FEMA-Nazis!!!

[dxstone]

(CAUTION: SCARY PICS!)

http://presidentevilonline.com/femanazis.html

Some have criticized the slow response to the flooding in New Orleans, but Chertoff is proud of what was done. "We locked the place down tighter than a drum, then let nature take its course... is it my fault that blacks can't swim? If there's a racist here, I'd say it's Mother Nature herself!"
(snip)

Got Blood?

read the full story at
http://presidentevilonline.com/femanazis.html

[Lorax]

1. Gross

That was gross. I shouldn't have looked at that right after eating lasagna for dinner.

[dxstone]

4. Well, I DID include a warning...

...which I don't always do...
You should never view my site while eating... NEVER. There are pics of Bush and Cheney and the like, some even untouched; overexposure to such imagery can be highly toxic to all living things...

Love your name, btw... welcome to DU!
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[kliljedahl]

6. Welcome to DU Lorax

:toast:

[kliljedahl]

2. You are one sick puppy

Love it!!!

[dxstone]

5. Thank you, thank you!

Shit, man... when I click on that link, this one even scares ME!
I should be stopped... I shouldn't be allowed to do this stuff...
Someone stop me before I kill again!!!!
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[katinmn]

3. Ewwwww!

:hide:

[dxstone]

7. You mean that in a GOOD way... right?

Hell, even I don't believe THAT...
Sorry, hon... I am bad, no question about it...
:cry:

[katinmn]

10. I cannot tell a lie

I have never been keen on bloody, gory stuff. I may be close-minded that way.

But the other truth is, I adore your writing!!:hi:

[dxstone]

17. I understand...

These are some hideous images... but I make 'em cuz I'd prefer to shock people to action, and get these monsters removed from high office, rather than to sit idly by until REAL blood runs in the streets like water in New Orleans...
I HATE violence, I really do... but I can handle the fictional stuff when it's there for a reason...
Of course, you know I LOVE horror films... but I HATE slasher flicks, I think they're garbage... I HATE films where the plot exists only to take you from one gruesome murder to the next... that's not entertainment, not for me anyway...
The best horror films don't even show the violence but rather suggest it, and leave the details to the viewer's imagination... and it's usually about much larger things, ultimately, like survival and good versus evil and the power of love to conquer all and see us through the darkest of times, and all that there...
Anyways, to each his own; I love nightmares, but I can understand that not everyone shares this sentiment...
I'm glad you like my writing and my lighter, goofier toons...
:loveya:
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[dxstone]

8. A BUMP in the night... n/t

[unhappycamper]

9. Scary as hell, but accurate.

I think you were kind to these clowns.

[dxstone]

13. Thank you, sir!

By god, that's how I see it!!!

Cool morph thingy ya got there, man...
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[Berserker]

11. Thanks for the link

great pics :evilgrin:

[dxstone]

19. Thank YOU!

Love that Guthrie quote, man...

[Richard Steele]

12. How did you apply the 3-d blood?

I can't seem to get that effect; what's yer secret?

[DistressedAmerican]

15. I Paint in some blood on its own layer then hit it with an Imboss filter.

If you set the size of the bevel right it creates a pretty good effect.

DX? What's your method?

[dxstone]

16. My secret: I was a painter before I ever touched computers...

The blood is hand-painted; I do it on a separate layer or layers, so I can if need be erase and go back and do a section again, or adjust or manipulate those layers with color adjustments, changing the layering, etc...
It's often hit or miss; but the great thing with comps is, you can go back and do it again and again til' it's right...

Here's an example of one of my old oil paintings:

[Straight Shooter]

21. Very very nice.

Reminds me of Frazetta, although not as dark and foreboding.

http://home.page.ch/pub/[e-mail]/frazetta101.jpg

[dxstone]

22. Ah, the MASTER...

Huge influence on my work, undoubtedly... but the fact is, he's been a huge influence on just about EVERYONE working in visual arts; his posters have festooned the walls and cubicles of every art school and ad agency out there for the past 25 or 30 years... his influence is immense, incalculable... ya see it everywhere; films, album covers, comics, etc, etc and of course etc...

Great pic of the Death Dealer... what an influence the original first-in-the-series was on the design of the Nazgul in Lord of the Rings... not a copy at all, but the very first glimpse is a direct sideview on horseback, and it just feels so eerily similar, this awesomely strong and dark presence, mostly shadowed and bristling with violent potential...

So much of Frazetta's work directly inspired Alan Lee and that other guy (name escapes me) who took it further... I believe Lee worked on the film's design, and has said as much about those influences...

Here's another of mine, just to show off a bit... you can see the similarity here as well, though I freely admit I can't hold a candle to the work of The Man...

Yep, he's the king, in my book... :toast:
I am not worthy...

[Straight Shooter]

23. Oh, yes, you can hold a candle to Frazetta.

The problem is that Frazetta has so much incredible artwork out there, even if an artist creates something in the same genre, there is that comparison to him, that impossibly high standard.

Honestly, though, when I first glimpsed your second image, I thought, "Oh, he's posting one of his favorites of Frazetta." Then as I read your post where you indicated it was your artwork, I looked closer, and of course that weird undefinable something of Frazetta isn't in there. But yours has a magic all its own.

