Misadventure in the Habitation of Devils: Or, The Age of Bond Villain Rejects

July 18, 2019 by D.L. Martin

Misadventure in the Habitation of Devils: Or, The Age of Bond Villain Rejects – Rant on the Fourth of July, History of American Nazis, and Trump’s America.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: 4th of july, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, America, American history, American Nazis, AOC, Art, concentration camp, concentration camps, congress, Dan Crenshaw, dark history, Donald Trump, essay, fourth of july, german, German history, germany, Government, history, liberal, Liz Cheney, long read, longread, Nazi, Nazis, news, opinion, political, political essay, political opinion, politics, quotes, racism, Steve King, Trump, Trump's America, US history, US politics, World War II, WWII

The Distinguished Bum

July 10, 2019 by D.L. Martin

The July 4th Issue of The Distinguished Bum with Chief Jim Hopper

Categories: Art, Rare Magazine Covers, Uncategorized • Tags: advice, Art, chief jim hopper, coke, david harbour, davidharbour, fashion, film, funny, humor, humorous, jim hopper, magazine, netflix, original art, photoshop, stranger things, stranger things season 3, strangerthings, strangerthingsseason3, television, tv

Failed Art…

July 2, 2019 by D.L. Martin

Failed Art… A lesson as to why you should always sketch first.

Categories: Art, Uncategorized • Tags: abstract, Art, artist, artwork, character design, characterdesign, creature, digital art, drawing, fail, kunst, kunstwerk, late night artin', monster, photoshop

Thompson For Sheriff

July 2, 2019 by D.L. Martin

Thompson For Sheriff: Art influenced by Ralph Steadman & quote by HST. Mixed media digital art created by D.L. Martin

Categories: Art, Uncategorized • Tags: abstract, abstract art, abstractart, Art, art work, artist, artwork, digital art, digitalart, drawing, Gonzo, Gonzo Journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson for Sheriff, HunterSThompson, kunst, kunstwerk, mixed media art, mixedmediaart, painting, political, politics, quote, ralph steadman, Thompson for Sheriff

Greetings from Hürth!

June 28, 2019 by D.L. Martin

Greetings from Hürth! Art & German Lesson 2-in-1 special

Categories: Art, Uncategorized • Tags: abstract, Art, arting around, artist, artwork, character design, characterdesign, der Muckefuck, deutsch, deutschland, german, German language, German lesson, germany, Hürth, kunst, kunstwerk, Muckefuck, postcard, surreal, weird, weird picture

Open Letter To Dan Crenshaw: You Are Mistaken

June 19, 2019 by D.L. Martin

My response to Dan Crenshaw’s tweets about needing to explain the justification of concentration camps for migrants by stating inaccuracies about the Holocaust.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, amwriting, current affairs, current events, Dan Crenshaw, democrats, GOP, history, Holocaust, jewish people, just, law, Migrants, morality, news, pictures, politics, progressive, republicans, tweets, twitter, US politics, World War II, writer, writing, WWII

Art: Death Takes A Vacation

June 7, 2019 by D.L. Martin

#Art: Death Takes A Vacation
#mixedmediaart #color #modernart #contemporaryart #artist #abstract #paint #mixedmedia #abstractart

Categories: Art, Uncategorized • Tags: #IMadeThis, abstract, abstract art, abstractart, Art, artist, artwork, color, contemporary art, contemporaryart, death, drawing, I made this, kunst, kunstwerk, mixed media, mixed media art, mixedmedia, mixedmediaart, modern art, modernart, paint, painting

Art: Moon

June 5, 2019 by D.L. Martin

Late Night Artin’ of the Moon
#IMadeThis #Art #Abstract #GraphicDesign #artwork

Categories: Art, Uncategorized • Tags: #IMadeThis, abstract, abstract art, abstractart, Art, artist, artwork, drawing, graphic design, graphicdesign, I made this, kunst, original art, originalart, painting

