Stoic Decay

Brutal Humans, a pictorial

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:19:00 +0000

U.S. Attorneys Carmen Ortiz & Steve Heymann

Why did these two powerful federal prosecutors hound Aaron Swartz to his death? The answer is fairly clear. The government (all governments) fear the Internet because they can't control it (yet). Information they don't like spreads too easily and too quickly. The scale of the overreach and intimidation by Ortiz & Heymann was in direct proportion to the large part Swartz played in the effort to stop SOPA. The government likes to make examples of people. Bradley Manning, Thomas Drake, William Binney, the list could go on and on. The government also likes people that have the ambition and the viciousness to carry out the example-making. Ortiz & Heymann have both of those qualities in great abundance.

Bill Keller

Writer and executive editor for The New York Times. One of the leading supporters of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. An Imperial Stenographer whose motto was, and still is: "Go along to get along."

Portraits of Fictional People

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:35:00 +0000

Frank (in trouble)

Jim Woodring is one of a small handful of cartoonists whose work will give you interesting dreams.

Cochlea & Eustachia

Hans Rickheit is another.

?

"Ten years ago I looked up and saw a layer of fluid ice, the exact blue of the chemicals in a cold pack, trapped between two layers of air..." - i've left you my kettle & some money • M. John Harrison

Barquentine

Attempting to illustrate someone or something from Peake's work is like swimming beneath the sea and trying to splash water on a magnificent fish that obviously does not require your attentions.

Countess of Groan as a Young Woman

She remains one of my favorite characters in the Gormenghast books. The last time I read them I remember thinking: "I wonder what she was like when she was twenty-five, when she was simply Gertrude and not as shackled by ritual and expectation."

Usopp

From the delightfully inventive, if slightly repetitive, One Piece.

Sam Lowry

Terry Gilliam: "The fears of BRAZIL are not so much that the world is spinning out of control because of the system, because the system is us. What BRAZIL is really about is that the system isn't great leaders, great machinating people controlling it all. It's each person performing their job as one little cog in this thing and Sam chooses to stay a little cog and ultimately he pays the price for that."

Keket Watched by the Eye of Beksinski

3D Library of Congress: Eight

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:02:00 +0000

The cleaning up and conversion to multiple 3D formats of images from the LOC Stereograph Cards Section. Learn how to view without glasses.

Telling Fortunes

A group of women seated at a table looking at tea leaves.
c. 1897
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Last Remnants of the American Bison

Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A.
c. 1903
LC-USZ62-100899

Pretty Woman

Nude above the waist with right hand under chin.
c. 1928
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Extraordinary Five Arch Bridge

Looking north over the Nishi Kigawa at Iwakuni-shi, Japan.
c. 1904
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The Ferry Landing

Busy wharf with sailboats in the foreground, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
May 24th, 1900
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Palace of the Doge

I actually recognized this exact spot in Venice, Italy. I know it well. I've stood there. Not in real life, but while playing Assassin's Creed II. There is something kind of cool, and also very sad about that.
c. 1898
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Landing stage

People on dock watching and waiting for ships in Liverpool harbor.
c. 1900
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The Wedding March

The happy couple and family pose for photo while stern minister looks on.
c. 1900
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1920's 3D Pinup

c. 1928
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Discards from a Broken Process

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:39:00 +0000

Stereoscopic gElm 81 - 100

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:50:00 +0000

Tallac Tea House

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River Bank

Country Road

Butte

Red Curb

3D Library of Congress: Seven

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:54:00 +0000

The cleaning up and conversion to multiple 3D formats of images from the LOC Stereograph Cards Section. Learn how to view without glasses.

The Music Prompts the Dainty Step

One woman plays the piano while another dances.
c. 1903
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Bicycle Tournament, Brooklyn

c. 1896
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"An' its me tooth! God bless you doctor dear!"

Woman suffering from a toothache.
c. 1901
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The President's Mansion

Exterior view of the west wing of the White House.
c. 1901
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Warehouses

The port of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
c. 1900
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Pratfall on a Chair

c. 1923
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Ready For a Ride in the Streets of Cairo

Two women seated on kneeling camel.
c. 1904
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New York's Great Pleasure Resort

Luna Park brilliantly lit up at night, Coney Island.
c. 1904
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Home Industries

Woman using spinning wheel inside Irish cottage, County Donegal, Ireland.
c. 1903
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Queen's Road, Hong Kong

People moving about a street with an ornate fountain in the background.
c. 1900
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Costa Rica

A passenger train car stopped while women approach with trays, filled with goods, balanced on their heads.
c. 1904
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President Lincoln & General McClellan in McClellan's Tent

