nicole @nicole@myna.social

@semidetached I love the idea of this person being me tonight!

@revoluciana And now so too are we! 🎶

@marcin too much sense. 😅

@tillybridges 😂 Nicely played.

@bradknowles@hachyderm.io @Cdespinosa You’re actually dead on: the original sketch was done by Foss for Jodorowsky’s Dune (a spice hauler, I believe). Foss recycled the design for an early draft of the Alien script, when the Nostromo was still called the Leviathan.

So, what we’re looking at is Dune prepro manifested as Alien prepro, which makes it all the more special to me. 👫

@vickyinglis13 this is literally all I’ve asked for every Christmas from childhood to today. 😂

I’m surprised how calm I kept myself as the gentleman cut away the old frame and used a razor blade to scrape the masking tape off of a 45 year-old piece of tracing paper.

When I first showed it to him, he asked, “is that from #Alien!?” I was honestly caught off guard: I thought this was about as deep a cut as someone could make, but a stranger got it in one.

I ultimately went with a reddish gold shadow box with the artifact floating slightly over a light cream matte.

Exiting, the gentlemen who’d helped me told me, “one of the joys in this business is when something like this comes through—getting to see this up close makes my December.”

Nicely played. 😘

@e_er1n @rooster This. Increasingly, rapidly accelerating _this_.

@rooster Happy to see someone else play ski trips correctly. 👌

From the #Photography Archives: #Halloween Night, #Shinjuku, #Tokyo, 2017.

@TheSpaceshipper VERY excited for this. ⏳

@TheSpaceshipper It has arrived. Credit to the craters: they were thorough. The framing is pretty amateur looking, so I’m going to take it over to a trusted framing shop today and task them with doing art preservation the right way.

I finished up the sixth, and final, Lone Wolf and Cub film last night. I am in awe of these films. They are somehow adjacent to both El Topo and Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetary Man), but also Sanjuro, Once Upon a Time in the West, and … Troma? 🤷‍♀️

Extremely difficult to describe without spoiling, they build on one another in ways both subtle and overt, such that I have to recommend the series as a whole as one art object. (Though, the structure of the fifth film should be called out as particularly interesting).

I watched one a week for six weeks, and that ended up feeling just right: close enough in time to one another to catch the visual and narrative rhymes, but not so close as to wear the repetitions bare .

Best Film Series ever?

Well, certainly my favorite yet!