#Project: Mydan

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Blog: Re-doing some things

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Sprite art practice

Milky_Smiley :D

Kamilla walking (front view)

Nim and Carmen walking EarthBound-style xd

A chair

And a table

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Shashi's Friend Group

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DESCRIPTION: Shasi's friend group. Just him and some typical boys.

PROJECT: Mydan

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Shashi Kamilla's 8th-grade second-nephew. Shashi's quiet at first, but he loves socialising and warms up to people pretty quickly. With his parents going out a lot of the time and his Aunt Kamilla asleep for half of the day, he gets pretty lonely. In his spare time he enjoys playing ball sports and video games. (Click here for the rest of his profile)

Mensa Shashi's human friend that he knew since primary school. Interestingly, Mensa wasn't that close with Shashi until they found out they were attending the same high school together. Now, they're like brothers. Mensa is restless and easily excitable - he's up for any adventure and mischief. Every day's a day off. Trouble is his middle name. It's a good thing he has his friends to keep him on track.

Trippa A turerie kid that helps man the sari sari store nearby Shashi's house. Being the top of his class and already working part-time, Trippa's got a pretty high reputation. Unfortunately, all that has lead his outlook on the world to being cynical and gloomy, despite being only in 7th grade. He uses the pockets of spare time that he has playing music and hanging out with his less gloomier friends.

Colby A friendly human kid who moved from Kanynak to Niatheia at the beginning of X762. Colby stands out from the group of four boys his appreciation for the more typically "feminine" things in life. Despite his talkativeness and cheerful energy, he really only enjoys the company of only a few close friends. A true introvert through and through.

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Sharecropper shack. Kitchen of Ozarks cabin purchased for Lake of the Ozarks project. Missouri. May 1936.

Photo by Carl Mydans, Resettlement Administration.

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We are back!

Right! So it's been ages since my last update log, but that's (once again) not to say that I haven't been working on anything since then. I've been working on more of the concepts side of my SHP project, as well as Mydan, the story that comes before that one. 

I also should mention that I've been focusing on my Mydan project a lot more, recently, particularly because I really want that one to come out before SHP does. It's a lot tamer when it comes to story and characters, so I feel like I could get this one out pretty soon. I just got to get some concept art out of the way. Really excited, and I hope I actually live up to my word!

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When we are just about to walk out the door, @vickiknits will ask “how many cameras are you taking?” The first time I asked her why, and her reply was “I need to know how many knitting projects I need to bring!” When we drove to the coast, a two hour drive might actually take three, depending on the light, the sky, or people we meet, how many cameras I’ve brought, and what might be a “one sock long drive” may turn into a pair of socks and a knit hat drive. I always admired @life photographers, and yesterday @kenhawkinsarchive stopped by and over a cup of coffee we shared some stories; many were mostly true. He knew Carl and Shelly Mydans and I had mentioned meeting them in San Francisco at an @asmpsanfrancisco meeting and asked how Carl was able to keep all his captions and film straight as he was working during World War Two? Shelly was at his side and if he was using three cameras, she knew the lenses and films in each, and noted everything he did. They were also captured together by the Japanese and spent two years in prison before they were released. I now (usually) only carry two cameras, but it’s because I find this world and the people I meet, too amazing to be limited to one image. As it is, each photograph is only a blink of an eye, showing just the smallest glimpse of a very wide world, and all the while I’m in deep admiration of the journalists who risk their lives. Matt (close), Portland, July 2015 🇺🇦💔🌎💔🌏💔🌍💔🇺🇦 #earth #america #human #family #photographer #documentary #street #people #portrait #photography #schwarzweiss #blancoynegro #blancinegre #bnw @ilfordphoto #ilford #mediumformat #film #blancetnoir #白黒 #Hēiyǔbái #siyahbeyaz #shirokuro #blackandwhite #pdx #portland #nw #northwest #oregon #photojournalism @hasselblad @hasselbladfilmgallery 1507xx07 FP4 Hasselblad 500 c/m 120mm Makro-Planar https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmwhv7Up0Zn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Bitter Years 

The Farm Security Administration Photographs

Through the Eyes of Edward Steichen

edited by  Françoise Poos

Thames & Hudson, London 2012, 288 pages,  229 ills., 24.8 x 31 cm. , Cloth with dustjacket,  ISBN 9780500544181.

euro 35,00

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‘The Bitter Years’ was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen, and 2012 marks its 50th anniversary. The show featured 209 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the US Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935–41 as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Great Depression of the 1930s defined a generation in modern American history and was still a vivid memory in 1962. The FSA, set up to combat rural poverty, included an ambitious photography project that launched many photographic careers, most notably those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. The exhibition featured their work as well as that of ten other FSA photographers, including Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans and Arthur Rothstein. Their images are among the most remarkable in documentary photography – testimonies of a people in crisis, hit by the full force of economic turmoil and the effects of drought and dust storms. The Bitter Years celebrates some of the most iconic photographs ofthe 20th century and, since no proper catalogue was produced at the time, provides a whole new insight into Steichen’s impact on the history of documentary photography.

