"80s Yuppie Murders Prostitutes And Has Existential Crises' In Between Racist And Homophobic Tirades"

"80s yuppie murders prostitutes and has existential crises' in between racist and homophobic tirades"

Getting friends in to musicals is hard because when they ask what it’s about you have to be like “15 year olds having sex” or “a plant from outer space that takes over the world” or “teenagers killing people for fun” or “Alexander Hamilton”

Final photo for my Physical Type assignment. It was hard to get a photo where at least some of the box isn’t showing, so I had to add in a lot of shadows and bleeding out the painting to cover it up. I like how the text turned out, it was kind of lucky that the plastic sheet ended up folding back a little to give it more of a dimensional feel. 

I re-watched one of my old favorites recently. Suspiria falls into this category that I like to refer to as “cozy horror”, or horror that is more dependent on shocking imagery and building suspense than loud action. As one of Argento’s early films, you can see his trademark use of bright and various colors throughout various scenes, which is a trait I’ve begun using in some of my experimental comics. 

This movie brings a sense of fantasy which I’m very drawn to. It is essentially introducing darkness and violence into an otherwise fairy tale world, or what we would consider to be a fairy tale world in contemporary society. The imagery is beautiful and macabre at the same time. 

Suspiria (1977)  dir. Dario Argento.

Kinetic Typography movie finished! 

Might go back in the future to fix some nit picky stuff. For the most part I’m happy with how it turned out. I was happy with the “bounce” effects on some of the words towards the end. I feel like this is something Adult Swim would play during their breaks in between shows. 

a serious man

Another movie I saw recently that falls into my “cozy horror” genre. It’s a French horror film about a vegetarian veterinary student who discovers some hidden instincts within herself during a hazing process at her university. The imagery is no where near as colorful as in Suspiria, but it is given on a much more realistic level, hitting me with more anxiety than Suspiria did. Much of the early movie contain scenes with a certain kind of nature that I am very drawn to in storytelling: otherwise normal scenarios...but there’s just something a little bit off. 

The poster design here is also very illustrative and cool, and I think it really does capture the nature of the film. 

Art for Julia Ducournau’s “Raw” (”Grave” in French) by Matthew Therrien.