Antietam, Maryland.
September 17th, 1862
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A "Scrimmage"

Group of young men on a football field.
c. 1897
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Entrance to Yellowstone

Horse-drawn coach passing through arched gateway into the park.
c. 1904
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The Eternal City

From the dome of St. Peter's, Rome.
c. 1906
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The Morning After the Night Before

Scantily dressed woman posed standing beside a bed.
c. 1923
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Westminster Abbey

England's most celebrated building.
c. 1909
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A Hurricane Within

A man kneeling in front of a woman standing by a bed, with chair and vase knocked over.
c. 1907
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On a Bamboo Isle

Woman wearing a grass skirt in the doorway of a bamboo hut.
c. 1923
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Neptune's Junk

The Court of Neptune Fountain at the Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.
The god of the sea is flanked by figures of the Tritons, each blowing a conch shell. Quite probably the most homo-erotic of all the sculptures at the nation's capitol. How John "Curtains" Ashcroft must have averted his eyes.
c. 1897
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Portraits, Ordinary and Strange

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:29:00 +0000

Annie

"When I was young there were more trees."

Bruce

"Many diverse chambers shoot right through the church. As a precaution I dwelt in the darkest of these vaults. This step obscured my death."

Cochlea (& Eustachia)

"Look!"

"What?"

"It followed us."

Cochlea & Eustachia © Hans Rickheit

Delia

The dread of archers and tender men, forced her always to the forest where the sunlight was dappled and rarely warm. Still, she sought normalcy, or rather what she perceived as normal, craving the golden tan of the women in the magazines she sometimes found left behind at abandoned campsites where the canopy was less dense and less secure.

Ellis

"I was known in all the little bistros around Santa Monica for being able to touch my nose with the tip of my tongue."

Frankie

"There is nothing I love more than light reflected off moving water onto the undersides of trees."

gElm

Based on a photo, taken after I lost a couple of my front teeth, where I attempted to hide my dental black holes by smiling with my mouth closed. The result was a hideous smugness I tried hard to convince myself was false to my character.

Hart

"It is a constant of history, the wealthier the man the more likely it is he will be found swimming in his own private pool when people are dying of thirst."

Ivan

"I most often find myself running. God blessed me with quick feet." [signed not spoken]

Jack

"After they took me up in their ship, nothing was the same."

Karol

"The alchemists understood a portion of the multitude. There flaw was in their observations, not their goal."

Lois Griffin

"My husband will some day accidentally kill me or one of our children."

Mitt Romney

"If I could I would drown all the poor in a deluge, a great flood, every last one of them. Until that dream becomes feasible, I practice by drowning stray cats and dogs in my bathtub. Ann and the boys help me as well. It's become a real family tradition that we all cherish. It has ingrained in my sons the attribute that is most important in the corporate world: Heartlessness."

Neil

"The ocean can always be counted on to calm me."

Oded Gershon

"An unfortunate accident. She did not distance herself as a reasonable person would have done."

Paul Ryan

"I wholeheartedly agree with Mitt on how we should deal with the lazy poor. I would also add fire and poison into the mix."

Quill

"Never trust an author. Authors are a multitude of actors. Actors mimic humans. And all humans are liars."

Richard Cheney

"I shot that guy in the face on purpose. He owed me five dollars."

Sandy

"I thought it was a wart. The doctors told me it wasn't. They don't know what it is."

Tom

"The train never stops for me."

Uta

"There are crests that doth bear pleasant fruit."

Vladimir Putin

"I like killing journalists."

Westenra, Lucy

"Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad you have come! Kiss me!"

Xander

"Remember that time I dropped my hand beneath the restaurant table and touched what I thought was a dried up piece of chewing gum."

Zuzanna

"I strangled the Royal Historian."

Stereoscopic gElm 61 - 80

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Sat, 05 May 2012 23:51:00 +0000

Rainbow Trail, South Lake Tahoe

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Lens Flare

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Asphalt

Pine Trees

Miller Park

Boat Dock

Along the Bike Trail

Trees on the River Bank

Superheroes, Known and Unknown

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:25:00 +0000

With Super-villains & Sidekicks Too

Madame Cortege & Big Bessie

Previous panel: The Blue Beetle tied to a chair with a ? in his mouth.

Captain Dunce & Lucky

An odd comic for its day, it only lasted for three issues before constant trouble with the Comics Code Authority and very low sales led to its cancellation. Nearly every copy of the last issue was pulped. The writer and artist, C. T. Tampere later said, "I knew I was through with the industry. I wasn't going to go back to drawing dick-less non-entities doing the same three step dance eight panels a page for twenty pages over and over until I died. I was done. And I went out with a bang, middle finger extended. Hell, it only got published in the first place because I caught the publisher screwing my wife."

