Kovacs is on some stupid shit

i hate this guy

Just saw on Quora a guy asking if Poland was more German or Russian and every reply was a Polish guy detailing the ways they wanted to kill him

"THAT'S MY HUSBAND!!!!"

Reed interrupting a Luna Snow concert to talk about quantum physics while making his whole arm a heart for his wife 💘💕💗💖

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PEAK PEAK PEAK UNBRIDLED PEAK, THE BEST COMIC COUPLE. they cooked with this fr, gourmet

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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.

This is my personal fav Colville painting, To Prince Edward Island (1965) <333

stop eating gruel with the fools and come eat a leek with a freak

in my new fanfic, john wilkes booth has been set loose in the universe of warhammer 40k

you’re cooking

this 10000 year old diner still serves coke the old fashioned way

if you get enough curses eventually they start eating each other. fuck it

Daily schedule:

crumb comics dump

90s anime women were so fucking beauitful god bless. i miss them so much

shes the cutest anime girl ive ever seen and shes in the bg for 2 seconds

i think im in love with her. bg characters 4ever ❤️

since so many people are reblogging this the anime is Golden Boy 💖 its an ecchi comedy so expect the average "boobs bouncing lots of sex jokes" kind of humor but the art style and character designs are so pretty im just kind of fixated on that

this is the main lady:tm: she has a manic look in her eyes sometimes that i really enjoy

OP please elaborate

with pleasure

ah shit sorry man i didnt mean to spill my "aro4aro friends with benefits relationship" all over your favorite ship, fuck dude my bad, it wont happen again

died and came back wrong and no one could tell the difference