#newphoria

[olivieblake]

Person who asked you what sociopolitical event radicalized you here! Thank you for your honest answer in your vlog. As a genz, I always find it interesting to hear the generational answers on questions like this... especially being born as a brown Muslim in October 2001, haha. Not haha. You know.

Side note: In 2020 I dropped out of law school to study foreign languages (for identical reasons to yours for dropping out of law, seeing as my perspective on the law and society became extremely, cough, Marxist in the middle of a pandemic that took away two years of my youth, haha). I think your own status as a law-drop out filters through your work somehow, I don't know, maybe it's in part why I connect with your writing so much.

Question: Would you ever write a "hard" dystopia? As in, you write about the future a lot in your works, but never full-on societal collapse. If you did write a dystopia (think Orwell, Atwood, Collins, Bazterrica, etc.) would might it look like? What aspect of our today might you exaggerate to build your future?

I regret to inform you (I just generally regret to be in this position because it's so on the nose) but I am currently writing a "hard" dystopia, as in a story set in the far future (100 years) that has been irreversibly altered by natural disasters, viral disease, and—most critically—technocracy. the initial idea came up ages ago, over a year maybe, when someone I was with accidentally said "the hunger games by susanna clarke" and I was like fuuuck what a good pitch, I'm gonna write that (meaning, hunger games in content, but tonally JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL)

but, and I'm sure you saw this coming, I can't actually write like susanna clarke—I don't have that kind of patience—so instead it's become this series of interconnected novellas that's similar in structure to OUR SHARE OF NIGHT by mariana enriquez. and while there is a hunger games element, in typical olivie fashion, we enter the story from the misleadingly banal perspective of an archivist who can't log into his account (he also happens to be the only person in his family who is not a psychiatrist).

so basically it is the hunger games by susanna clarke as re-told to you by your friend olivie blake, aka nothing like either source material because I am too obsessed with the specific issue of unregulated tech and systems that prioritize profit over people. and the underlying concept of the book is essentially this:

NEWPHORIA: that you will accept untenable ethical conditions for the illusion of return—in most cases, progress that approximates but doesn’t achieve true innovation.

[mixxd-nemesis]

☆peak•tunes☆

[ricepisspee]

my tumblr is probably in the top 0.036% of cool blogs but if anyone actually knew that its quality and thus stock would immediately plummet resulting in a weird bald kid named Matthew not having the latest Newphoria Rose Gold iPhone 15 and literally getting the shit kicked out of him on the playground at his private elementary school. I'm protecting those undies.

[lindalb1]

Newphoria

[n9ph-archived]

thanks for the tagg :3 my list is a little strange but this is what yt music says is my top listened to right now

bye-bye.wav - SXCREDMANE

NEWPHORIA - Miguel Angeles (LOVE THIS GUY!!)

Deltarune the (not) Musical - THE WORLD REVOLVING REMASTER ft. DarbyCupit // Man of the Internet (love all his lyrical covers)

MESMERIZER - Satsuki, Hatsune Miku & 重音テト

CRUSHER -Miguel Angeles

Aciryu Bounzen (feat. aycu) - ilyhiryu (ALSO LOVE THIS GUY)

PROTECTION CHARM // SLOW AND HARD - Miguel Angles

theres something happening - Jack Stauber

Return to Zero Beztebya (feat. Dayerteq) Marc Acardipane

Great mother in the sky - Lionmilk

Tagged by @mutipede (thank you!!)

Shuffle your "On repeat" playlist, post the first 10 tracks, then tag 10 people to do the same

1. Werwolf by Marduk

2. Butcher Vanity by Vane Lily (TRULY obsessed with this song 🫶)

3. Burning Inside by Ministry

4. Ultrachurch by Keygen Church (from the Ultrakill ost....)

5. Little Black Angel by Death in June

6. Teethgrinding by Gorgoroth

7. Steine Sind Steine by And One

8. Run Run by Jorge Aguilar II (obligatory fnaf 💀)

9. Hatef--ck by The Bravery

10. Twilight by Cvlt Ov the Svn

(No pressure!!) Tagging @codedreams @a-wolf-in-bat-wings @miiilowo @maddymoreau @vonclosen @aku-zone @morgue-ratt @hongzhizhu @undeadorion @tassiekitty

[takes-of-dubious-temperature]

i wonder if we will get ads along the lines of "buy before you die" to sell early-access to supposedly revolutionary products once the boomer generation has gotten to the point in their lives where death from old age is something to expect and plan for

[str9led]

Peter Claes showreel 2014 720p from Peter Claes on Vimeo.

Showreel 2014: This showreel includes some of the main projects I have worked on over the past years. Houdini was used for all of the effects work, Mantra was used mostly for rendering.

