“Sketches of Satan: How Giles Deacon Created Gwendoline Christie’s Lucifer Look”
Giles Deacon talks about their designs for Gwendoline Christie’s Lucifer in Netflix’s Sandman series. There are also design sketches! See it all here.
“Calligraphy Fragments”
The Universtiy of Oregon has a sweet collection of calligraphy fragments. “This exhibition introduces two gems of UO’s collection of Japanese calligraphy: the album of calligraphy known as tekagami in the collection of the Knight Library Special Collections and UO Archives (SCUA), containing a total of 319 examples; […]
“Looney Tunes without Looney Tunes: Existential, Surreal, and Creepy Backgrounds”
“The Instagram account Looney Tunes Backgrounds has compiled over 900 backdrops from the legendary cartoon, going all the way back to the ’30s, so now we can all take a thoughtful look at them. What’s interesting is that without the flickering back and forth of cartoons, these painted […]
“Artist uses AI to Perfectly Fake 1970s Science Fiction Pulp Covers”
Check out a gallery of Lewis Hackett and his AI’s sweet fake 1970s SF pulp covers here. “Even as these algorithms get a lot more sophisticated than averaged pixels or a Markov chain, they are still just algorithms, lacking in agency, albeit with enormous data sets as source […]
The Design of Nightmare Alley (2021)
Nightmare Alley (2021) production designer Tamara Deverell talks about making the film. “Tamara Deverell, the film’s production designer, says that Del Toro didn’t use CGI (except for falling snow and flying bullets) because he wanted all the sets to have real architecture and props. ‘We created a contemporary […]
“More than Fearless Nadia: Rare memorabilia from films by the Wadia brothers on auction”
Look at this amazing gallery of posters, lobby cards, song booklets and more featuring actor and stunt performer Fearless Nadia in films by the Wadia Brothers from the 1930s through the 1960! And learn more about the Wadia Brothers, Wadia Movietone, and their films! (Thanks, Tars!)
The Cultural Gutter 