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teejaysnow · 4 years ago

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Apparently I promised someone a write up of my thoughts of 20 November. Unfortunately I can’t remember who and I’ve lost the ask because I’m an idiot. So... to whom it might concern... 😅

Okay, let’s start with the obvious - Tarjei looks really good in his stage clothes, and the way his shaved head highlights that bone structure? Hnnnnggghh!!

Now, with that out of the way…

First of all, Teaterkjeller’n is small. (According to Oslo Nye’s site it seats 120 people, but the twenty odd chairs scattered across the room at covid approved safe distance feels about right) There is a bar on one side, a tech table on the other, and in between is the stage running across the room with a huge screen at each end. The screens are split into four squares, surveillance camera style, with each square aimed at a different part of the venue, like the exit and opposite sections of the audience.

So... after having stared at yourself in black and white for an uncomfortably long time, the light is finally turned down into pitch black and Tarjei slides onto the stage. And I really mean slides, he’s just a dark shadow in the corner, practically unnoticeable until he starts to speak.

“Can you see me? I can see you. I don’t have a name yet. But soon it will be etched into your minds.”

As he speaks, he walks over to the nearest screen and looks at it with his back to the audience, and it strikes me how much Tarjei has grown as a stage actor, particularly how he now effortlessly pours his whole being into the characterisation rather than just his voice, expressions and premeditated gestures. Okay, so parts like Doody in Grease or Håkon in Snofall might not provide many opportunities for Tony worthy performances, but… well, up until Sporvogn til begjær, it used to feel like Tarjei was this very talented, good-for-his-age actor, but mostly there to watch and learn. Then, in Min briljante venninne, he’d suddenly grown into a full-blown part of the ensemble - and now, with 20 November? Well, just give the boy all the awards, because, jeez… Looks like he’s been using his time at Oslo Nye soaking up every last bit of acting skills he could get his hands on. And getting paid for it. Sneaky...

Walking across the stage he tells us that in one hour and twelve minutes, he will enter his old school as an angel of death, and that we, the audience, are not innocent in this. He keeps switching between english and norwegian through the play (just as the diaries that the play is based on switches between german and english) and the first switch to english is here, when he talks about his weapons - a sawed off shotgun, a sawed off rifle (apparently there’s a difference...), a pistol, a knife and some smoke grenades. He had planned on making some explosives as well, but even though he would have been able to get hold of ammonium nitrate for free he didn’t have any opportunities to experiment with it.

As he reaches the other end of the stage, he starts up a laptop on top of a small podium. (The wallpaper is an upside down Pepe le frog looking down upon hell, btw. The devil really is in the details…) A pretty bad rhythm track starts playing, and Tarjei launches into an even worse - and rather hesitant - rap about things he hates, like tupperware, going out, footballers and their wives, cats, himself, etc. (To quote Isak, “Have you heard the rumours about my rapping?” Umm… yeah, just no.)

After abruptly finishing the rap, he returns to how we in the audience aren’t innocent in this situation, how we don’t care about anything or anyone but ourselves, and that some people might be stupid enough to believe that things will get better - but he’s intelligent enough to realise that they won’t. He compares what he’s doing to war, and how war leads to “unfortunate” actions. Pulling up a clip of Goebbels speaking to a large crowd onto the screens, he then walks across the stage mouthing along with that speech and imitating some of the gestures made on the screen, before - once the clip ends - very firmly pointing out that he isn’t a nazi and that he hates nazis.

He walks over to the bar and picks up a can of coca-cola, explaining that his mouth has gone dry since he isn’t used to talk much because “talking is useless”. He asks if anyone knows what the most used word in almost every language is (if the audience is anything to go by, it’s silence - but then some brave person offers up the correct answer of “I”). (Apparently “coca-cola” is up there as well. As is the word “fuck”. You live and learn.)

There is a lot of usage of technology in the play. On occasion you get a dialogue between stage Tarjei and a prerecorded screen Tarjei who’s impersonating one of his teachers (and there is also dialogue between two different prerecorded screen Tarjei. So many Tarjei. I approve…) And then there is the usage of camcorders that he speaks into, giving us close ups of his face splashed all over the large screens. And of course there is the audience participation where he at two different occasions turns the camera towards the audience. The first time after going off on a tangent on how you need to have the right clothes, the right friends, the right everything from when you’re nine years old (and how girls turn into whores at the age of twelve, wanting to be fucked in the arse by older men, which… a bit specific, but okay) and he asks an audience member what brand of mobile they have, and what the mobile means to them (the first evening the woman he talked to answered “too much”, which… same, to be honest 😳), the second time is to ask another audience member (that first evening that was me - and I was very grateful to stare into a camera lens and not straight into Tarjei’s eyes) if they have a partner and if they are happy. (And then he goes off on the camera, telling it how you can only be happy either through exploiting someone else or through pure stupidity - or possibly conformity and arse licking. And how the arse you’re licking [at which point he does a very explicit show of licking his lips, btw. I’ll just leave you with that image, shall I…?] today might be connected to the foot that will kick you tomorrow.)

Somewhere in the middle of all this there is also a quiet interlude where Tarjei addresses a camera in the ceiling while he lies down on the floor and then moody music plays as he lies still for a minute before he starts convulsing rhythmically in a very aesthetic way, like an electric pulse is running through his body. (Someone is apparently taking advantage of having a dancer/choreographer girlfriend because it has a very contemporary dance vibe.)

After that interlude he talks about taking revenge and how, even though the classmates that tormented him and made his years at school a living hell have left, the teachers and staff who did nothing to prevent it are still there - and also how the new pupils are the same as the old, that they “run on the same software” while “he is a virus”.

He picks up a spray can and writes SUAPD on the wall - Skole, Utdanning, Arbeid, Pensjon, Død (School, Education, Work, Retirement, Death), before crossing it out and slowly sliding down the wall into a heap on the floor (rubbing some of the white paint into his nice, black jumper, btw - obviously no thoughts for the wardrobe department.)

