we used to have this in our bathroom. haha.

It's a Swiss sm3 very hard to get ahold of

Lawrenceville

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Kristian once again pulled off a great modelling session. Thanks for all your work!!

Dino head, flower, gasmask(?), and flying robot.

if you havent noticed i like gas masks, these were taken in the Salton Sea of my friend David

Sitting in gas masks and chemical suits in CBR-D class.

So after a long break another photoshoot happened. A nice new location and some new props created a nice day (even with the bad weather)

In quel momento ero dietro di te e vedevo una spalla e le tue costole

nel giorno... quel giorno infinito

quel giorno che piovve per sempre.

Different kind of family portrait

3 April, 2021, drawing of a broken person making an idiot's point. Reference pic published in virtually every broadcast medium in March, 2020. Workin' out the demons here with watercolor and Derwent Inktense pencils in a 7x10" Canson Mix Media spiral notebook.

Tool - Vicarious

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Eye on the TV

'cause tragedy thrills me

Whatever flavor it happens to be

Like:

"Killed by the husband" ...

"Drowned by the ocean" ...

"Shot by his own son" ...

"She used a poison in his tea,

Then (she) kissed him goodbye"

That's my kind of story

It's no fun til someone dies.

Don't look at me like I am a monster

Frown out your one face, but with the other (you)

Stare like a junkie into the TV

Stare like a zombie while the mother holds her child,

Watches him die,

Hands to the sky cryin "why, oh why?"

Cause I need to watch things die from a distance

Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies

You all need it too - don't lie.

Why can't we just admit it?

Why can't we just admit it?

We won't give pause until the blood is flowin'

Neither the brave nor bold

Nor brightest of stories told

We won't give pause until the blood is flowin'

I need to watch things die from a good safe distance

Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies

You all feel the same so why can't we just admit it?

Blood like rain fallin' down

Drum on grave and ground

Part vampire, part warrior,

Carnivore and voyeur

Stare at the transmittal.

Sing to the death rattle.

La, la, la, la, la, la, la-lie (x4)

Credulous at best

Your desire to believe in

Angels in the hearts of men.

But pull your head on out (of) your hippie haze

And give a listen

Shouldn't have to say it all again

The universe is hostile

So impersonal

Devour to survive

So it is, so it's always been ...

We all feed on tragedy.

It's like blood to a vampire.

Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies

Much better you than I.

We call him steamer. I started this one on my iPad but finished it in Manga Studio 5 with my pentab

I didn't like the way the reflection of the window obscured the cosplayer's eyes. Unfortunately, being an amateur, I didn't know how to correct it.

doppeldeutiger titel. gute idee.

EInstürzende Neubauten- Der Weg ins Freie

Gas mask room.

Watford Museum

I was custom fabricating a crank arm for a double amputee customer at Terra Trike. It made a heck of alota sparks. Hence, the mask overkill.

Woo!

www.getmask.com made the mask, and it ended up at my local surplus store.

Fun fact: this picture was taken by teacher, with his iPhone 4S.

Digital ink jet print 8.5x11

Over-processed ... Press "L"

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I tend to not use Flickr for my composite photos. Never really sure why. It's certainly not something I'm in any moral sense opposed to, and it's actually something I enjoy working on, but I find that I'll frequently spend hours pouring work into building something only to throw it out without saving because it just doesn't work for me. This is all part of why I lean so heavily on chemical photography: it forces me as a photographer, as a graphic artist, to accept the results of my work as what they are. If I think back to when I first started digital graphics back in the late 90's, my early home forays into the field had no checks or balances placed against them to screen out whether or not something was even a good idea in the first place.

I find digital art can be very distracting, you have so many tools at your disposal that the temptation to "fix" bad photos is too great. There are the times when a technically horrid photo needs to be salvaged for whatever purposes, or standard editorial interpretation (contrast, colour balance, cropping) can breathe life into a so-so picture, but without the hard reality of shooting film (particularly shooting chrome) one can spend vast amounts of time producing bad art and never develop an eye for self-critique.

If you take away self critique, give powerful toys to the masses, and give the masses a self-contratulatory audience of themselves, aesthetic often dies a slow, painful death. Granted it's this sesspool of mediocre product that fuels the dissatisfaction that inevitably drives the next generation of great artists to revolt.

As for this piece, it needs a cropping, the lines aren't as seamless as I could make them, and the whole thing with the palm trees is a horrific cliche. That said, I felt it was worth talking about.

Gas Mask

Modeling, outfit and make up by Cyberdamage.

Cyber dreads courtesy of Kali Mae (Model Mayhem #1095008).