Batwoman

Two and a Half Hellboy Villains

More accurately 2 & 1/5th mystical miscreants.

Wonder Woman

Batman vs. The Dandy Caterpillar

Batman and the Jacker

Uncensored Version

It's a well known fact: if you spend more than twenty minutes looking at Johnny Ryan's tumblr the next thing you draw will have a dick in it. Having perused the aforementioned for the better part of an hour, I immediately started work on this, attempting to do it in the style of a Tijuana Bible.

3D Stereoscopic CGI

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:33:00 +0000

Bocklin's Isle of the Dead

This is from 2007 and is only about 25% complete. Maybe someday I'll finish it. At this stage most (if not all) of the Great Mystery that permeates the original masterpiece(s) is absent, mostly negated by being able to see what is behind the Mediterranean Cypresses. There is definitely more than bare stone in that dense gloom.

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Learn how to view without glasses

Temple Pool Under a Yellow Sky

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Anaglyph Tests Made Around the Same Time as These False Starts

3D Library of Congress: Six

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:17:00 +0000

The cleaning up and conversion to multiple 3D formats of images from the LOC Stereograph Cards Section. Learn how to view without glasses.

Horseshoe Falls

View of Niagara Falls from Goat Island.
c. 1906
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President Roosevelt's Western Tour

Theodore Roosevelt and uniformed man mounted on horses in front of Liberty Cap, Yellowstone National Park.
c. 1903
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Frightened Burlesque

Scantily clad woman with right hand raised to breast.
c. 1927
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Front Street

Hong Kong, China.
c. 1900
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Amid the Encircling Gloom

Fire engine and sailors on duty in front of Harbor Emergency Hospital following the San Francisco earthquake which killed about 3,000 people and destroyed over 80% of the city.
July 21, 1906
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Sculpture by an Unknown Artist

A bare-breasted woman offering a drink to a monk.
c. 1880
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Morris Island, Charleston Harbor

Union officers and soldiers standing by mortars aimed at Fort Sumter.
Photographer: Samuel A. Cooley
c. 1865
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Broadway on a Rainy Day

The 3D element of this very old stereograph is weak, but it is nicely reminiscent of certain photos by Edward Steichen, though taken before he was born.
c. 1859
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Closed Shops on the Sabbath

The Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem.
March 23, 1900
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Drunk Man & "Four" Women in Bed

"Ifsh you could shee yourself th' way I shee you, you would be 'stonished too"
c. 1897
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Old Faithful

Geyser in eruption.
c. 1904
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Among the Last of a Disappearing Race

Eskimos with dog sled and furs at the St. Louis World's Fair.
c. 1904
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Puerta del Sol

The heart of Spain's capital city: Madrid.
c. 1902
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Orphan School at Nazareth

October 20th 1903
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Leaning Tower of Pisa

With the Venerable Cathedral.
Photographer: John F. Jarvis
c. 1897
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Eyre Square

Center of Galway, one of Ireland's famous old towns, rich in legends.
c. 1903
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St. Pierre, Martinique

General view showing the awful desolation wrought by the volcanic eruption of Mount Pelee.
c. 1902
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Lilies & Chrysanthemums

In the White House conservatory, Washington, D.C.
c. 1896
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The Outdoor Circus

People seated in open-air, opera-style boxes in Luna Park, Coney Island.
August 31, 1904
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The Farewell Kiss

Uniformed man kissing a woman in Edwardian room.
c. 1906
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Illustrations for John Cowper Powys' A Glastonbury Romance

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:30:00 +0000

Worse than God's

The words emanated from a pale, insubstantial husk upon the air, a husk that resembled the cast-off skin of a snake or the yet more fragile skin of a newt, diaphanous and yet flaccid, a form, a shape, a human transparency, limned upon the darkness above the great chair to the left of the fireplace.

[…]

No sooner were these words uttered, than a simulacrum in human form, seated opposite to the shade of the Rector returned a bitter response. → Chapter I: The Will

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IMAGE USED:“Southwood,” residence on Via Del Lago, Palm Beach, Florida

INTERNET ARCHIVE IMAGE USED:Examples of Gothic Architecture, Vol. 3, page 168

Wuther-Quotle-Glug

Its primordial goodness warring forever against its primordial evil holds life up only by vast excess of energy and by oceans of lavish waste. Even though the cry of a particular creature may reach the First Cause, there is always a danger of its being intercepted by the evil will of this vast Janus-faced Force.

