Vodun Day, 2020 Benin. Julio Sacristan

Emblem of Vanity.

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The most intriguing vintage masks I’ve encountered are here.

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Speaking of double vision, here’s my collection of vintage “seeing double” imagery.

Kinda feel like there's some untapped meme/reaction image potential from old horror movie trailers...

Pack of Nuclear Torpedo Submarines hunt School of Ocean Sunfish

two guys can't love each other..

if game about cowboys why sad?

In my stage adaptation, I’m struggling to decide which nationality Nemo should be. I’m making him a violent narcissist and I don’t want to come off like ‘the scary horrible Indian man captures these white people.’ But maybe his rage against imperialism heightens the audiences empathy and helps his actions make sense? Or perhaps I could keep his nationality vague like the book to add to his vampiric air. Much to think about!

Key Features of a Captain Nemo Interpretation

indian (i cannot stress how important it is that this is number one with an electric bullet for reasons that would take another book to explain)

raw charisma

melancholic solitude

gutwrenching bleeding-heart sympathy for the oppressed

philosophical ambiguity so intricately multilayered that it offsets the murder stuff

the murder stuff

Worm helmet

Lush

Beings born of rotten blood 🍄🩸

Harper Goff “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” "lighting and mood" concept paintings (1954) Source