Steve Mellor! Now I remember why I had any interest at all in Crazy Magazine. I remember being totally awed by this stuff in the 1980s.
My favorite was his eye-melting colors, and his trademark suction-cup shoes:
Thanks Shane Gline for posting all this wonderfulness.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Nothing has motivated me to post here in a long while. Until this. I love how the sound of the Tsar's daughter striking a tree with her axe sounds just like my old Roland 505 drum machine's "snare" sound. Amazing that this timeless tale is being retold in the era of Roland drum machines, eh?
Niffiwan maintains a long and incredibly well-curated collection of Soviet animation, in exactly the style and mesmerizing creativity that I adore. Please do check it out.
And speaking of Halloween... tell me again why Island of Lost Souls isn't a famous Criterion sort of DVD? Instead we have to find skanky copies on the web. That isn't right.
There is a bootleg DVD of a whole mess of Warner Brothers Halloween cartoons in one place. Not that I would endorse a bootleg. But until WB gets its act together, check this out.
Nosferatu, the Crown Prince of scary movies, is available for free! Public domain and everything! Just download and shiver with creepiness.
I only live in Massachusetts. I accept no blame for what goes on here.
Afanasy Nikitin was the first Russian to explore India, which he wound up doing in about 1466.
In history books you will find very little about his dealings with the Shuisky sisters, or Alnus Rugosa, or Das Brick, because I made them up.
Ali Qushji and Perkin Warbeck and Jami the Persian Poet were real people, who sadly never really had anything to do with Russia or Afanasy Nikitin. The Kreml, while a real place, was probably not as fun as it appears herein.
So abandon all pretence of learning about historical Russia, ye who enter here.