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[cafemizudashi]

Nostalgia Pt0: Anemoia, nostalgia for a time you’ve never known

It is always the same. I find myself in bed, late at night, lost in thought, checking something on the phone when suddenly it hits. In this case, I really should have seen it coming. The installing of old games, checking old equivalents of interests of mine... 

Specifically today, the trigger was Kowloon Walled City, City Pop, and old consoles such as the original GameBoy. 

Why these topics? Because I am interested in big cities, Japanese music, and videogames. But why these in particular? I was not alive during most of that time after all. Let us first check what all these topics are.

Kowloon Walled City by Atlasobscura

Kowloon was built naturally, it grew and grew up until 1993, when its demolition started. It offered many amenities for its residents, such as doctors, technicians, water sources... And although the Urban Hell  looks and the many drug, gang - triads -, gambling... problems, people often talk about it fondly. 

I do not have any connection to this place whatsoever. It perhaps may not even be the best example. But I find something about this strangely familiar.

Matsubara Miki, Best Collection by Spotify

City Pop on the other hand was created as an introduction of occidental culture into the 70s and 80s Japan. The music takes inspiration from funk, R&B, and soft rock among others, and you can tell by the funky bass, the techno piano, and the unique drums. Again the only connection I may be able to make is Spanish 80s ballads, which my parents used to play when they were my age.

Pokemon Gold by The Orion

Then for my latest example is the original GameBoy / GameBoy Color. These were released in 89 and 98 respectively. I was born in 1998, so I have not experienced them at all. I have no older siblings nor family who may have exposed it to me. I did start with the GameBoy Advanced later, but the feeling is different. 

I returned to them recently, even bought an original GameBoy second hand. And It definitely feels like I have experienced this before.

It turns out that, of course, the internet has a word for this feeling. According to The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:

Anemoia - n. nostalgia for a time you’ve never known.

That is exactly how I feel about some of these. And I know I am not alone on this.

Very prevalent in my generation is the liking for things that have old qualities attached to them, even if they may not be.

One of these would be Lofi music. A style that aims to replicate the Low Fidelity aesthetic of older mediums such as VHS or cassettes. These are mostly recent, but perfectly exemplify it. And it is not as easy as creating some pixel art game, or some grainy sounding music.

My favourite is old songs but it's lofi remix. But there are other, more modern, lofi videos on YouTube.

Undertale does this to perfection. At least to me, when I first played it I felt as if I was playing an older title of my childhood.

The game was of course brand new, but everything from the art to the music had that aura. And it is strange that my generation has this love for old things. Such are the Vines compilations that still roam around the internet - even though Vine has been discontinued for years already. Or your family is asleep and you’re playing minecraft on a cool 2012 summer night. 

So it is not that farfetched that new pieces are created to scratch that itch.

Who knows, maybe as I grow older I will experience nostalgia for these things I am now exploring, a nostalgia towards a fake nostalgia. Like having the freedom to write a blog post at 3:30 in the morning - after my previous one was deleted completely, thanks Tumblr.

Nikon 35Ti by emulsive.org

But do try to give it a look. Perhaps if you are interested in cameras try researching about the 90s film cameras, and take some lofi on your way. Or if you are interested in music check some older synthesizers. You may not know what you have never experienced, perhaps you were 10 years late to experience it, that does not mean you have to miss it completely. 

[skkrafts]

latest video up. made a lovely bowl from a oak and mahogany blank i made a few months ago. 

[saliimll-blog]

#night #teris #light #sky #dwpskyscape #downdotcom #down #weeklyproject #theme #traveling #travelphotography #pakistan (at Korangi, Sindh, Pakistan)

[miabian]

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“The multi-colored hair, cane man.”

WEEKLY PROJECT WEEK #3 Theme: “Multicolored hairstyle + cane”

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[yorachelliao-blog]

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[tinayuefu]

倔強的轉身之後，是止不住的眼淚，捨不得後面的你看見。

[knolster]

Post 3 of 52: The Shot In The Dark Coffee Company. I revived an old college project of mine and gave it a more unified identity. #WeeklyProject #logo #branding

[amyhasdesign]

Project week 2 - Busted out my sewing machine to make these curtains for our bedroom. #curtains #mushroom #color #weeklyproject

[cafemizudashi]

Red vs Blue pt1: A story in the depths below

When we were first introduced to this project my mind raced along all the different concepts that came with ‘red vs blue’. It could mean racing, sports, combat... But for some reason it made me think about the 2016 Pixar movie Finding Dory. In it one of the newly introduced character can be found, Hank the Octopus.

The bright orange-red of his skin really clashes against the deep blue from the background. So that is when I decided what I wanted to do.  First, some concept of the idea was required. The composition and the general idea were designed on Procreate.

After the idea was born, I had to check if it was technically possible for me to create mainly the atmosphere and mood. So after some tests on Unreal Engine 5, we have some godrays, caustics, and general fog within the level.

So now it was the time for creating the main contrast element. First the primitives and then to ZBrush.

In the end it was not necessary to use the primitives for the legs, for a tool exists in ZBrush that lets you create similar shapes: CurveAlpha. With this brush it was only a matter of tweaking the shape and clicking and dragging.

After some later detailing we have got the final sculpt.

So it was just a matter of decimating the mesh, projecting the details onto the low poly mesh on Substance Painter and finally adding some colour and texture.

[lusberryaustralia]

'Project Runway' Star Mychael Knight Dead at 39 - Us Weekly

‘Project Runway’ Star Mychael Knight Dead at 39 – Us Weekly

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[yorachelliao-blog]

/ 植物園裡 的咖啡店 的前面的花 / #曜日計劃 #요일프로젝트 #weeklyproject#botanicgarden #cambridge #cambridgebotanicalgardens #植物園#일러스트#일러스타그램#일러스트레이션 #일러스트레이션  #일러스트레이터 #드러잉 #그림 #그림그리기#illustrate #illustrate #illustagram #illustrator #illust #drawing #draw #イラストレーション#イラストブログ#イラスト（在 Cambridge University Botanic Garden）

[knolster]

Post 2 of 52: Never forget what wonderful goals and ideas are built on, and never stop dreaming. #WeeklyProject #Disney

[cafemizudashi]

3D Printing Pt3: AE86

When I got to do it then I found myself unsure on where to start. I had tried to do this same model previously and failed, but this time I decided to approach it differently. All the previous times I had tried to create polygon by polygon and then smooth it, and this time I would try Hard Surface Modelling by extruding and creating holding loops. Here there is a set of images that explore different stages of the 3D modelling production.

The process was easier thanks to some blueprints that can be found at Drawingdatabase.com (n.d.)

It was a very relaxing process, more than creating a standard 3D model. Because I did not have to care neither about the topology nor had to do the UVs. This is the final process, already remeshed on ZBrush and exported as an stl.

Drawingdatabase.com. n.d. [online] Available at: <https://drawingdatabase.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Toyota-AE86-Sprinter-Trueno.gif>