#summer newman / radiance

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Was reminded after my last post that I've never posted by Menagerie issue cover mock ups anywhere outside of my file repositories (there you can print off your own copies of my desks for you personal use). They're part of a trading card where the front is a cover and the back is info about the focal character on that cover.

Info sheets below the cut:

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Again. So contemporary. "Black Door with Red" (1954), is reproduced from 'Georgia O’Keeffe,' the hot summer new release from @museothyssen ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ “When O’Keeffe bought her house in Abiquiú in December 1945, even amidst its ruins, the inner patio claimed her attention as the strongest architectural feature of this ‘soft warm adobe that one always wants to touch.’ The balanced proportions of the small, enclosed space open to the sky struck a chord deep within her as she later recalled: ‘The patio is quite wonderful in itself. You’re in a square box; you see the sky over you, the ground beneath. […] It’s wonderful at night – with the stars framed by the walls.’ […] In the larger paintings… O’Keeffe centers the black door within a vast horizontal white field with a single file of terracotta tiles that tap out a rhythm across the canvas. Light-filled and spare, these paintings are the most hard-edged of O’Keeffe’s later work and foresee the minimal style of American art in the 1960s. As Barbara Rose wrote: ‘Light is essential to O’Keeffe’s paintings, but like Rothko, Newman and Ad Reinhardt, she seeks radiance from within.’ Indeed, the black rectangle of the door vibrates with steady intensity against the gently luminous wall. Purged of detail, the patio, like the rest of the house, was carefully ordered according to the Zen principles of harmonious living. As she grew older, O’Keeffe became increasingly sensitive to Eastern concepts of purity and contemplation. The spaces she lived in blended nature with art and had an essential bareness that suited her, for as she once said, ‘if you have an empty wall, you can think on it better.’”⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ IMAGE CREDIT: "Black Door with Red" (1954), Oil on canvas. 121.9 x 213.4 cm. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA. Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. © @okeeffemuseum ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #georgiaokeeffe @okeeffemuseum ⁠⁠ #CatherineMillet @centrepompidou @fondationbeyeler #georgiaokeeffe #newmexico #southwestart #blackdoorwithred #georgiaokeeffearchitecture #georgiaokeeffeapueblo https://www.instagram.com/p/CRPtdycMQJo/?utm_medium=tumblr

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July 9th: Discussion or Catch up Day!

Whew, we’ve read a total of six stories now and we’re officially through with our first week! Take today to catch up, read other stories, take a break, join in, whatever you want to do. 

If you’re just joining, please don’t feel obligated to read every story on the calendar. Read the ones you want to and make posts about the ones you want to. This is supposed to be fun and without due dates this isn’t summer school. 

Anywaysss I thought today would be a good day to talk about adaptations. Short stories are where authors can try crazy new ideas and see if they work. And if they work, maybe they’ll adapt them to a novel. Or maybe they’ll get adapted into a film. 

I’m  thinking about Company of Wolves in particular by Angela Carter. Despite it not being entirely true to the story, it’s amazing how big of a story can be told in such a small word count. 

Radiance, by Catherynne M. Valente started off as The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew. And  there’s plenty of other examples out there. The Wind up Girl, Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula, etc. etc. 

I don’t really have a question for you today, but hey, whatever you want to chat about related to short stories is fine with me. 

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Just realized I don't talk about all the work I'm doing very often, but a couple of weeks ago I released a Workshop Mod for Sentinels of the Multiverse on Steam. Right now there is only one hero up there right now, but I think robot magical girl Radiance is good enough to stand on her own. If you give her a play, let me know what you think.

I've got a couple more heroes and an environment deck I hope I can get out by the end of the year, but that fact anyone makes anything creative in 2021 is amazing, so we'll see.

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Always slow to post here but I updated my Workshop Mod for Sentinels of the Multiverse on Steam today, so now you can play as an angry girl with too many guns and friendly ghost to take on villains at a semi-haunted basketball arena.

You know, perfectly normal superhero activities.

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I completely forgot I could finally post the artwork I did for the Fan Favorite zine back in 2019. Definitely not a good example of what my artwork is like today, but still a piece I enjoyed working on and getting to share.

Also jeez, a couple of these characters' designs have drifted since then. All for the better though.

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Figure it is the season for some spoopy artwork and, since I recently completed some of these, here they are.