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Taul “Toy Crusher” Waters is an illustrator, painter, graphic designer, and synthographer born and residing in Jacksonville, Florida.

He concocts strange characters, landscapes, and machines using various mediums - from traditional to digital. Inspired by science fiction, horror, philosophy, graffiti, hip hop, skateboard culture - plus hilariously absurd and odd life experiences.

Monday, March 11, 2024

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Digital Phantoms Series: 001

A quick black and white vector illustration to study line work and variations in line weight - composed in Adobe Illustrator. It's the beginning of a series I'll be exploring with the intention of utilizing line work to convey depth rather than multiple shades of a color. We'll see how weird it gets.


Not to intentionally kick off with gloom, but the art world loses another legend:

Akira Toriyama, Creator of Dragon Ball and Manga Pioneer, Dies at 68

From IGN:
"Toriyama's body of work inspired both anime fans and creators alike.

Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball and the artist behind Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, and numerous other works, has died. He was 68. News of Toriyama's passing was made public by the official Dragon Ball Z X (formerly Twitter) account on March 7. According to the statement, Toriyama died due to an acute subdural hematoma."

I don't really need to explain how much of an influence he was on a whole generation, but there will never be another.
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Now, I gotta tell you, this is an interesting yet weird conversation:

JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE #2111 - KATT WILLIAMS

The menthol question is what first piqued my attention. Katt Williams is a legend and an iconoclast in his own right, and this conversation shows and proves why he's earned both of those titles. It delivers the brand of banter and compelling communication that we've all come to expect of him and Joe Rogan, so I for one am glad this conversation happened...even though by the time I've posted this, we've all moved on to something else wild that Katt's said.

A24 is undoubtedly racking up a killer resume - with flicks like Under the Skin, Hereditary, Everything Everywhere All at Once, and this oddity:

THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
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I've watched many a strange film in my day. I was a big fan of Takashi Miike in his Audition / Ichi the Killer days, so I'm pretty familiar with what's left field - and The Killing of a Sacred Deer definitely ranks up there. I watched the first 15 minutes of this asking myself aloud this one question: "wtf?". That should give you an idea of the obscure level of this film. Although, if you're not a fan of Hitchcock or Kubrick, well...

While we're on the subject of film, I just so happened to stumble upon this video (thanks to the good folks at the USS Sulaco Colonial Marines (Aliens) Fans Group) that's 45 minutes of unreleased footage from the original ALIEN film by Ridley Scott. It's packed with information about the storyline that, if you ask me, should have never been removed from the film. Although, it's easy to say that 40 something years later.

ALIEN (1979) | RESTORED EDITION (WITH DELETED SCENES)

Parker is the OG "disagreeable dude", hands down.
I'm going to go ahead and leave it there because this time change has me yawning in broad daylight.

CZARFACE feat. GODFATHER DON & KOOL KEITH - HELICOPTER


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