Brian Stillman
@brianxrayfilms.bsky.social
🎥Pop-Culture Documentary Maker
✍️Fmr. Music Journalist at Revolver Magazine
🏴☠️Gamer; Toy & Art & Prop Collector
🖤My Wife & Our Cats & Star Trek
🎵NEGATIVE AGENT - my industrial band
NegativeAgent.bsky.social
NegativeAgent.bandcamp.com
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ BLM
✍️Fmr. Music Journalist at Revolver Magazine
🏴☠️Gamer; Toy & Art & Prop Collector
🖤My Wife & Our Cats & Star Trek
🎵NEGATIVE AGENT - my industrial band
NegativeAgent.bsky.social
NegativeAgent.bandcamp.com
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ BLM
🎬IGNITING THE SPARK, The Story of Magic: The Gathering!🎬
My feature-length documentary streams NOW on Amazon, AppleTV, Pluto, Vudu, YouTube On Demand & many more!
Please spread the word & support indie film! Thanks!
#MagicTheGathering #MTG #WizardsOfTheCoast #Wizards #IndieFilm #documentary
My feature-length documentary streams NOW on Amazon, AppleTV, Pluto, Vudu, YouTube On Demand & many more!
Please spread the word & support indie film! Thanks!
#MagicTheGathering #MTG #WizardsOfTheCoast #Wizards #IndieFilm #documentary
August 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🎬IGNITING THE SPARK, The Story of Magic: The Gathering!🎬
My feature-length documentary streams NOW on Amazon, AppleTV, Pluto, Vudu, YouTube On Demand & many more!
Please spread the word & support indie film! Thanks!
#MagicTheGathering #MTG #WizardsOfTheCoast #Wizards #IndieFilm #documentary
My feature-length documentary streams NOW on Amazon, AppleTV, Pluto, Vudu, YouTube On Demand & many more!
Please spread the word & support indie film! Thanks!
#MagicTheGathering #MTG #WizardsOfTheCoast #Wizards #IndieFilm #documentary
Tomorrow’s the big day! Watch my documentary IGNITING THE SPARK, THE STORY OF MAGIC THE GATHERING on streaming starting Tuesday, August 5th! Amazon, Apple TV, Vudu, Hulu, YouTube On Demand, etc. So excited!
#MTG #MagicTheGathering #WizardsOfTheCoast #WOTC #TCG #CCG #Commander #Magic #Documentary
#MTG #MagicTheGathering #WizardsOfTheCoast #WOTC #TCG #CCG #Commander #Magic #Documentary
August 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Tomorrow’s the big day! Watch my documentary IGNITING THE SPARK, THE STORY OF MAGIC THE GATHERING on streaming starting Tuesday, August 5th! Amazon, Apple TV, Vudu, Hulu, YouTube On Demand, etc. So excited!
#MTG #MagicTheGathering #WizardsOfTheCoast #WOTC #TCG #CCG #Commander #Magic #Documentary
#MTG #MagicTheGathering #WizardsOfTheCoast #WOTC #TCG #CCG #Commander #Magic #Documentary
I know I’m a little late to this, but I finally saw @teanwitch.bsky.social ‘s cover for the Dragon Delves book in person at a booth at Gen Con. Good lord this is awesome!
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #WizardsOfTheCoast #WOTC #Dragons #FantasyArt #TTRPG
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #WizardsOfTheCoast #WOTC #Dragons #FantasyArt #TTRPG
August 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I know I’m a little late to this, but I finally saw @teanwitch.bsky.social ‘s cover for the Dragon Delves book in person at a booth at Gen Con. Good lord this is awesome!
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #WizardsOfTheCoast #WOTC #Dragons #FantasyArt #TTRPG
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #WizardsOfTheCoast #WOTC #Dragons #FantasyArt #TTRPG
Well this was a nice surprise! Our movie, Igniting The Spark - The Story of #MagicTheGathering won Best #Documentary at the 2025 #GenCon #FilmFestival!
#MTG #TCG #CCG #WOTC #IndieFilmMaking #Documentarian #FilmMaking
#MTG #TCG #CCG #WOTC #IndieFilmMaking #Documentarian #FilmMaking
August 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Well this was a nice surprise! Our movie, Igniting The Spark - The Story of #MagicTheGathering won Best #Documentary at the 2025 #GenCon #FilmFestival!
#MTG #TCG #CCG #WOTC #IndieFilmMaking #Documentarian #FilmMaking
#MTG #TCG #CCG #WOTC #IndieFilmMaking #Documentarian #FilmMaking
My film partners & I just delivered our #documentary about #MagicTheGathering, Igniting The Spark, to our distributor. 5 years of hard work - thx covid - finally wrapped. It’ll be out soon! For now. Here’s a pic of us w/ #Magic inventor Richard Garfield.