Art: Hunter S. Thompson**

May 3, 2019 by D.L. Martin

Late Night Artin’ of the Late Hunter S. Thompson

Categories: Art, Uncategorized • Tags: #IMadeThis, abstract, Art, arting, arting around, artist, artwork, collage, color, colors, contemporary art, design, digital, digital art, drawing, drawings, Gonzo, Gonzo Journalism, graphic design, graphicdesign, Hunter S. Thompson, HunterSThompson, illustration, original art, originalart, paint, painting, photoshop, quote, surreal, video

On The Nightstand: The Frank Marr Series By David Swinson

May 2, 2019 by D.L. Martin

Philip Marlowe drank Old Forester. Sam Spade drank a premixed Manhattan from a paper cup. Lew Archer drank, well, pretty much anything. But Frank Marr prefers uppers over downers. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t hit the sauce, uppers are just a preference, a powdery, snortable preference. And if all of those fictional Private Eyes but Frank Marr ring a bell, well, you should treat yourself to David Swinson‘s series. How good is the Frank Marr series? Well, let’s just say […]

Categories: Short Reviews, Uncategorized • Tags: addiction, amblogging, amwriting, Art, blog, blogger, blogging, book review, booklover, cop, crime, crime novel, Crime Song, crime story, David Swinson, detective, drugs, fiction, Frank Marr, Hunter S. Thompson, literature, novel, police, private investigator, Raoul Duke, reviews, storytelling, The Second Girl, thriller, Trigger, Washington DC, writing

A Brief History of America Is Better Than This

June 17, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: America, America Is Better Than This, blog, blogging, civil rights, current affairs, history, image, immigration, meme, native americans, news, photo, pictures, politics, separating children, separating families, shameful, syria, Trump's America, US history, USA

America

June 12, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: America, blog, blogging, delicious, food, gold, image, inequalilty, meme, money, New York City, news, NYC, photo, pictures, politics, poor, poverty, rich, USA, wealth, wealth inequality

“Hail To El Jefe” 2018 – Ash Vs. Evil Dead: In Memoriam

May 2, 2018 by D.L. Martin

In the age of superhero movies and nostalgic revamps/remakes/revisits, maybe Ash Vs. Evil Dead wasn’t the hero show audiences deserved but definitely the hero show we needed—to save us from the same old shit. Ash Williams isn’t military trained nor an eccentric multi-billionaire but rather a one-handed ValueStop stockboy from Elk Grove, Michigan who unwittingly unleashes the Kandarian Demon while stoned in his trailer. He is more like your father, if your father was the kind of guy that would spend […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, artist, Ash Vs. Evil Dead, Ash Williams, blog, blogger, blogging, Bruce Campbell, cinema, Evil Dead, hero, image, movies, photo, photooftheday, photoshop, pictures, review, reviews, spoiler, spoilers, superhero, television, tv, TV Show, writing

Motivation For Puppets – Part III: Commuting Life Hack

April 11, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Motivation For Puppets – Part III: Commuting Life Hack

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, blog, blogger, blogging, funny, humor, image, life hack, lifehack, motivation, Motivation For Puppets, motivational, pictures, puppet, storytelling, web comic, web comics, webcomic, webcomics, writing

“Motivation For Puppets: Part I & II”

April 9, 2018 by D.L. Martin

“Motivation For Puppets: Part I & II” – Motivational Puppet Quotes

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, artoftheday, blog, blogger, collage, image, Monday Motivation, MondayMotivation, Motivation For Puppets, photoftheday, photooftheday, puppet, web comic, webcomic

Weekend Small Art Projects

April 8, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Weekend #art projects.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, artoftheday, blogger, blogging, collage, creative, gif, gifs, humor, image, myart, photo, photoshop, pictures, video, visual

“Lev & The Easter Bunny,” 2018

April 6, 2018 by D.L. Martin

“Lev & The Easter Bunny” is based on a picture artist and creator of Tales of Mere Existence Lev Yilmaz posted on FaceBook: Unfortunately, the image shrunk when exporting it and this detail is hard to read:

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: adobe, Art, arte, artist, artwork, blog, blogger, blogging, color, creative, drawings, funny, graphic design, graphicdesign, humor, illustration, illustrator, image, Lev Yilmaz, photo, photoftheday, photoshop, pictures, portrait, portraits, Tales of Mere Existence

Vintage K. Doonesbury: The Big Apple

March 31, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Vintage K. Doonesbury: The Big Apple – Portland’s unofficial slogan might be “Keep Portland Weird,” but for New York it is just a mutual understanding among the locals. When you have a population of over 8,000,000 people, Weird is naturally going to be a demographic the politicians will have to cater to along with the Rich and the Poor and 1,000 shades in between.