14/05/21

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"The Griffin children" of west Alabama, land use demonstration project near Greensboro, Alabama. Carl Mydans, June 1936 vintagedenim #vintageworkwear #overalls #denim #chorejacket #strawhat #1930s #kidsstuff #vintagemenswear #vintagestyle #vintagephotograph #ruggedstyle #formfollowsfunction (at Greensboro, Alabama) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEztt8hjpQ4/?igshid=s688v1t3tewd

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Kamilla's Wallet

It may be annoyingly big for anyone's pockets, but it's got a cute design. A little custom-made keychain hangs on the side.

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Baxas lore & stuff

Here is an alien race from one of my worlds: Baxas.

Fun fact: Due to their appearances sharing similarities to demonic figures in some Earthling religions, there have once been tensions between baxas and humans. In the present time, they're more ok together, but their history together isn't something they can forget lightly.

Some examples from Project Mydan

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Fun facts about Kamilla

Ongoing and spoiler-less

Characters of inspiration:

Lloyd (MOTHER): Kamilla is a socially-inept nerd who's picked on by her coworkers and other groups she's associated with. Also a weakling and quite a sissy. Somehow optimistic.

Beht (Spectrobes: Origins): A shady character that does illigal stuff to make a living. May be book-smart, but stupid nearly everywhere else.

Queequeg (Moby-Dick): Sort of the "heir" to her mother's position in the workplace. Which she doesn't want for her life, so she takes any opportunity to get away. She's not the type to really care if she's "weird" compared to everyone else.

Mike (GROUP 5): Of the few groups that she's part of, she is always near the bottom of the hierarchy. The world around her doesn’t seem to want anything good for her at all. Even so, she tries to keep going, even though not many people will miss her if she ever disappears.

Jeena (Spectrobes series): Techician/Mechanic girl. Kinda a know-it-all. What can I say?

Robin (Iconoclasts): (Also) A mechanic girl xD

Relationships:

Shashi, her nephew: - To Shashi, she's basically like how Teddy is to Ninten in MOTHER - A bad influence, but also a good friend (and helper-of-homework)

Ruwei - Instant buddies - Their bond inspired by: Nana & Popo (Ice Climber), Quote & Curly (Cave Story), Rallen & Jeena (Spectrobes), Butobasu (Spectrobes), Simon & Kamina (Gurren Lagann)

Gemmen, Kiksi & Dee - [Later]

Mensa, Trippa & Colby, her nephew's best friends - [Later]

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Carl Mydans - English cabby dutifully knitting a sweater for a British soldier as he waits for a fare at taxi rack on Oxford St., just one of 5 million volunteers enrolled in the Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defense's knitting for British servicemen project, London, December 1939.

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Still trying to figure out the look of the protag of my 'Mydan' project. This design's based off her look from some tryout comic thumbs

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mulheres lavando roupas, crabtree recreational project, perto de raleigh, carolina do norte, carl mydans

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FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION IN VS (FSA) (1935-1943)

Een enorm fotoproject ten tijde van ‘The Great Depression’ met wel 270.000 opnamen en 70.000 à 100.000 afdrukken. Alle beelden worden gemaakt via een rigide programma van de regering en de New Deal Politiek van Theodore Roosevelt.

Het project ontstaat na de beurscrash op Wall Street in 1929, er heerst zowel een enorme economische- als Landbouwcrisis, waardoor heel veel landbouwers besluiten te emigreren naar California. New Deal biedt steun aan de slachtoffers van de droogte en zandstormen en aan de geëmigreerde gezinnen door het aanbieden van opleidingen en immigrantenkampen. Hier komt zeer veel kritiek op van de conservatieve burgers, zij zijn namelijk bang voor Communisme. Daarom moet men het publiek overtuigen dat FSA wel degelijk noodzakelijk is en beslist men enkele fotografen aan te stellen om dit alles te bewijzen. Afdelingshoofd was Roy Stryker en nam deze taak op zich. 

De eerste fotografen op het project waren:

Arthur Rothstein 1915-1985 Fleeing a Dust Storm (1936)

Carl Mydans (tot 1936)

Mydans werd vervangen door Russell Lee

Ben Shahn 

Dorothea Lange

Walker Evans (FSA ‘35- ‘39)

Alle fotografen kregen richtlijne opgelegd, als het ware een soort van scripts. Ook hadden ze geen rechten over hun negatieven, beelden die niet aan de richtlijnen voldeden werden geperforeerd.

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Two men sitting during an ice tunneling project at Camp Tato near Thul in Greenland. Carl Mydans, December 1961 [LIFE/Google]