A few weeks ago, I was visiting Coney Island on a lovely spring day, and I got some great pictures of locations that happen to be important in Dreams of the Boardwalk. I’ve set them up on their own page in the Media Archive. Check it out!
Tag: Pictures
Interesting Links – 07/20/2016
Hey, all.
In addition to my own work and that of my friends, I’ve found a number of marvelous things around the Internet that I’d like to share with you all.
To start with, here are two beautiful and moving photo collections:
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Breathtaking Photos of the Human Species
Next we have something very different, but still beautiful in its own way, and definitely very interesting:
Photographs of Everyday Life in 1950s New York
Then we have some baby pictures of something I love very much in:
Traveling down Coney Island to the Beach…in 1868
And finally, we have:
7 Terrifying and Disturbing Horror Films You Can Actually Watch Tonight And Never Sleep Again
Frankly, I think the title is a bit of an exaggeration, but I suppose every horror-related thing almost has to claim to be the most nerve-shattering thing ever.
Of the movies, I like The Birch for its interesting monster, and Mother is what all kids like to imagine our mothers would do if actually confronted with the monster in the closet. The Little Mermaid reminds us once again that trying to keep supernatural creatures as slaves is a bad mistake.
But it’s the last one, Derailed, that really hits me where I live. As a city dweller, I fear the darkness beyond the end of the train platform, and find the outlands that are the train yards at the edge of the city to be uncanny. In this movie, they really are…
Hope you enjoyed all of those. Don’t forget, Prize Bucks and In the Make-Out Room are still available for free download at Amazon, and will be through Thursday. And keep watching, there’s always more to come.
The Final Cut
And this is the picture I eventually selected for The Grindhouse’s page header. Again, this is by theMASman. Note how Our Heroine is much more aggressive, and the slasher – while far from finished – is clearly in trouble.
Opening day for The Grindhouse will be Sunday, and at that time it will be host to two stories that have been in the library for a while…but keep watching. I’m already at work on another Grindhouse story – originally planned for a short story, but rapidly turning into a @#$%# novella – that should open there soon.
From the Cutting Room Floor
The picture you see above was the first attempt at a page header for The Grindhouse (coming soon! To a theatre near you!). I commissioned it from The MASMan, who I found at Deviantart, and all I asked for was: 1) a badass Final Girl, who was 2) protecting her boyfriend, who was wounded and cowering from 3) a Slasher who was at least a little different from your stereotypical masked machete-swinger.
I think I got what I wanted. Our Heroine is badass, the slasher is distinctive…but as much as I liked it, I decided it wasn’t quite what I was looking for. Our Heroine here is in a defensive posture, and I wanted it to be 100% clear that our slasher has messed with the wrong Final Girl this time, and is about to get his ass kicked so hard that there may not be a sequel.
So I commissioned another drawing, and that was everything I could have hoped for.
Coming soon to a theatre near you…
Coney Island Images – June 4, 2016
Hello, all.
My fiancee’ and I visited Coney Island this past weekend, and when she started taking pictures, it occurred to me that this might be a good way to start my long-planned media page. Since I talk so much about Coney Island in Dreams of the Boardwalk and my other works (both fiction and non), I thought it might be a good idea to share the sights of Coney Island with all of you. Just a few today, but I think they’re good ones – check ’em out here!