“Man Takes A Drink. A Drink Takes The Drink. And Then The Drink Takes A Man. Isn’t It So, Dad?”

František Drtikol

Although he aspired to be a painter, Frantisek Drtikol became a photographer to heed his pragmatic father’s wishes. After graduating from the Teaching and Research Institute for Photography in Munich in 1903, he worked in various photography studios from Munich to Switzerland, producing two albums of landscape images in his spare time. In 1907 he established his own studio in his hometown of Pribram, earning a living making portraits. He briefly collaborated with Augustin Skarda on a 1911 album of oil prints titled “From the Yards and Courtyards of Old Prague,” but the partnership ended by 1921.

Drtikol continued to photograph, eventually specializing in photography of the nude. His images are believed to be among the first photographic nude studies ever made in Bohemia. In 1935 Dritkol abandoned photography to return to painting, his first love, which he believed could better express his burgeoning spirituality.

Frosted cherry cake 🍒

THC 22.6%

Who wants to rot next? Eeny. Meeny. Miny! You. EVIL DEAD RISE (2023) dir. Lee Cronin

Color studies by MZ

MS World Discoverer was a German expedition cruise ship. It hit an uncharted reef in the Sandfly Passage 29. April 2000. The hole was too big to get it repaired on the spot, so all the guests were taken ashore. A few hours later the captain ran the ship full speed on ground in Rodrick bay. (via sv_manjana)

Николай Мысливцев

“Beth! I’m so sorry to hear you’re leaving the company.” | “What did you do to get this role? He always said you were such a frigid little girl. What did you do to change his mind? Did you suck his cock?” | “Not all of us have to.” | “You fucking whore! You fucking little whore!”

Black Swan (2010) dir. Darren Aronofsky

The Necronomicon, through the years. Evil Dead (1981-2023)

Mushrooms releasing spores into the wind. Captured by Paul Stamets

Richard Hescox, “First Contact.” When I wanted to include this artwork in my art collection, I reached out to the artist for more information on where it was first published and got a surprising answer: Never. Hescox created it as a sample for his portfolio in 1975.

My art collection has a nice clean version of it in my section about gunfights in space. So, today is the first time this one has appeared in print!

My book “Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s” is out now, get it here!