In order of edit: John Carter: Thern aggregation effect. Wrath of The Titans: Destruction setup including pyroclastic dust and rigid body dynamics. Thor: The Dark World: Lightning bolts & helped out on aether blasts. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters: smoke trails. Cloud Atlas: Fluid highway. Norton Antivirus - Newphoria: Destruction setup. Fox Sports: Cleatus robot impact effects & grass. Nike - Fast is Faster: Wrecking ball impact destruction. Dial - Frozen Yogurt Body Wash: frozen yogurt liquid. Yahoo - Sports App: Water on the ball, pressure distortion wave.

[petitefour-blog]

Take a look and get in touch!!!!!!

[mapagharaya]

Saan?Bakit?Paano?

Dam'hin mo ang katahimikan, Humayo mula sa mundong kinamumuhian Magliwaliw sa awiting walang tinig, At 'yong iwanang tuluyan ang daigdig

Pumaroon kung saan mayroong kalayaan ang mga tulad mong pangahas at sadyang tampalasan

Hindi ako isang taksil sa bayan O kalaban ng yaring simbahan Hangal nga marahil sa pag-aalsa Nais lamang tumakas sa pagdurusa

Doo’y walang hukom, walang baril na wawakas sa iyong kahibangang ang mundo’y walang batas.

Nasakdal sa kasawian Hinubaran ng karamihan Dito’y walang kalayaan— Walang kapayapaan

Masisisi mo ba ako-- Kung bakit nais tumakbo?

mapagharaya//newphoria

[everydayanalysis]

'Newphoria' and the Case of the Mobile Phone

One can see this analysis coming; a criticism of popular culture’s decorative mobile phone covers coming from a self-congratulating highbrow language.  You say Swarovski crystals, we say commodity fetishism, you say retro cassette tape Iphone cover, we say commodity fetishism. 

But isn’t there something much more interesting about the idea of cases and covers? When we purchase a cover or case, we at least partly do so to protect our phone.  But we overlook the repercussion; we have paid a large amount of money for the slimmest, smallest, most appealing phone (never shown in a case on the advert) and then we nullify this by making it bigger, bulkier and less-appealing, precisely in order to protect what we have paid for, even at its own cost.

Doesn’t this show us something about the structure of our desires?  It is not the ‘slimness’ that is advertised towards which our desire tends at all, but some invisible characteristic or presence within the product, some always illusive object of desire, which always remains unarticulated.

This new advert (below) for Norton’s phone and electronics protection, tagline ‘if excitement over your new device is causing muscle cramps in your face you may have newphoria,’ seems to capture this perfectly.  What we are looking to defend in our product is not one of its actual characteristics but instead some elusive ‘newness’ which produces happiness in us, but which we cannot approach or articulate.

Indeed, perhaps we can go as far as to say that the cover does serve a protective function.  It protects us from the realization that our desire cannot be fulfilled; it maintains the illusion ‘underneath that big bulky leather case, and through that screen cover and Manchester United/Hello Kitty back-cover, is an illusive, secret object of desire, which is my possession, and it makes me happy’.  If we actually faced the object directly, we would face the realization that it does nothing to fulfil us.

We need the cover because it keeps the realization of our desires at a distance, since if our desires were to be realized, we could not handle it…

[olivieblake]

Hey Olivie!

First off, I just wanted to say that I sincerely adored the Atlas Complex and got through it in a single sitting. It had me gripped like no other book ever has, and I absolutely did need a good week to get over that ending. But I actually was wondering, in general what is your daily writing routine as a full time author? If you do end up answering this, thanks so much and I hope you're doing well!

I'm pretty sure I answered this in the previous video but basically the answer is I don't really have a routine/it depends what I'm working on. I think at the time I answered I was still structurally revising one manuscript (gothic/romantic suspense: KISS YOUR DEVILS IN LOS ANGELES) while drafting another (sci-fi far future: NEWPHORIA) and then I also got the first pass of GIRL DINNER, so for a couple of weeks there I had my workday broken down into like 15 minute intervals to try to get everything done. but I just turned in a bunch of things so now I just have the new manuscript on my plate to draft, and so things will return to 3-6k writing days depending on whether it's a half day or a full day for my son at preschool. I'm somewhere around 30k into the book, which will probably be long, maybe 125k first draft. so at this point my goal is to finish the rough first draft before I leave for the GIFTED & TALENTED tour, at which point I will probably again be revising the gothic, sitting down to revise the new ms, and drafting the new thing, which will likely fall under the romantic category (it's all very sisyphean that way although don't let my tone fool you, I do love it)