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GReedDiamond

(5,371 posts) Tue Dec 1, 2020, 05:27 AM Dec 2020

Click Mort - for 5 months in 1984 he played guitar for the Cramps...

https://www.laweekly.com/rip-click-mort-the-legendary-l-a-artist-who-recapitated-porcelain-figurines/

Here is one of the figurines referenced in the LA Weekly article:

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Click Mort - for 5 months in 1984 he played guitar for the Cramps... (Original Post) GReedDiamond Dec 2020 OP

That's out there. callous taoboy Dec 2020 #1

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An artist before his time lunatica Dec 2020 #3

callous taoboy

(4,673 posts)

1. That's out there.

Reply to GReedDiamond (Original post)

Tue Dec 1, 2020, 08:44 AM

Dec 2020

I decapitated plenty of GI-Joes in my youth, but never thought to graft the head of something else on there. We'd mainly shoot them with pellet guns and if you hit it just right the limbs and head would go flying in all directions.

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lunatica

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3. An artist before his time

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Tue Dec 1, 2020, 04:49 PM

Dec 2020

Like my advertising art, this too has been taken over by Photoshop and CGI. The effect at the time was quite Avant-garde, futuristic, quirky and extremely odd. His imagination was already placed in the future by his concepts. People must have felt a bit unnerved by it. Now it just seems logical in a way.

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