[…]

“It is extraordinary that we should ever have met!” These words, uttered by John in a moment of relaxed gratefulness, struck the attention of that solitary ash tree in Water-ditch Field with what in trees corresponds to human irony. Five times in its life of a hundred and thirty years had the ash tree of Water-ditch Field heard those words uttered by living organisms. → Chapter II: The River

A Meeting Near Dark

The man gave him his hand and John stood up. He surreptitiously substituted the handle of his hazel-stick for its ferrule end and grasped it tightly. “If he becomes dangerous,” he thought, “I’ll step backward and hit him on the head with all my force.” → Chapter III: Stonehenge

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IMAGES USED:Stonehenge, Salisbury, England • President Roosevelt after inauguration leaving the Capitol to head the parade

Tis a Daffadowndilly Day

She was in fact an animated Euclidean Square moving about over the earth. → Chapter IV: Hic Jacet

On Sam's Mind

The pit of his stomach suddenly seemed to sink inward then for he thought to himself, “She is going to sleep with him again! I could feel it in the air when we came away.” → Chapter V: Whitelake Cottage

A Painful Meeting

Sam ought to have had the wit to realise at this moment that had he swallowed his pride and changed his tone all would have been well. Apparently a man can call his love a whore and be forgiven! But he was at once too aggrieved and too simple-minded to take advantage of the tears that were now pouring down her face. → Chapter VI: The Look of a Saint

Note

To learn more about John Cowper Powys and his work visit The Powys Society.

Repaneled

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:37:00 +0000

Comic Book Panels I re-imagined, some of which were on Repaneled

Mickey Mouse: Race to Death Valley - Original: Floyd Gottfredson

A little bit of Van Gogh and David Lynch made it into this one. Check out the gorgeous reprint collection by Fantagraphics.

Mr. Lonely - Original: Kaz

Thor #366 - Original: Walt Simonson

Magnus Robot Fighter #21 - Original: James Brock & Ralph Reese

Uncle Scrooge #76 - Original: Tony Strobl & Steve Steere

Bah! Life is just a thicket of thistles!

Barnum! - Original: Niko Henrichon

Auro, Lord of Jupiter - Original: Joe Doolin

Was it liquid life or liquid death, this puzzling energy fluid Jupiterian science had stumbled upon? Even Auro did not know - even the earth brain of the dead Chet Edson grafted in his skull could not fathom the bottomless mystery.

Savage Sword of Conan #63 - Original: John Buscema

Action Comics #70 - Original: Sam Citron

High over the city, a helpless girl plummets earthward as the radio signal releases a catch beneath a drifting balloon!

X’ed Out - Original: Charles Burns

Marvel Mystery Comics #88 - Original: Carl Burgos

Tom Poes - Original: Marten Toonder

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #2, vol. 1 - Original: Kevin O'Neill

... and shot the creature in the face.

Illustrations for Isaac Bashevis Singer's Collected Stories

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:32:00 +0000

Gimpel's Dream

One night, when the period of mourning was done, as I lay dreaming on the flour sacks, there came the Spirit of Evil himself and said to me, "Gimpel, why do you sleep?" → Gimpel the Fool

Before the Ruin

Amid thick forests and deep swamps, on the slope of a hill, level at the summit, lay the village of Frampol. → The Gentleman from Cracow

This is the first non-digital pen and ink drawing I've made in quite a long time. My hand hurts. An odd thing: Working on a computer has become so ingrained that when I drew a pen stroke I didn't like my left hand actually reached out instinctively to hit ctrl-z on a non-existent keyboard hard-wired inside my head.

Rebecca

Her left pigtail was tied with a white ribbon. → Joy

I failed to capture the sadness and beauty of this tale, instead showing only a complacent eeriness.

Abba on His Bench

He loved to sit and look at the tall white birches, which trembled even when no breeze blew… → The Little Shoemakers

Nathan & Roise

At times, they did not even speak, but sat silently, holding hands and weeping. → The Unseen

The Wedding Night

Dr. Fischelson trembled and the Ethics dropped from his hands. → The Spinoza of Market Street

A Cry Was Torn From Every Throat

Many feared that Lise would collapse and spoil their fun but she was apparently determined to accept her punishment in all its bitterness. → The Destruction of Kreshev

Too Terrified to Utter a Sound

There are secrets that the heart cannot reveal to the lips. They are carried to the grave. → Taibele and Her Demon

