Eli Wallis

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A watercolour painting of a man with grey hair, a green shirt, and a lit cigarette, seen from from the back and to the right.
A watercolour painting of a leafy houseplant in a marbled box planter
A normal man presenting you with a copy of Condemned 2: Bloodshot for Xbox 360.
Letterboxd Last Four Watched: My Night at Maud's, Suzanne's Career, The Bakery Girl of Monceau, and Claire's Knee, all by Eric Rohmer.
Letterboxd Last Four Watched: First Cow by Kelly Reichardt, 5 stars Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, rewatch, 5 stars The Rope by Ibrahim Shaddad Niagara by Henry Hathaway
A screenshot from Letterboxd's Diary screen showing the following films logged on the profile 'Dreadringer' in February 2013: Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun on the 19th; The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser on the 18th; A History of Violence on the 17th; Warm Bodies on the 15th; Invincible on the 13th.
A notification screen showing results for various suggested purchases submitted to Fraser Valley Regional Library. Approved purchases: A Touch of Zen by King Hu on Blu-Ray How a Game Lives by Jacob Geller Stray Dogs by Tsai Ming-Liang on DVD Not approved suggestions (due to unavailability from suppliers): Searchers by Zacharias Kunuk on Blu-Ray Memorial by Alice Oswald Batang West Side by Lav Diaz on DVD
Excerpts from Roland Barthes' 'The Death of the Author': "In a multiple writing, indeed, everything is to be distinguished, but nothing deciphered; structure can be followed, "threaded" (like a stocking that has run) in all its recurrences and all its stages, but there is no underlying ground; the space of the writing is to be traversed, not penetrated by refusing to assign to the text (and to the world as text) a "secret:' that is, an ultimate meaning, liberates an activity which we might call counter-theological, properly revolutionary, for to refuse to arrest meaning is finally to refuse God and his hypostases, reason, science, the law."
A normal man presents you with a copy of Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Complete Edition
The carpenter's son from Ocarina of Time. Bald, shirtless, and dead-eyed sitting on his toolbox.
A square acrylic painting on canvas depicting a shelf behind the bar of the Council Club in Balmora, a plain wooden board holding a jewelry-box sized chest and three green-blue bottles.
A square acrylic painting on canvas depicting a green stone planter in a dim corner of the Vivec Mage's Guild containing Coda Flowers, Draggle Tail, Luminous Russula, Violet Coprinus, and grass.
A square acrylic painting on canvas of some white and grey clouds in a blue sky
A 21:9 acrylic painting on canvas depicting a view of blue mountains on the North Shore from the Port Mann suspension bridge.
A paperback novel that reads: "BY THE AUTHOR OF DHALGREN SAMUEL R. DELANY FOUR-TIME NEBULA AWARD WINNER NOVA" With a cover painting of a star ship flying over a desolate red planet with a crashed plane emblazoned "USA".
An abstracted portrait in blue and green watercolour
Top left: Wendy Carlos and The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, "More viruoso electronic performances of Bach, Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Handel"; Pee Wee Russell and Ruby Braff, Jazz at Storyville Vol. 2; Rex Stewart plays Duke Ellington, with a B-Side by Illinois Jacquet
Morrowind; Diablo 2: Lords of Destruction; Dead Rising; Return of the Obra Dinn; Civilization IV Complete; Sam & Max: Hit the Road; Left 4 Dead; Paper Mario; Dark Souls
A low-poly rat
A stone sculpture in a museum setting. A plaque reads: "2308PN80 Tom Clyshpul; A US military policy that airstrikes are only allowed against targets where 10 or less civillians might be killed."
Last Place, a little yellow guy from KC Green's Greatures comic strip, kicks a can
A screen capture from the film Youth (Hard Times) by Wang Bing showing two textile workers in an alley outside their shop in Zhili.