Patrick Driscoll

Artist, Illustrator, Caricaturist. Aiming to be the Hirshfeld of Horror

[Patrick Driscoll @DrisSkull]

@codyclarke It will be easier to feel useful after total economic collapse. Provided humanity survives, the Great Reset could be badass. From hoe-flation to no-flation in one swift clip?

[Patrick Driscoll @DrisSkull]

@codyclarke That’s got to weigh on her like a millstone. As it probably does for all people in make-work jobs.

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Whatever happened to the German business mullet? Are these skills now lost to history?

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

Studies have shown that older games with simpler graphics had a much more stimulating effect on a gamer's brain - actively "training" creative skills and imagination, with positive impact on memory building and abstraction skills.

If that sounded to scientific, have a look at the 4 images. The older ones among you will recognize those classic games.

In the first one your brain would turn that into a "Rambo" style scenario, dropped in the jungle fighting against hordes of enemies. Have a closer look at the main character - that's 3 colors and a pile of pixels. Your mind does the rest.

In the second image your brain converts the image into an epic space battle against aliens, with you sitting in a spaceship, fighting wave after wave. Again, have a closer look at the aliens. One (!) color, 2 animation phases. Now look at your "spaceship".

In the third image you are teleported by your creative mind into a fantastic world with heroes, battles, an open world, portals and so on. A magic world, that was created aong the way, by your mind.

The fourth picture turns you into Bruce Lee despite the fact that he is a little blob of pixels in black and yellow.

The common thing in all of those examples is your brain "filling in the blanks" - and that's EXACTLY the part that's positively stimulating it.

Now think of hyper-realistic modern games with graphics so good that your brain doesn't need to do any "imagining" anymore... instead it turns into pure consumption mode. Brain waves look entirely different then. No creative areas will fire up.

The reason why many retro gamers have fond memories of old games is not just nostalgia. It is connected to what those games have done to our brains and imaginative minds at the time. They didn't oversaturate us - they merely hinted at the right direction and our brains did the rest.

Old games were similar to books - the world was created by the reader/player. And those worlds looked different for each and everyone of us.

[Classic Horror Films @HorrorHammer1]

An image from the 1917 silent Danish film PEACE ON EARTH

[Patrick Driscoll @DrisSkull]

Disney executives right now: “Make the thing that the people have shown us that they want? No, that would never work!”

[Cody Clarke / Kill The Lion Films @codyclarke]

My latest for Substack:
https://t.co/G9j2CP6pyV

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

Tintins Wardrobe
Always makes me smile, Creator Belgian Cartoonist Hergé must have enjoyed creating outfits for him
Wonder if Milou had any coats !

[Classic Horror Films @HorrorHammer1]

Boris Karloff poses with his pig at home in Los Angeles, California. 1943

[川松尚良 （ホラー監督/ゾンビコーディネート） @archelonpicture]

『魔の火山湖・甦えった巨大生物の恐怖』(‘77)より、ライフサイズプロップの撮影風景。造型物を作って臨むモンスター映画の良いところは、メイキングがそのままUMA捕獲写真みたいになるところだ。子供たちの想像力はこんな所からも培われていく。

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[Cody Clarke / Kill The Lion Films @codyclarke]

yall better come to this! gonna be the best one yet

[Patrick Driscoll @DrisSkull]

@dinamittEros This feels really weird. Like Fragonard people transposed to a more modern setting.

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

Good Morning Everyone
Steaming into Wednesday with two paintings by the master of his craft
Philip Dennis Hawkins
The doorbell has rung so many times already. Max has woofed me into oblivion!
We went out for our walk at 6.3O am today

[Sci-Fi World Museum @hollywoodscifi]

Insane!

The collector77

[Lenore Skenazy @FreeRangeKids]

The @FamStudies survey finding that the MAJORITY of kids AGE 14 are NOT ALLOWED OFF THEIR BLOCK hit me as hard as if it found the majority of parents believe in witches.
We're talking about a world view that is suspicious, scared, cruel AND completely "normal" to the believers.

[D.H. Gutierrez @Dave_Aklo]

This is the kinda stuff they should be doing with IPs now. I’d wanna know more about Carmine the bowler.

[Patrick Driscoll @DrisSkull]

@TheChief80 @TheCinesthetic Please pass the pinking shears

[PATINA RESEARCH @patinaresearch]

We gotta bring the art of air brushing back

[𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚜 @Know_Bueno]

I believe in you, but you will not move forward until you believe in yourself

[Patrick Driscoll @DrisSkull]

@QuetzalPhoenix https://t.co/K8LAtjhC5M