Kevin Rolly
Bio
Artist working in Los Angeles who creates images from photos, oil paint and gunpowder.
He is writing a novel about the suicide of his brother.
http://www.kevissimo.com/
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Pages From the Fire
The world watched on in horror as the infernos of Los Angeles tore through her communities without mercy – savage, cruel and total. Like nothing we had ever seen before in its utter violence and unforgiveness. 16,000 structures and countless acers lost. Like an insatiable creature of hell not recognizing rich from poor, old from young, even the just from the unjust, the fires fully erased all that held value and beauty for thousands, rendering both humble cottages and gleaming mansions into ash. Entire communities, block after unrelenting block, transformed into a toxic smoldering hellscape where all that remained were the small signifiers of homes that once were – part of a fence, a lonely chimney, a crumpled mailbox and cement stairs leading not to a living room, but the charred ruins fallen upon themselves and colored a strangely pale beige and surrounded with gray ash and twisted metal. Overwhelming absolute loss.
By Kevin Rolly9 months ago in Humans
ANTIETEM. Runner-Up in Love Letters Through Time Challenge. Content Warning.
AUGUST 29, 1862 My dearest Stephen, Thank you for your wonderful letter. I waited for so long! It warmed my heart and lifted my soul to hear of your victory. What an honor it must be to have so many men look up to you and that your courage at Fort Donelson inspired your commanders. You are my fearless man. My funny man. It made me laugh to hear you say that “you were to dumb to die” and though it brought a smile to my face, I fear for you constantly. This terrible war. When will it end? So many dead in the fight to keep the Union whole and to free the slaves. That horrible practice. It must end and I know you and your men fight to save this nation and to make all people free but at what a terrible cost. I read the numbers and it makes me cry.
By Kevin Rolly11 months ago in History
Jackie. Runner-Up in Through the Lens Challenge.
The cottage we rented stood proud and pale atop thick wooden pilings just past the dunes of the beachhead which were feathered in salt grass and stirred by the winds of the Atlantic Ocean just beyond. Fenwick Island, New Jersey. The waves in their quiet thunder sounded in a rhythmic pulse like a time keeper of the world as our dog Anya bounded exuberant into the foaming surf yet having no concept of such a thing for she had never seen an ocean. This vast nameless thing of power, delight and beauty. And in much the same way I encountered my own unseen ocean. Something I had never beheld as well - I found myself in love with an older woman – She was 14 and I was 10. Her name was Jackie. It was 1977.
By Kevin Rolly12 months ago in Photography
The FALLOUT Series and the Question of Enemies
Just binge watched the entire season of FALLOUT. All eight episodes in a row because I’m a good little film addict that way. The end credits were coming up with he sun and I have to say it was worth the rough day ahead. That's how good I think the show is.
By Kevin Rolly2 years ago in Geeks
FURIOSA and Why it Failed
By this time most people are aware that FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA is just tanking at the box office and even getting yanked from theaters like that guy you know who can't handle his booze at your favorite bar. But why? Was it really that bad? Most critics I've listen to claimed it was a perfectly enjoyable film but that audiences turned away because there was no Mad Max in Mad Max. But was that really the case? FURY ROAD did just fine, great even and was a tour de force without its titular character. It had all the gear porn, action sequences (mostly executed with practical effects) and was led by Furiosa herself with the insanely talented Charlize Theron in the lead and complimented by the master of rage Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky. It had all the things. The things we loved. Character, story and payoff. It proved once again that a strong female lead in a dude fest is not just embraced but celebrated if they are written intelligently and with depth. So what went wrong with FURIOSA? It had the brilliantly talented Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit) as Furiosa and paired with the strength of Chris Hemsworth as the evil Demntus and helmed again by director/writer George Miller. So what bloody happened?
By Kevin Rolly2 years ago in Geeks
