Some fantastic work.
Zansky's flickr bio says:
Zansky is an illustrator and graphic designer that works with several medias from paper to digital, mixing techniques for the best visual results.
At the sime time make part of the art collective BASE-V doing wall paintings, screenprintings and collaborative projects. Work as editor of the pdf magazine MAGUILA.
Available for freelance.
Here are a few more delicious pieces.
Created by Happiness Bastard and standing at 4", the details to this special edition will be revealed soon over at KFHC's store. Check it.
A scientist working on genetically created parasites as a first step to growing new organs, gets himself infected with the parasite. He brings the thing home to his newfangled and high tech apartment complex. Things spread from there.
One of many body invading themed films from writer/director, David Cronenberg.
The film is from 1975 but play pretty well today. Cronenberg's themes are timeless. He takes a couple of six inch, goofy looking, prosthetic dog turd looking things and creates horror that attacks us on an anthropological level. A master.
I posted Shivers as a daily poster before, but the old lady and I just watched it recently and have been talking about it.
The trailer is a textbook example of a 70's horror film trailer.
Poster courtesy of Wrong Side of the Art.
Jonathon Rosenbaum Walks and talks about Bela Tarr's masterpiece, Satantango.
I don't agree with him that the film is funny. I do agree that the film is one of Tarr's more accessible films.
Rosenbaum has a great 2001 interview with Tarr HERE.
(via Press Play)
Spoiler is a 17 minute zombie movie.
Spoiler bear hugs the themes that make the zombie genre wonderful. It hurts your chest with a very personal story about death. It drives in the existential nail.
While Spoiler does stay within its genre, it stretches it. Like Se7en, and Ronin (just a couple of films off the top of my head) Spoiler plays in the zombie sandbox. But it does so by playing in an uncharted area. It is fresh. Here is the synopsis:
The zombie apocalypse happened -- and we won.
But though society has recovered, the threat of infection is always there -- and Los Angeles coroner Tommy Rossman is the man they call when things go wrong.
A must see for zombie fans.
The head's description reads:
This Head was designed by the infamous John Chambers, who designed Planet Of The Apes, and many more. I'm Nico De Silva, the actor, in the picture title, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia.. John Chambers made three others. This is the original and only one I know available. Its a collectors "must have" item. Sam Peckinpah also directed Classics such as; The Wild Bunch-Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid-The Gateway, and more more.
This would be an amazing collectible to have on the shelf.
When you die, all that wil be left are photos and videos of you. Do you want to look good forever?
I've been taking photographs for over twenty-five years and one of my early photo teachers taught me this trick. It is a life changer. People will want you to take their photos after looking at your work. You will look better in photos forever more. I'm not exagerating.
Photographer Peter Hurley talks about the ten pounds that the camera adds and I've always believed it had to do with this trick.
This video is one of those "duh" ideas; it should have been made years ago.
(via Laughing Squid)
I've been making my way the Val Lewton RKO films. They are a quirky handful of films. I don't use the word "quirky" lightly. They are advertised as horror films. Grab a book on horror films and you will see stills from these films. The dead dog in the tree from I Walked with a Zombie is in practically every horror book ever written.These are not horror films. They are something other. Suspense films with a supernatural element. But even the supernatural element can be debated. The films cleverly disguise the truth, and refuse to positively identify their universe as a supernatural one.
The films are clever. The stories are original and you cannot leave the room. They are not scary but they are smart and interesting. I Walked with a Zombie has passionate, stirring, music, mixed with some noirish lighting and shots. The whole thing could be a mess if it had not been handled so deftly.
A nurse comes to the Carribbean island of Saint Sebastian in order to care for a woman who is neither living nor dead. She discovers that many of the locals are part of a voodoo cult. Do they hold the answers to her patient's condition?
There are twists and turns and a bug eyed, creepy looking gentleman.The end is really cool.
The On Cinema gents are hosting a screening of Moment by Moment. They will also talk about the film. The show starts at 11pm and will cost $15.
Wikipedia has this to say about the film:
It tells the story of a romance between a young drifter named Strip Harrison (John Travolta) and an older wealthy woman, Trish Rawlings (Lily Tomlin).
More info is HERE.
On Cinema is now avaiable on YouTube as well as iTunes. Here are a couple of shows to get you warmed up. Their feed is HERE.
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Click here to view the Hyrtl Skull Catalog.
The catalog is pretty fun to look through.
Contact development@collegeofphysicians.org if you are interested in helping out.
The artists name is Kevin Kelly.
I was not a big fan of the smirking, anorexic, semi transparent, hands fell off, silver head line of Micronauts, but these guys were the bomb dot com. I loved Repto (above).
I don't remember Lobros (below.)
