Watched it for the umpteenth time last night. 42 years old and as long as you're not watching the original theatrical release, it's a near perfect film. A pure masterclass.
Just a little reminder… I love #mastoart and #fediart but I don't want to rely on the #fediverse , as we’ve all seen what can happen when you lease expect it. If you really like what I do and want to be kept in the loop, I have a newsletter that I publish very occasionally that I will be putting more time into over the next few months:
Busy with work, school holidays and doing rough development sketch work that's not for posting 😞 So here's something I like, done with #fountainpen... Backyard hillybilly Mecha
Two sides of the same coin... 3D photomontage and 3D single object renders; probably a reflection of my past professional use of the medium as a industrial designer and having done technical archiviz for many years. I am going to be using both of these styles in Sub Orbital Machine to do things I can't express with drawing in ink and graphite.
I know the clickthrough rate from SM to websites is horridly low, BUT!.... My collection of very brief world building words and equally brief PostIt Notes doodles is growing.
If you're at all interested in what the flavour of Sub Orbital Machine is all about, you can check out the collection here:
Jan Kaplický Drawings. Probably the most important book I've bought in many years. My father is an architect & I have vivid memories of an arch. magazine with Kaplický's concepts in it. They, along with Chris Foss's '21st Century Foss' set me on a trajectory I am still travelling. Finding this book over the weekend makes it feel like everything of the past year has fallen into place.
Ya gotta pick the right weapon son, no point bringing a knife to a gun fight.
I love working in graphite, and all my fine art pieces for Sub Orbital Machine are done with it. But I have to accept that for some work, you just have to go ink...
It’s interesting just how many of my followers have ‘dormant’ accounts. Many came over in the artist exodus from TwiX, stayed a bit and then went elsewhere. It’s a shame, as there are many great folks in that list. I know a lot are active on that baffling place #bluesky , so why have they left the #Fediverse ? What was the lack of appeal?
@maegul Interesting. I actually find Bluesky more stressful due to complete lack of organic reach for what you post. Without hashtags, you rely 100% on reposts from followers (or to find anything), unless I am missing something. It’s like a system designed to rely 100% on ‘influencers’…
I’m not really a BlueSky person, but they rely on custom feeds for reach there, so you find the relevant feeds and how it works, which is often by hashtag anyway. Otherwise, hashtags are coming, tumblr style apparently.