Then he starts talking about how he has no choice and how he’s been driven to this stage. And we get some backstory on the bullying he’s suffered since he was six. How he’d been followed to and from school by some boys who tormented him, forced him to eat sand, hit him, and on one occasion held a key over a lighter until it was burning hot and then forced him to hold it. (Where the FUCK were the grownups??) And how he once had asked, “What have I ever done to you?” and the answer had been “Nothing. It’s just your pure existence. That’s enough.”

He turns again to us in the audience telling us to stand up. To walk out. To be free. (I wonder if anybody has ever stood up during this part? Well, at least during my two performances we were very timid audiences who stayed seated.)

He does a very good impression of what he expects the school principal and local politicians to say afterwards, how “this was completely unexpected” and that “they were unaware of any problems” - we’ve heard it all before and most probably will again.

Apparently the play thinks so too since this is where Tarjei starts talking about those who came before him, people like Robert Steinhäuser and the Columbine guys, and he pulls up security camera footage from the Columbine massacre onto the big screens and sits down to watch, almost radiating glee at the display.

All through the play Tarjei’s mercurial mood has swerved between gleeful to thoughtful to determined, and now, finally, to remorseful as he talks about his family and how he’s not going to see them again. He apologises to those he loves, and he talks about wishing he’d had a dog since “animals are the best human beings”.

He says that he’s never had a girlfriend, that he’s never even kissed a girl - but that he isn’t gay and that he likes Jill from Resident Evil. He likes her so much that he’s even named one of his rifles after her. At this, he grabs one of the cameras, walks backstage, and opens a duffel bag to introduce us to Jill. And the other rifle, BFG. And the gun, Mister Pästerich - named after Homer Simpson’s gun, apparently.

He then returns to the stage, carrying the duffel bag over to the podium, where he starts uploading his manifesto onto the internet, the screen showing the progress of the uploading bar. While waiting for the process to finish, he asks if anyone has anything to say, which… well, during my two performances no one had, but it feels like this is where the play actually gives us the opportunity to stop him. Which is the only time the text feels like it addresses the audience, despite the earlier two audience interactions.

Then, when the uploading bar reaches 100%, Tarjei straightens his shoulders, grabs the weapon bag, and disappears up the stairs - and that’s the last we see of him, no curtain call or anything. Which… is a very powerful ending to be fair, but after that kind of performance, he really deserves to come back and collect his due of applause.

So. Did I love it? Yes. There is so much to love, the production is immaculate, the set design, the sound, the music, the acting, oh my god, the acting. But I still. do. not. like. the. play.

Lars Norén is known for writing about the underbelly of society, the alcoholics, the drug addicts, the invisible people, people in crisis (although to be fair, for us of a certain age he’s even more known for putting on a play starring a couple of prison inmates, giving them an opportunity to spew nazi propaganda on stage, and then it all ended with some of them planning bank robberies and killing two policemen...), but he doesn’t really give these people a voice. In 20 November, Tarjei keeps telling us that we, the audience, aren’t innocent - but the play never really drives that home. It tells us we too are to blame, but it doesn’t make us feel it. It does give us some background to why Bastian feels that he hasn’t got any other choices, but it doesn’t grab us and force us to understand. Yes, Tarjei’s acting goes a long way in doing that - but it could have been so much stronger if the text backed him up instead of it just scratching at the surface.

So what I will remember 20 November for is the production and also Tarjei’s acting, the nervous energy he radiates, the mercurial leaps between confidence and vulnerability, between childishness and maturity, the ever changing body language, the absolute fucking stage presence, the... God, I’m going to miss seeing him on stage. Ah, well, Lillehammer’s gain is our loss - although I’m very much looking forward to whatever weird and wonderful scripts that will come out of this, so at least there’s that.

Anyway, this amazing performance deserves a lot better than the around 15-16 people in the audience - since at both my performances about one third of the ticket holders were missing. Fucking Covid...

#20 november spoilers #i guess #answered - or at least answered-ish #my shit #my reviews

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n1ghtcrwler · 5 years ago

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Chapter Title Tag Game

@mvcreates came up with this tag game for people to highlight the chapter titles in your WIP and give as much or as little info as you like. I thought about doing images for them, but that was getting to be way too tedious, so! Here are all of the named “chapters” for Tall Tales that currently exist. I know the story arcs aren’t technically chapters, but they’re close enough. There are other things I know need to happen during some of the gaps, where I’m still working out the exact structure and the name of the arcs, but these are the ones that are settled. These are listed in chronological order and not necessarily in the order they have been or will be told.

Spoilers ahead!

Title (date range of events): one-sentence intro

Land of Goshen (1 November 1905 to 12 April 1929): Joanna Wozniak cares for a young man with no memory but a connection to the river.

Power in the Blood (11 September 1906 to 9 December 1929): Joanna’s son, Jeremiah Matteson, has his father’s power and a rage all his own.

The Prodigal (22 June to 8 July, 1936): Jeremiah returns home to offer his mother the only relief he knows.

Nephilim (9 April 1961 to 25 December 1975): Jeremiah finds suburban life difficult to maintain.

The Fall (28 June to 3 July, 1989): Having learned of a new cult called the Brood of Nachash with a desire to overthrow established religion, the Catholic Church sends Father Benedict de Monte to investigate.

Sabbatical (7 July 1989 to 12 August 1997): Benedict takes some time to review his life and the cult.

Legion (15 August to 16 October, 1997): Called back into action, Benedict and Tadzio track down a new site connected with the Brood of Nachash.

Born of Water (27 October to 2 November, 2004): John Matteson takes a vacation to Chicago and works with Jackie Veracruz to exorcise the ghost of Alethea Bilson.

