>>7188326Oh boy. Yeah I know The Shining. But I had forgotten that his name was Jack. It's almost 8 years since I last watched The Shining - my one and only viewing of it - I was in college, two of my mates and I had been drinking heavily for a few days, not much sleep either, around 1pm Sunday we decide to crawl into a room, pull the curtains closed, and sit there in our semi-drunken haze. Then out came the boxed wine, and we decided to put on The Shining. Sipping on cheap but richly tasting red wine out of crappy plastic mugs watching the Shining on a shitty old small laptop whilst semi-drunk and getting drunker... Reality started to distend just a tad... Which matched the kinda film in and of itself - it's a 2hour and 40 minutes long film, but to myself, in that experience, it felt like it went on for 10+ hours. It was a real intense journey.
Years before that experience I owned a book called The Haunted Castle by Leo Hartas. It was an incredible book and I poured over it countless hours throughout my young life.
In a section of the book there is a maze which moves on it's own, and there's a gnarled old gardener/hedgetrimmer/groundskeeper. I was fascinated by this and since then I have always wanted to do try and create something like that. There's something about the book, about the illustrations and the nitty-gritty, gnarled, twisted, decaying yet organically life-rich complex grotto-dimpled aesthetic and environment which I have been slightly obsessed with - Pirates of the Caribbean, with the somewhat mutated crewmembers of the Flying Dutchman, especially the one who is embedded in the wall, also elicited the same feelings of fascination within me.
There's also the part of me that loves intricate, minute, moving things - things that have a function and are dynamic yet their form does not allude to it, I like that kind of stuff.
>>7188351Thanks anon :) And yeah they do! I'm keen for the pics :D