The Bus Ride

We rode near a lake surrounded by groups of flamingos airing their wings, and the water mirrored their long beaks and pink feathers. → Alone

A Cold and Windy Day

They continued to walk until they reached the pine forest, not turning back until dusk when it was time for the evening prayer. → Yentl the Yeshiva Boy

Into Darkness

One day, while Zeidel was sitting, studying a faded manuscript in the library at Crakow, everything went dark before his eyes. At first he thought dusk had fallen and asked why the candles had not been lit. But when a monk told him that the day was still bright, he realized he had gone blind. → Zeidlus the Pope

I Suck on the Letters and Feed Myself

I found a Yiddish storybook between two broken barrels in the house which once belonged to Velvel the barrelmaker. I sit there, the last of the demons. → The Last Demon

Stereoscopic gElm 41 - 60

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:16:00 +0000

Ganesh, Quagmire, & Jesus

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Quorry Across the Multiverse

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:14:00 +0000

Do Androids Dream of…

A Flower

Symbolist

There Will Be Blood

Hyborean Age

Animated

Dead on a Street in Prague

Tessera Aalborg-Six

Under a gate, under an alien star.

Quorry the Dancing Peasant

Also available in the 3rd dimension.

Infantryman

In the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Death in the Eye

"I extrapolate therefore I am afraid."

First Appearance of Quorry

An Unwilling Offering

After all, some idols eat with more haste and stealth.

A Step in the Right Direction

The Man with the Harmonica

Orb

Illustrations for Philip K. Dick's Collected Stories

noreply@blogger.com (gElm) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:54:00 +0000

His Teeth Were Loose

It was not until he had almost finished washing that he noticed it. He stood for a long time, water running over his hands, staring silently down, unable to speak.

His fingernails were gone.

He looked up in the mirror, breathing quickly. Suddenly he grabbed at his hair. Handfuls of hair came out, great bunches of light brown hair. Hair and nails… → The Infinites

With apologies to Charles Burns for trying on his shoes and finding them a thousand sizes too large.

They Really Wanted Him

Later, he sat at his desk, the spray gun beside him, heavy-duty steel and copper. He touched its damp surface with his fingers.

Seven o’clock. Behind him the radio played softly. He reached over and moved the desk lamp so that it shone on the floor beside the desk. → Expendable

The Faded Eyes Fixed on Kramer

In the dark room a withered old man lay, propped up on endless pillows. At first it seemed as if he were asleep; there was no motion or sign of life. But after a time Kramer saw with a faint shock that the old man was watching them, intently, his eyes fixed on them, unmoving, unwinking. → Mr. Spaceship

Doctor Harris Searches for Corporal Westerburg

It was a warm sunny day. The sky was almost free of clouds and a gentle wind moved through the cedars along the bank of the stream. There was a path leading from the hospital building down the slope to the stream. At the stream a small bridge led over to the other side, and a few patients were standing on the bridge, wrapped in their bathrobes, looking aimlessly down at the water. → Piper in the Woods

Taken Aboard

The wub stood sagging, its great body settling slowly. → Beyond Lies the Wub

Professor Hardy & Professor Grote

"Start hopping, my dear frog," he said. "Hop for all you're worth." → The Indefatigable Frog

The Stravinsky Bird

It was a clear cold day. The sunny Los Angeles sky was almost cloud-free. Beyond Labyrinth's modest house a gently undulating expanse of green stretched off until it reached the mountains—a small forest that gave the illusion of wilderness within the very limits of the city. → The Preserving Machine

He Stared Up Anxiously at the Darkened Windows

Out in front the Roogs stopped their truck. He could hear them opening the doors stepping down onto the sidewalk. Boris ran around in a little circle. He whined and his muzzle turned once again toward the house. → Roog

"What have you got there, sir?"

The side exit let him out on one of the larger underground streets, which was a riot of lights and passing vehicles. He located his direction, and began to search for a communications car to take him home… → Stability

A Strange Hunger in Her Eyes

There had been a lot of that at first, in the early days before the transfer to undersurface was complete. There had been a lot, and it hadn't been very difficult to come across it.

Taylor looked up at his wife. She was thinking too much about it, the last few months. They all were. → The Defenders

Stark and Immense it Pointed Up at the Sky

There was not much left. The huge concrete piers which they had noticed were not piers at all, but the ruined foundations of buildings. They had been baked by the searing heat, baked and charred almost to the ground. Nothing else remained, only this irregular circle of white squares, perhaps four miles in diameter. […] They walked into the city between the ruined buildings. No one spoke. They walked in silence, listening to the echo of their footsteps. → The Gun

PKD speculating on the only kind of alien contact the human race will most likely ever have.

