Randy | October 24, 2018
In the Summer of the year 2010, I published a poem here called A Codger’s Lament that spoke of semen samples, sperm counts, and the agonies of travail. I recommend clicking here to read it before going further. Tonight’s Dark Sentiment also speaks to the agonies of travail, in quest of the same outcome … […]
Randy | October 22, 2018
Tonight’s Dark Sentiment is all about truth, lies, and the perils of clinging exclusively to either. Mytho Logique begins with a lovers’ tiff, and goes downhill from there. Spoiler: Society, then, now and forever, may resemble this remark.
Randy | October 20, 2018
“Throughout this series I’ve applied the title of “dark sentiment” to a variety of emotions, events, human acts, portrayals, and situations. Tonight we’ll talk about the darkest sentiment of all – True Love. “True Love is the darkest of sentiments both because it has the power to motivate those blessed enough to be possessed by […]
Randy | October 18, 2018
Zing is an 8 minute animated short film produced by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH, and tells the tale of a frantic interlude involving a busy Grim Reaper, a demised cat, and the little girl who wants him back. Synopsis: Day in, day out, Mr. Grimm is busy with his job as the Reaper, harvesting people’s lives. […]
Randy | October 16, 2018
“One hundred and sixty-one years ago today, a light of dark genius was extinguished forever under bizarre circumstances that remain unclear to this day. At approximately 5:00 AM on Sunday, 7 October 1849, at the end of several days of delirium, Edgar Allan Poe regained complete consciousness only long enough to speak his last words […]
Randy | October 13, 2018
Abomination Imagery is the name of the internet platform from which the visual manifestations of the nightmarish imaginings of Bahrull Marta are launched upon the world. Of the Artist himself, his website has this to say — Bahrull Marta is a self taught artist from Jakarta, Indonesia. His first published work was digital photo editing for […]
Randy | October 8, 2018
Most of you will be familiar with the name “Baba Yaga” from the movie John Wick where it’s incorrectly offered as the Russian equivalent of “boogeyman”. As much as we enjoy Keanu Reeves in the title role, if John Wick is your only point of reference in navigating the realm of Slavic mythology, you’re missing […]
Randy | October 7, 2018
While brilliant, tonight’s Dark Sentiment isn’t quite so uplifting as yesterday’s. In fact, one might say, quite the opposite for some of its characters. Written and directed by Polish animator, illustrator, and director Tomasz “Tomek” Baginski, and released in 2005, Fallen Art is set against a backdrop of decrepitude. As described by production firm Platige, […]
Randy | October 5, 2018
Turkish film maker and animator Gökalp Gönen created the short film you are about to see over approximately a one year period, releasing it in 2015. Golden Shot has won over 25 awards and tells a tale of ill considered faith — “Rusty machines living in their small houses, imagine that the sun will come […]
Randy | October 1, 2018
“… let not us that are squires of the night’s body be called thieves of the day’s beauty. Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon, and let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, […]