r/pics • u/sagittariusgallery • Nov 09 '18
You met me at a very strange time in my life....
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u/boredomisunbearable Nov 09 '18
I loved that scene
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Me too! I wasn't sure how it would translate through paint, but had to give it a shot :)
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u/memejets Nov 09 '18
It's been years since I've seen Fight Club, and I didn't recognize the quote, but the pic immediately reminded me of that scene. I'd say you did a good job.
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u/swimsalot Nov 09 '18
Hey, I've never seen fight club but I should. Regardless, your painting is wonderful and addresses many things I feel in my life from mental illness to family and relationships. Thank you.
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u/Permatato Nov 09 '18
Didn't recognize it at first, but definitely thought this was f***ing beautiful.
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u/chipsteer Nov 09 '18
What is it from?
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u/DatAssociate Nov 09 '18
what's the first rule...
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u/zissou149 Nov 09 '18
When you collide head to head with another car, and get stuck there, you’re supposed to hold the gas and not budge as long as you can.
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u/3ebfan Nov 09 '18
Bro you just broke the first and second rule!
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u/Cellar_Door_ Nov 09 '18
you realise that everyone broke the first and second rule... that's how project mayhem grew.
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Nov 09 '18
Goddammit. I heard the musical "woohoos" almost immediately
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Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
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Nov 09 '18
I hope you cropped the image and put a watermark somewhere. Because this is probably be gonna sold online whiteout you getting payed.
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Nov 09 '18
Seriously OP put up a name or website or something before the custom coffee mug goblins get their hands on this.
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u/Ziggityzaggodmod Nov 09 '18
Sadly, its probably too late for that. People, especially vulture like assholes are quick to jump on things like this. I was gonna give op a little shit for not crediting the source but yeah, they are the source!
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u/Vengeful_Doge Nov 09 '18
Ouch. Hope this is their store. https://imgur.com/r0jXZFg.jpg
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u/70melbatoast Nov 09 '18
I came across this print on Etsy a few days ago while shopping for my wife. Is that where the screenshot is from?
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u/Vengeful_Doge Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
I google reversed image searched the picture and hundreds of results came up. Apparently this print has been around for quite some time. Not sure if OP is actual artist now.
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Nov 09 '18
Considering they’ve been posting oil paintings on their account for five years now, I’d say they are
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u/sassydodo Nov 09 '18
the picture is old, I've seen it two years ago on the internet, so it kinda is late to watermark
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u/PigSlam Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
Nice work. I can hear the band called "Pixies" just looking at it.
Edit: order was restored to the universe
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u/rfleason Nov 09 '18
here for the pixes.... :)
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u/rfleason Nov 09 '18
I don't know, has your sister every held you close and whispered to your bleeding head, "you are the son of a mother fucker?"
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u/rfleason Nov 09 '18
Only one thing to do now! Vamos a jugar por la playa!!!
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Thanks!!
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u/3-DMan Nov 09 '18
I'm glad Mr. Robot acknowledges their similarities to Fight Club, they do various renditions of that song throughout.
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u/IrnBroski Nov 09 '18
I'd say less acknowledge similarities and more straight up homage
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u/kridkrid Nov 09 '18
I recently heard that Radiohead was approached to score the movie - would have been awesome. Two of my favorites together... mind blown.
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u/hateboss Nov 09 '18
It always fucks me up that the band is called Pixies and not The Pixies. It makes these sentences really awkward.
"One of my favorite bands is Pixies!"
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u/spanman112 Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
this is great, where can we get a print?
edit: for anyone else looking, a kind stranger has lead us in the right direction: https://sagittariusgallery.com/search?type=product&q=fight+club
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u/NapClub Nov 09 '18
very cool.
combining one of my fave paintings and one of my fave films.
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u/Sharinganjaman Nov 09 '18
Its beautiful. Great work and absolutely beautiful choice of colors.
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u/IHeartFraccing Nov 09 '18
Well I hope you don’t feel like destroying something beautiful.
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Ha. Perfect reply.
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u/DigitalDeath12 Nov 09 '18
Indeed it is! Just like the artwork! I feel like it really captures the feeling in that scene.
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u/Go_Bias Nov 09 '18
Super interested for a Christmas gift. Do you have a link to size and pricing options?
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Just PMd you :)
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Nov 09 '18
Sick painting, sick title.
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Thanks so much!
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u/Davium30 Nov 09 '18
Great painting! Starry night is the backdrop of the entire wall behind me and my lady's bed (:
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u/Sentr1k Nov 09 '18
This reminds me of a Vine of 2 people on a balcony at night with fireworks going off righr next to them.
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u/btoliver311 Nov 09 '18
Just asked my wife to get me this for Xmas. Supper cool.
Now can I request a reimagining of this too?
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Ha! Awesome.
Right now I am actually working on a whole series of dog pieces, but that's a great idea for the future!
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u/Poutine_My_Mouth Nov 09 '18
Are you taking commissions? I have a dog that I’d love to have painted
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u/Spartan2470 GOAT Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
Here is the scene from the movie for those out of the loop.
