Gods.peed & Good Luck

God I miss season 1.

can we play laptops? in the meadow

from my Emagynaytion and understanding this would be the playing lap tops

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What the fuck

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?

omf i never thought i'd find posts about alex colville on tumblr, but! he's a local artist where i'm from & i work at a library/archives and have processed a lot of documents related to his art. just wanted to give my two cents!

my impression is that colville did see the world as an unsettling place and a lot of his work was fueled by this general ~malaise?? but in a lot of cases, he was trying to express particular fears or traumas. for instance, this painting (horse and train) was apparently inspired by a really tragic experience his wife had:

iirc she was in a horrible automobile crash, as the car she was in collided with a train. i find it genuinely horrifying to look at, knowing the context, but a lot of colville's work is like that? idk he just seems to capture the feeling you get in nightmares where everything is treacle-ish and slow and inevitable.

Art in the Age of Digital Puritanism (2022) by Iness Rychlik The artist reposted it in 2024 "because it feels relevant in social media today".

you act like you’ve never seen a mermaid in a motel swimming pool before.

pass it on!

(ID in alt text)

I have spent my life in the shadow of this great and winding river.

I have always dwelt in the shadow of my god.

Fury of Magnus in a nutshell

Forbidden orange juice

For the anons in my inbox, the audio's a cover of when the party's over by Billie Eilish; the cover is by an artist called Vines. But I'm not sure that she's posted any more than the one minute I've used in the video.

Can you see Narcissus’s reflection in the liquid?

Nope! I specifically chose something that would diffuse enough to not show one. Whatever he's seeing, we don't get it.

Day Two: "Ruin" "The price of their obedience." Never done perspective work with faces before. I mean, I have, when I was a kid. And I was terrible at it then. This took me several hours to get looking just right, and for once, I'm actually pleased with myself. Only day two, and I'm already improving; yippee!

“Annihilation”

Day 2 - Frankenstein

Don’t react - tread lightly in the Shimmer.

work doodle as im relistening to the Silt verses. She is gods special little princess and she hates it

actually, one more

Val my beloved

Also completely different Chuck Harm design, don’t worry about it

work doodle as im relistening to the Silt verses. She is gods special little princess and she hates it

actually, one more

this is a fanwork for @thesiltverses and my first big animatic! some frames below!

im so glad social media wasn't real in the silt verses so shrue was at least spared the indignity of being forced to do tiktok dances to promote tranquili-tea