#cloudmaking

[twstedwonderlando]

CAN SOMEONE PRETTY PLS EDIT JACK INTO THE LIONGARB OUTFIT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO WEAR 😭😭😭

[ask-lola-cloudmaker]

First post

I worked really hard on this, wanted to get it out asap!

There once lived a pegasus that was afraid of the ground.

She hit the floor and dieded. The End.

Happy April Fools ;D

[ghastimart]

I got a new baby girl and I am OBSESSED with her

[ohc-and-the-music-tapes-archive]

Article about Brian Dewan, with mention of "2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloudmaking" and cooperation with Julian Koster. Chronogram, January 2009

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Another of Dewan’s longtime collaborators is Julian Koster, who once performed in Neutral Milk Hotel and currently leads the Music Tapes. In 2002, Koster tapped Dewan to narrate the Music Tapes’ 2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloudmaking, a story-album set for release on the Merge label later this year and which Koster hopes to perform live in New York and other selected US cities. “Every generation has a few very special people, people who are makers of things and are waiting to be discovered,” says Koster. “And Brian is definitely one of those people.”

[lemonsandmermaids]

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[visionsofnightfall]

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[alittleofsomethingarts]

I'm going to schedule the backlog today for the next coming weeks.

Before that, here are my plans for 2025:

1) Finish my pony blog @ask-lola-cloudmaker

As to why this one specifically, well, I've written out the story I wanted to tell in ask blog form and I just want to share the story as I imagined it 10+ years ago. I'm notorious for not finishing my projects properly, and this is one of them. Currently aiming for late Spring 2025 release.

Here's a sneaky WIP

2) Make a new commission sheet + social media update

See that profile picture on the art blog? I hate it. I need a new one. Plus going to simplify my commission ordering process and I really need to make everything more presentable and easier to understand.

3) Make that YouTube video idea a reality

I'm in a unique position to make it happen, and I think it's going to be fun to do. For that I will need to draw 1 persona pose that I'll edit to be a representation of myself and write a comprehensive script. I already started the script itself, but I need to make sure it's not a pain to read and listen to. All of my microphones suck though, I'm not sure what should I stick to. The hardware issue is a real one and I don't quite know whom to ask for help. Internet research didn't help.

Other stuff is going to happen this year in my personal life that I hope will go fine. They better!

Anyway, I'll see you guys later, and please tell me about your hopes and dreams for 2025~

[buncade]

Cloudmaker’s Journey.

[usafphantom2]

T-12 Cloudmaker. Biggest bomb ever? (Developed from the British Tallboy or Bomb Medium Capacity 12,000lb, was an earthquake bomb developed by Barnes Wallis and used by the Royal Air Force during #WW2. #HISTORY)

@RGPoulesson via X

[ask-lola-cloudmaker]

Here's a new profile picture!

Lola loves you <3

[anthos11]

Cloudmaker by James Horn

[ohc-and-the-music-tapes-archive]

Archived blog post by Optical Atlas about "2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloudmaking" and hand drawn Music Tapes t-shirts

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In 2002 Julian Koster of the Music Tapes notified those on E6 Townhall that he was going to begin selling CD-R copies of his upcoming albumThe 2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloudmaking. A little while later he came through with a first shipment, and fans received a CD-R with a strand of Julian's hair just hanging out from under a label depicting crayon-colored clouds. Because of a long delay in shipping the orders, he sent a hand-drawn "Friends of the Music Tapes" tee-shirt with each package. Julian also mentioned that he had so much fun sending out these packages that he was considering self-releasing the album instead of sending it out via Merge Records. He told us that what we had was a rough mix, and was already becoming more layered and complex as he worked on it.

My wife and I sat down to listen to the 2nd Imaginary Symphony on September 11, 2002, finally turning off the television after endless retrospectives that featured the same footage of planes crashing into the towers. The album begins with a little bit of singing saw, and a narrator--not Julian, but the sort who might narrate one of those old Walt Disney storybook records for children--tells us the story of a young boy named Nigh who follows a mysterious older friend to a factory that produces the clouds of the sky. Apart from the saw (which succumbs to a lovely crescendo in the finale), there's no singing, and no songs. But it's quintessential Music Tapes.