Do No Harm (2 November to 31 December, 2004): Jackie continues her investigation into the ghost, while recalling her first test from Hecate.

Queen of Heaven (6-13 November 2004): Benedict investigates the Naga for a potential connection to the Brood, and finds a new ally in Akshainie.

Valley of Dry Bones (10-23 December 2004): Alethea seeks vengeance against her murderer.

Broken Tablets (18-29 December 2004): Benedict and Akshainie travel to Oregon to meet with Tadzio and Henry, who believe they have found a clue to tracking the Brood.

Babylon (20 December 2004 to 1 November 2006): [John] Matteson and friends attempt to find and understand the Devil’s Church.

Book of Shadows (18 January 2005 to 1 March 2006): Benedict and Akshainie seek part of Benedict’s birthright.

Golden Calf (27 February to 1 August, 2005): Matteson begins dating Lori Berman while Jackie begins to suspect Alethea is closing on him.

Road to Perdition (23 August to 15 September, 2005): Matteson, Jackie, Rick, and Charles stumble upon a strange and dangerous cult.

Shadow of Death (30 October to 4 November, 2005): As Lori begins fighting against a terrible power, Matteson and Jackie must intervene.

Poison River Players (14 November 2005 to ?): Jackie starts a new chapter of her life, working with a local theater.

Mark of the Beast (1 March 2006): Matteson accepts a bet to stay in a haunted building, where he, Benedict, and Akshainie find signs of the Brood.

Tree of Life (2-27 December 2006): Alice Templeton calls on Matteson to investigate strange noises in her new house, and the two grow close.

East of Eden (28 April to 5 May, 2007): Alice, Matteson, Jackie, and Rick take a vacation to a cabin owned by Alice’s family, and find they are not alone in the woods.

Walls of Jericho (16-25 June 2007): Matteson investigates a crack in reality that put Jackie in the hospital.

Milk and Honey (2 July to 3 August, 2008): Alice awakes to find she is no longer in the world she knew.

Hind's Feet (23 April 2009 to 29 October 2010): One of the first cases picked up by Matteson’s new private detective agency is the disappearance of Missy Nash.

Eyes to See (6 September to 26 October, 2010): Natasha Fox proves her worth to Matteson by spinning the Nash case into commercial success.

Saint of Lost Causes (24 November to 10 December, 2014): Matteson is sent on a hopeless mission when Columbia tries to use him to earn a favor from Br’er Rabbit.

Moloch (24 October to 25 November, 2016): A group of rogue FBI agents are tracking down Jeremiah, but find Matteson instead.

Sojourner (25-28 February 2021) Akshainie is recalled to Iravati.

Jacob's Ladder (1 August to 19 November, 2026): Something has been summoned by the Brood of Nachash, and it seeks Benedict.

Land of Nod (22 February to 20 September, 2027): Benedict’s devotion to the Catholic Church is put on trial.

Serpent of Old (17 November to 2 December, 2027): Hecate arrives to make good on her threats to Matteson and the debt she is owed.

Tree of Knowledge (5-20 January 2028): Matteson, Benedict, and Daniel Matteson travel to Yggdrasil in search of a means to kill a god.

Revival (1-10 August 2028): Lori returns with a case for Matteson, and the scope of Daniel’s power is revealed.

Born of Spirit (24 October to 1 November, 2028): Matteson, Jackie, Benedict, Akshainie, Tadzio, and Daniel take one last stand against their enemies.

Over Jordan (3-5 November 2028): Matteson is shown the result of his actions.

I don’t know how many of you name your chapters, but if you do, consider yourself tagged.

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theonyxpath · 5 years ago

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Demi? Meaning partial? No, quite the opposite, actually.

The Kickstarter campaign for Scion: Demigod starts on this Thursday, September the 3rd, at 2pm Eastern US time! And unlike the Kickstarter for Scion: Hero and Scion: Origin, the writing for this book is finished before the KS.

There are actually a fair number of important differences, so, as promised last week, here’s a rundown of how this KS is different from the first one for Scion: Origin and Scion: Hero, since we have indeed learned a lot since then (the first Scion KS was our 22nd and we’ve done 24 more KSs since then):

1- Like I said above, the writing is done. In fact, it is at the stage where the writing is over and the heavy lifting for the developer is over. All those words are now “the text” and any changes are going to be tweaks and minor fixes. Errata stuff. More on that later. The writing that was ready when we did the Scion: Origin/Hero KS was at the Redlines stage, as stated on the KS page at the time, and we have learned that we need more finalized text before we go live on a Kickstarter.

2- The rules are done. Well, of course the rules are done if the text is done, Rich! Sure, yet the fact that during Scion: Origin/Hero‘s KS the Storypath System was still being heavily playtested by our teams, and was being developed for two different creative teams (for Scion and the Trinity Continuum) so that design decisions were still happening is actually very different than now. Storypath has been “battle-tested” in numberless games of Scion, as well as the Trinity Continuum, Dystopia Rising: Evolution, and the They Came From…! game lines.

3- The text will be previewed to backers in sections throughout the KS, you’ll have it all by the end, and can back out before we deliver. Almost exclusively, this is how we handle our Kickstarters now. It eliminates a lot of the fear that the game will develop differently as the writing and developing stages progress. And we get pretty solid discussions going about the text all during the KS, which can be a lot of fun for backers.

4- Our average track record (not including Dark Eras 2 which was structured very differently) for delivery of the Kickstarters after Scion: Origin/Hero‘s KS has been 1.6 months earlier than estimated. Part of that has been because we extended out our estimated delivery date, but the rest has been better internal systems, like:

5- James Bell runs our Kickstarters now. We call him the Kickstarter Concierge because his entire focus is managing our KSs and helping out our backers. He does a phenomenal job with getting folks answers and enabling fun conversations in the Comments.