Categories: Stories, Uncategorized • Tags: amwriting, arrest, blog, blogger, blogging, cops, funny, gun, humor, Kurt Doonesbury, New York, New York City, NYC, politics, Queens, short story, story, storytelling, word collage, writer, writing

You Were Never Really Here: A Review For People With No Time For Reviews

March 30, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Earlier this week, I picked up You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames (creator of Bored to Death and Blunt Talk). Here’s my review.

Categories: Short Reviews, Uncategorized • Tags: blog, blogging, book, book recommendation, book review, IAmReading, image, Jonathan Ames, news, photo, pictures, Read, reading, recommend, recommendation, review, You Were Never Really Here

This Is Twitter News™*

March 30, 2018 by D.L. Martin

This Is Twitter News™*: The one where Laura Ingraham & Roseanne Barr use Twitter…

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: #NeverAgain, 2nd Amendment, blog, blogging, David Hogg, funny, gun regulation, history, humor, image, Laura Ingraham, meme, news, photoshop, politics, reviews, Roseanne, Roseanne Barr, school shooting, social media, This Is Twitter News, twitter, Twitter news

“How do you get in the way of your own success?”

March 29, 2018 by D.L. Martin

How do you get in the way of your own success?

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: ask the editor, DNC, image, motivational, pancake, politics, positive thinking, Q&A, RNC, twitter

“My Boyfriend Calls Me By A Guy’s Name”

March 29, 2018 by D.L. Martin

“My Boyfriend Calls Me By A Guy’s Name”
I’ve been with my boyfriend for three months. When we have sex…

Categories: Translating Weird German News, Uncategorized • Tags: ask the editor, deutsch, deutschland, funny, german, germany, humor, kevin, news, odd, strange, translation

It’s 2018 and you have to ask yourself: Why is Rick Santorum still a thing?

March 25, 2018 by D.L. Martin

“How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that,” Rick Santorum said on CNN’s State of the Union. Let me translate this mile-high bullshit for you: “Kids, listen, you don’t know what it’s like getting that sweet, sweet NRA money. If you knew, then you’d also be willing to […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: #MarchForOurLives, blog, blogging, bullshit a mile high, GOP, Gun Control, image, news, Palm Sunday, pictures, politics, Rick Santorum, Santorum, television, tv

Artwork by Lev Yilmaz

March 14, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Good stuff by Lev Yilmaz.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, artwork, blog, blogging, cartoon, drawing, freelance, freelancer, image, Lev Yilmaz, Levni Yilmaz, Patreon, photo, pictures, Tales of Mere Existence

Video Intro Draft #2

March 5, 2018 by D.L. Martin

With sound:

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: adobe, Art, blogging, tv, video, video making

How To Get The South To Rise Again In 4 Easy Steps! (You won’t believe #2)

March 4, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: 4 easy steps, America, baking, bread, bread making, Civil War, confederate flag, cooking, delicious, easy steps, food, foody, funny, history, joke, meme, news, not really, politics, really, recipe, The South, the south will rise again

The Billy Graham Funeral Experience

March 4, 2018 by D.L. Martin

I find this photo of Billy Graham’s funeral kind of weird. This is how it plays out in my mind: Employee: “Welcome to the Billy Graham Funeral Experience. Did you folks have the Premium Experience? Great, that comes with a souvenir group photo. Everyone say ‘CHEEEEEEESSSSEEEEE-US!‘ Fantastic folks, this will be ready in 20 minutes.” Trump: “Hey, can we get the corner of Billy’s coffin in the shot? I’d feel bad if we didn’t get him in it. It is […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Billy Graham, blog, blogging, death, Donald Trump, Funeral, funny, news, photography, picture, politics, religion, Trump, weird news, weird picture

Groko is a go.