"You are to call me - My Lord."

It was a brightly painted soldier with helmet and gun, standing at attention. → The Little Movement

A Small Chamber with Dark Panels of Old Wood

The Speaker moved to one side. "Look," he said. He drew a sliding wall away, showing a dark square hole. "In there."

Conger squatted down, staring in. He frowned. "A skull! A skeleton!"

"The man you are after has been dead for two centuries," the Speaker said. "This is all that remains of him. And this is all you have with which to find him." → The Skull

Note

Info about where to find these stories and more, can be found here.

Exploration

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Illustrations for Stories by H. P. Lovecraft

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Lord Northam

And when the church bells rang he would stop his ears and scream, and the grey cat that dwelt with him would howl in unison till the last peal died reverberantly away. → The Descendant

A Mangled Corpse

My friend was dying when I spoke to him, and he could not answer coherently. All he could do was to whisper, “The amulet—that damned thing—” → The Hound

Beneath the Church

The most secret mysteries were yet to be performed. → The Festival

Lifted its Head and Howled

… the face of the motorman was a mere white cone tapering to one blood-red-tentacle… → The Thing in the Moonlight

Violet Midnight Glittering with Dust of Gold

… coming home at evening to a room whose one window opened not to open fields and groves but on to a dim court where other windows stared in dull despair. → Azathoth

Uncanny Light

… but still the Pole Star leers down from the same place in the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey. → Polaris

Joe Slater: An Unfit Vessel

… an absurd appearance of harmless stupidity by the pale, sleepy blueness of his small watery eyes, the scantiness of his neglected and never-shaven growth of yellow beard… → Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Indescribable Voiceless Things

Men whose eyes were wild with fear shrieked aloud of the sight within the king’s banquet-hall, where through the windows were seen no longer the forms of Nargis-Hei and his nobles and slaves… → The Doom That Came to Sarnath

Menes' Kitten

But the villagers did not discuss such things with the old man and his wife; because of the habitual expression on the withered faces of the two, and because their cottage was so small and so darkly hidden under spreading oaks at the back of a neglected yard. → The Cats of Ulthar

Far Places

Then Kuranes walked through the Street of Pillars to the seaward wall, where gathered the traders and sailors, and strange men from the regions where the sea meets the sky. There he stayed long, gazing out over the bright harbour where the ripples sparkled beneath an unknown sun, and where rode lightly the galleys from far places over the water. → Celephais

Disintegration is Quite Painless

Indescribable shapes both alive and otherwise were mixed in disgusting disarray, and close to every known thing were whole worlds of alien, unknown entities. → From Beyond

The Greenish Moon

When we gazed around the horizon, we could not find the third tower by the river, and noticed that the silhouette of the second tower was ragged at the top. → Nyarlathotep

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS IMAGES USED: Captive balloon of Henri Giffard over Paris & Water tower at Tenleytown & Moon obscured by clouds with building in foreground

The Most Chaotic Dreams of Man

I saw that the passage was a long one, so floundered ahead rapidly in a creeping run that would have seemed horrible had any eye watched me in the blackness; crossing from side to side occasionally to feel of my surroundings and be sure the walls and rows of cases still stretched on. Man is so used to thinking visually that I almost forgot the darkness and pictured the endless corridor of wood and glass in its low-studded monotony as though I saw it. And then in a moment of indescribable emotion I did see it. → The Nameless City

The Rocky Summit

Merciful gods of earth, I am falling into the sky! → The Other Gods

A Mighty Wall Green With Antique Vines

Last night I swallowed the drug and floated dreamily into the golden valley and the shadowy groves; and when I came this time to the antique wall, I saw that the small gate of bronze was ajar. → Ex Oblivione

Coarser with Wine

Then one night the reddened and fattened Romnod snorted heavily amidst the poppied silks of his banquet-couch and died writhing, whilst Iranon, pale and slender, sang to himself in a far corner. → The Quest of Iranon

It Shone Bodiless

I could comprehend his presence despite the absence of form by a species of pictorial memory whereby his face appeared to me, golden from a strange light and frightful with its weird beauty, its anomalously youthful cheeks, its burning eyes, its Olympian brow, and its shadowing hair and growth of beard. → Hypnos

Upon that Sea the Hateful Moon Shone

And as I watched the ripples that told of the writhing of worms beneath, I felt a new chill from afar out whither the condor had flown, as if my flesh had caught a horror before my eyes had seen it. → What the Moon Brings

This very brief tale does not wallow in extraneous tacked on plot and exudes a beautiful twilit awe.