Titanomachy art by Sam Denmark

6- One of our new processes is a set phase to contract and receive art for the KS, which then rolls right into getting art for rest of the book. This practice is also helpful in getting the art for the Stretch Goal rewards.

7- We have at least one Errata phase after the Backer PDF goes out, although in some cases, and possibly this one, other Errata phases can be included at the developers’ discretion. Rather than having backers write in to us on the forums or via Kickstarter, we now have an Errata system that includes a new form administered by one of our in-house development overseers. Not the developer themselves. In fact, the Text to Editing to Layout to Done process contains more than three times the number of eyes reviewing and confirming changes than it did when we were pulling together Scion: Origin and Scion: Hero.

8- There are more devs understanding the game and rules, with Neall as the lead dev as opposed to having to be deeply involved in every phase like for Scion: Origin/Hero because only he saw how all the pieces needed to come together. Meghan Fitzgerald, who developed Mysteries of the World: The Scion Companion that released recently, and Monica Speca, developer of Titanomachy (the Advance PDF of which releases on Wednesday), are just two of the devs who are able to develop Scion books now that the first two main books are available. Danielle Lauzon is able to bring her unmatched knowledge of how the Storypath System works if needed. This means that while Neall directly developed Scion: Demigod, he has other devs he can run ideas past or who can jump in now if real-life issues impact his work on Scion.

9- One book, not two. More focus, less stress on creators. Also, you’re only pledging for one book (although feel free to pledge for as many as you want!) so your pledge amount will likely be less for this KS, as will likely be our total amount.

10- Scion: Demigod presents concepts which are not just the next “levels” of power for our Heroes, but which expand on what happens once a Scion is more than a hero, but not yet a god.

I’m thinking there may be more differences, but let’s stick with these as we get a Top Ten List sort of thing going. We’re going to have a fun Kickstarter with Scion: Demigod, and we’re hoping all of you can join us for it.

Also, we’ll be including links to Scion: Demigod Actual Play sessions all throughout the KS if you want to get an idea of how great it plays!

Sunken Bones art by Pat Loboyko

And Was There More In the Monday Meeting?

Sure, there really was. And I can’t tell you more than that we looked at a list of future projects that the team was extremely excited about, and we had to only hit the highlights of our weekly reports as the energized creative discussion over the new projects took up so much time.

Yep, we sure love creating:

Many Worlds, One Path!

Blurbs!

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Scion Demigod Second Edition! Coming this Thursday, September 3rd at 2pm EDT! See all my blathering above for more info!

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Two new Occultists Anonymous episodes for you fans of Mage: The Awakening! Find them right here:

Episode 124: Vibe Check The cabal travel to Seattle with the intent of hunting down Mr. Graves, behind enemy lines, and with little local support. https://youtu.be/kHJ8BVcqDd0

Episode 125: Not Enough… With a single lead from Wyrd, the cabal works to see who they’ve even made contact with. Unsure of their intel, behind Seer lines, they’re given a task to complete. https://youtu.be/w8iEpJoVJUo

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GMS Magazine produced a review of Dystopia Rising: Evolution over on their channel! https://youtu.be/Q0Ih1KkUhS0

Please check these out and let us know if you find or produce any actual plays of our games! We’d love to feature you!

Electronic Gaming!

As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is live! Our dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is awesome! (Seriously, you need to roll 100 dice for Exalted? This app has you covered.)

We’re told that the App Dev is currently creating an updated version for the latest devices, so keep an eye open for those!

Virtual TableTop!

Introducing a Virtual Tabletop adventure: the Gauntlet of Spiragos for Scarred Lands on Astral TableTop!

Scars of the Divine War, which ended less than 200 years ago, have still not healed. One such scar is the Chasm of Flies, a rent in the earth created when the titan Spiragos the Ambusher was smote down by one of the young gods, Vangal the Ravager. Now, the Chasm is inhabited by spider-eye goblins and their spider allies, but it is also thought to be the resting place of powerful artifacts from that elder age.

Gauntlet of Spiragos is a Scarred Lands adventure designed for 1st level characters, although it can be easily modified for characters of up to 5th level.

Astral TableTop is the easiest way to play any tabletop RPG online, free. Astral already supports popular systems like D&D and Pathfinder, and Astral can support virtually any tabletop roleplaying game. Get started quickly with built-in support for most popular game systems. Whether you’re brand new to TTRPGs or a veteran tabletop gamer, Astral‘s ease-of-use and built in automation is designed to streamline gameplay.

Astral is browser-based and uses the latest technology to streamline your storytelling experience. Connect with your party online and run your campaigns however you like. Astral offers tools optimized for phone, tablet, and desktop devices, no installation required.

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Build your own adventure, or choose from pre-generated game kits like Gauntlet of Spiragos. Create character sheets, craft maps, or just jump right in to connect with your friends and start your adventures!

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This Wednesday, the Titans grab the attention in the Titanomachy book for Scion! Advance PDF on sale on DTRPG!

Scion: Titanomachy has everything a Storyguide needs to bring the Second Titanomachy — a phase in the eternal cold war against the Gods — to their Scion Second Edition games.

It presents new threats from the Titans to their servants, plus their fell powers and Birthrights — ripe for use as antagonists or as new material for players’ characters. It also provides adventure hooks to springboard Storyguides into the action.

Scion: Origin and Scion: Hero are required to use this book.

This book includes:

Titans for each of the core pantheons, to be used as enemies or strange allies.

Three adventure hooks to help Storyguides run epic games involving the Second Titanomachy.

Dozens of all-new antagonists from enemy Scions to fearsome monsters.

New, Titan-themed Birthrights and Knacks for players to discover and use.

Note: This is the Advance PDF version. We’re collecting errata feedback before preparing the final PDF and Print versions of the book. Everyone who purchases the Advance PDF will automatically get the final PDF added to their Library on DriveThruRPG, plus they will receive a discount link for the Print version taking into account that they purchased the PDF.

