- Anyone else been feeling overwhelmed recently? -
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A digital drawing of a girl, gaunt looking and pale, with multiple tubes emerging from her neck and chest, draining her blood and leading off screen. She is surrounded by glowing boxes of text, some alarms ringing around her ears, others messages from work, piling up behind her as she looks numbly onwards.
Everything is washed in purple hues, the reflection of the boxes glow against the girls skin, as the world around the girl grows overwhelming.
if we're doing a 2000s fashion revival for real, then we need to talk about imogen heap. i'm not kidding when i say everyone was trying to imitate her. to some degree, the fashion gestalt of the era basically comes down to her representation booking her for garden state and the OC finale soundtracks. i can't remember who but it was A VERY small agency, she feels like one of the last musicians who really blew up organically out of nowhere (and due to her own merits -- i remember one of the early reviews i read for speak for yourself said "she has more talent in one finger than most musicians approach in their entire career"). and the reason it grew tired so quickly is because nobody COULD imitate her. there's a wealth of techniques from her catalogue that survived to become production tropes (live looping, i couldn't say who inspired who but i think she was doing it before jon brion, kt tunstall, and andrew bird), and a larger number of techniques that didn't (the vocoder keytar, because it's hers). possibly the only person at the time who had crossover appeal between manic pixie, hip hop, and the mainstream, because she was so solidly oriented as queen bee of the weird girls. EVERYBODY liked her. even the SNL joke is about how effective her work is. when i saw her live, somebody waiting in line described speak for yourself as "maybe not a great roadtrip album" specifically because of hide and seek, which might play out very differently on a roadtrip now that it's a twice-charting throwback hit. oh. oh my god. some of you are trying to do a 2000s fashion revival and have NEVER EVEN HEARD HIDE AND SEEK. please delete tiktok
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Ug. short embedding still doesn't work here I guess.
Click the link to see my new short!! its about 15 seconds. the boot sequence of one of my retro robots, animated in blender, with 2d face animation in csp, and sound design in fl studio
Tube Tumbler, if I'm not mistaken, has released four toys: YouTuber The Game Theorists, YouTuber Let Me Explain Studios and YouTuber SomeThingElseYT. There's something we don't seem to know about Nugget.
Yes, I know that there is a YouTube channel Con Man Games, but there are only 3 videos and 3.64k subscribers. For comparison, TGT has 693 videos and 19.2 million subscribers, LMES has 98 videos and 4,45 million subscribers, STEYT has 80 videos and 4.39 millon subscribers.
Does this imply that the studio also has a location near the smash mansion?
(( So far I did have the Manor to be somewhere Banana had to warp in order to be able to be there. But considering various warps and transportation exist for any world at this point, I would not be surprised if the Mii ended up isekai'd to the wrong location. How?
...Wrong pipe? Warp Star mishap? Taking the wrong turn at Albuquerque? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ))
CELEBRATING DAVID BOWIE WEEK + SONG OF THE WEEK: “Space Oddity.” The original Bowie track reached me deeply when I was a kid, amping my escapism into sci-fi books, Star Trek TV reruns, and “God questions.” Years passed and I became a singer on my own, and I added Bowie songs to my solo set. Here’s my cover of “Space Oddity,” Mellotron, Stylophone, and all:
This week marks an opportunity to look at David Bowie’s influence and innovations (born Jan. 8th; passed Jan. 10th) as a singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. Many have assumed that Bowie’s “Space Oddity” is a dystopian story of futility and failure. I beg to differ. The indicators in Bowie’s music point to his spiritual quest, a pursuit of God’s heart in the cosmos, inner and outer, and the Major Tom storyline has an open ending—there’s no conclusion that Tom died! Instead (later in Bowie’s catalogue) he reprised Tom (in “Ashes to Ashes” and “Hallo! Spaceboy”) as a conflicted man, “…Strung out on heaven’s high, making an all-time low,” with Tom seeking redemption from his own foibles while expressing awe at the vast potential of creation!
Okay, I want to see a well-done in-depth video essay that explores the use of religious themes in Jigokuraku/Hell's Paradise. I just don't know if I want to see it done by Geoff Thew, Ian Danskin, or Abigail Thorn.