here is a frame from pluribus btw

Ikebukuro, Tokyo. Shot on Yashica T4 with Kodak Portra 400, 35mm.

Koenji, Tokyo. Shot on Yashica T4 with Kodak Portra 400, 35mm.

You should write weird, human stuff as a fuck-you to AI and the awful world we live in, yes, but also because you will be changed and your life will be changed through allowing yourself to be vulnerable and uncomfortable in your art.

stillwater ouroboros

BART train, 2015. Shot on a Yashica T4 35mm

BART train, 2015. Shot on a Yashica T4 35mm

drawing comics? you will perish, unfortunately

this is all fun and games but you gotta go outside and breathe the fucking air to live, this shit ain't real, this is the fucking illusory realm, this is the realm of spectacle and unsuppressed urges man, this is 100% performance, none of this means jack shit, peel your fucking eyes away

i have many followers from this country 🏳️‍⚧️God bless wherever u are

RIP Udo Kier, a true original 📽️ his one and only social media post:

KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS, WHEEL SMASHING LORD - ARIHORR, THE DEAD PILED UPON THE DEAD killsixbilliondemons.com

The Struggle (oil on canvas, 33 x 65")

A small collaborative comic about regret! Art by me, text by a good friend of mine.

Yellow moon in the Arctic Circle, 2014. Taken during a period where the sun never fully rose above the horizon even in midday, so it was always twilight.

This is one of the biggest paintings I've ever made, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘶𝘴𝘵. It's almost 6 ft tall & wide! A tiny bit of Irving Norman inspiration in there.

babyface lester (alternate title: my face every day while reading the news)

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

one of my most favorite street scenes I've ever shot. Chinese New Year in SF's Chinatown, years ago. Shot on a Yashica T4.

How to Start Your Own Rapid Response Group to Protect Immigrants In Your Neighborhood The only proven defense against armed masked agents in your neighborhoods is an organized community. After all, no one knows your neighborhood more than you. @eltragon.bsky.social

Thank you, Bex, for reminding me of this strange, kind, lonely man. Another story about Cuba, from way back in 2017: bettermyths.com/how-i-met-cu...

Let me tell you an American story. Many years ago, I visited my friend @bettermyths.bsky.social in Chicago. He lived in Garfield Park. We went to the namesake park to visit his friend Cuba. Cuba lived in a tiny shack built up around a large fallen tree.

The electronic warfare organism's maw is a powerful emitter in radio and microwave frequencies. It acts as a radar and communications platform, as well as jams those of the enemy. It can also emit short intense pulses to fry electronics.

The air defense turret carries an array of lasers in addition to its own auxiliary radar. Each lens is independently targetable, allowing for either focused irradiation of large targets or simultaneous targeting of many smaller ones.

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, I want to post a little reminder that many library cards will allow you free access to Kanopy, an amazing streaming channel. If your library card doesn't work, you can often sign up for other libraries in your region.

Okay, so, Portland...I need an abandoned indoor pool and someone to make really large multicolored jellos from molds that look like creatures if you smashed them on the floor of the abandoned swimming pool... and then someone with some trained pet pigs to devour the remains while being photographed.

a fun house party in Oakland a decade ago. Shot on a Yashica T4 point n' shoot, & the film was likely expired if I'm remembering right.

In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.

Just a periodic reminder that it's a good idea to bookmark your favorite artists' sites, sign up for their newsletters, and follow them everywhere you can. (My links are in my profile & pinned post!). Because of the current climate of censorship you never know where we'll get kicked off of next.

QUEERS NEVER DIE. San Francisco Trans March, 2017.

this was my beloved scratchy dip pen art style for illustration/comics before I had to unlearn it entirely for tattooing (design principles have very different requirements) but I still go back to it whenever I can get away with it! with gratitude to Ralph Steadman.

"why does restaurant food taste better than food cooked at home" The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly

not a great sign for 'democracy' that the best reporting on fascist ICE raids in southern california comes from a taco review website

I can't get this out of my head, so now you have to look at it too

"The sparrow flicked from eaves to tiles to roof-ridge, crossing the quarter. Where the Fane's obelisks cut the sky, the bird scurried for height, lost in the milk-blue heavens, flying swiftly south-aust. Down between marble wharfs, heat-swollen helium airships tugged at mooring-ropes."

This is the actual 1978 Danish edition cover of Dune & i'm losing my mind

Finally got this one finished! #oc

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I've made a lot of really cool album art for now-defunct bands! Here's a sampling of some of my favorite such illustrations.

if you see this, post a monster Carrion lady...

Designed several masks for my oc. In the lower right corner is its appearance without the mask. A mass of gel is wrapped around the deformable nerves.

Sometimes I think about how I almost lived a joyless, closeted life of self-loathing and misery and instead I get to do drugs and be a freak and love and be loved by other freaks. I'm going to die in a pile of dykes someday, probably out of my mind on peyote, and that's beautiful.

animated this old painting alalal

the eternal and the finite // Joshua Tree & Los Angeles, 2025

BLOOD DRIVE (2017) is so much fun to watch, holy shit. I can't believe I've never heard of it before. true cult classic "In a dystopian alternate 1999, a former cop is forced to take part in a death race in which cars run on human blood as fuel."

probably the single tweet i think about the most every time i see a movie made after like 2015

Gotta post more of my oil paintings on here! Here's Peacekeeper. This piece is massive, just under 6 feet tall & 4 feet wide. The title and part of the imagery was inspired by a haunting photograph of the LGM-118 Peacekeeper MIRV missile system being tested.

Finally saw one of my favorite movies, Shin Godzilla, on the big screen for the first time! I'd only ever seen it on a 13-inch laptop screen before. A lot of Evangelion DNA is in the shot framing/scene composition, and it's so delicious on the big screen. Hideaki Anno remains goated as an auteur.