Also this Wednesday, we open up the They Came From Beneath the Sea! Community Content part of the Storypath Nexus! Now you too can design scenarios featuring the terrifying, tentacular, terrors of the seven seas! And even get paid for it!

Conventions!

Though dates for physical conventions are subject to change due to the current COVID-19 outbreak, here’s what’s left of our current list of upcoming conventions (and really, we’re just waiting for this last one to be cancelled even though it’s Nov/Dec). Instead, keep an eye out here for more virtual conventions we’re going to be involved with:

PAX Unplugged: https://unplugged.paxsite.com/

And now, the new project status updates!

Development Status from Eddy Webb! (Projects in bold have changed status since last week.):

First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep.)

Exalted Essay Collection (Exalted)

The Devoted Companion (Deviant: The Renegades)

Prometheus Unbound (was Psi Orders) (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

No Gods, No Masters (Scion 2nd Edition)

Scion Fiction Anthology (Scion 2nd Edition)

TC: Aeon Novella: Dawn (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

TC: Aeon Novella: Meridian (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Legacies of Earth (Legendlore)

Redlines

Dragon-Blooded Novella #2 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

CtL 2e Novella Collection: Hollow Courts (Changeling: The Lost 2e)

Adversaries of the Righteous (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Squeaks In The Deep (Realms of Pugmire)

Trinity Continuum: Anima

Second Draft

Many-Faced Strangers – Lunars Companion (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Hundred Devil’s Night Parade (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Novas Worldwide (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Exalted Essence Edition (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Saints and Monsters (Scion 2nd Edition)

M20 Technocracy Operative’s Dossier (Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary)

Wild Hunt (Scion 2nd Edition)

Development

TC: Aberrant Reference Screen (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Contagion Chronicle: Global Outbreaks (Chronicles of Darkness)

Exigents (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Assassins (Trinity Continuum Core)

Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)

V5 Forbidden Religions (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Trinity Continuum: Adventure! core (Trinity Continuum: Adventure!)

M20 Rich Bastard’s Guide To Magick (Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary)

Manuscript Approval

Crucible of Legends (Exalted 3rd Edition)

V5 Trails of Ash and Bone (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Dystopia Rising: Evolution Fiction Anthology (Dystopia Rising: Evolution)

Contagion Chronicle Ready-Made Characters (Chronicles of Darkness)

The Clades Companion (Deviant: The Renegades)

V5 Children of the Blood (was The Faithful Undead) (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Post-Approval Development

M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Mission Statements (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Editing

Lunars Novella (Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)

Player’s Guide to the Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)

TC: Aberrant Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

LARP Rules (Scion 2nd Edition)

The Book of Lasting Death (Mummy: The Curse 2e)

Scion: Dragon (Scion 2nd Edition)

Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)

Dearly Bleak – Novella (Deviant: The Renegades)

N!ternational Wrestling Entertainment (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Under Alien Skies (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Dead Man’s Rust (Scarred Lands)

Post-Editing Development

W20 Shattered Dreams Gift Cards (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)

Cults of the Blood Gods (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Hunter: The Vigil 2e core (Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition)

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant core (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)

Legendlore core book (Legendlore)

One Foot in the Grave Jumpstart (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2e)

Masks of the Mythos (Scion 2nd Edition)

They Came From Beyond the Grave! (They Came From!)

Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Indexing

Art Direction from Mike Chaney!

In Art Direction

Tales of Aquatic Terror – LeBlanc art in and getting fulls.

WoD Ghost Hunters (KS) – KS page to Paradox for approval.

Hunter: The Vigil 2e

Mummy 2

Deviant – AD’d.

Legendlore

Technocracy Reloaded

Cults of the Blood God

Scion: Dragon (KS)

Masks of the Mythos (KS)

Scion: Demigod (KS) – Ready for Thursday.

They Came From Beyond the Grave! (KS)

TC: Adventure! (KS)

Geist: One Foot In the Grave – Artists are working.

Contagion Chronicle Jumpstart (Chronicles of Darkness) – Sending art buy sheet to Dixie for notes.

In Layout

Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad

Vigil Watch

Trinity Core Jumpstart

Aberrant – Gonna start layout with the power section

Proofing

Cavaliers of Mars: City of the Towered Tombs

Yugman’s Guide Support Decks (Scarred Lands)

TC Aeon Terra Firma – Sent back to Josh, looking good.

V5 Let the Streets Run Red – Inputting corrections.

Pugmire Adventure – Need map finished.

At Press

TCFBTS Screen and Booklet – Files at press.

They Came from Beneath the Sea! – Shipping from printer to KS fulfiller.

Pirates of Pugmire – Shipping from printer to KS fulfiller.

Pirates of Pugmire Screen – Files at press.

Dark Eras 2 – Files printing.

Dark Eras 2 Screen and booklet – Files at press.

Contagion Chronicle – Press prep.

Contagion Chronicle Screen and Booklet – Files at press.

Lunars Wall Scroll Map – Shipping to KS fulfiller from printer.

Lunars Screen and Booklet – Files at press.

Lunars: Fangs at the Gate – Prepping files for PoD and press.

Scarred Lands Creature Collection – Shipping from printer to KS fulfiller.

Magic Item Decks 1-3 (Scarred Lands) – PoD proof decks ordered.

Scion Titanomachy – Advance PDF on sale Weds on DTRPG!

Today’s Reason to Celebrate!

Over the weekend we learned of the unexpected and sad death of Chadwick Boseman, the actor best known for portraying King T’Challa of Wakanda, the Black Panther, although in his relatively short career he also played several great and inspirational historical figures. The impact of his work portraying a comic book hero far outweighed the basic idea; we celebrate that his Black Panther embodied an ideal and inspirational place needed by many people around the world. As stated by former President Obama: “To be young, gifted, and Black; to use that power to give them heroes to look up to; to do it all while in pain – what a use of his years.”