#MTG #WizardsOfTheCoast #TCG #Filmmaking
#MTG #WizardsOfTheCoast #TCG #Filmmaking
March 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My film partners & I just delivered our #documentary about #MagicTheGathering, Igniting The Spark, to our distributor. 5 years of hard work - thx covid - finally wrapped. It’ll be out soon! For now. Here’s a pic of us w/ #Magic inventor Richard Garfield.
#MTG #WizardsOfTheCoast #TCG #Filmmaking
#MTG #WizardsOfTheCoast #TCG #Filmmaking
I found this first UK pressing of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ 1978 debut, The Scream, at Brooklyn’s Captured Records today. It’s a nice slab of post-punk/goth that sounds great!
#RecordCollector #VinylCollector #Siouxsie #Goth #PostPunk
#RecordCollector #VinylCollector #Siouxsie #Goth #PostPunk
February 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I found this first UK pressing of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ 1978 debut, The Scream, at Brooklyn’s Captured Records today. It’s a nice slab of post-punk/goth that sounds great!
#RecordCollector #VinylCollector #Siouxsie #Goth #PostPunk
#RecordCollector #VinylCollector #Siouxsie #Goth #PostPunk
The H Mart on Northern Blvd in Queens is a glorious, enormous cathedral to (mostly) Korean packaged & ready-to-eat food. 70% of what I just bought could be considered junk food, but I prefer to think of it as a cultural tour of another country’s joy. I regret nothing.
February 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The H Mart on Northern Blvd in Queens is a glorious, enormous cathedral to (mostly) Korean packaged & ready-to-eat food. 70% of what I just bought could be considered junk food, but I prefer to think of it as a cultural tour of another country’s joy. I regret nothing.
DEVO tickets purchased! Gonna be up front, in my energy dome, soaking up that sweet sweet orgone. Anyone else going to the Brooklyn show in May? Live Nation presale code for today is Duet, if anyone needs it.
February 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
DEVO tickets purchased! Gonna be up front, in my energy dome, soaking up that sweet sweet orgone. Anyone else going to the Brooklyn show in May? Live Nation presale code for today is Duet, if anyone needs it.
John Malcovich’s quote on filmmaking REALLY resonates with me. It particularly applies to documentaries, which are completely built in the edit bay. It’s so easy to get caught in the trap of wanting to include everything in a story. 🧵1/
#Filmmaking #Documentaries #IndieFilm
#Filmmaking #Documentaries #IndieFilm
January 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
John Malcovich’s quote on filmmaking REALLY resonates with me. It particularly applies to documentaries, which are completely built in the edit bay. It’s so easy to get caught in the trap of wanting to include everything in a story. 🧵1/
#Filmmaking #Documentaries #IndieFilm
#Filmmaking #Documentaries #IndieFilm
Holy Grail’s Crisis in Utopia, 1st U.S. pressing.
This is one of my favorite metal records. Kind of a modern take on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal w/ elements of metalcore. Huge melodies, heavy as hell. Awesome guitar playing, too.
#Metal #Metalsky #VinylCollecting
This is one of my favorite metal records. Kind of a modern take on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal w/ elements of metalcore. Huge melodies, heavy as hell. Awesome guitar playing, too.
#Metal #Metalsky #VinylCollecting
January 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Holy Grail’s Crisis in Utopia, 1st U.S. pressing.
This is one of my favorite metal records. Kind of a modern take on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal w/ elements of metalcore. Huge melodies, heavy as hell. Awesome guitar playing, too.
#Metal #Metalsky #VinylCollecting
This is one of my favorite metal records. Kind of a modern take on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal w/ elements of metalcore. Huge melodies, heavy as hell. Awesome guitar playing, too.
#Metal #Metalsky #VinylCollecting
Listening to Vicious Blade’s Relentless Force, which arrived on my doorstep today. Excellent blackened thrash out of Pittsburgh.
#Metal #BlackMetal #Thrash #ViciousBlade #RecordCollectors
#Metal #BlackMetal #Thrash #ViciousBlade #RecordCollectors
January 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Listening to Vicious Blade’s Relentless Force, which arrived on my doorstep today. Excellent blackened thrash out of Pittsburgh.
#Metal #BlackMetal #Thrash #ViciousBlade #RecordCollectors
#Metal #BlackMetal #Thrash #ViciousBlade #RecordCollectors
These are my three prized JD/NO albums: First UK pressings of Unknown Pleasures and Blue Monday, and a test pressing for Blue Monday. Not only are they great musically, but there’s a lot of history in them. Makes my nerd-heart happy. lol.
January 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
These are my three prized JD/NO albums: First UK pressings of Unknown Pleasures and Blue Monday, and a test pressing for Blue Monday. Not only are they great musically, but there’s a lot of history in them. Makes my nerd-heart happy. lol.
