With its blood-red lettering, grainy background and black-and-white imagery, the magazine invokes Patrick Bateman, the Wall Streeter/serial killer at the center of the satirical-novel-turned-horror-flick "American Psycho".
This spatial pattern, very unlikely to occur randomly, is even more apparent when Grassian et al.'s TEM is contrast-enhanced, sharpened, and thresholded to eliminate the initial grainy background.
The credits are illegible, as if blanked out by a censor; they flash like lights against the dark, grainy backgrounds, evoking an experimental film with an ominous undercurrent.
The grainy gray background of most of Richard Artschwager's paintings is meant to simulate the static snow on early television sets.
It floundered as a place inhabited only by A&R guys looking for chillwave profiles with grainy beach-scape backgrounds.
They must have done lessons!" at the screen; there's this bizarre combination of soundtrack mix and grainy footage greenscreen backgrounding that just makes the whole thing feels like a come up and a come down at the same time; it's weirdly quaint, so people pull by writing phone numbers down, and barely if ever shag clatteringly beneath duvets on infrared camera.
Blow-Up (1966) is the swinging-London tale of a fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings, who accidentally takes a photo of a murder in a London park, and only realises it when he begins to enlarge the background in grainy detail.
The story of the heist is set against a background of grainy black and white footage of turn-of-the-century Boston, voice-overs of Gardner's letters read by Blythe Danner, and the ongoing investigation of fine art detective Harold Smith.
As always, Westerberg has a talent for ramshackle bar-band melodies and drolly pessimistic song titles ("Boring Enormous," "Let the Bad Times Roll"); in the end, you could (and maybe should) play this record in the background, where his grainy strained vocals serve as reminders of his earlier greatness.
The DEADFOUNDED-directed video for the title track, which we're premiering on THUMP today, features the song's lyrics in a striking typeface on a red background running alongside grainy footage of the artist wandering the city (including some beautiful shots of the Toronto Reference Library).
He used pastel colors, like the Impressionists, and an almost dry brush and coarsely woven canvas, creating a grainy surface to suggest atmospheric backgrounds.