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Best rap, 2017

In 2007, I thought I was very fast. That fall, I was one of the top sophomores at the Minnesota high school cross country state championships, which, believe it or not, are very competitive as far as high school cross country state championships go. Then it was winter. There’s no indoor track season in Minnesota; I played hockey, like I had for my entire life to that point, but I also ran 60 miles a week in toques and gloves and terrible things called “wind briefs.” I got ambitious and decided that in the spring, I wanted to be the fastest 15-year-old in the state, the Midwest, maybe the country.

But in the first week of outdoor track, in the middle of a mile repeat workout we were running on the sidewalk (there was snow on the track), I felt bones splinter. There were stress fractures up and down my left tibia.

Every afternoon for the next twelve weeks, I had to find a ride from my high school down to a suburban YMCA, chosen because it had a reliably deserted pool. I needed to get in some sort of cardio with zero impact on my bones. If you’ve never seen someone water run, it looks like a recurring nightmare playing out under fluorescent lights: a skeletally thin person in the water, upright, making all the movements he or she would make on the track, but moving impossibly slow, back and forth, end to end. It’s like quicksand. I would sweat and strain and grit my teeth, but I was barely moving.

A couple weeks into my muggy purgatory, my friend Collin burned me a CD of an obscure album he’d found on a Wordpress blog. It was called Brokelore and was by someone named Grip Grand––clearly from the Bay, but we couldn’t find anything else about him.

It blew me away. I listened to it every day, to and from the Y, in headphones or out of those primitive aux hookups that plugged into the cassette decks in my friends’ cars. He sounded gruff and grizzled, but we had no idea what he looked like. (Eventually, Collin found a short interview Grip had done with a blog, but we assumed the press photo was of the blogger, not the rapper. Sorry, Grip.)

The record’s mostly self-produced; the beats have a little grit and a lot of warmth. Grip’s voice is tough, but elastic enough to bounce and bend and let the humor through. Grip is quick and witty, but threads the record with these incredibly earnest love letters to rap: "96 Tears” is an extended lyrical exercise, “Hip-Hop Classic” is the sound of someone pounding his fist on a computer desk, searching. There’s a song with Percee P (”Paper Cup”) and a song where Grip thanks Percee P for dropping that verse (”Showtime (That’s Entertainment)”). There’s “Handle That,” which was probably conceived as a parody of popular rap styles at the time but got mutated along the way and sounds like a good-faith alien transmission; there’s distortion and vocal modulation and lines like “While you pretend to be sick like Ferris Bueller / Grip Grand drop gems like a careless jeweler.”

But it’s called Brokelore. This was a few months before the financial collapse; this was Oakland and San Francisco and the shadow of the early tech boom. Sometimes Grip and his Rec League comrades broach this with a light touch, cashing bad checks and skirting tax forms. (One of the album’s highlights is the remix of “Poppin’ Pockets,” where Grip and A.G. (!) rap joyously about having absolutely zero money.) Then there are the graver moments: “Out of Service” is a half-dreamed conversation with a factory worker who’s in limbo at a bus stop; it’s tearjerking but never treacly. “Tomorrow” is sorrowful.

And then there’s “Love/Drama” which––this is not an exaggeration––is one of the most deeply felt rap songs I’ve ever heard. It’s structured as a letter back to a writer who ripped his last record, Welcome to Broakland. An artist responding to criticism looks defensive––and that’s the point. In the space of a few bars, the song unspools into a catalog of Grip’s deepest fears as an artist.

“My whole albums’s a jack: “Impeach the President?” Yo, how done is that? Tribute to early rap? DIY ethic? No, a piss-poor producer—take my name off the credits.”

The song wraps up with a venomous couplet:“You’re so astute brah, every minute flaw, you heard it / Can’t wait to hear your album, it must be perfect.” But he’s not brushing off the critic. “Love/Drama” isn’t about brushing off a detractor, it’s about scratching and clawing and stretching $10 in groceries for a whole week, pouring yourself into a record only for it to be...fine. The kicker, then, is that Grip Grand internalized all of that and made a masterpiece.

I say all that to say this: I don’t know if I would have found Brokelore today. Ten years after the fact, it’s ostensibly my job to find and write criticism of rap music, including obscure releases like this. But the economics of the media industry are strange: while it seems clear that people still want to discover new music, it’s difficult to get anybody to click on articles that present it. Music discovery has moved mostly to the curated playlists at streaming sites (so, radio) and there are fewer and fewer places willing to publish full-scale album reviews for artists who are untested or unsigned. I don’t spend enough time in pools.

Of course, there are still massive communities of rap fans who dig for new material. But as it becomes more difficult to make a living covering it––and with the collapse of the blog world, which was invaluable for fans and artists in the mid- and late-2000s––there’s less time and attention given to smaller artists. Especially the kinds of time and attention that can be turned into money. (On that count, I physically recoil imagining how much bleaker the Bay Grip rendered on Brokelore has gotten.)

The good news is that rap is in an exceptional place right now. There are vibrant underground scenes in cities across the country. In 2018, I’m resolving to take time, stay still, and appreciate rappers who would otherwise go uncovered.

Notes/methodology: This list, obviously, includes both songs and albums. In most of the cases where either an album or a song from it could have made my top sixty, I chose whichever entry would rank higher, i.e.- I think “The Story of O.J.” is one of the ten best rap things from this year, while 4:44 as an album would rank a couple dozen spots lower. There are exceptions. “We Ball” would probably be among my top ten entries, but I wanted to give a nod to Meek Mill’s album because it hasn’t left rotation since it came out. Similar case with Boosie: “Webbie I Remember” could easily be in my top five, but BooPac should be on everyone’s radar, even if it’s ninety minutes. Slow down.

