Butlerian Farquaad

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art direction for film/tv. IATSE local 800/829 ✊🏼

a sloth that absolutely looks like steve zahn
Selfie of a grizzled yet youthful 42yo man on an airplane. He has a tight, disdainful look on his face despite having consumed two martinis before boarding
the Jamie Lee Curtis “drinking beer” meme
the scene from the end of apollo 13 when all the nasa nerds get to hooting and hollering
a professional whatsapp exchange that concludes with me saying "Also...been reading the news out of France. It's just never ending huh!" they (french) respond: "Politics... the door is narrow between your own interest and the national/citizens interest. Between the political power and our ultra-richs/elites.. And in general the vision of the life, opinions and convictions of "standard people" are far and completely different than the elites.. Our word/society has never changed since the dawn of time (kings, Napoléon, César etc) the balance of power between humans is nowhere near changing 🙃 Open discussion, just sharing my point of view"
the "morpheus is fighting neo!" scene from The Matrix (1999)
Tim Robinson as Sammy Paradise. He’s ruined. He’s a dead man.
hidetaka miyazaki comped into the don draper drunken pitch meme. the sign on the easel says "furtive pygmy souls"
Me. Burns from The Simpsons stating “Since the beginning of time man has yearned to fuck the stars.”
an IG story featuring a close up of a Mai tai cocktail. A still from the film Devil’s Advocate (1997) is superimposed. It features Al Pacino and the subtitled quote “It’s my time now.” “My time” is replaced with “MAI TAI”
A from The Conversation (1974) of Gene Hackman as protagonist Henry Caul. He is crouched under his bathroom sink, listening to captured audio on a pair of headphones.
an overhead map of Narshe, a snow-covered mining town and starting location in Final Fantasy VI
A photograph from the late 80s featuring two young boys posing in front of a CRT television. The tv displays a Nintendo Power VHS paused on the words “POWER UP YOUR NINTENDO SCORE”
A screengrab of Jack Nance as the character ‘Pete Martell’ in Twin Peaks. He’s alarmed due to having just discovered there’d been a fish in the percolator.
the “this seems fine” meme - pulled from the webcomic by artist KC Green - with a photo superimposed from the palisades fire of january 2025, showing a man smiling into a camera that he’s holding with his left hand while using a cell phone in the right to light his face. two women stand behind him, similarly smiling into the camera
a photo of walnut bars cut to portion on a large baking sheet. they look really good and are in fact really really good
The rooftop scene from It Follows except the monster is replaced with a disturbing illustration of an anthropomorphized egg squirting milk into a bucket labeled “nog”
Image of Godwin, Prince of Death from Elden Ring. A really nasty flat boy.
the “you know I had to do it to em” meme - featuring a young man dressed in a short sleeve button-down tucked into knee length shorts - with an image of Charlie Brown’s face superimposed over his head
a still of the final scene from the film Interstellar (2014) featuring Anne Hathaway on an alien planet now destined to be her home.
the “car dealer slaps hood of car” meme Car Dealer: “THIS BABY CAN FIT SO MANY FUCKING NIGHTSHADES” Car: “THE BEST CUISINES IN THE WORLD”
Screengrab of new Bluesky users—part of the Great Swiftie Migration—sharing their joy upon learning that posts are called “flutters”, all of them apparently as yet unaware that they’re called “skeets” in practice
An image of shrimp tacos served up on a styrofoam plate. Picture doesn’t do it justice.
the original “you’re the man now dog” meme but it says “if they will raid a house for a squirrel they’re sure as shit going to come for you”
The astronaut “always has been” meme but it says “if they’ll raid a house for a squirrel they’re sure as shit going to come after you”
Still frame from Mulholland Dr (2000) of Dan (Patrick Fischler) collapsing behind a diner after confronting the dark presence from his dreams.
photograph of a dog - kind of a corgi hound mix - with coloring like autumn leaves to match the pile of autumn leaves she’s sitting in
A stack of books on my reading list. In descending order: “The Possessed” by Albert Camus “Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow” by Gabriel Zevin “If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller” by Italo Calvino “A Season in Hell” by Arthur Rimbaud “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth “The Death & Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs “Selected Poetry” by Rainer Maria Rilke “Crime & Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky “The Poetics of Reverie” by Gaston Bachelard “Lyrical & Critical Essays” by Albert Camus “The Power Broker” by Robert A. Caro “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” by Shoshanna Zuboff “A Cause d’Une Fleur” by Maria Medem There’s no way in hell these are all getting read before end of 2024 (staring at “The Power Broker”)
A photo containing dozens of objects that upon close inspection are completely unidentifiable.
Screengrab of a coffee mug on aftermath’s online merch site. Reads: Big Mug $15.00 A big 15oz mug with an Aftermath logo on it. Holds a LOT of coffee.
a photo of homemade huevos rancheros and a french press on a cute lil cutting board
An image of a man on the subway with a t-shirt that reads “ERIC ADAMS HATES NY”
A graphic showing that I’m Bluesky user #92,183 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A shot from 3 Body Problem of a scientist’s headshot (?!?) on a bulletin board with an X across her face written in thick red sharpie to denote that she’s just killed herself.
A creepy promo image of a woman wearing the Apple Vision Pro. She smiles serenely, her eyes visible through the front of the headset.
A still from the film Barton Fink, featuring Michael Lerner as the studio exec and the subtitle “show us something that gives us that Gita Jackson feeling.”
A still from Dune pt 2 (2024) of Dave Bautista with his mouth open.
A still image from Dune pt. 2, featuring Timothee Chalamet as Paul Atreides. In caption below it reads “this is a rave, actually”
A passage from “The Sirens of Titan” by Kurt Vonnegu, first published in 1959. “Unk was at war with his environment. He had come to regard his environment as being either malevolent or cruelly mismanaged. His response was to fight it with the only weapons at handpassive resistance and open displays of contempt.”