March 4, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Olaf Scholz and Dietmar Nietan were late to the stage, delaying the announcement of the #Groko vote results, so they had Willy Brandt tell some statue jokes to hold the crowd over.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: blogging, germany, groko, humorous, meme, mitgliedervotum, news, photo, pictures, politics, spd

“Barry Crimmins” – For A Saint

March 3, 2018 by D.L. Martin

A man I admired greatly has passed on. Barry Crimmins was an American saint for all that he did. They say you should never meet your heroes but I did. And I’m thankful for it.

Categories: Stories, Uncategorized • Tags: amwriting, Art, Barry Crimmins, blog, blogging, comedy, drawing, Helen Crimmins, I made this, Judah Friedlander, Love, netflix, news, painting, Peace, photo, photoshop, pictures, politics, Randy Credico, video

Draft Animation – Moving Art

February 19, 2018 by D.L. Martin

  I’ve been toying around with animating and making “moving art.” This is a draft of something I put together late last night. It took me nearly 4 hours to get the trees, mountains, and clouds all made. As you can see from the video, the clouds and trees still don’t want to react right. I was thinking of making this a music video, hence Tom Waits just appearing.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: adobe, animation, Art, blog, blogging, news, photoshop, pictures, tom waits, video, video making

AI-Generated Motivational Message #1: The Damn Machines Are Onto Something…

February 13, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: AI, AI generated, Art, blog, funny, generated, humorous, meme, news, photo

State of the Uniom

January 30, 2018 by D.L. Martin

From the makers of CLEAN COAL comes…

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, clean coal, meme, news, photo, photoshop, pictures, politics, sotu, state of the uniom, state of the union, weird

“Taika Waititi”

January 4, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, blog, blogging, drawing, making art, painting, photo, pictures, portrait, Taika Waititi

3am Drawing – Cool Kid

January 3, 2018 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, artwork, blog, blogging, markers, painting, pens, photo, sketch

“Bukowski The Drinker,” 2017

November 23, 2017 by D.L. Martin

“When I went to the Yellow Cab Company I passed the Cancer Building and I remembered that there were worse things than looking for a job you didn’t want.” -Charles Bukowski, Factotum

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, blog, Bukowski, Charles Bukowski, drawing, photo, photoshop, pictures

Kevin Spacey-Free Trailer of All The Money In The World (VIDEO*) Now With 100% More Christopher Plummer

November 9, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Kevin Spacey is out, Christopher Plummer is in. Updated version of All The Money In the World’s trailer as done with what was left over in the budget.

(*Made just for shits-and-giggles)

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: All The Money In The World, Christopher Plummer, cinema, fired, Kevin Spacey, movies, news, Ridley Scott, video

More Photoshop Fun: Late Night in the Cafe

November 8, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, blogging, photo, photoshop

Photoshop Fun: Pulp Waits… or, Tom Fiction. No, Pulp Waits.

November 7, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, photoshop, pulp fiction, tom waits

Life Hack – Halloween Edition

October 30, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: blogging, halloween, halloween ideas, joke, lazy, life hack, lifehack, meme, news, photo

“Jet-Lagged,” 2017

October 18, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, blog, blogging, drawing, news, painting, photo, photography, pictures

Fact #1

October 16, 2017 by D.L. Martin

I got a message recently from someone asking to know more about me. So I thought I would leave some facts here about myself. Fact #1: I was born at a really young age.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: amwriting, blog, blogging, news, random thought, spoilers

In Which My Camera Had A Stroke* – Newport, OR

September 24, 2017 by D.L. Martin

*Not photoshopped or doctored in anyway, just an error with my digital camera.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, odd, photo, photography, picture, pictures, weird

