#mark shippy

[spilladabalia]

U.S. Maple - Stuck

[dustedmagazine]

Mark Shippy & Alex Cunningham — Please Advise (Flat Plastic)

Rockers jam, and jazz and free musicians improvise. Embedded within these different characterizations of spontaneous creation are notions concerning the creators’ relationships to formal frameworks. Electric guitarist Mark Shippy and violinist Alex Cunningham embrace it all, finding in the space between formal aesthetics not a chasm to be bridged, but a zone within which to create. Their priorities lie with action, with turning up, jumping in and kicking up a cloud. Please Advise, their second LP, is a diorama of everything that is standing and everything that is knocked over when the dust settles.

Back in the day, Shippy used to play with US Maple. While he’s no longer confined by the need to frame a singer, he retains a very rock-derived commitment to forward momentum. He knows the effectiveness of a big, solid sound, as well as the communicative effectiveness of a climax-oriented arc of events. Cunningham, on the other hand, has worked mainly in freer contexts, having recorded with Damon Smith and Patrick Shiroishi. During the encounters documented on this LP, each musician contributes tune-fragments that you might recall, rhythms that can be felt even when they can’t be counted and alloyed tones that are sound-worlds unto themselves.

Both of them make ample use of amplification to stake their claims on available space, and effects to fill said space with attention-getting activity. Shippy’s amply processed signals range from trebly, blurred notes to melting memories of rockabilly twang to woofer-ripping bursts of synthetic sound. Cunningham uses pedals to shift his instrument’s pitch into the floor-rattling range, giving this record a bass presence you would not expect from a violin-guitar duo. With pedals engaged, his playing swells and hums restlessly, using pitch-shifting to lend ballast and gravity to Shippy’s echo-enshrouded, not-quite-repeating patterns. But he can also flip to the other extreme, offering unprocessed bowing and plucking that dances agilely upon the guitarist’s unstable sound surfaces, and spark flicking formations that wreath Shippy’s more progression-oriented passages like St. Elmo’s fire sparking around a clipper ship’s rigging. Whether jointly hurtling or patiently drifting, leave a wake worth exploring.

Bill Meyer

[giddlygoat]

Do you do drawing requests? If so. Liquiroot? If not, I hope you have a lovely day and get cake, I hope you get cake even if it is yes lol

i don’t like most of these so i just kept drawing in order to get them Right but i don’t think i ever did LAWL

however anon thank you SO much for requesting this bc it gave me an excuse to draw them more <3 i love reggie and bud but i haven’t quiiiite figured out their dynamic yet so drawing them together is a bit tough. i’d love to sit and listen to a liquiroot enjoyer talk about them though like i’m intrigued. me when there’s a plant guy and a dude made of water 🫶💕🌅

[russilton]

Physically it may be two weeks later but spiritually I am still at the Bahrain drivers parade.

Lewis and his Mercedes boys, past and present.

+ Bonus:

[shineaxee]

hey gay people in the saw trap how r we feeling +color edits lololol

[feraltwinkseb]

top 3 martian moments??? moments that make u go like. ???? or damn. they’re crazy and unhinged and so obsessed w each other.

i mean it by the way. love ur blog & thank u for single-handedly trying to keep em alive 💗

In no particular order...

THIS VIDEO

This video is honestly a goldmine of content, It's nothing but flirting, touching and longing gazes. Mark is straight-up lovesick here, just look at his hand on the railing...reaching out as far as he can...

THEN THE END!!! When Mark just GRABS? HUGS? HEIMLICH MANOEUVRES?? SEB

We're also blessed with photographic evidence of the interview:

2. First Date (Caught On Camera)

You can't tell me this isn't a first date being filmed, it's SO awkward. Only two people with a mutual crush can radiate this kind of chaotic embarrassing energy. Mark can't even touch Seb without immediately jerking back...have you got something to hide??👀.

They 100% kissed at the end of the night.

Photosets: 1 & 2

3. "Look, I fully expected sex" AKA Freudian Slip: The Video

Seb and Mark meeting up just to honestly talk about their past warms my heart, and then Mark starts dropping his most iconic lines

"Look, I fully expected sex"

"He definitely didn't expect sex... in Monaco" (as opposed to him expecting it in other places???)

