Nothing says post-holiday closure like a lone, discarded ornament, like an improbable, platinum, round egg in the tangled, tan tall-grass.
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“A Kolkhoz Celebration,” Sergey Gerasimov, 1937
“A Metaphor Crosses the Road,” by Martha McFerren
This is just a cute amateur video for Martha McFerren’s “A Metaphor Crosses the Road,” created by Cici Lyn.
If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring them inside.
That’s some Thing you always need to remember on a cold night, right?
Anyway, this fan-made movie poster for John Carpenter’s “The Thing” (1982) is absolutely incredible. I am unaware of its creator, but it’s all over the Pinterest boards for similar fan-made posters.
“Not of Byzantium,” by Eric Robert Nolan
“Not of Byzantium”
Awakening at one AM after dreaming
not of Byzantium,
not of Babylon, but better —
Not Shangri-La, but shaded limb —
The pine I climbed when I was nine.
No Acropolis, only
fallow farm and rising sun.
Across, a distant treeline
ascends to render Athens’
Parthenon prosaic.
Exceeding empires, exceeding
even Elysium, is
This slumber’s ordinary boyhood field.
(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2015
Originally published in Dead Snakes.
Photo credit: kallerna [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
Detail from Vimy Ridge World War I Memorial
Vimy, France. Memorial designed by Walter Seymour Allward, circa 1936.
Photo credit: By Cbone (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
Using Amazon Prime to deliver to the homeless?
Like a lot of brilliant ideas, this is a simple one that even seems obvious in retrospect. What a smart, kind soul it takes to come up with something like this.
This video is from the “Action” Facebook page.
Cover to “The Uncanny X-Men” #467, Tim Townsend and Chris Bachalo, 2006
Marvel Comics.
Check out “Adam” over at Oats Studios.
I won’t lie to you — not all of the sci-fi short films that Oats Studios produces are fantastic. Writer-Director Neill Blomkamp’s cutting-edge online creative project does produce its share of duds. But when it’s good, it’s very, very good, and “Adam” is proof of that.
Like Blomkamp’s “Rakka” and “Firebase” before it, “Adam” is an unfinished serialized tale that mixes raw emotion and disturbing imagery with hints of brilliance — all set within a detailed and truly creative sci-fi universe. I highly recommend it.
Cover to “Game of Thrones” comic (mobile app variant) #7, 2013
I’m not 100 percent sue of the artist here, but I believe it is Tommy Patterson.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 