Video Schmideo

August 30, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: blog, video

Twin Peaks: Diane’s Talk With The FBI

August 29, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Twin Peaks, Uncategorized • Tags: gifs, news, television, tv, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks 2017, Twin Peaks: The Return

Twin Peaks: Dale Cooper is…

August 29, 2017 by D.L. Martin

 

Categories: Twin Peaks, Uncategorized • Tags: gifs, news, television, tv, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks 2017, Twin Peaks: The Return, video

Twin Peaks: Gates, Gatekeepers, Life, and Death – Lynch & Kafka

August 21, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Dossier #5 – Lynch & Kafka – Gates, Gatekeepers, Life, & Death

Categories: Twin Peaks, Uncategorized • Tags: Analysis, cinema, David Lynch, german, kyle maclachlan, news, odd, reviews, spoilers, theories, Time, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks 2017, Twin Peaks: The Return

The Eclipse 2017: Portland, OR

August 21, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Astronomy, eclipse, eclipse 2017, news, Oregon, portland, video

“Man Waiting On Bus”, 2017

August 12, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, drawing, I made this, painting, pictures, sketch

“Marty Feldman by Schiele,” 2017

August 12, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Have you ever stayed up late one Friday night and wondered what it would have looked like if Egon Schiele drew and painted Marty Feldman? No? … Yeah, me neither.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, arting, arting around, drawing, egon schiele, fine arts, hobby, I made this, marty feldman, painting, pictures

“Sunflower”, 2017

August 10, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, drawing, I made this, pictures

“NoodS*”, 2017, charcoal

August 9, 2017 by D.L. Martin

*NOTE: Stepped outside and heard someone say, “…like drawing a spoon but upside down.” I wanted to see what all the hype was about.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, drawing, I made this, pictures

Coffee & A Self-Portrait*

August 9, 2017 by D.L. Martin

*Eyes are hard. Glasses are easy.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, I made this, painting, pictures, self-made, self-portrait

Twin Peaks: The Joy and Terror of Family

August 6, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Dossier #4: The Joy and Terror of Family in Twin Peaks.

Categories: Twin Peaks, Uncategorized • Tags: Analysis, David Lynch, family, Kafka, reviews, spoilers, the missing, theories, tv, Twin Peaks, Vonnegut

Super Short Movie and TV Reviews #2: Comrade Detective, Space Dandy, The Dark Valley, & GLOW

August 4, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Super Short Movie and TV reviews for Comrade Detective, Space Dandy, The Dark Valley, and Glow

Categories: Short Reviews, Uncategorized • Tags: amazon, cinema, Comrade Detective, Glow, hulu, movies, netflix, reviews, Space Dandy, spoilers, television, The Dark Valley, tv

Super Short Movie & TV Reviews #1: Dunkirk, Ozark, Castlevania, & LEGI⊗N

August 3, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Movie and TV reviews for those who don’t have time to read movie and TV reviews.

Categories: Short Reviews, Uncategorized • Tags: castlevania, cinema, dunkirk, legion, movies, netflix, ozark, review, reviews, tom hardy, tv

Twin Peaks: Then and Now – Gordon Cole

July 31, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Those French lessons are finally paying off. Now time to enjoy that fine Bordeaux.

Categories: Twin Peaks, Uncategorized • Tags: David Lynch, news, pictures, spoilers, Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks: How You VS. Everyone Else Sees You

July 25, 2017 by D.L. Martin

For fans and non-fans alike!

Categories: Twin Peaks, Uncategorized • Tags: David Lynch, gifs, odd, pictures, spoilers, Twin Peaks, weird

Out There, 2017

July 25, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, pictures

Thursday Funday #1

July 20, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, pictures, self-made

Wednesday Funday #1

July 19, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, pictures, self-made

Sunday Funday Art #2

July 16, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, pictures, self-made

Wedding Day Funday #1

July 11, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, arting around, pictures, self-made

Monday Notsofunday #1

July 10, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, arting around, pictures, self-made

Sunday Funday Art #1

July 9, 2017 by D.L. Martin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Art, arting around, pictures, self-made