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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 3h

And that’s a beginning

A crown made of 3d-printed human finger bones on a mannequin.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 4h

Every now and then I remember "ThunderCats" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" are the same production house and

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 4h

For my next trick I shall make a crown of clawed human finger bones

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 4h

Fact: part of Dracula's success was based on setting the vampire myth out of antiquity and into modern life Fact: Mumm-ra insists as long as evil exists that Mumm-ra lives Proposal: we are missing out on a story setting Mumm-ra in modern America. I propose Mamdani's New York for added comedy.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 5h

The genie episode of ThunderCats… has not aged well

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 5h

If the MCU is effectively professional wrestling I demand kayfabe

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 5h

Taco night: seasoned Impossible in corn/wheat blend tortillas with white onion, cilantro, and cotija served with duros

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 6h

Oh no, they just mean the perspective distortion where things closer to the frame get stretched out. It actually took us a really long time as a species to accept that. Truly. It's one of the most recent photographic norms.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 6h

I feel like the earliest WA advocates understood it as a tool for getting closer, and somewhere along the line that changed

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 6h

I think I've seen the distortion of the 28mm described as 'grotesque' as late as the 80s. I'm not sure when it switched over to its current context WRT fitting more of the scene in, but, there's a lot of me that wants to say that's related to the rise of the cameraphone.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 6h

Also worth noting that at this time the telephoto was the first extended range accepted. Wide angles took far longer to catch on.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 6h

The idea of maximizing "IQ" traces back at least as far as this and the tone of these articles suggests it's a known and tired argument by this point. So, basically, photography forum people have literally never changed.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 6h

I love me a telephoto landscape

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 6h

The sexism of the 50s is weird because it just assumes anyone reading is a man vs the 70s-80s when it has more cheesecake on the menu than any franchise of the restaurant. This is still the era of arguing over very esoteric developer combos. An expert suggested 7 flash exposures instead of 7 flashes

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 6h

It's interesting that as late as 1954 columnists were still writing articles imploring people to embrace telephotos for creative vistas.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

Shin's theatrical re-release is what actually kicked this off. @nuclearbob.net and I went to see that together having missed it the first round, and both thought we should watch more Godzilla. Then on Thanksgiving he joined me on a cold headspace walk and we decided to combine the walk and 'zillas.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

We are past Shin and up to (but I have previously seen) Minus One. I count both among my very favorites yeah. I am apprehensive accordingly about how Minus Zero will go...

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

My favorites will always go back to the root as Godzilla as a man vs nature introspection about man's hubris. The brawlers can be a lot of fun and I've enjoyed many, but, for me the original metaphor still hits hardest.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

I have a hard time being too critical of anything that has the good sense to cast Charles Dance as a villain...

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

Yeah you're good. It wasn't what I wanted but it's in no way among the worst in my book. Some fun bits, some good designs, and one of the most absurd frames ever in a Godzilla. Solid franchise installment.

King Ghidorah on an erupting volcano in the distance behind a cross. If you did this now someone accuse you of using AI, and probably be right.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

On the real January 1st, 1987 I was like three years old sorry

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

Olympus IS-3, Ilford Delta 400 Collector's edition

A black-and-white photo of two chairs with hard shadows against a gray block wall with a large with garage-type door.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

I love getting to trot out the word 'chartreuse.' Good word. Kinda awful color.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 13h

famously people cannot draw an accurate bicycle so clearly nobody knows how bicycles work despite the fact that they’re a wholly human-made object and produced by several companies and all, when it comes down to it, basically interchangeable in form and function IT’S a MYSTERY

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

LRT: It's been my most successful casting concept in maybe five years and I think more people should be scared of what that implies

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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 11h

4-panel comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: Slutty Witch walks through a supermarket on her phone, her black cat Lord Nibbles at her feet. The vampire remarks, "Looks like everyone's a witch nowadays." Lord Nibbles jumps in his shopping cart. Panel 2: The vampire pushes the shopping cart with the cat inside and says to the witch "You should be glad. Witches are cool now." Panel 3: The vampire happily says, "Just like sucking people off is cool now, too!" Panel 4: Lord Nibbles in the cart looks mortified. "You've GOT to stop calling it that."

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

Pentax Auto 110, Reflx Lab Lucky 200

A color photo of an unstretched painted canvas behind an empty ornate oval gold picture frame.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

You're, like, really pretty OM-1, 12-100

A painted garage door with a chartreuse background and a pink humanoid cat recling in a suit under pigeons, flowers, shrimp, and the text "You're, like, really pretty" done by @bootlegsignco

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

Legendary Godzilla is scaled for Legendary Defender, Toho classic is the right scale for GoLion/DOTU. Let's do this people.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

Forget Godzilla vs Kong I still just want a good Godzilla vs Voltron

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

Monarch the series is the first to find a sustainable way around this by making the plot about thrupples and only sometimes also Godzilla exists.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 7h

I maintain that once it becomes 'big monsters punching each other' it always falls apart quickly. Godzilla as a concept is hard to do more than one movie per reboot of and have it land as it should.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 8h

I will not forgive them for this Michael Bayification of Mechagodzilla

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 8h

OK, I need hatchet throwing Millennials to do it in neon and Kong Kong and Godzilla costumes more often

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 8h

"If this wasn't contributing to world destruction this'd be a great DJ booth" my man

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 8h

Apex hired the same interior decorator as the Empire

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 8h

Lookit what they've done to our boy (Mechagodzilla.) They made him a truckasaurus. Point to Millennium.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 8h

I am fascinated at how much DNA this shares with Heisei and especially Millennium era Toho, but most of the time it pulls it off in a way those struggled too. It's not... better, it still looks like a AAA video game cutscene. The visual editing is maybe better at selling the illusions though?

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 8h

Farscape did it first

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 9h

I like the reframing of Kong in these as a protector but I'm still baffled by this American insistence that a very large ape is an obvious equal to a nuclear dragon. Even the apes in Primal Rage had the magical powers of snow and filth to fight with.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 9h

Asshole dad and legally-not-Eleven are back. And now we add Murderbot.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 9h

C'mon monkey boy

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 11h

We're getting near the end here. Only 2 more that are actually out after this. We'll be caught up just in time for Minus Zero.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 11h

Today is Walkzilla. Today's walk camera is the M4, today's walk venue is the cemetery, today's 'zilla is vs Kong

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 11h

Bones for the bone witch. BONES FOR THE BONE WITCH.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 14h

As my hand cramps from sanding carpals I remember that a new sanding sponge is what I forgot to get at Meijer this week

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 14h

Time for all the good Zeds (and also me) to get up and going

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 04/10/2026

My love

A black-and-white photo of a woman looking out the window of a canal boat.

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 04/10/2026

May the magic smoke remain longer in this one for you

Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 04/10/2026

The hardest part of being a photographer is easily getting used to people calling you out by asking "get any good pictures?"