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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
CRUMB (Zwigoff, 1994)
Poster for the 1994 documentary CRUMB, directed by Terry Zwigoff. Sepia oval self-portrait in profile of R. Crumb with a gun pointed at the back of his head. Along the top and bottom of the poster are a collage of classic Crum characters and vintage photos of significant family and relations.
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner
Book cover:
The adventures of HUCKLEBERRY FINN MARK TWAIN

Stylized drawing of a boy in tattered clothing pushing a raft with a small tent and barrel on it down a riverBook Cover:
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
A torn American flag photographed in b&w from a low angle Red Book cover with large words:
LEGACY of ASHES The History of the CIA
TIM WEINER

The official seal of the CIA is on the cover: an eagle’s head rising from behind a white shield with a red sun on it.
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The Lives of Others
White poster, with a large red ink of a fingerprint with a face hidden in the swirls. Red typewriter text reads: 

“The Lives of Others

Directed by Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck 

Stasig Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck and Sebastian Koch”
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Dune 3 poster with Timothee holding his knife aloft next to Zendaya holding her knife drawn. The title had been replaced with the words:
DUNE
THE BALLET OPERA
in the Dune font
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Meme from Arrested Development, Lindsay and Tobias talking about their marriage
T:  We could always do a regime change in Iran
L: Well did it work for those people?
T: No, it never does, i mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...
BOTH: ..but it might work for us.
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Is this anything
Opening title still from TWIN PEANS, with the sign reading “Welcome to Twin Peaks, population 51,201” in the foreground. Behind a curving road and a pine forest two mountains rise through the mist. Over-title in signature neon-green outline font reads: “THE BIRDS DON’T SING THEY SCREECH IN PAIN”
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
RIP
film still of a man looks upwards into the light as he directs the onlooking drunks in an explanatory dance of the universe at the bar (Tarr, Werckmeister Harmonies, 2001)
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue - Caravaggio & Francisco de Quevedo settle a dispute via tennis match with a ball made with the hair of Anne Boleyn.
cover of the novel SUDDEN DEATH by Álvaro Enrigue. Green background, title and author in large block letters, image of a delicate feather floating above.
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack playing in your head
a shirtless saucier tends a steaming pan in the foreground, further back another sous-chef sharpens a knife, as the albino dishwasher sings an aria behind - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover (1989)
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
👋
Silent movie intertitle in fancy font with film scratches:  “The Poets leave Hell. And again behold the stars.”
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
Cover of Camera Lucida with a Magritte-style painting of a man in a bowler hat, but the head (or apple) has been replaced by a large format view camera.
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
and ~45% of the electorate is Nicholas
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
I fear this Onion headline is going to prove itself to be a 100 year curse
Onion Headline:

De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Basy To Find A Mayor That Doesn't Suck Shit, Huh?'
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Microsoft’s Clippy with a cartoon bubble: “It looks like you're trying to restart a nuclear reactor, would you like help?”
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
Fascists in Cybertrucks getting coffee
Donald J. Trump © @realDonald Trump
ON MONDAY NIGHT I'LL BE DOING A MAJOR INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK -
Details to follow!
6.03k ReTruths 21k Likes
Aug 06, 2024, 11:26 AM
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
The Overstory, by Richard Powers
Book cover for The Overstory by Richard Powers depicting a painting of an idyllic forest divided into rings, with alternating rings spun 180 degrees
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
what actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life
Brazil (1985) — Katherine Helmond as Sam’s mother getting her face stretched by the plastic surgeon
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 02/05/2024
The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien. Though there are police, it’s hard to say what exactly the novel is about, police or otherwise.
Cover for The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien – on a neutral yellow-beige background a b&w profile of a gentleman with aquiline nose morphs into a head-on image, in a disturbingly surreal way, such that his ear is growing out of his nose.
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 04/04/2024
Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn
Spanish cover for Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
1) The Rings of Saturn, Sebald 2) The Rings of Saturn, Sebald
Cover of The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald – hospital green background with cut-outs revealing parts of images of the rings of Saturn, what appears to be eyelashes, and a renaissance painting
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
Camera Lucida, Barthes
Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes; Simple blue cover with a small illustration of a bellows camera on a tripod
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Bewilderment by Richard Powers #bqt
Cover for Bewilderment by Richard Powers. Starry skies overlaid onto purple / magenta silhouettes of forests against peach / orange skies.
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Neuromancer
Cover to William Gibson’s Neuromancer, with a giant male head emerging from blue and red grid, blocking a futuristic looking city in the background, framed by the rising moon.
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Severin’s Journey Into Dark by Paul Leppin (1914). Leppin’s later novels don’t make the time cut-off, but are also excellent
Cover for a German edition of Severin’s Journey into Dark by Paul Leppin, featuring an expressionist illustration of some skeletons and ghostly people huddled around a candle flame
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov
Cover of Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov featuring a dog in a suit jacket, looking over its shoulder towards the viewer, tongue lolling out between its teeth
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg (not the edition I read but I covet this cover)
The cover of Budd Schulberg’s novel What Makes Sammy Run? which features a tangled knot of 35mm film on a red background
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 09/07/2023
Meta-meme of the Astronaut killing the Astronaut but the first astronaut has the conspiracy guy super-imposed and the murdered astronaut has the astronauts meme.
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 26/05/2023
Astronaut 1: This election season gonna b long as fuck isnt it
Astronaut with gun pointed at Astronaut 1’s head: ALWAYS HAS BEEN
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 25/05/2023
A collage of multiple Udo Kier (as Count Dracula in Blood for Dracula) heads around the words FEEL UDO. Made by an anonymous devotee at Anthology Film Archives for the The Strange Case of Udo Kier series.
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 18/05/2023
Screen recognize screen
A person with a CRT monitor on their head stares down at their phone while waiting for an elevator in the NYC subway
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Ian M @imca.bsky.social · 12/05/2023
Tree roots and mushroom mycelium intertwine with text “They’re sharing memes you couldn’t even fathom”
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