tangible reality

Back at it again at krispy kreme.

“…Engines on the Other Railway aren’t safe now. Their controllers are cruel. They don’t like engines any more. They put them on cold damp sidings, and then,” Percy nearly sobbed, “they…they c-c-cut them up.” -”The Bluebells of England.”  Stepney the Bluebell Engine.  Rev. Awdry, Wilbert.  London: Egmont Publishing, 1963.

“Smudger,” said Duke. “Was a show-off. He rode roughly and often came off the rails. I warned him to be careful, but he took no notice.” “Listen, Dukie” he snared. “Who worries about a few spills?” “We do here! I said, but Smudger just laughed.” “Hahaha!” “Until one day, Manager said he was going to make him useful at last. Smudger stopped laughing then!” “W-w-why? What did he do?!” “He turned him into a generator. He’s still there behind our shed. He’ll never move again.”

Okay, so we see Railway Management doing all this shit, right, but supposedly it’s so much worse in the Other Railways? I mean, sure, you might get turned into a generator or bricked into a tunnel for not doing as you’re told, but at least you’re not cut up and sold for parts, right? It’s not so bad on the island of Sodor, right?

Or maybe that’s just what Railway Management wants the engines to think.

Maybe the island of Sodor is the real totalitarian regime, and the engine citizens (slaves) are fed propaganda, illustrated in hellish grays and sulfuric yellows, about how bad it is everywhere else, at all the Other Railways.

You are lucky to be an engine of Sodor.

Railway Management cares about you.

Trust Railway Management.

Stay on Your Track.

“Voltron x 1900s Fashion” 

A horizontal 11x17″ print for Anime North (table G15)! This poster is a crossover; the Voltron paladins are posing for one of Leyendecker’s Arrow Collar advertisements. He’s one of my favourite artists so I felt the need to put him in haha. The original ad is known for its subtle hints of homoeroticism; at first it looks like Shiro is staring at Pidge, but his gaze is actually towards Keith (I don’t ship it, but I thought that was funny because Voltron is super gay). I made Shiro in the front as the guy everyone’s looking at because… I think everyone in the group loves him. I also made it colour-coordinated because I know it’s a bit hard to recognize them right away. And I changed the original ad text to a description of the 5 lions because I didn’t know what else. I spent SO long on this print (like 4 days kill me). This will probably go for $20. 

LIT - the world’s glowiest glow pigment, 100% pure LIT powder by Stuart Semple

The main differences between LIT and other glowing things is that:

it’s bright enough to be seen in ambient light. No more having to find pitch black dark to see it.

it doesn’t get less effective over time, so you’ll still get a decent glow out of it in hundreds of years. 

It can be charged up with light or heat

and can be used as an acrylic or oil paint.

It has a super bright initial glow then it has up to 12 hours worth of afterglow.

https://culturehustle.com/collections/powders/products/lit-the-worlds-glowiest-glow-pigment-100-pure-lit-powder-by-stuart-semple

fucking look at this shit though

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”