Conquistador of the Useless. More of me: Octophant | Twitter | Flickr | Portfolio Questions? var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-605298-5"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @successisnotanoption)http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b9ed1cb83265aec9968d0d8792426ed6/tumblr_mmwmxaiPYq1qzoofyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This should be rendered in oils and become his official portrait.</p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/50654502952http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/50654502952Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:22 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8374bc7cd9c2b34636a1b5380fd256a2/tumblr_mmqzv74ude1qzgzl4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.indiewire.com/article/roller-girls-and-oil-rigs-mondo-releases-paul-thomas-anderson-movie-poster-series">There Will Be Blood.</a></p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/50352434261http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/50352434261Mon, 13 May 2013 13:42:43 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7248f0ed5ec03a1a8217ef5e699c788a/tumblr_mmqxgvLzi71qebnl7o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/aac4624ecbb662db9b4d1dbd4f570aa7/tumblr_mmqxgvLzi71qebnl7o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://theoctophant.tumblr.com/post/50349623914/ok-apeface-lets-get-something-straight-you" class="tumblr_blog">theoctophant</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>“​Ok, apeface, let’s get something straight… you may think you’re a big deal up there with your iPads and cruise missiles and waffle irons and whatnot, but show your face in my hood and see how far it gets you. Iron-based blood oxygenation doesn’t matter when you don’t even have gills. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckP8msIgMYE">I’ll try my chromatophores</a> against yours any day of the week, Jack. Oh, what’s that? You don’t even have chromatophores? Are you even trying? Not that it matters. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye">With inside-out retinas like yours</a> it’s a wonder you can see anything! Does evolution even know where you live? Oh, and don’t even get me started on <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/04/extruded-cephalopod/">this skeleton of yours</a>. You call ‘em bones, I call ‘em souvenirs. I think maybe I’ll just build a summer home out of you. You best keep to your side of the waterline, chimpy. You clearly aren’t cut out for life in the real world.”</p> <p>New in the store today, <a href="http://octophant.us/store/8-limbs-good">8 Limbs Good.</a></p></blockquote>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/50351365740http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/50351365740Mon, 13 May 2013 13:23:17 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/bb484696331c9e75cdbd38afe7372b45/tumblr_mmpea5mJ6M1qzgzl4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/phineasx/8732176783/" title="Suspicions">Suspicions</a> on Flickr.</p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/50287363830http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/50287363830Sun, 12 May 2013 16:58:52 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/98988599886f25628d1d2d802a56bba4/tumblr_mmk73utI3B1qzgzl4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/phineasx/8723955057/" title="Ok, maybe I'll keep him.">Ok, maybe I’ll keep him.</a> on Flickr.</p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/50056487954http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/50056487954Thu, 09 May 2013 21:35:53 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/fc2393f0a0ffb08770ae3cef05c0797a/tumblr_mmgfj6UJDE1qzgst6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Alert <a href="http://brandonbird.com">Brandon Bird!</a></p> <p><a href="http://dansai.tumblr.com/post/49895851217/sometimes-you-find-a-thing-at-the-thrift-store" class="tumblr_blog">dansai</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Sometimes you find a thing at the thrift store, and other times that thing finds you. (at Savers)</p></blockquote>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49934655181http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49934655181Wed, 08 May 2013 10:33:39 -0400<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/U9kmjW73-v4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>No CGI will ever look as magical to me as a Ray Harryhausen creature does. RIP.</p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49862385558http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49862385558Tue, 07 May 2013 12:49:18 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9edc4b1f0b56efda6bde2d0aa88650f9/tumblr_mme7k1E6nU1qzgzl4o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://corpsey.trubbleclub.com/catacombs/37/139/">The Infinite Corpse</a></p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49793647371http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49793647371Mon, 06 May 2013 16:00:01 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1db63cdebbee0929fddca1b8fc85fc49/tumblr_mm8jbaQFzh1qzgzl4o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/alien/Film?oid=5280632">This</a> could be the least perceptive, bitchiest review of a film ever written.</p> <p>Dudeman even takes a <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/aguirre-the-wrath-of-god/Film?oid=1062967">backhanded swipe</a> at <em>Aguirre: The Wrath of God</em>. So very much fuck this guy.</p> <p>P.S. Roger Ebert, we miss you.