#Reflec

[coffeenuts]

Just Add Water by njk1951 https://flic.kr/p/2kdpwBJ

[paintinghippos]

Waterfall Oxfordshire Inspiration for a small contemporary full sun courtyard landscaping in summer.

[f-airchilds]

Contemporary Landscape - Waterfall

Summertime landscaping ideas for a small, modern courtyard in full sun.

[demasiadasmalasideas]

Waterfall - Contemporary Landscape Ideas for summertime landscaping in a small, modern courtyard with full sun.

[blueeyeslexilj]

Contemporary Landscape Inspiration for a small contemporary full sun courtyard landscaping in summer.

[fy-hyungwonho]

Landscape Waterfall Ideas for summertime landscaping in a small, modern courtyard with full sun.

[owatasalty]

funny things in funland, london

[holdoncallfailed]

would you recommend todd haynes’ documentary on the velvet underground? if have you seen it

yes!!!!!!!!! i would definitely recommend it, i've seen it many times and cried every time lol. i can understand why it didn't appeal to some people because it's not really a definitive account of the band's whole career and it bucks a lot of "music documentary" conventions. it's really more about their first album and the context (both literal and ideological) in which it was made, i.e. the nyc arts scene and andy warhol & co. but my questions to critics of the documentary would be "what could you possibly say about the velvet underground that hasn't already been said? what would a full and comprehensive and perfect documentary about this band actually look like on a practical level? who among us on this earth could create a movie that would even come close to capturing them???"

i think the thing that struck me especially seeing it in a cinema was the sequences of images all tiled across the screen, or the chelsea girls-esque splitscreen model throughout most of the film, was the EXCESS of imagery, something that really didn't exist until more recently but warhol managed to presage (like so many other things). and i think what was so remarkable about the velvets was that same excess—of sound—and how it always teetered on the edge of too much, of genuinely uncomfortable or even physically painful to listen to while also seemingly coming from inscrutable sources, some unknown unseen elsewhere (jonathan richman talks about this in the doc and also says it very plainly in his song about vu: "you can look at that band and wonder where / all that sound was coming from with just four people there"). so i think reflecting that in the collage-like chaos of archival footage and warhol's screen tests and random tv ads and photographs and everything else that haynes chopped and screwed and sprinkled all over the screen is so brilliant. because there really is no visual equivalent to their sound. what else could you possibly ask for????

i just think the whole thing is so EXCITING it just leaves me in raptures which is exactly how it feels to hear venus in furs or heroin for the first time when you're a teenager and you feel like your head is going to pop clean off your neck. like there isn't a body strong enough to hold all that sound.

[magicgoose123]

super toned gym bodies are less sexy to me than bodies that reflect lifestyles i admire and relate to. for me. like what does your body look like if you're a baker or a painter or a skateborder or a rock climber or a potter or anything else. because it's not about an objective perfection but about a subjective relation

[beelzeballing]

when the gods crush you, it will not be out of disgust or fear. it will be because they were simply walking along and you were simply too small for the idea to check for your presence to even cross their mind.

when the gods crush you, you won't be a spider fallen victim to the crime of being small. you will be an ant, too irrelevant to write a poem about. too miniscule to feel bad for.

when the gods crush you, it will not be on purpose. be that a comfort or a terror.

[coffeenuts]

Kelpie power by Robert Stienstra Photography https://flic.kr/p/2nBuQUw

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 10/03/2024

Character Select BGM (KFAD2 Mode)

Season 4 Episode 1 Featured on: SiIva Direct Presents

Ripped by deogenerate, New Guy Visuals by Harmony Friends, deogenerate, dante

Requested by delilahs-pumpkin-patch! (@delilahs-pumpkin-patch)

Today's rip was requested for coverage on the blog due to one very simple reason. Because for all the coverage I've done on the King for Another Day Tournament in Season 4 Episode 1 with rips like Thank You, Everybody!, Unhealed and NIGHTMARESCAPE 〜Unrestrained HyperCam 2〜 (Final Boss Phase 2), there's one part of the project that I've effectively ignored entirely up until now. Indeed, though the excitement of the tournament itself, and its post-contest celebrations in Season 4 Episode 2, are both remembered very fondly, there's a period surrounding the tournament that's yet to be covered. We've covered this story's middle, its end, and its epilogue - now, its time to discuss its beginnings.

I've said before that Season 4 Episode 1 is kind of defined wholly by the tournament event itself, but given that it only took up around 2 months of actual channel time that may come off as a bit strange. That's because, much like the video game series that most directly inspired it, the King for Another Day Tournament did an incredible job in maintaining hype up until its release though reveals and trailers. These being the reveals of, of course, the new contestants - with a roster size doubled from Season 3's King for a Day Tournament, it left 16 characters to be revealed piecemeal in the buildup to the event. Channel creator Chaze the Chat described that he wanted Season 4 to be the most unpredictable and surprising Season yet, and we of course saw that outside of KFAD in rips like Sex - Steve Harvey and the entirety of Chain of Memories II Day - but the way the character reveals were done also played part in this element of surprise! The rip of today, Character Select BGM (KFAD2 Mode), is one of many other rips that contain a secret character reveal trailer within - hidden in the sea of normal channel uploads, these secret character reveals would be shown only to those who truly kept an eye out on every rip the channel uploaded.

Better yet, all these trailers were hidden at the very end of rips - and just like Chaze the Chat had warned, there was no telling what to expect from these rips even if they contained character reveals (shoutouts to Stronger than Mr Krab for being actually deranged). It was the hunt for the character reveals that made me click on rips like Character Select BGM (KFAD2 Mode) to begin with back in the day, as I have little to no connection to rhythm games like REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA, and yet it absolutely paid off in just how solid of a rip this is. This is a no-nonsense quality rip across the board, a high-octane melody swap medley with an energetic and fun sound derived from the source track. Creatively yet seamlessly, it begins by including themes relating to the Christmas Comeback Crisis such as The Noble Haltmann and Wood Man's theme, before pivoting to focus on music broadly categorizable as ones more known within Japan's online remix communities - including music featured in other rhythm games, but also music such as that made by Yosuke Yasui. In effect, Character Select BGM (KFAD2 Mode) was just about the perfect rip to reveal Rhythm Masters in, as a perfect blend of SiIva's own set of jokes and the potential kinds of rips the contestant itself could offer.

Excitement for KFAD was in the air for most of 2019, and it was through rips just like this that said excitement was maintained. And even though I myself lacked the connection needed to rhythm games to really have their reveal and place in the tournament hit home, experiencing that reveal in the way the channel did kept me excited all the same.

[wavetapper]

this is also sooooo fucking good

[promethes]

if i get cat called again tmrw im killing myself

[theleanbean]

Izzy's death paired with the snow ruining all of my colorado trip plans is actually fucking me up right now

[llycaons]

orthodontic offices were perhaps designed in hell