This was me playing around with Gimp, and just to prove I can still just have an idea, gather up some relevant looking articles from around our apartment and then put it all together using nothing more than a small digital camera and some photo editing software.
There are lots of influence here from book covers from the 1970s, which I remember browsing through at the local supermarket with my younger brother while our dad did the shopping. Education is a strange thing, it pretends to be supplying the things you need for a working life in our society, but since we all contain some amount of innovation, the source for parts of or whole ideas can come from any source at any time. Taking an image like this I could spend hours or days analysing the sources of all that I have put into it and even then I cannot say for sure that the list will be anywhere near complete. If I asked my brother for help, he may see things that I have consciously forgotten.
Of course, the main source for the idea was a film that I have long known of but never seen - Driller Killer. Which you can download for free as it no longer has any owners. I have half-dreaded, half desired to watch the film, but now having made this picture I am not sure I need to any more, I seem to have used up whatever I needed fromit.
Pensive Trevor
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