A little while after that we received a second package, a second CD-R, and two more tee shirts. Apparently Julian lost his first shipment list, found our letter, and send one tee shirt for my wife and myself, thinking we hadn't received the first one. I gave the CD-R to my brother-in-law as a birthday gift; I don't believe he ever listened to it. The tee shirts we haven't worn, and they're a bit wrinkled in these photos because for a couple years they've been tucked into a dresser. Now they're hanging up, and I'll have to iron them and take one out on the town when the weather gets warmer. It's almost four years since Julian sent the CD-Rs out, but last August Julian recently posted at the Townhall to reassure us that more Music Tapes material is coming, including the official release of the 2nd Imaginary Symphony. He wrote: "Hello, hello! Goodmornings, afternoons, and evenings to you all! I just wanted to share with you all that the song album is being mastered in early September, and has in fact left the womb, and though I love it very much It is now time to let it go lead its own life. The final version of the story record has already been mastered, and is worth waiting for (rather than seeking out the early versions i promise). There will not be any word on release dates untill early fall, so I'm afraid there IS still a wait before you, but much shorter than those you've grown use to." In the meantime, I know some have been curious to see what the shirts* looked like, so here are some photos. The most elaborate shirt features the following text (all grammar and spellings are "sic"):

"Late August, corner of W. 80th St. and Amsterdam Avenue in New York City. 2000 and two. And old woman in a rain slicker is loading most of her belongings into a trunk on the street. Her belly is full of Hominy Grits. She learned the recipie from her Grandmother as a little girl. She still remembers drawing pictures with her bare Fingers in the Steam clouded windows accross from the stove. She still remembers fealing warm and Safe. How her grandfather could make a spoon float several feet in the air above her, without even lifting a finger. He seldome Spoke, and never Smiled. This parlor trick was the Sole means of Communication between them. I hope she doesn't mind me writing all of this down. She does Not know me, nor I, her. I am familliar only with the warmth that traveled A million human miles and took the care to visit her image upon me for even the briefest of Moments. She will load her trunk intoo the Caboose of a Great passenger train. She will fall in love with a man her own age. Together they will invent a methode of playing the piano that allows for the Storage and Compartmentalization of time. In this way they will begin the Capturing and preservation of indevidual moments. They will build themselves a Workshop in a functioning German Clock tower. They will begin with the preservation of random moments, and eventualy find themselves drawn mostly to moments of sentimentality. The Old Woman sits and blows on her fingers. It's winter. Her hands are cold. She Plays a moment from her childhood. A windy day, the Sun filters through the clouds. It's 1920. There is a great wind, and the mustache of a distinguished gentleman is blown clear off his face. The moustache, a trimmed handlebar, takes flight, Flapping through the air in a birdlike fashion. It is soon joined by the moustaches of Several other men. The wind blows and blows. The moustaches, now numbering in the thousands, migrate Southward for the winter. The old woman stops playing. The Old man walks over to her and Smiles. They love each other dearly. In time they will run out of moments of their own sentimentality to distill and preserve. And so they will begin to detail yours. At 1st you will apear to them in dreams. Only when you wear this Shirt. They will coment on their common dreams, and begin to compare notes. In their dreams they will always try to read this Shirt. They will never succede. My Writing is too small and illegeible. My spelling to difficult to decode. They will grow fond of you, and look forwards always to the next time you put on the Shirt. They will share with you your moments of sentimentality. Play them over and over again on their Piano. In time you will come to feal them....and Never again will you feal alone."

*On the subject of Elephant 6 shirts: lou2ser wants your E6 tee-shirt photos for his flickr archive. His shirts are less wrinkly than mine.

[marthacloudmaker]

my new single out now! plz check it outie <3

[velt0n]

Aeris, the Cloudmaker

The last of a lineage of dragons capable of manipulating and creating clouds. Its majestic flight is a rare spectacle, which few mortals are lucky enough to witness. Anyone who dares to tell that he saw it is considered crazy or a liar.

I'm trying to update my portfolio, I'll do some illustrations for the cardgame industry, this is the first one. :)

[bellheadband]

Thank you ReGen Magazine for the write up of the new BELLHEAD video "Bad Taste"

BELLHEAD BAD TASTE 2024 TOUR 4/06 X-Ray Milwaukee WI Thrashnetic Fest 4/11 Brass Rail Fort Wayne IN w/ CloudMaker / Palm Ghosts 4/12 Dormouse Theater Kalamazoo MI w/ Katy Needs A Life / Palm Ghosts 4/13 Liar's Club Chicago IL w/ Won't Stay Dead / Palm Ghosts 4/19 Blockhouse Bar Bloomington IN w/ Palm Ghosts 4/25 Crucible Madison WI w/ Stabbing Westward / Caustic 5/03 Black Lodge Memphis TN w/ Palm Ghosts 5/04 5 Spot Nashville TN w/ Palm Ghosts 5/11 Healer Indianapolis IN 07/20 Rude Dog Pub Cape Giradu MO w/ Gary Robert and Community