I’m fond of saying that good manips start with good source material. One thing I’ve always been very diligent about with my work was to find the best source material I could. Quite often, when I find images ripe for manipulation, I’ll snag a few pics from a series and then spend days trying to…
Welcome back dear reader, So, as I said last time my thoughts and reaction to the trailer for the upcoming remake/prequel to The Thing was going to take two posts. This time out, I’d like to publicly engage in one of those weird things I normally do in a dark room behind a closed door:…
When we finished Lieder, I asked Tabico if she would be interested in penning a little retrospective post for my blog. Happily, she was on-board and so I’m pleased to treat you to a guest post (the first for my site) from none other than the lady herself. Do enjoy. -Callidus My motivation to write…
Check it out, I’m writing about movies again. In my continuing quest to figure out why the hell I can’t seem to update here more regularly, its occurred to me that I might broaden my horizons a bit. I don’t necessarily have a erotic-mind-control-moment every day that would be worth sharing, so why not write about other things?
So, this week I’m going to write about an upcoming film that is a unique prequel/remake of which I happen to be a big fan of the source material. As it turns out, I’m a really big fan and this is going to take two posts so…buckle in.
Last time, I wrote about At The Mountains of Madness. Now, in addition to being one of my favorite Lovecraft stories, it was also extremely influential on a novella published two years later: John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There?
Spoilers ahead…
Who Goes There? depicts a group of scientists in Antarctica who discover a spacecraft and its pilot buried in the ice. They bring the preserved pilot back to their camp where it’s thawed out and they discover that it is a highly-intelligent creature capable of assuming the physical appearance, memories, and personality of any being it devours. Soon, panic and madness set in as the group realizes that someone, and probably several someones, amongst them are no longer human.
H.P. Lovecraft gets mad-love in the mc community. Particularly with the likes of Tabico, thrall, Lady K, and others who aren’t averse to wandering into squicky waters. I’m a fan of Lovecraft and an even bigger fan of Guillermo del Toro (btw, if you’ve never seen The Devil’s Backbone, get it now). As such, I’m…
Just to give you an idea of how far behind I am in updating this blog, the very post you’re reading now was originally intended for Thanksgiving. You see, around that time there had been a literal (or literary) deluge of fiction from some of my very favorite authors. Jukebox and thrall had formed an…
While formal employment hasn’t allowed for much progress over the weekend, I thought I’d post tonight anyway and let everyone know that its going to happen this week. The manip I’ve been working on for twice as long as I’ve been teasing it is ‘this close’ (you can’t see my finger and thumb, but they’re…
Greetings and salutations dear reader. Though I can’t imagine why would you check this space with any regular frequency (as I am apparently incapable of updating it as such), on the off chance you’re out there, wondering what I’m up to, I thought I’d tell you. I’ve been creating. The super secret project is still…
Tabico once told me not to let ‘perfect be the enemy of good.’ Which is another way of saying that its important to know when you’ve taken something far enough and that expending any more energy at that point may not pay off with additional quality in proportion to the time spent. Since she’s quite…
Welcome back dear reader. As we move into August, I am juggling more freelance work than I can shake a stick at, and yet, somehow, I’m also making measurable progress on the animated manip project I’ve been telling you about. So, I’m back with another quick tease of my latest venture and a little peek…