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February 1, 2016
DEVIL MAY CALL on Chiller's "Don't Watch Alone" Feb. 6
Devil May Call, directed by Jason Cuadrado from a screenplay by Cuadrado and New Texture's Wyatt Doyle, makes its US television debut on Chiller this Saturday, February 6, at 9 pm ET. The film is part of their Don't Watch Alone series, which also includes Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers and Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate .
From Chiller's site:
Chiller invites viewers to truly interact with the movie we're showing. While watching, follow along on our Facebook page (and if you haven't liked us, what are you waiting for?) or on Twitter. We'll be using #ScarySocial - and want you to as well! Throughout the night, we'll share lots of juicy extras about the movie, including Q&A's and live tweeting with the cast or crew, behind-the-scenes videos, quizzes and more. And, of course, we'll be providing commentary.
Devil May Call stars
Buy Devil May Call on DVD here .
January 28, 2016
A HANDFUL OF HELL Available Now!
New from The Men's Adventure Library:
“These stories were being read by men who’d been there, done that. I had to have the personalities and the details right. They wouldn’t tolerate having men like themselves overly glorified, or to have war made glamorous.”
Aviator, diplomat, and historian, Robert F. Dorr was uniquely qualified to write for men’s adventure magazines, bringing sweat-and-blood, nuts-and-bolts authenticity to his stories of risk, combat, and sacrifice. Best known today for his highly regarded historical works, Dorr’s stories for the men’s pulps also drew from jaw-dropping true accounts, as action-packed as any imagined by his hard-boiled peers.
In this tense, gritty collection, the master storyteller drops readers squarely into the action’s fiery crucible, both in the cockpit and on the front lines. Each story includes full-color reproductions of the explosive vintage art from the stories’ original publication by some of the greatest names in illustration.
A singular collection in the author’s vast bibliography, A Handful of Hell highlights the best of Robert F. Dorr’s vivid, gripping tales of aerial conflict, battlefield heroism and action—some fact, some fiction, all adrenaline-fueled, white-knuckle adventure.
“Robert F. Dorr sets the standard for writing about aviation and adventure.”
— Walter J. Boyne, author and former director, National Air and Space Museum
Robert F. Dorr is an author (since 1955), an Air Force veteran (1957-60) and a retired American diplomat (1964-89). His latest book is the novel Crime Scene: Fairfax County, and features characters introduced in his 2014 alternate-history novel, Hitler’s Time Machine.
Author of more than 70 books on military and aviation history, Dorr has served as a columnist for Air Force Times and Aerospace America. Many of his early published writings were in men’s adventure magazines in the 1960s and 1970s.
Bob and his wife Young Soon are the parents of two grown sons with families and live in Oakton, Virginia with their Labrador retriever, Autumn.
A Handful of Hell is available in a softcover trade edition and as a limited edition hardcover with over 40 pages of additional content. Purchase the softcover here and the limited edition hardcover here .
“These stories were being read by men who’d been there, done that. I had to have the personalities and the details right. They wouldn’t tolerate having men like themselves overly glorified, or to have war made glamorous.”
Aviator, diplomat, and historian, Robert F. Dorr was uniquely qualified to write for men’s adventure magazines, bringing sweat-and-blood, nuts-and-bolts authenticity to his stories of risk, combat, and sacrifice. Best known today for his highly regarded historical works, Dorr’s stories for the men’s pulps also drew from jaw-dropping true accounts, as action-packed as any imagined by his hard-boiled peers.
In this tense, gritty collection, the master storyteller drops readers squarely into the action’s fiery crucible, both in the cockpit and on the front lines. Each story includes full-color reproductions of the explosive vintage art from the stories’ original publication by some of the greatest names in illustration.
A singular collection in the author’s vast bibliography, A Handful of Hell highlights the best of Robert F. Dorr’s vivid, gripping tales of aerial conflict, battlefield heroism and action—some fact, some fiction, all adrenaline-fueled, white-knuckle adventure.
“Robert F. Dorr sets the standard for writing about aviation and adventure.”
— Walter J. Boyne, author and former director, National Air and Space Museum
Robert F. Dorr is an author (since 1955), an Air Force veteran (1957-60) and a retired American diplomat (1964-89). His latest book is the novel Crime Scene: Fairfax County, and features characters introduced in his 2014 alternate-history novel, Hitler’s Time Machine.
Author of more than 70 books on military and aviation history, Dorr has served as a columnist for Air Force Times and Aerospace America. Many of his early published writings were in men’s adventure magazines in the 1960s and 1970s.