Do you sculpt? Your artwork lends itself to sculpture very well.

[dxstone]

25. Hey, thank you very much!

Music to my ears, man...

I used to play at sculpting a bit, long ago... just soft clay stuff, though; never really learned about any of the more permanent media...
But it is a lot of fun... always thought I'd get back to it in time...
How about you? Are you an artist? (you must be!)...

[Straight Shooter]

26. I sculpted for a while

Didn't have the discipline for it. Pretty good at jewelry-making, but haven't done it in a while.

Painting? Don't even ask. I bought the book "Drawing with the right side of your brain," or whatever it's called. They called me and demanded their book back! LOL.

Just kidding. But really, I can't draw worth a damn and have always appreciated those who are talented in that art.

[dxstone]

28. I liked that book...

But then again, I'm left-handed...
I always thought that'd give me an advantage--but the fact is, the best artists I know have all been righties...
It's a lotta work, like anything... I wasn't makin' much money at it, and eventually put more and more time into other things: writing, music, learnin' computers... learnin' computers has kept me pretty busy itself these last 10 years; but there are definitely some really cool tools for a creative type, and the possibilities for self-publishing were just too sweet to pass up...
But I didn't grow up with 'em, and those first 8 years were a real BITCH!
I'm actually still drawing with a mouse nowadays when I do my photo-manipulations; just haven't gotten one of those pen and pad things... yet...

I think everyone should have some sort of creative outlet they can go to in difficult times to renew their spirit; creativity is a survival skill, I'm totally convinced of it...

[Straight Shooter]

29. I bought that book for a friend of mine

He was a dedicated artist but something was always just kind of "off" in his portraits. After he went through the book, the difference was amazing. He began to sell his work and did all right. I'm still kicking myself for not buying his portrait of a Native American. It was unbefrickinlievable.

But I digress. You're right, everyone should have some sort of creative outlet because we all need some way to express our inner selves and feel connected with the universal consciousness or something beyond just our immediate day-to-day existence.

As for you, Distressed American, DU just wouldn't be the same without your incredible creativity. You get better and better :)

[DistressedAmerican]

14. Funny! I Was Working On A Chertoff With bloody Hands A While

ago. It didn't go anywhere. I just looked to see if I still had it but, it looks like it got the big dumperoo.

That text really nailed it! You slay me!

Michael Chertoff first became interested in the intricacies of emergency management when he realized the awesome potential for evil opportunism in times of national crisis. "I wanted to get a cut of that action!" he remarked in a recent press conference last month. "Opportunities like Katrina only come along once in a blue moon, and I just knew I had to be there to take the lead!"

KILLER!

[dxstone]

18. Apparently great minds think alike!

I'm just glad I got to it first; it's one of those I kept putting off forever, and thinking I'd soon see something similar out there...
Not exactly destined to be really popular pieces, I can see that alreadly... but I like 'em, and I'll be adding more to the "Got Blood?" series soon...

"I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO ACT UP!"--D X Stone

[dxstone]

20. I work too hard on this crap to just let it sink...

:kick:

[ComerPerro]

24. Eww... Its funny, but horrible at the same time

[In_The_Wind]

27. That's truly gross!

[dxstone]

30. I hear ya, Joan... it's probably my MOST hideous image...

But then again, it's NOTHING compared to what these DEMONS in government just did to the poor of New Orleans... wholesale SLAUGHTER is what I would call it, a quite obvious campaign of feigned ignorance and purposeful mismanagement that was tantamount to MASS MURDER in my view...it was a NIGHTMARE for ANYONE poor in this country to have witnessed, even from afar, because ALL poor now KNOW that should worse come to worse, they (our fearless leaders) are likely to do the SAME DAMN THING to them...

I tell ya, I've always loved horror in fiction and film, but nowadays it just can't even BEGIN to compete with the horrors of the strange reality we now find ourselves in...
As I've said again and again, I LOVE horror movies, man... I just don't want to LIVE in one.

I do this stuff to provoke outrage and promote clarity of thinking on the part of ANYONE who still suffers from the delusion that these guys are simply incompetent boobs who happened to accidentally land in some of the most powerful positions in the world and who are blundering their way through all this with the very best of intentions.

There's not enough unrest out there, if you ask me...
So I'm just doing my part here.

I don't mean to shock or offend just for the hell of it. I KNOW my work is harsh at times... still, it's NOTHING compared to this New World Order...

This was the worst we've seen; it was WORSE than 9/11 cuz you can't put it off to malevolent foreigners... this was the US govt trapping people in a poisonous environment for 5 days and not allowing anyone to go in and help them, not dropping them supplies by air, NOTHING!

I KNOW we've all been hit hard by this, those of us who still give a shit, anyway...
It's a nightmare, and I think the tendency of many good people is to try to forget it in order to maintain our own sanity...
But we CAN'T forget it. We MUSTN'T. We have seen the TRUE face of the enemy, and it is AWESOME and TERRIBLE... and we need to know that.

However, on a personal note, I'm sorry if it was too harsh for you; I did put a warning on there... but I swear, that Chertoff image even scares ME.
(Brown isn't nearly as bad; he almost looks cute in comparison.)
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[Theres-a]

31. I'll check this out--After dinner.

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