tom moody

James Nares vs that bad actor.
Black and white version.

These pics probably look better placed side by side but you get the idea: there's something inherently sexy about a suspended guy working. Top: James Nares; bottom: that bad actor.

Someone should do a James Nares/David Reed battle exhibition. Who does the best zen swirly brush stroke of death?

Nares has it goin' on with the backwards baseball cap, gas mask, and No Wave roots. Reed upped his hipness cred a while back, though, by digitally retro-compositing one of his paintings into the background of an episode of the 1986-88 TV series Crime Story.

Cruise mostly just poses, though some consider him a painter of film.

Update: Tom Cruise vs Maude Lebowsky (hat tip shm)

Also:

Lovecraft illustration in top Chelsea gallery

Bus shelter demon

Op art in children's book

Rural earth science collage project

Someone likened dump.fm to a hive mind or consciousness expansion experiment and there's some truth to it but it has its downside. In Philip K. Dick's book Ubik the cryogenically preserved, still-thinking brains were very susceptible to the thoughts of aggressive, disturbed individuals, such as the young adolescent "Jory." I have met great people on dump from all over the globe but the chat room has some serious recurring knucklehead freaks working out their "issues" by inflicting a steady series of shock images on the gentle hivers. The imagery isn't truly shocking but it is an irritant and must be processed. Am not sure there's any value to that whatsoever. Sometimes it is just frat town in there despite the participation of many interesting and intelligent women. Only the very youngest users seem willing to say, in block capitals, "stop posting this crap."

PS Don't mean to be mysterious but would rather not mention any Jorys by name. If you are reading this blog there's a 100% chance it's not you.

PPS Jorys don't necessarily only dominate with images. There are also obnoxioius "chat Jorys."

somewhat david-humphrey-ish found jpeg