tapped movie makeup legend Dick Smith to create guides for turning yourself into any of three Martians, two kinds of werewolf, a “weird-oh,” a “derelict,” a ghoul, a mummy, Frankenstein’s monster, Quasimodo, Mr Hyde, “split face,” and more.

https://boingboing.net/2017/03/29/when-derelict-was-a-costume.html

[hifructosemag]

Bernie Wrightson, a comic book industry vet and celebrated illustrator, died on March 18. The artist was vastly influential for generations of illustrators, cited for his elaborate line work and absorbing detail. More on HiFructose.com.

[nevver]

Abandonment issues, Mirna Pavlovic

[nerdylittlepotato]

[hifructosemag]

Swedish illustrator Kilian Eng creates vibrant, hyperdetailed works that hint at fictional worlds. These futurescapes, often in ruins, contain mysterious narratives, allowing the reader to come up with their own motivations and theories.  More on HiFructose.com.

[opticallyaddicted]

Jens Galschiot Ethical Sculptor

Jens Galschiot, (Born 4 June 1954), is a Danish sculptor best known for the Pillar of Shame. Galschiot moved to Odense in 1973, and in 1985 he opened a 2000 square metre combined foundry, studio, Gallery Galschiot and sculpture park.

Jens Galschiot is a very complex artist, who moves around in the main distributing frame as, Installation art , Conceptual art, Happening, Performance art and Street Art with clear references to “social sculptures” (Joseph Beuys), Symbolism and Art Nouveau. Jens Galschiot mainly works with sculptures to fight the injustice in the world, and puts them up in big squares and cities all around the world. The sculptures are mainly made in bronze and paid for with his own money. Via Alchetron

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Hang Son Doong Carsten Peter

Like a castle on a knoll, a rock formation shines beneath a skylight in Hang Son Doong. A storm had just filled the pool, signaling that exploring season was coming to an end. [via]

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Les Diableries Louis Alfred Habert, Pierre Adolph Hennetier, & Louis Edmond Cougny Stereoscopic photography 1860s France

[wilwheaton]

HAIL SATAN

[70sscifiart]

Moebius concept art for the alien in The Abyss

[deactivated3234killmykioff2k16]

when nature takes back its roots <3

[hifructosemag]

Chet Zar, a painter, digital animator, and make-up effects artist, brings his dark, dystopic vision to Copro Gallery with the solo exhibition “DY5TOPIA.” Running through Nov. 5, the exhibition transforms the entire gallery to match the doom and gloom of Zar’s bizarre world of monsters. More on HiFructose.com.

[ostolero]

all people, goth or otherwise, are permitted to pose with my grave

[zooophagous]

Lol pick up my entire skull and do a Shakespeare monologue with it for all I care man I ain’t using it