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A few nice Movies images I found:

Movie Still from “Alien 5 – Up Shit Creek”


Image by David Blackwell.
A lesson in choosing your house pets wisely. You never know what kind of shit you might end up in.

Here is a movie still from the movie "Alien 5 – Up Shit Creek". It has not been released yet for reasons I cannot fathom.

Following all the dark and moody black and white portrait work I thought a little light entertainment might be a good idea.

Oh, and this one is so fragrant viewed large in the light box.

The Postman: Book Good, Movie Bad


Image by Earthworm
The author of the book, David Brin, wanted to show a post apocalyptic scenario that was counter to the barbaric Mad Max school of social organization. He succeeds in doing this with the character of a stranger wandering from town to town posing as a postman in a uniform borrowed off a dead postman.

The role the Postman plays in evoking the social connections between people and their long lost relatives begins to manifest as real as the impostor persuades others to take on the role of actual postman delivering actual letters up and down the Western states in the name of the Restored United States of America.

The hero’s real goal is to galvanize a military to fend off the coming invasion of nasty brutes from the south, those social outcasts who had, during better times, bunkered down with cans of tuna and arms waiting for the apocalypse.

Along the way he comes across other interesting post-survival strategies including attempts at energy generation using the usual windmills and solar panels, a super-computer involved in a financing scheme, a feminist army of young women with a manifesto to kill off violent men and only mate with gentle ones, sage wise women who want libraries and schools, remnants of a government weapons project to create super soldiers, adaptions of nuclear family social relations to help sterile men who want to be fathers and the usual cannibalism and violence.

Too bad most of this doesn’t show up in the movie. Instead we have Kevin Costner as a sort of charismatic do-gooder loner against a charismatic, racist bad guy with an army of dolts to do is bidding. The concept of a mail system brings together a crew of naive young people looking for purpose. Their eagerness to play the role of Postman comes off as pure patriotism; the idea that a civilization is restored through a social network enabled by a communication system or any system at all is somewhat lost. Characters are conveniently killed off to make way for traditional nuclear family union and there are no signs of feminists or wise women, just the one love interest babe. Most fun part of the movie is that the army of dolts love to watch repeated screenings of The Sound of Music.

movie poster


Image by l@mie
a dedication to one of my favourite movies…

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strobist information: 480ex packed in paper on both sides

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