"No, no, we didn't have sex"

4. Honorable Mentions

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@/aussiegrit: Insane trophy cabinet @/sebastianvettel Congratulations on a phenomenal career, enjoy the family time and I’m looking forward to a glass of 🍷.

(Forever hoping they had that glass of wine on an island together)

Winky face??

(Source)

+ This photo / This photo / They bought matching cars

and the unhinged fic that my tumblr is named after... (Warning: Explicit!)

[icarusbetide]

hot take on ham's "aegis" letter

Controversial take but Hamilton characterizing Washington as an "Aegis very essential to me" isn't a disavowal of personal feeling and evidence of purely political alliance like many historians argue. I think it's actually one of the most vulnerable & poignant things he could've said about Washington specifically.

During the war, Hamilton claimed to rebuff affection from the general because he hated "a kind of personal dependance" that was already inherent to being his aide. In 1787, he once again reacted defensively to a newspaper describing his standing as "under the shadow of such a patronage", writing to the man directly that "they have had recourse to an insinuation that I palmed myself upon you and that you dismissed me from your family—This I confess hurts my feelings".

But a decade later, he's able to admit that that same general was his essential shield and protector: knowing Hamilton's defensiveness, the aegis comment strikes me as an acknowledgement of a long, respectful, and yes, political and personal relationship that probably ripened in later years when they were able to reach a genuine understanding. Does that make sense? They weren't fully vulnerable and informal with each other (the only kid with the actual adoption papers is Lafayette, let's be real), but there's hidden depth and affection. I've seen a lot of historians go "see, this letter shows he used Washington for his political gains" and I dunno, I think it's revealing because he's acknowledging that aspect. Calling someone your "shield" or "protection"? Dare I say moving, perhaps even sentimental? Probably a lot of people disagree. It's still a fascinating relationship though, no matter how you look at it.

In 1781 to his father in law: * I always disliked the office of an Aide de Camp as having in it a kind of personal dependance...for three years past I have felt no friendship for him and have professed none. The truth is our own dispositions are the opposites of each other & the pride of my temper would not suffer me to profess what I did not feel. Indeed when advances of this kind have been made to me on his part they were received in a manner that showed at least I had no inclination to court them and that I wished to stand rather upon a footing of military confidence than of private attachment.

In 1800 to Tobias Lear, Washington's secretary upon GW's death: The very painful event which it announces had, previously to the receipt of it, filled my heart with bitterness. Perhaps no man in this community has equal cause with myself to deplore the loss. I have been much indebted to the kindness of the General, and he was an Aegis very essential to me.

*obviously this letter needs to be taken with a grain of salt since he was very frustrated at the time, but i think the point he makes about why he dislikes being aide and his reasoning behind how he treated washington, are revealing.

[agreatandhonorablesoldier]

Incorrect (?) Quotes 2/? Rooster got Phoenix in the break up and I will not change my mind

[skitskatdacat63]

2009 Hungarian Grand Prix - Lewis Hamilton(ft. Martin Whitmarsh, Mark Webber & Kimi Räikönnen)

+ Seb & Fernando post-DNF

[dhmis-autism]

HAPPY ANIMATION DAY

[spilladabalia]

Shorty - Rocketman, Rocketman

[yaikat]

im in a ie mood more than usual tonight so heres a bunch of doodles ive done over the last few weeks. can u guess which characters plague my mind constantly

[dancing-heart-pony]

Dancing In Drawcember: Day 14, Christmas 🎄

Christmas Cards & Carols! 💌 🎶

Mark is in exile again 😆 Jack is not helping 😅

[floofle-universe]

This moment still lives rent free in my mind

[cmdonovann]

oops, i stayed up too late futzing with the shading on this. dnd character lineup! i wanted to compare their heights. (and somehow, nimbus is STILL getting taller with each level. this chart will be outdated by the time we play again.)

anyway. putting this in the queue so it gets posted at a reasonable time and not 3am. but i WILL be thinking about them all day tomorrow, i'm sure of it.

[autumnslance]

The Lost Gentleman and the Vampire

“Well aren’t you a treat? Caught in the rain, poor dear, of course you must come in, take your ease...and then stay, as it’s been some time since I’ve had such a lovely pet...”

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(Red Riding Aeryn got the better deal with Wolfcred, I think...Part of the Holiday Fairy Tale/Horror Story AU that now apparently exists. Since there’s now a part 3 resolving this fellow’s issue on a dark and stormy night!)