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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 2d

It’s Friday.
It’s Frankenstein on Netflix Day.
Celebrate as you see fit.

Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 5d

Hamilton’s Playhouse Cinema presents @realgdt.bsky.social ‘s FRANKENSTEIN in 35mm this month.

Showtimes coming soon.

playhousecinema.ca/movie/franke...

Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 7d

Mucking about with a woodlands denizen. Starting with the skull and building out.
#conceptart #creaturedesign #folklore #characterdesign #nomadsculpt

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 9d

Quick Halloween artsy stuff.
Happy Samhain, all.

Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 9d

Rough sculpting.
New take on an old guy.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 12d

The obscenely rich are especially vulnerable to llms because llms sound like *literally every single interaction* they have had with their entourage of sycophants for decades, and they also have not ever had to actually learn or think in that same span of time.

Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 12d

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

www.theguardian.com

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 17d

A quick one to end the day.
A fancy fish man!

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 17d

New Rue Morgue looks extra special, donnit?
Guillermo Del Toro AND Mike Hill discuss bringing Mary Shelley’s seminal gothic romance to the screen, and I’m here for every word of it. 🖤

Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 18d

Kobold, by the light of a silvery moon (WiP)

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 18d

More Kobold development, with a temp background for mood.

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 20d

Not-Deer.
#cryptid #folklore #creaturedesigner. #conceptartist #digitalsculpture #notdeer

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 21d

In creative fields, compliment your coworkers’ work when you like it. Many have never had a coworker compliment their work before. A compliment is a show of professional trust and if you never show it then you’re a real crap

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 21d

America is being run by people whose social media presence would see them getting fired from a part time job stacking shelves.
If you worked at Aldi and posted a video of you pouring shit all over Aldi customers, you wouldn't work at Aldi.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 21d

Maybe one king?

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 22d

Of all the narrative changes. Guillermo Del Toro had made in his FRANKENSTEIN, the expansion of Elizabeth, in purpose and agency, is my favourite. Her tender and emotional rapport with Jacob Elordi’s Creature is the beating heart of the film. Ethereal and understated work from Mia Goth.

Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 23d

So. HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE
I have two complaints.
1) The lead (Merchant/LeMarchand) is a vacuum. And his wig in the modern day is WILD!
2) NOT horny enough. Making The Cenobites malicious slashers, and not hedonistic weirdos, diminished the series.
But it wasn’t all bad.
Angelique was a great add.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 24d

I generally hate remakes of films that worked the first time, but I have to admit that Breck Eisner's 2010 version of THE CRAZIES is pretty damn good.

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 24d

Started a kobold.
So far, so good, far as kobolds go.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 25d

I wasn't planning to repost this BUT Libro is doing a mega sale on audiobooks and ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT is included.

Which means a full cast recording (a first for any of my books) full of vampires, pocket universes, hyena monsters, and lots of bloody trauma for like $4.

libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · 29d

Shared this thought elsewhere:

Aside from Clive Barker’s work (mid 80s on), my pop culture awakening came in the 1990s.
HELLBLAZER, DOOM PATROL, THE INVISIBLES, Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos, SE7EN, PULP FICTION… the list goes on. Anyone else feel this, or did the culture just finally fit me then?

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · Oct 9

Happy Birthday, @realgdt.bsky.social .
Thank you for your vision, your love of the outsider and the motivation to give my own inner menagerie life.
This moment changed my life’s trajectory and I’m forever grateful for the kick in the ass you gave me that day.

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · Oct 9

Updating my portfolio with WAY cooler stuff!

“Spirit Of The Season"

www.artstation.com/artwork/x39ebR

Spirit Of The Season, Ron McKenzie

A speed sculpt of an October state of mind. Might take this one further along.

www.artstation.com

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · Oct 8

Minimum demands from here on:
- Abolish ICE immediately
- Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution
- Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level
- Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · Oct 8

Here’s video of the incident

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · Oct 6

He’s just… SO BAD at this! Evidence to the contrary of everything he says, broadcast through social media, and he still keeps pushing this fiction with full force. What a sad, miserable deranged little man, like every mentally-deficient hobgoblin in this administration.

a man standing in front of a fridge that has a sticker on it that says ' today ' on it

ALT: a man standing in front of a fridge that has a sticker on it that says ' today ' on it

media.tenor.com

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Ron McKenzie @ronniemick.bsky.social · Oct 5

without downloading anything new: where are you, mentally ?

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