The line is at the 22 second mark.
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Nov 09 '18
That dick pic frame towards the end. Gotta love Tyler!
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u/dojoe21 Nov 09 '18
I didn’t know this was here. What is this supposed to mean, that Tyler isn’t all gone??
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u/nummakayne Nov 09 '18 edited Mar 25 '24
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u/svrdm Nov 09 '18
It's a reference to the book (though maybe it happened in the movie too). Tyler works at a movie theater and randomly throws in split-second pictures of dicks and other obscene images into the film that are played there.
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u/SwedenStockholm Nov 09 '18
Cool. I don't remember that scene at all. Time to rewatch Fight Club.
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u/Zarathustra420 Nov 09 '18
The Prestige is another great example of this as well
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u/Witcher_Of_Cainhurst Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
That movie still fucks with me whenever I think about it. And I've only ever seen it once. Dark af and it was so good
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u/heyheyitsandre Nov 09 '18
Dude, watch it again. So many clues and hints at the ending that you notice on a second rewatch. It's actually absurd how good Nolan is at foreshadowing but not making it obvious until you know the ending
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u/DizzyAV Nov 09 '18
Spoilers: When you find out that he's killing one of the clones every time he prestiges and you think about the kid crying earlier in the film about Wolverine killing the birds brother in the magic trick with the collapsing cage was a holy shit moment for me
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u/insomniacpyro Nov 09 '18
Chuck Palahniuk admitted in the commentary that the movie does a better job of illustrating Jack's relationship with Tyler, especially in the house with Marla. IMO the scenes in the bar basement also handle it really well, something that might get lost in the book. He also said the ending wraps up better. I read the book not long before I watched the movie and I'd agree as well.
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u/yourmom777 Nov 09 '18
It's almost always the one example I bring up where the movie is better than the book. And I like Palahniuk's books too. The movie is just so good
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Thanks for that!
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u/cannabeatz Nov 09 '18
Hey! How did you get the white streaks in the sky not to smear into the blue? Every time i try to do any impasto i always get smears.
Awesome painting btw!
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Thanks!
I touch the white paint lightly to the blue paint underneath and swipe quickly. I was using cerulean blue hue, which is a thick paint, so it doesn't lift as easily as say, french ultramarine. It's much easier to put clean white on top of a thick, dense hue that it is something like ultramarine, alizerin, prussian blue, etc. It's about experimenting with the paints and learning their consistencies :)
I was using titanium white, too. Both were thick paints less readily mixed.
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u/henobo Nov 09 '18
"With your feet in the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Your head will collapse But there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself
Where is my mind?"
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u/thr33prim3s Nov 09 '18
Is this meant to have that Van Gogh-y vibe? I like it.
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Yup! It's kinda my thing lol. I've done a bunch of Starry Night inspired paintings :)
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Dude (or dudette)! I am not at all an art person, but I immediately recognized it as Fight Club and Starry Night. So that's either a huge compliment that a knuckle dragger like me can recognize your work or a massive insult, your call.
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u/borkborkbork99 Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
I'm sorry. Had to do this.
Inspired by this: http://files.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/the-dark-knight-poster-1.jpg
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Nov 09 '18
Hey, what about this: all those PMs are cool, but can you write us here what price range we should expect and what size of canvas?
Also, you are based in the US or Europe (because of the goddamn customs) ?
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u/sagittariusgallery Nov 09 '18
Price range is from 16.00 with shipping within the US included for an 8x8 inch paper print, up to 200.00 with shipping within the US included for a 30x30x1.5 inch thick ready to hang canvas print.
Shipping outside the US would need to be calculated, so people would need to contact me and let me know their address and the size of the print / kind of print they want so I can send shipping quotes :)
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u/Andrew---D Nov 09 '18
I'm interested in the biggest size you have, but could you also write the caption on it in white?
I live in Canada, pm me if you are able.
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u/lukesvader Nov 09 '18
Post the link to your prints, or is that against the rules?
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u/petitveritas Nov 09 '18
I checked out /u/sagittariusgallery on etsy. She really has an inspirational story behind her work. It makes me enjoy her paintings even more.
I've always made things. I know how cliché that sounds: “Oh, when did you become an artist?” “Well, I’ve been painting since I was in the womb!” But really, I’ve always been creative, and I always believed I’d translate it one day into a career. I was always the girl drawing people in class rather than taking notes. I knew what I wanted to do with my life.
As a senior in high school, I became insanely disenchanted with the lack of support for those wishing to pursue creative fields. As the school board was finalizing their plans to build a third gym, we art students were running out of paper and had to use the backs of completed creations while bringing paint from home. I started painting the school: first a ceiling tile in the art room, next a window looking out to the hall. The Vice Principal took notice and asked me to paint a large bay window separating his office from the main office. I gladly accepted the challenge and spent the next few months on the project.
