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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 35m

“You’re so cool.”

Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 38m

God, this shot.

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 1h

I’m not quite sure how the Ed Wood version of Vampira keeps her job as a horror movie hostess for more than a week given the utter legit disdain and lack of knowledge she has about the films she’s presenting (the jugs don’t quite make up for just how angry the Forry Ackerman crowd would be)

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shan🎷🐛 @shanhoran.bsky.social · 1h

thank you person who community noted this lol…. 400k likes on a bot account reposting my art once again… fascinating

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1h

Dumb question: Have any BOOKS ever had a licensed pinball? Not movie or tv adaptations of books- an actual prose novel licensed as a theme for a pinball game.

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah. Leyendecker woulda been proud.

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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 3h

🧪Did I really have time for this story? No, I did not, for reasons I'll be sharing soon. Did I absolutely feel compelled to write it anyways? You know I did! A viral mystery solved by science. Read on @sciencenews.bsky.social

Also, I have a new to-do for my trip to Chicago for #SciWri25 next month!

The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn't made by a rat

Researchers used methods from paleontology to analyze the quirky local landmark, created when a rodent of a certain size fell into wet concrete.

www.sciencenews.org

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 3h

If this surprisingly caked-up Halloween skin doesn’t get released into Fortnite by the end of this week, there might be some murder/suicides among the gooning community.

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 3h

There’s quite a lot of ad compilations outta Pittsburgh, and my friend’s Judgie and Bupshie spent ALL their time doing nothing but taping broadcast TV - I sometimes wonder, when they died, if some part of their vast collection of tapes somehow made their way online.

Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.social · 3h

Thinking about how we probably won't have "2025 Nostalgic Ad Compilations" videos twenty years from now because we don't record TV anymore.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 3h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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Jenn Frank @jennatar.bsky.social · 4h

small-business introverts

me: all the grandfather clock guys (both of them) have 2 stars on yelp due to being introverts
me: and because clocks in general are fiddly
bff: lol, but that’s why they are clock guys!
me: exactly. Text and don’t scare ‘em
bff: lol

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 4h

I love ILM’s Brian Johnson trying to explain the idea of this CGI X-Wing to Alan Arnold (in Arnold’s fantastic making-of-Empire Strikes Back diary) in 1979:

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5h

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

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Phil Theobald @whimsicalphil.bsky.social · 5h

A grim reminder of how things have changed as I listen to Dr. Demento's final show (a countdown of the 40 most requested songs from the show's 55 year history) and he has to explain why Julie Brown's "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" stopped getting requested as much as it did during the '80s/'90s.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 7h

Sam Altman one of a number of powerful men who have essentially risen to prominence because they’ve never been asked a single follow-up question

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 6h

Has any artist ever been paid to draw another person's face as often as Struzan was with Harrison Ford?

Dude probably saw that stubbled face swimming in the dark when he closed his eyes at night.

Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 7h

When Disney secured the Indiana Jones Adventure ride license from Lucasfilm, they didn’t have permission to use Harrison Ford’s likeness for the poster art. Drew Struzan called Harrison Ford and directly asked him. Ford permitted Struzan because he inherently trusted him.

Page 52 of “Poster Art of the Disney Parks.”

Two poster concepts for the Indiana Jones Adventure ride.

"When Disney licensed Lucasfilm for the Indiana Jones ride, it did not secure the rights to Harrison Ford's likeness. So, when it came to the poster, my take on it was, Gee, if I painted Indiana Jones and don't put Harrison's likeness on it, I'll look like a fool; like I couldn't do it. So I got his phone number and called him up to ask for his permission. He had just the gentlest Indy voice you ever heard. I told him the situation and his response was,
'If you're painting it then you go right ahead.’”
—Drew Struzan, poster artist

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Calamity Jon Morris @calamityjon.bsky.social · 6h

Aw man, I loved talking about this film, and I was really excited to be invited on the Goon Pod!

Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 8h

Goon Pod covered Murder By Death with @calamityjon.bsky.social

Five world-famous ‘tecs & dicks accept an invitation to stay at the crazy house of the mysterious Lionel Twain and over dinner are informed that someone will be murdered! Crikey!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 8h

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 7h

FUCK

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 7h

You know what? Fuck Drew Struzan and his immaculately-rendered Amucks’s tights and the burnished highlights on the vacuum cleaner’s chrome top and all the tiny detailing in Peggy Hill’s flannel skirts (*takes a baseball bat to his own Cintiq*) youtu.be/7t2VUBfNJeg?...

Drew Struzan Poster Unboxing - HOCUS POCUS (1993) Original One Sheet

YouTube video by Industrial Blue

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 7h

Shit, see that glow at the treeline?

Whenever I see that in real life at dusk I *still* think “Ah, a Drew Struzan sunset!”

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 7h

Look at the wraparound artwork Struzan did for the Indiana Jones books in the early 90s, complete with hand-drawn titles and author blocks!

16 year old me would stand in a mall B. Dalton and could feel the thunder & hear the music with one of these books in my fat little white suburban hands.

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libby watson @libbycwatson.com · 23h

whenever i see “no kings” i hear it in the voice of Coily saying NOOOO SPRINGS from that mst3k short about how important springs are

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Mike Sterling, Comics Guy @mikester.bsky.social · 8h

who does she think she is, a comic book publisher

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

“The Life of a Showgirl” is now Billboard’s biggest album debut since Adele’s “25” in 2015, though some critics have accused Swift of gaming the system by releasing 38 variants of the album between physical copies and digital versions.

Taylor Swift's 'Life Of A Showgirl' Debuts With Record-Breaking 4 Million Album Units On Billboard Chart

“The Life of a Showgirl” is now Billboard’s biggest album debut since Adele’s “25” in 2015, though some critics have accused Swift of gaming the system by releasing 38 variants of the album between physical copies and digital versions.

www.forbes.com

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