The Fourteen Biological Specimens

Existing biology would have to be wholly revised, for this thing was no product of any cell growth science knows about. → At the Mountains of Madness

Every Night She was a Little Nearer

He would be lying in the dark fighting to keep awake when a faint lambent glow would seem to shimmer around the centuried room, showing in a violet mist the convergence of angled planes which had seized his brain so insidiously. → Dreams In The Witch-House

Something Sucked His Breath at Night

Out of the fungus-ridden earth steamed up a vaporous corpse-light, yellow and diseased… → The Shunned House

An Unreliable Narrator

Warren always dominated me, and sometimes I feared him. → The Statement of Randolph Carter

Did Mr. Carter in fact kill his “friend” Harley Warren and then spin a ludicrous tale of supernatural horror as feeble smokescreen? His own words give a potential motive. Case closed?

Illustrations for John Collier's Fancies and Goodnights

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Agreeable Pastimes

There were the arches, pillars, marbles, hangings, etc. of the most exquisite palace imaginable, and wherever he looked he saw a tiger-skin, and on every tiger-skin there reclined a young woman of surpassing beauty who was certainly not vulgarly over-dressed. → Bottle Party

An Attentive Ear

He had those huge and clumsy hands which can be an asset to a doctor in a small upstate town where people still retain a rural relish for paradox, thinking that the more apelike the paw, the more precise it can be in the delicate business of a tonsillectomy. → De Mortuis

They Send For the Others

How can I describe the dark inhuman creatures that passed me, silent as shadows? → Evening Primrose

Foiral and the Madman

"I like the black clothes all you people wear. Spanish touch again, I suppose? It makes you look like holes in the light." → Witchs Money

A Revealing Outburst

He had one of those skull-like faces on which the skin seems stretched painfully tight. → The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It

Good Egg, Bad Egg

"Ella," said he, "I notice that you have given me the white egg, and retained the brown one for yourself." → Three Bears Cottage

3D Library of Congress: Five

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The cleaning up and conversion to multiple 3D formats of images from the LOC Stereograph Cards Section. Learn how to view without glasses.

She's got "it"

Seated Woman, nude above the waist, with arms on pillow, and left hand under chin.
c. 1928
LC-USZ62-95640

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People's Story-teller

Petrograd, Russia.
c. 1919
LC-USZ62-105480

Over the Thames

Thomas Hospital in the background.
March 17th, 1887
LC-DIG-ppmsca-06809

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A Playful Gargoyle

From the Tower of Notre Dame looking north to Saint-Jacques Tower and Montmartre Heights in distance, Paris, France.
July 26th, 1900
LC-USZ62-133247

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Syncopating Sue

A dancer doing the "Charleston kick."
c. 1928
LC-USZ62-75646

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Westminster Bridge

Houses of Parliament & Westminster Palace with carriage and pedestrian traffic in the foreground, London, England.
c. 1900
LC-DIG-ppmsca-06808

Stavanger, Norway

Bokn Fjord of the North Sea in foreground.
c. 1898
LC-USZ62-119265

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A High Life Girl

A seductive pose.
c. 1926
LC-USZ62-82961

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The Grand Boulevard

A Bird's-eye view of busy Paris street.
c. 1900
LC-USZ62-96656

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A Fellahin Bed

June 18th, 1901
LC-DIG-PPMSCA-10627

Ice mountain, U.S.A.

People lounging on the ice and snow, Niagara Falls.
c. 1900
LC-USZ62-116296

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Relics

110 foot tall Round Tower and Cross of Monasterboice in graveyard, County Louth, Ireland.
c. 1903
LC-USZ62-123728

Crusader Ruins

Mt. Tabor, Palestine.
October 20th 1903
LC-DIG-PPMSCA-10629

Great Sphinx & Ruins of Temple

Giza, Egypt.
c. 1900
LC-USZ62-100693

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

The cemetery outside the city wall.
May 10th 1900
LC-USZ62-117186

Indian Acrobats

On the Pike at the St. Louis World's Fair.
c. 1904
LC-USZ62-90233

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Clown on Floor

c. 1923
LC-USZ62-95020

Where Chocolate Comes From

Gathering cacao pods in Ecuador.
c. 1907
LC-USZ62-98874

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Three Japanese Women with Parasols

On one of the small slightly arched bridges in the old Garden of Hikone, Japan.
c. 1904
LC-USZ62-99595

Skating on the Lake

A busy crowd in Central Park.
c. 1902
LC-USZ62-99776

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Illustrations for Tales by Clark Ashton Smith