</p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49525745150http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49525745150Fri, 03 May 2013 14:28:22 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/03dc81c805b8a0bc09431b7f9f18d3b8/tumblr_mm3rlpLykA1rx70ego8_r1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b84678d01b009cd160111f95cdaa1e35/tumblr_mm3rlpLykA1rx70ego7_r1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/20295abbea6ec1c11a6070b02c6d3cd4/tumblr_mm3rlpLykA1rx70ego6_r1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/21d476626020c061f437bdb65f1304a2/tumblr_mm3rlpLykA1rx70ego5_r1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/eecdfd267c57ee80faeba8a8cbf03b69/tumblr_mm3rlpLykA1rx70ego9_r1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3230d0a2a1a16a1cb0dbad07ff68fa5e/tumblr_mm3rlpLykA1rx70ego1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a08234169b95b19beae9bd79d397f536/tumblr_mm3rlpLykA1rx70ego2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0f304b7d6f23032821603181e9af5d74/tumblr_mm3rlpLykA1rx70ego3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3c14c5b2287a5030a8b6d6361b19f383/tumblr_mm3rlpLykA1rx70ego4_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Science, bitches!</p> <p><a href="http://theadventuresofmichaelpawlak.tumblr.com/post/49489312123/todays-posts-orbited-uranus-searching-for" class="tumblr_blog">theadventuresofmichaelpawlak</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Today’s posts orbited Uranus searching for Klingons.</p></blockquote>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49512115516http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49512115516Fri, 03 May 2013 10:02:29 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/40760f6aa86fae4954ae651f29c6a340/tumblr_mm4k5m5Zmp1qzgzl4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/03/graveface-records-announces-star-studded-jason-molina-tribute-album/">Weary Engine Blues</a></p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49361322063http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49361322063Wed, 01 May 2013 10:56:10 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f00daf28db153d7c6b8c5031431d8d4a/tumblr_mm2tl7cCCU1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ok, Internet, I forgive you.</p> <p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/49264629561/bat-grrrrl" class="tumblr_blog">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://doplacebo.blogspot.com/2013/04/yvonne-craig-tvs-batgirl.html">Bat Grrrrl</a></p></blockquote>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49265544199http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49265544199Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:42:45 -0400<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html">Modern art was CIA 'weapon'</a>: <p>The CIA has admitted that postwar abstract art was a propaganda tool.</p> <p>However, the success of Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst remains a troubling bafflement.</p> <blockquote class="link_og_blockquote">For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.</blockquote>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49183764028http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/49183764028Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:05:53 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9590d3ccfdf61e14693f41c8adb20996/tumblr_mlvgixHXri1qzgzl4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Snic Plissken</p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48937420152http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48937420152Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:59:21 -0400Nicolas CageEscape from Nic York<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bRK--ahPd3s?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>If you needed to explain to space aliens what country music is, this is what you would play for them.</p> <p>RIP George Jones</p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48930077860http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48930077860Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:31:16 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8e1f492b790b9c0e56142b5bcd06de86/tumblr_mlv9hy5R6r1qzgzl4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Most of what I do at work has some amount of Photoshop involved in the assembly. But I can do some stuff with just a pencil when it’s called for.</p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48929906576http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48929906576Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:27:34 -0400i made this<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5a3f8608e3f82d369e6a81f954d1d5cf/tumblr_mlts82kvn41qzgzl4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Phineas/status/327436026199023616">Starring myself.</a></p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48868864260http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48868864260Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:16:50 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f2fb31f2f93a1d561b58eedda0f1dd06/tumblr_mlrljjNhAG1qzgzl4o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b><a href="http://www.thisismyjam.com/Phineas/_5hpqyfw?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=sharing&utm_campaign=user">‘Plain Sailing Weather’ by Frank Turner</a></b><br/>Give me one fine day of plain sailing weather and I can fuck up anything.</p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48776092706http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48776092706Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:57:19 -0400thisismyjam<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a6ca0acc1b20bbfd67404b8c40b60a69/tumblr_mlpzx9Otzf1qzgzl4o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://davidsimon.com/do-you-know-who-i-am/">I like David Simon.</a></p>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48705692376http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48705692376Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:12:45 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/edb770492356812c4bef7b283030f9cf/tumblr_mloc3jIu6E1qzty50o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>FUCKING HIPSTERS.</p> <p><a href="http://j-p-g.tumblr.com/post/48634954840/japonism-iii-via-ookami-dou" class="tumblr_blog">j-p-g</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15693951@N00/7197301424/">Japonism III</a> (via <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/15693951@N00/">ookami_dou</a>)</p></blockquote>http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48641275958http://successisnotanoption.tumblr.com/post/48641275958Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:00:45 -0400