The Eternals (Volume 1) #1.
"The Day of the Gods".
Viktor Vasnetsov and Hayao Miyazaki.
Sleeping Beauty/Howl's bedroom.
Two senseis of the visual arts.
The Invisible Man (1933) by James Whale.
Based on H.G. Wells' 1897 novel, "The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance."
James Whale at, perhaps, his most Whale-ish. Unyielding, cutting and misanthropic. A funny, creepy, and brisk story of madness.
Definitely one of Universal's creepiest monsters.
In other news: King Tut's knife was likely forged from alien metals, scientist say.
It's hard to believe it, but Hades (the Greek god of the Underworld) had 3 encounters with his nephew Heracles (Hercules) and was left humiliated. Each. Time.
The most well-known encounter is when Heracles travelled to the Underworld to capture the three-headed hound Cerberus for his 12th and final labor. Hades told his nephew that he could only take Cerberus if he could subdue him without using any weapons. But clever Heracles used the impenetrable Nemean Lion skin he wore as a makeshift muzzle and wrestled Cerberus until he was worn out.
The second time, Hades came to the surface to collect the soul of Queen Alcestis, who agreed to die in place of her husband King Admetus. But Heracles didn't like the idea of the happy couple's love being cut short and wrestled Hades into submission, just like he did his dog.
The third instance is the strangest though. When Heracles attacks the city of Pylos after its king refuses to purify him of his sins, Hades arrives to either collect the dead from the battlefield or defend the city (depending on the version). Either way, when Heracles sees his uncle, he shoots him in the shoulder with an arrow and Hades retreats to Olympus where Apollo heals his wound.
War of the Worlds (2005) by Steven Spielberg.
I love Spielberg's adaptation of War of the Worlds.
It's a remarkable film, and one of Spielberg's great dream films, in the way that sometimes you'll have a dream, and it will start out meaning one thing, but by the end it will mean something else.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (also known as Dracula: Voyage of the Demeter) by André Øvredal.
Based on "The Captain's Log", a chapter from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Gorgeous, lavish and vicious!!
Haunted Britain: A Guide to Supernatural Sites frequented by Ghosts, Witches, Poltergeists and other Mysterious Beings by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe.
Fun Fact:
It turns out Genghis Khan, former Khagan of the Mongol Empire, may have done some good for the planet...
He did more to combat global warming than any of us ever will. Between 1162 and 1227, Genghis Khan and his Mongolian armies conquered around 22% of the Earth's surface, killing as many as 40 million people. But he also cut 700 million tons of carbon emissions while doing so. By lowering the population of the world by as much as 10%, he allowed huge portions of cultivated farmland to return to their natural forested state and absorb carbon from the atmosphere.
A Dictionary of Symbols by J. E. Cirlot.
An essential piece of literature.
This is a book that can help you interpret paintings, cipher and decipher art, and view the world in a different light.
20s. A young tachrán who has dedicated his life to becoming a filmmaker and comic artist/writer. This website is a mystery to me...
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