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Lots of people love Alejandro Jodorowskyâs psychedelic movies like El Topo and The Holy Mountain, there is even a documentary about his famously unmade Dune movie. What people donât seem to realize though, is that for the last 40 years, Jodorowskyâs been authoring numerous graphic novels that comprise 20+ other movies he would have probably made if heâd had the budget for them - and they are all fully fleshed out in comic book form! For example if you are mourning the fact you will never see Jodorowskyâs Dune, now realize that he put those ideas into a comic book series called The Metabarons. If you are wondering what happens after El Topo, know that there is a graphic novel sequel he recently released called Sons of El Topo.  A series, Techno Priests, is like Jodorwoskyâs Star Wars. In fact, his graphic novel with Moebius called The Incal was so good that Luc Besson ripped it off to make The Fifth Element.  If you are willing to read the comics, youâll experience Jodorowsky quietly creating a universe of Miyazaki-level creativity.  Inspiring is an understatement!
Nov 2, 2022
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visionary art and sci-fi design. he created a lot of really wonderful comics like Arzach and The Incal.
He also contributed a lot of concept artist to films like Alien, Tron, Fifth Element, and Jodorowskyâs Dune.
Feb 15, 2024
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The ultimate piece of pop art. Epic poem. One manâs journey between three realmsâInferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. My personal favorite is the mountain of pugatory and its design based on the seven deadly sins.
Divine comedy is comparable to â Star Wars original trilogy, Blonde, Evangelion, and The Velvet Underground. BTW saying this never seen any of those 4 things
Nov 20, 2023
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heâs an independent comic legend from the 90s and is still active today. most people know his book âghostworldâ and the film adaptation. i highly recommend reading everything of his. no superheroes, no bullshit, real slice of life, bizzaro stuff, absurdist neo-noir, great commentary and clearly a dude who likes to people watch and then draw the weirdos he sees. huge inspo to me. reading his books and shorts feel like youâre watching a movie, the beautifully drawn and hilarious and full of emotion.
favs:
- LIKE A VELVET GLOVE CAST IN IRON
- PATIENCE
- THE COMPLETE EIGHTBALL
Nov 20, 2023
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I started collecting perfumes on the tour for my âAladdinâ movie in 2016, my bandmate was an amateur perfumer and his passion for aromatic materials was infectious. Studying scent unlocked an entire dimension of sensory experiences I had been ignoring. I realized that perfumers were trying to communicate with us, the raw materials had developed symbolic meanings over thousands of years, and could be used in combination to create very specific artworks. I began to see perfumes as snowglobes that carry information as a landscape, that thereâs a lot of encoded information in them. Collecting them became an adventure, walking around the city realizing every city block had stores with samples of these precious artworks.  I even started to obtain vintage bottles of perfume from 30, 50, even 80 years ago that still smelled great, and I began to understand in more depth how people used to smell and why. I recently wrote an epic perfume adventure book that I hope to put out soon.
Nov 2, 2022
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I bought Beckâs Mutations album the day it came out, and I loved how Beck collected so many concepts on that record. After listening to it, I made the decision to write down all the ideas in my head, so I started carrying a pocket notebook. Itâs been 24 years since then and I still write in one every day. Beck changed my standard of what a modern songwriter could or should be doing. I came from the indie-rock mentality where everything was sort of homespun and amateurish, Mutations made me realize that a contemporary artist could make a record at the level of Bowie, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen.
Nov 2, 2022
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People had been telling me to watch this movie for years, I finally gave it a shot and itâs mindblowing. The film is a total artwork that takes place in an interior landscape of the human soul, called âThe Zoneâ, with deeply felt apocalyptic evocations of Christianity. Tarkovsky provides us with aesthetic mastery of all the filmmaking elements, from set-designs both naturalistic and sculptural, breathtaking cinematography, deely psychedelic music, and brilliant portrayals of raw human emotion. With all these filmmaking elements in place, he conducts them all like itâs a Beethoven symphony. This film might contain the most aesthetic merit of any movie Iâve ever seen. Another thing is that the movie actually killed them to make it - some of the cast and crew including Tarkovsky and his wife were poisoned while filming scenes on a river near a chemical plant, and they died as a result. Essential viewing!
Nov 2, 2022