60. YG, “Pop It, Shake It” 59. Smooky MarGielaa, “Stay 100” 58. YBN Nahmir, “Rubbin Off The Paint” 57. Freddie Gibbs –– You Only Live 2wice 56. Muja Messiah & Roc Marciano –– Saran Wrap 55. Frosty Da Snowmann, “Oh My Gawd” 54. Wiki –– No Mountains in Manhattan 53. Greg Grease –– Down So Long 52. Chris $pencer, “Shark Wrestling” 51. Chief Keef, “Can You Be My Friend” 50. P.O.S –– chill, dummy 49. 2 Chainz –– Pretty Girls Like Trap Music 48. Young Dolph, “100 Shots” 47. Roc Marciano –– Rosebudd’s Revenge 46. Bbymutha, “Roses” 45. Sahbabii, “Pull Up wit ah Stick” 44. Nef the Pharaoh, “Bling Blaow” 43. J Hus –– Common Sense 42. 21 Savage –– Issa Album 41. Cardi B, “Bodak Yellow” 40. Deniro Farrar, “Can’t Touch Me” 39. Lor Jugg & Bandhunta Izzy, “Back At It” 38. G Herbo –– Humble Beast 37. billy woods, “Police Came To My Show” 36. French Montana, “Unforgettable” f/ Swae Lee 35. Rich Homie Quan –– Back to the Basics 34. Lil B –– Black Ken 33. Nipsey Hussle, “Rap Niggas” 32. A$AP Ferg, “Plain Jane” 31. Young Thug –– Beautiful Thugger Girls 30. Migos –– CULTURE 29. Playboi Carti, “Magnolia” 28. Why Khaliq –– The Mustard Seed 27. Snoop Dogg –– Neva Left 26. C Struggs, “Go to Jesus” 25. Lor Choc, “Fast Life” 24. RJ, “Blammer” 23. Tee Grizzley, “First Day Out” 22. OMB Peezy, “Lay Down” 21. Boosie –– BooPac 20. Meek Mill –– Wins & Losses 19. Kodak Black, “Patty Cake” 18. Drakeo –– Cold Devil 17. Don Trip & Starlito –– Step Brothers THREE 16. milo –– who told you to think??!!?!?!?! 15. 03 Greedo –– Money Changes Everything; Purple Summer 03; First Night Out 14. DJ Quik & Problem –– Rosecrans 13. Nocando, “1998″ 12. Goldlink, “Crew” f/ Shy Glizzy & Brent Faiyaz 11. Mach-Hommy –– Haitian Body Odor 10. Lil Uzi Vert, “XO Tour Llif3″ 9. Jay-Z, “The Story of O.J.” 8. G Perico –– All Blue & 2 Tha Left 7. Kendrick Lamar –– DAMN. 6. Tay-K, “The Race” 5. NBA Youngboy, “No Smoke” 4. Future –– HNDRXX 3. Armand Hammer –– ROME 2. Creek Boyz, “With My Team” 1. Open Mike Eagle –– Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

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Rotting Review: Myxie, Wildcard, Deergod

To kick things off, I’d like to say welcome to another installment of track reviews. While not technically the first set of reviews, I’m happy for this to be the first piece I’ve worked on in a couple of months now. There’s a lot I can say about the artists in the title themselves, and at some point i’d love to but, for now I want to highlight tracks from each artist that personally stood out to me recently. Links to all artists will be below so please make sure to follow, repost their work, and show them love.

1. Myxie - Lifeline

Pros: From the Disjunction album with 3M Shadow, 'Lifeline' is easily one of the best tracks simply due to Myxie's lyrics, and how she can take both the foreground and background of a track, making for some of the most laid back music and atmospheric music I've heard in a good while. Myxie also is a breath air in terms of what's said in her lyrics, considering there's no sexualization of herself or females in general, and I respect the hell out of that. She takes this sort of "girl left out in the rain" approach to her lyrics, and while a little somber in tone, it's certainly a direction I can get behind.

Cons: As much as I like Myxie's music, there are times when she comes off a bit like a mumble rapper, which isn't always bad, but I believe working on delivering words without sounding as slushy in delivery would do wonders. Were it not for the lyrics, I think i'd have a bit of a harder time appreciating what's being said, although not much other than that is really an issue, just something to note and hopefully improve upon.

2. Wildcard - Vibe

Pros: Wildcard has made leaps and bounds as a vocal and lyrical artist, and 'Vibe' highlights this perfectly. There's a lot of energy in this track, and I personally fuck with the second verse in particular. The rhyme scheme is also pretty well thought out and delivered, something that makes the lyrics work all the more in this track.

Cons: While there's nitpicks on my part in regards to a few parts of the lyrics, I can't really say there's any negative things to really breakdown in this song. It's a strong song for sure, and I really hope to hear more tracks like this from Wildcard in the future.

3. Deergod - Yeah, No

Pros: 'Yeah, No' is a really melodic and soothing song, and one of Deergod's best produced songs all around. It comes off a bit simple, but as I replayed it there was always something new to pay attention to, and I like the repeatability of it. While not directly part of the song, the track cover helps highlight the tone of the track, and I thought that was pretty interesting too.

Cons: As much as I do like this song, it feels like it's been arbitrarily extended in a way. It comes across like a well thought out 30-50 second snippet that was just extended by looping a few times, although admittedly it's just speculating on my part. Overall though, a very good track from Deergod.

Edit: This track is actually the beat for Precipitation by BONES, which is admittedly really fucking neat.

Closing Thoughts

I hope to never really come off as nitpicky or too critical, but when I fuck with an artist I really want to express my best and most honest thoughts regarding their works. I admittedly have trouble at times putting these reviews together, either due to lack of coherent structure or lack of time in the day. Regardless though, I urge whoever's reading to check out the artists work themselves, and maybe formulate an opinion of the artists work mentioned, rather than take my opinions and reviews as some sort of objective fact. I hope if anything, someone or even the artists themselves, take something from this review.