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She Wept Those Mythical Tears

Now the lamia was vexed, for her beauty was grown an evil legend in both Thebais and Elephantine; so that men were become fearful of her lips and cautious of her embrace, and she had no lover for almost a fortnight. → Sadastor

A Monstrous Thing Emerged

It had a pale, hairless, egg-shaped body, large as that of a gravid she-goat; and this body was mounted on nine long wavering legs with many flanges, like the legs of some enormous spider. The creature ran past me to the water’s edge; and I saw that there were no eyes in its oddly sloping face; but two knife-like ears rose high above its head, and a thin, wrinkled snout hung down across its mouth, whose flabby lips, parted in that eternal chuckle, revealed rows of bats’ teeth. → The Abominations of Yondo

This Macabre Purple Landscape

Intent as on some ulterior cryptic purpose, some charnel errand not to be surmised by the living, it went by with a tranquil pace, an effortless and gliding tread in which, despite my terror and stupefaction, I perceived a certain horrible and feminine grace. → The Ninth Skeleton

A Sky of Leaden Vapors

And so it was that I set foot on the bridge of shadowy arches, under which the black waters flowed in stealthy division and were joined again in a silence as of Styx and Acheron. → A Night in Malneant

A Taper in his Hand

There was a crash as of many thunders, and the golden lamps went out in a darkness that seemed full of falling dust, of raining fragments. → The End of the Story

The Appurtenances of His Art

But, though these things and the power they held or symbolized were the terror of the peoples and the envy of all rival magicians, the thoughts of Malygris were dark with immitigable melancholy, and weariness filled his heart as ashes fill the hearth where a great fire has died. Immovable he sat, implacable he mused, while the sun of afternoon, declining on the city and on the sea that was beyond the city, smote with autumnal rays through the window of greenish-yellow glass, and touched his shrunken hands with its phantom gold and fired the bales-rubies of his rings till they burned like demonian eyes. → The Last Incantation

The Lidless Horror

The only unusual notes were struck by two heavy brass candlesticks on his table wrought in the form of rearing serpents, and a stuffed rattlesnake that was coiled on top of one of the low bookcases. → The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake

A Strange Gravity

The man was Jonas McGillicuddy, and he was on his way home after a somewhat prolonged absence. His return was unannounced, and would prove as unexpected to his wife and three children as his departure had been. → The Phantoms of the Fire

Teasing Eyes & Whimsical Mouths

He lay very still, fighting with a dark, terrible perplexity. → Thirteen Phantasms

Note

Many, if not all, of these stories can be found here.

3D Stereoscopic Drawings

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The Peasant Dance

An homage to Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s famous painting -- starring Quorry of Fine Cruel Antics.

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Jim #4 Cover

A 3D transmogrification of Jim Woodring’s classic Jim v.2 #4 cover, a comic that sat within easy reach of my desk for about ten years only to be replaced by the even more magnificent The Frank Book which I often pick up when I need an infusion of wonder and happiness. Frank, the Jim cover, and etc. are copyright Jim Woodring.

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The Last Musketeer

With utmost respect for that most masterful of cartoonists: Jason. A dimensional reworking of the cover for The Last Musketeer, for the Covered blog.

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Thangobrind the Jeweller

A transformation to 3D of Sidney Sime’s great illustration from Lord Dunsany’s: The Book of Wonder, a chronicle of little adventures at the edge of the world. One of my favorite things about this picture is the large bear (half seen) that is lumbering away into the depths of the trees, just one of the many touches that make Sime grand.

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Stereoscopic Mythical Pornography

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Cobblestones

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The Feathered Mile

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How to View 3D with the Naked Eye

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Get a large hardback book with a spine of about one inch thick.
Looking at the image above, hold the book up flat in front of you as if you were looking at the cover.
Rotate the book so the spine comes toward your nose and as you do so focus on the image as it is revealed.
Try to line the book up so your left eye only sees what is to the left of the gray line and your right eye sees only what is to the right of the gray line.

Hopefully you will be able to see the image in 3D. This is the only method that has worked for me, though it might not work for everyone.

alternate hi-res red/blue anaglyph version

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Maakies is copyright Tony Millionaire.

Illustrations for Songs

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Joanna Newsom

There is a rusty light on the pines tonight… → Emily

Lightning Dust

That there’d be fire underneath… → Dreamer

Coldcut and Saul Williams

I can’t promise you anything but I trust there is far greater reason to live… → Mr. Nichols

Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain

A great collaboration between Mono and world’s end girlfriend. A mix of Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3 and Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for Once Upon a Time in the West. A near masterpiece.