Two nieces. Two hauls of Girl Scout cookies. The first just arrived. You’re allowed to express your jealousy in the comments. 🤘🍪
January 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Two nieces. Two hauls of Girl Scout cookies. The first just arrived. You’re allowed to express your jealousy in the comments. 🤘🍪
I was down in FL last weekend and a highlight was seeing this lizard. When I was a kid I’d visit my grandparents down there and these little guys were everywhere. Seeing lizards running around brings back nice memories. Plus, lizards are cool.
January 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I was down in FL last weekend and a highlight was seeing this lizard. When I was a kid I’d visit my grandparents down there and these little guys were everywhere. Seeing lizards running around brings back nice memories. Plus, lizards are cool.
I’m shocked that the Brooklyn Academy of Music would host this. Are the programming directors & staff actually ignorant of how Generative AI works & its impact on artists? Maybe they just don’t care. It’s a terrible look for an arts institution that always seemed to value human expression.
January 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’m shocked that the Brooklyn Academy of Music would host this. Are the programming directors & staff actually ignorant of how Generative AI works & its impact on artists? Maybe they just don’t care. It’s a terrible look for an arts institution that always seemed to value human expression.
Leaving Florida, and on the way to the airport in West Palm Beach I stopped off at Rust & Wax Record Store. Glad I did: I snagged first U.S. pressings of Skinny Puppy’s VivisectVI and Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Hyaena. Good stuff!
#SkinnyPuppy #IndustrialMusic #RecordCollecting #Siouxsie
#SkinnyPuppy #IndustrialMusic #RecordCollecting #Siouxsie
January 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Leaving Florida, and on the way to the airport in West Palm Beach I stopped off at Rust & Wax Record Store. Glad I did: I snagged first U.S. pressings of Skinny Puppy’s VivisectVI and Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Hyaena. Good stuff!
#SkinnyPuppy #IndustrialMusic #RecordCollecting #Siouxsie
#SkinnyPuppy #IndustrialMusic #RecordCollecting #Siouxsie
It’s 2025 & despite all the ways I can create drum hits & loops on my computer, I want a drum machine. Granted, it’s one from 1989… Those kicks & snares stomp me back to my younger days at ye olde industrial club.
#Roland #IndustrialMusic #ElectronicMusic #90sIndustrial #DrumMachines
#Roland #IndustrialMusic #ElectronicMusic #90sIndustrial #DrumMachines
January 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM
It’s 2025 & despite all the ways I can create drum hits & loops on my computer, I want a drum machine. Granted, it’s one from 1989… Those kicks & snares stomp me back to my younger days at ye olde industrial club.
#Roland #IndustrialMusic #ElectronicMusic #90sIndustrial #DrumMachines
#Roland #IndustrialMusic #ElectronicMusic #90sIndustrial #DrumMachines
I went to Dead End Records in Nashville & snagged a nice 1st US pressing of Ozzy Osbourne’s Diary of a Madman. His early solo stuff is just so much fun, and Randy Rhoads’ guitar on the first two albums continues to blow my mind. And that cover art…! 🤘🔥
#MetalMusic #Ozzy #80sMetal
#MetalMusic #Ozzy #80sMetal
January 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I went to Dead End Records in Nashville & snagged a nice 1st US pressing of Ozzy Osbourne’s Diary of a Madman. His early solo stuff is just so much fun, and Randy Rhoads’ guitar on the first two albums continues to blow my mind. And that cover art…! 🤘🔥
#MetalMusic #Ozzy #80sMetal
#MetalMusic #Ozzy #80sMetal
Finished running a home-brew Pulp Cthulhu game & I’m happy with how it turned out. It took place in my real-life building but set in the 30s. Mystery, foul deeds & dread magic. The players stopped the baddie w/ most of their sanity intact, but there’s always someone worse pulling the strings… 1/
January 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Finished running a home-brew Pulp Cthulhu game & I’m happy with how it turned out. It took place in my real-life building but set in the 30s. Mystery, foul deeds & dread magic. The players stopped the baddie w/ most of their sanity intact, but there’s always someone worse pulling the strings… 1/
One of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. It’s from the founder of SunoAI, and it speaks volumes: AI is for lazy ppl who want the benefits of creating art but without the hard work. They’ll never understand that the work is the POINT. It’s the journey, asshole. Ppl like this are TERRIBLE in bed.
January 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
One of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. It’s from the founder of SunoAI, and it speaks volumes: AI is for lazy ppl who want the benefits of creating art but without the hard work. They’ll never understand that the work is the POINT. It’s the journey, asshole. Ppl like this are TERRIBLE in bed.
Pretty sure it was all downhill from here.
January 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Pretty sure it was all downhill from here.
Slim Jim, Easy Cheese, and Wheat Thins — a delicious dinner for when you’re stuck in the hotel and your room has no microwave.
January 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Slim Jim, Easy Cheese, and Wheat Thins — a delicious dinner for when you’re stuck in the hotel and your room has no microwave.