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Farel Dal @farel.bsky.social · 16h

i love jack kirby and am stoked i got to do this beer label for the @nwmoca.bsky.social and portland, oregon’s own gigantic brewing.

Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts @nwmoca.bsky.social · 20h

Coming November 5th! A special brew made just for NWMOCA by our friends at Gigantic Brewery! Label designed by local great @farel.bsky.social!

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 13h

A residential street in Ashgabät, Turkmenistan r/brutalism

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 22h

Rare commercial Chaykin

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · Mar 22

Litigation is delaying the U.S. theatrical release of Michael Lockshin's masterful adaptation of Bulgakov's Master & Margarita. It can be found online easily enough, but it deserves the big screen. I was lucky enough to catch it at Yale last year and hear Lockshin speak. variety.com/2025/film/gl...

‘The Master and Margarita’ Heads to Court as Producers Block U.S. Release of Russian Blockbuster (EXCLUSIVE)

Sales company Luminosity Pictures has filed suit against two producers attempting to block the film's distribution in English-speaking territories.

variety.com

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 1d

Now I really want to know who would win in an Inferior Man–Zero battle

Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 2d

Can't help but think of Seaguy whenever I see something like this

Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 3d

I wonder if Beto read this just before doing BEM

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 4d

Score of Felix Mendelssohn’s Schilflied illustrated by his own watercolour, 1842.

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 3d

If there is an obscure Sienkiewicz to be seen it shall be seen here

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 3d

how to erase holodeck history

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 3d

Blurred deconstructions of past painting styles are interesting: Flora Yukhnovich, Cecily Brown …

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 4d

Praise be

Rick Veitch On DC Vertigo Finally Publishing His Cancelled Swamp Thing

Rick Veitch on DC Vertigo finally publishing his cancelled Swamp Thing thirty-seven years late

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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 5d

The Necks return with a new 3 hour long, triple album ‘Disquiet’ - shifting gears between ascendant kosmische blues to knotted late night jams and a widely panoramic ambient sprawl, RIYL Miles Davis, Talk Talk, Bohren, Gruppo, Alice

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boomkat.com/products/dis...

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 6d

Reading (finally):

#Schattenfroh (Michael Lentz trans. Max Lawton, ed. Matthias Friedrich, 2025)

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Michael Lentz’s enormous novel Schattenfroh, in its English translation by Max Lawton, edited by Matthias Friedrich, from Deep Vellum in TX

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 6d

Post Office
Oreana, IL

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 7d

Was not expecting a Vollmann … 'review'?

Thomas Pynchon's world of shadows

unherd.com

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 11d

I guarantee Dave Sim owned this ish

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 14d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 12d

Had no idea Harvey was on Vertigo! Crazy

Colin Howells @colinhowells.com · 13d

The question of whether the tagline was added twice by accident or whether it was duplicated intentionally will haunt me

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Laura Bullard @laurabullard.bsky.social · 14d

Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void:

I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 14d

My test of any new AI video model is whether it can make an otter using wifi on an airplane

Here is Sora 2 doing a nature documentary... 1980s music video... a thriller... 50s low budget SciFi film... a safety video.. a film noir... anime... 90s video game cutscene... a French arthouse film