Bob and his wife Young Soon are the parents of two grown sons with families and live in Oakton, Virginia with their Labrador retriever, Autumn.
A Handful of Hell is available in a softcover trade edition and as a limited edition hardcover with over 40 pages of additional content. Purchase the softcover here and the limited edition hardcover here .
January 4, 2016
Kendra Steiner Editions Features Wyatt Doyle's Photos
"One of the qualities I admire most in Wyatt Doyle’s work is his eye for the unexpected juxtapositions of detail among the seemingly mundane, juxtapositions of detail that provide a window of insight into life, into society, into truth. This quality is as strong in his fiction as it is in his photography."
—Bill Shute, Kendra Steiner Editions
A selection of Wyatt Doyle's photos is showcased as part of the Visual Art Spotlight series on Kendra Steiner Editions' site, here. Wyatt's photos have previously been featured on the covers of the KSE releases Dusk With Carol by Doug Draime and the CD Modern Architecture by FOSSILS.
Thanks to Bill Shute and KSE for the honor!
January 3, 2016
"Motherless Children" by Rev. Raymond Branch
Rev. Branch in a slightly different mode. This was my last visit with Rev. Branch before I left California in 2014. We'd retired to his office to chat and unwind after recording a day's worth of performances in the church when he broke into this almost spontaneously, while I raced to set up the camera. I'm glad I did. —WD
October 14, 2015
October 13, 2015
Out Now: DOLLAR HALLOWEEN by Wyatt Doyle!
Dollar Halloween is a new book of photographs by Wyatt Doyle, focusing on the glut of cheaply manufactured Halloween decorations, toys, and knick-knacks created for and sold in American dollar stores. Preview the limited edition hardcover in its entirety via the Issuu embed above.
Doyle's introductory essay to the book follows:
Los Angeles is a dollar store town. With significant blocs of its population composed of recent immigrants, low-income laborers, and entertainment-industry cannon fodder—all working for peanuts—dollar stores help ensure the continued survival of the working poor by offering grocery essentials at a buck apiece. If you’ve got a dollar, you’ve got a dinner…or something, anyway, until a dinner comes along.
The ubiquity of the 99 Cents Only chain makes the brand the Starbucks of their weight class (at least in Los Angeles), and their high-ceilinged, well-lit interiors provide familiar and reassuring echoes of their more expensive cousins (unlike most smaller, ethnic, or independently owned discount shops).
When a medium-sized 99 Cents Only in my old neighborhood outgrew its location, the company opened a much larger store, barely a block south—only to retain the original location as well. Even with the roaring success of the new superstore, there was no discernable drop in business at the old location, just a few yards away. Both stores continue to thrive.
Halloween decorations are curious items to begin with. The trappings of the holiday are so deeply ingrained, so traditional, they’ve all but lost their meaning. A date or the time of year is enough to move us to festoon our homes with make-believe rotting corpse parts and an ever-growing variety of sparkly death totems.
And where there’s a need, or even a mild desire, a dollar store stands ready to fill it for whatever you’ve got in your pocket. Come autumn, their aisles swell with an onslaught of flimsy window decorations and off-brand Halloween tchotchkes. Most made in China, few sturdy enough to survive a single use.
Plastic jack-o’-lanterns and fastener-hinged cardboard skeletons are familiar, but the uncontrollable compulsion to foist more and more stuff on each other leads to the introduction of dozens of ultimately disposable decorating ideas to the seasonal shelves each year. And if Walgreens wants to sell you their version for $9.95, you’d better believe there’s a factory in China crapping out something like it that’ll wholesale for pennies and still turn a profit.
The haste, disinterest, and cynicism in the products’ manufacture are often reflected in the product. At times the low production standards and cheap molds add a layer of unintentional deformed menace to an expression, or lend an accidental resemblance to some obscure movie monster; other items, the process renders unrecognizable. Thin, plaster skulls crusted with cheap sequins, possibly topped by a bat- or spider-shaped glob…plastic severed limbs, heads, and masks, their spray-on painted details applied out of register…armies of gaudy Grim Reaper figurines, familiar from the windows of the city’s many Santeria botanicas, year-round…and occasional malformed, misshapen rejects that appear to have collided with another product somewhere down the assembly line. Most of it dusted with glitter, all of it junk. When you handle one, it leaves paint on your fingers. Throw it away, and bits are left behind.
copyright © 2015 Wyatt Doyle
Purchase Dollar Halloween in limited edition hardcover here.
August 26, 2015
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August 19, 2015
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August 12, 2015
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August 5, 2015
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