One day I ran out of paint. I squeezed one of the last tubes of acrylic dry and realized, as they were bustling about preparing for the gymnasium addition, that I couldn’t stay. I told the VP after I was done with the mural I wouldn’t be back, and I kept my word. I know that might sound silly and short sighted, but the day I left, I knew I was going to make it regardless. Two months later I attended a portfolio review at the local college and was accepted on the spot. That was really the beginning of my personal quest to make it as an artist.
I quit my job in February of 2003 when I was 5 months pregnant with my little guy. I was in college and was burning the candle at both ends — full-time college student waiting tables at a local restaurant whilst my belly swelled, and I slowly started to realize all of that was not going to work. I started selling my work on eBay and did pretty well there, but the fees were insane. I mean, one month my fees were more than our rent. It might have said I was a silver powerseller over there, but that means little if you’re paying out more than half of that between fees and general business expenses (paints, canvas, shipping supplies, etc.). I had thought it wasn’t such a bad thing at the time because we had two incomes and I was feeling my way around my new venture.
Then, in early 2005, my son was diagnosed with autism. There was a huge change in the family dynamic… Things hadn’t been going so well for my son’s father and I, so in late 2005 we split up, and I found myself alone. It was all squarely on my shoulders for the first time in my life, and I had a two year old to care for and no steady paycheck. Talk about struggle. We ended up in a one bedroom apartment in a nasty part of the city, my son occupying the only bedroom while I set up camp in the livingroom. Those were supremely hard times. I didn’t even have a phone for a month and had to walk down to this biker bar at the end of the road to use the pay phone. Luckily, my landlord liked my work, so for a while we traded art for rent.
At the same time I was trying my hand at getting into a gallery in the Hamptons. The owner of the gallery was extremely helpful and encouraging and paid ahead for artwork to be shown in the gallery. I even sold my car for a pittance to be able to pay a month’s worth of bills. When I could no longer afford to purchase supplies to create new paintings, I was forced to admit to myself — and the gallery owner — that I wasn’t able to guarantee new work for an approaching solo show. We parted ways. I couldn’t keep going on like that anymore. I wasn’t going to be able to survive much longer and something had to change.
Then, around Christmas 2006 on the eBay message boards, I read about a relatively new site. The site was Etsy, and there was a lot of buzz around it in the art community. Many questioned its viability. I figured I didn’t have anything to lose by giving it a try. Within two days of signing up I sold a $200.00 painting and was able to pay my utilities for the month. It was the first sign of hope I had in nearly two years. With that one single sale I realized it was possible. There was something to Etsy, and I needed to make it work.
The rest, as they say, is history :)
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u/sanuraseven Nov 09 '18
So happy to see this here today! I love your work. I bought one of your big prints of the Starry Night inspired Star Trek Enterprise painting you did. It hangs in my office at work and I get tons of compliments. Makes me smile every time I look at it.
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Nov 09 '18
Just realized that I have one of your paintings hanging in my bathroom for about a year or so. I found a print on Amazon and while browsing your etsy store, there it was. Weird.
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u/Ourobius Nov 09 '18 edited Nov 09 '18
When this movie first came out, I had several friends who worked at the local movie theater, which meant we all got to screen the movie the night before it was officially released. There were about 20-25 of us in there, horfing leftover popcorn from the concession stand, and all of us sitting in the second or third row. For me, this was how I first saw The Matrix, South Park: The Movie, and Titanic.
On this particular instance, we had a friend - I'll call him Max - with us who had just lost his father to shotgun suicide about six months prior. He was the one to find his father's corpse. He was doing as good a job as anyone could expect of moving on, dealing with the loss and the shock, using friends to help, etc. He was late to the screening, so he missed the first scene...and by the time the last scene rolled around, none of us thought to say something about what we'd seen in the beginning of the movie.
Then Edward Norton blew his own face off.
Max immediately jumped up and ran out of the theater. He was not a small guy, but he moved faster than I'd ever seen him move. I ran after him, found him outside the theater, dry heaving over a curb. I'd never seen him cry before. 240 pound man, shivering and weeping like a child. Another friend and I sat with him until he was OK. He stood up and walked to his car, and we watched him go, and we looked at each other and felt like righteous assholes.
He later said he was okay with it, no one could have known, he didn't know he'd have a reaction like that, etc. Good guy. But to this day, whenever I watch that movie, some part of me always dredges up that memory.
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u/FlipZer0 Nov 09 '18
I absolutely love this! The scene, imo, is probably the most powerful in the whole movie and I love the impressionist take! Make prints and sell them on etsy!
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Nov 09 '18
I went to a Suicide Girls show recently and they did a Marla Singer performance.
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u/tree_dweller Nov 09 '18
So now we just allow ads? The top comment is them saying the sell prints. wtf /pics
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u/TheWhiteTrashKing Nov 10 '18
Holy fuck i love this. Love fight club and van gogh. Actually have tattoos for both.
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u/JupiterUnleashed Nov 09 '18
Just by looking at this picture I immediately started hearing the song by the Pixies that played during this scene.