Tumblr favorite #1807: Pixilated woman

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 037 – Pixelated Breasts.” Here is what Bacchus found.

This animated .gif on Tumblr sources back to this Tumblr post on what turns out to be the artist’s Tumblr blog. The tag there is “Toxic Super Freakout” and although that’s not hugely illuminating, the artist Max Capacity has a web store in which it appears he’s sold a series of eight deliberately-obsolete VHS videotapes under that title, featuring his imagery and the music of The TV People. It is unclear which of the eight tapes may have featured the frames in this .gif. There’s an article at The Creators Project that attempts — with only partial success in my view — to explain what Max Capacity is up to:

Many of his GIFs and videos, whether commissioned or simply personal, feature samples from VHS tapes and typical 80s iconography. MAX CAPACITY grinds them into a patchwork of colorful and lo-fi pixels, reminiscent of early 1990s net art and Zahid Jiwa videos. Much like his brethren who populate this semi-anonymous artistic scene, MAX CAPACITY is a devoted internet user. His visuals can be found on Flickr, and he has over 270 videos (and counting) on Youtube and Vimeo pages. Mostly, these videos consist of 15 second loops in bright, neon and acidic hues, grainy and pixelated but gorgeous as hell. He also maintains a loosely organized clutter on Tumblr. Beyond this chaotic work-in-progress, MAX CAPACITY has recently dabbled in some musical projects…

Thus it seems likely that the nude in this image is not Max’s original work, but is a sample from an unknown video that Max has pixelized, colored, illuminated, and whatnot. A considerable sampling of his Toxic Super Freakout videos can be found on YouTube, but they seem not to be labeled in a way which would hint at which samples are from which videos.

Tumblr favorite #1806: Sexy R2 unit

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 036 – Sexy R2 Unit.” Here is what Bacchus found.

A commenter on an Imgur appearance of a slightly photoshopped version of this photo (one that artificially accentuates the visible portion of butt-cheeks) identifies this as a photo of Meg Turney, who is a cosplayer and internet personality. Although that’s a somewhat sketchy attribution to be sure, it’s given some additional weight by this stock photo of her appearing in the same R2-D2 dress at something called the Streamy Awards. Too, these Pinterest posts ( 1 2 ) feature demure-ish selfies of her in a closet in the same dress.

For interest, there is an entire Pinterest board devoted to women wearing versions of the R2-D2 dress. While browsing it, I discovered a captioned version of the subject photograph that asks the question you were probably asking also:

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Tumblr favorite #1805: B-movie splashes

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Original post here. These images were researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 035 – B-Movie Splashes.” Here is what Bacchus found.

These lovely, surreal, and futuristic photographs are 10 of 13 shots for a 2012 advertising calendar created by Dubai-based Indian photographer Tejal Palatni. The additional three are these:

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The calendar site (a portfolio on Behance, a site for connecting freelance artists with work) offers all thirteen pictures in much higher resolution. The calendar was created for fashion brand Splash, and is explained thusly:

Heavily influenced by B-movie sci-fi clichés, the calendar asks: are we destined to revisit our same life choices, or will we truly create a new beginning?

For more information about the photographer, see this recent profile in ADL (Art – Design – Life) magazine. In it, Patni reveals that he learned to achieve the high contrast in his photos by shooting under mercury vapor lights from railway stations:

The reason I got noticed was only because (I had very little knowledge of light) I knew how to capture what looked good to my eye, so I started pushing black and white films to the max-3, 200-6,400 ASA and shoot my friends who posed as models under railway station (Mercury) lamps. I experimented a lot with those lamps and became quite an expert at shooting high contrast pics. Maybe that is one reason, my pics still remain dark.

Tumblr favorite #1804: Spacegirl tentacles

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 034 – Spacegirl Tentacles. Here is what Bacchus found.

This artwork is by Japanese artist Kurono, whose Facebook page identifies him (?) as an “artist, illustrator, and graphic designer in Japan.” He has a web page here, which offers this additional information in English:

After having been employed as a designer of videogames, and as a designer for a record label, KURONO is currently doing free-lance artist in Tokyo, Japan. That style is to begin with a cute character and then poison it somehow with an eccentric and unexpected twist that morphs something normal into something abnormal. Blending cute elements or characters with weird, poisonous twists can produce fascinating artwork.

KURONO has done various designs for Tees, CD jacket, flyer, poster, and more. “It is my hope that many people will look at my stuff and find the unique and interesting element that lies within.”

Kurono has an extensive profile online at Behance, which is a sort of online portal for freelance artists and people seeking to obtain their services. This particular artwork is shown there under the title Spaceage Mystic Order, and is the first in a “series of self-produced posters”. Several more posters in the series can be seen at that same link. It appears from photos on a couple of gearhead blogs in Japanese that these posters have been marketed at Japanese auto/bike shows. A version of the artwork is also planned to feature in an upcoming set of stickers.

Tumblr favorite #1803: X-ray love

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 033 – X-Ray Love.” Here is what Bacchus found.

The source Tumblr post for this image tags it “Derek Yaniger” which is consistent with the visible “Derek” signature. The artist’s web page is here, and there’s an entertaining bio written in a sort of retro Beatnik jive. This image appears on the artist’s website along with a news item announcing that it was released as a “jumbo sticker” called X-Ray Love. It also appeared in an article about the artist in the Brazilian Playboy.

Tumblr favorite #1802: Aliens need teen girls

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Original post here. This image was researched by Bacchus at ErosBlog as part of the “Γ commission.” The research was originally published at Hedonix as “Γ 032 – Aliens Need Teen Girls. Here is what Bacchus found.

This is a poster for Night Caller From Outer Space, a movie which (according to Wikipedia) was also released as The Night Caller and Blood Beast From Outer Space. This 1965 British movie is based on the novel The Night Callers by Frank Crisp. The plot features aliens from Ganymede who kidnap teen Earth girls for breeding purposes. There’s a detailed and sympathetic review of the movie here that offers comparative information on the different available DVD versions. Horrorpedia offers additional information, and another review here offers this view of the magazine the aliens placed bogus modeling ads in to lure the girls to their alien breeding doom:

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Here’s a larger view of the similar artwork on the poster for the “Blood Beast” version, at least one of which is available for sale:

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