Empire Ants

Managed to recover most of these from the wayback machine, and just replaced the single watermarked one with the closest equivalent in my higher-quality remake of the set. But I just had to share these, because the death of hollow-art - how I miss it so - led me down a fascinating rabbit hole in which I've made new friends and discovered new things to read.


( It's really not as good as the hype would make you believe. Use the remake instead. )

I tried, I survived for so long... and then I lost all my mental energy and just rushed through the home stretch to be able to call this done. Not to say I didn't put in an effort, but you can tell I stopped being as picky about colour correction and lighting.


( What would you do if you were sentenced to a prison where half the inmates were put there by you? )

This particular batch took an entire week to finish. Here is where my attempts to turn this movie from a dark, blue-green mess into viable icons became whimpering at my computer and finding every possible excuse to do anything else.


( I know I'm not one of your favorites. I'm not even welcome in your house. But, I could use a little attention.  )

And here we have part two of my slow descent into madness...


( Take it from me, two minutes in hell is a lifetime. )

Making this massive, four-part set of two thousand and sixty-four icons nearly broke me. At several points, I threw my hands in the air and declared my attempts to fix lighting and colour grading good enough. So just know that I tried until I could not try anymore and suddenly understand why only a select few scenes were iconned by others who tackled this movie.


( Close your eyes. And whatever happens, don't look. )

Just a remake of an old set which I removed from this comm a while back because the quality wasn't high enough. Included a small number of the old ones here, but these are mostly new. Made using ancient images in my original Keanu Reeves folder from a laptop and a half ago. (If you don't have a Keanu Reeves folder, you're doing something wrong, tbh.)


( Art is about trying to find the good in people and making the world a more compassionate place. )

Look, I just refuse to accept that he's in his 50s now, okay? Wee youthful Keanu will always have a place in my heart - to go along with that place in the pb slot of a new muse.

This is just a random assortment of photoshoots and such labelled as being in the 1980s. The quality varies due to inconsistent sources.


( Angels and skylines meet and I'm straining to reach the light on the surface. )

The gifs~

I have no clue what to say other than these are animated versions of some of the stillframes in the previous set. All from the 1986 film River's Edge, yanked from tumblr (back when it was relevant, bye Felicia tumblr) then edited for size.


( I don't know. I just figured we could dump this place, you know? Go up there, and if we like it, we stay, don't come back. )

Here's yet another set created for one of my own muses, featuring Keanu Reeves in the 1980s film River's Edge. I'm a sucker for the grungy aesthetic he's got going here and it's especially useful on a Serpent OC.

Excuse the graininess caused by iconning something which predates both HD film and my birth, but I'm quite happy with the results of this endeavour.


( You shouldn't be seen in the same room with a cactus. )