Links

Myxie - Twitter/Soundcloud

Wildcard - Twitter/Soundcloud

Deergod - Twitter/Soundcloud

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angrycollectordaze-me-blog · 6 years ago

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Paper代写：The Calatrava

本篇paper代写- The Calatrava讨论了卡拉特拉瓦。卡拉特拉瓦是世界上最著名的创新建筑师之一，拥有建筑师和工程师的双重身份，他认为美态能够由力学的工程设计表达出来，而在大自然中，林木鸟虫的形态美同时也有着惊人的力学效率。他的设计灵感都来源于大自然，动物的脊椎，羽毛，就连动物生长的纹路都被他玩弄于鼓掌之间，他甚至把人的肢体语言和谐的运用到建筑中。本篇paper代写由51due代写平台整理，供大家参考阅读。

Calatrava became famous for the design of bridge buildings, and his various and strange forms, which are similar to those of alien visitors, are the sketches of nature and the pulse of life. Like a poet, all poetry celebrates nature, which is his bionics art, which has no equal charm.

Since the 1980s, both postmodernism and structuralism have launched the revolution of aesthetic values with ugly, strange and irrational. Hence, all kinds of strange, absurd and strange buildings spring up like mushrooms. But gradually, people started to become more and more uncomfortable from the original freshness to the later difficulty in accepting, and the architecture lost its original beauty. Calatrava, on the other hand, also USES his peculiar and unusual architecture to bring us back to the beauty, especially the bionic architecture created by natural law, which is in contrast with nature and brings fresh wind to the architecture.

He is one of nature's disciples, use material heap to build a house like a bird, he had a heart to build a bridge, so all of the buildings have the shadow of the arch bridge, his fascination with the dynamic beauty of all things, for construction on the wings to fly, he ignored the curve of the building structure, the building toward the sky there is no gravity, such is his, unique architectural master calatrava.

In 2001, calatrava's first work in the United States was an extension of the art gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To exploit the natural beauty of the location, calatrava has put the building on the water. He walked along the avenue in the direction of the newly built up a index bridge, white concrete material of pylon incisively and vividly highlights the bold temperament, outdoor shutter shade, like a leaf fine feathers, as the transfer of the day time, the feelings of the blink also ripples in this piece of feathers, it will always follow the sun to adjust own point of view, as a spiritual quietly trembling in the quiet lake in the city.

If too many people aren't familiar with the buildings above, let's take a look at another landmark building - the Athens Olympic stadium.

With the world's six billion people cheering and the Olympics returning to their native land, calatrava turned that dream into an interpretation of nature's language. Calatrava's design is to add two large arch beams 304 meters long and 80 meters high to the original venue, and to use steel cables to pull up the fiberboard roof with a total area of over 10,000 square meters and a total weight of 16,000 tons. Calatrava called the project the "Olympic dream," and it transformed the 20-year old stadium. Two steel domes span the top of the course, and translucent glass is suspended above the seating area to allow sunlight to enter and keep out the heat. Calatrava hopes that this building, made of steel, concrete, with views and the light of Athens, will give an unforgettable image and inspire the Olympic spirit. The entire home pavilion is inspired by Byzantine architecture, with domes and blue-and-white tones, all from the Aegean sea. The colors of the sea, peaceful Greece, and green buildings have shocked the world. This is the natural beauty of calatrava's architecture.

Calatrava, an architect and an engineer, believed that beauty could be expressed by mechanical engineering, while in nature, the beauty of the wood bird and insect forms also had an amazing mechanical efficiency. His design inspiration comes from nature, the vertebrae of animals, feathers, even the patterns of animals' growth are played by him, and he even USES human body language harmoniously in architecture.

Bionics, however popular, does not seem to have much to do with architecture. We have seen bionic furniture, they all have certain scale, but the building is piled up is the track of the firmament, what this needs is a kind of adventurous spirit and innovative will. In this process, calatrava integrates the solution of architectural functional problems with the dreamlike expression of his works with his unique ability to reconcile things, providing us with new ways to improve the city, landscape and human beings themselves.

For example, the contour of birds is the shape of buildings in the train station of sallas in France. He made full use of the structural principle of animal bones and endowed this station with the dynamic beauty of flying by the way of static expression. A bird, saw it take off, this great architect fixed it in this moment of dynamic beauty, so the building opened its wings and began to fly.

For another example, in the erstine warehouse, the gate of the warehouse adopts the graceful cantilever design, and the shape of the door seems to be the facial expression when a person smiles, which gradually changes with the opening of the door. It is easy to see from the above examples that whatever is given by nature, whether animals or people themselves, is the most magnificent coat of calatrava architecture.

People always say: life is not lack of beauty, but the lack of eyes to discover beauty. Can we understand that the building is not necessarily ugly, but our vision is not beautiful and vivid structure.

As the avant-garde usually put it: "new things don't appear out of thin air, new designs often come from a comprehensive understanding of history and life." Calatrava USES the movement of human body to reexplore the basic elements of architecture. In fact, in the whole design process of architecture, the natural support is static, and the presentation of the final results is also static. The only thing that is moving is actually the designer himself, whether it is the emergence of inspiration or physical action. Like the creator, he used his own inspiration to support the bridge between nature and artistic beauty, making everything impossible to become a reality.

Therefore, we can't help but think about what a successful designer should rely on, whether it is conforming to conventions or novelty. In fact, the fresh air we breathe every day has already given us the answer, that is, as long as we follow the laws of nature, existence is reasonable and there is infinite hope.

Like calatrava, there are many ways to "survive" by talking to nature and building.

If the soaring architecture were not the fluttering of the birds, we might not see the miracle of the sallas; If the twisted building weren't for the human body's one turn, we wouldn't see its 360-degree stunning. Design needs inspiration, and the most inspired place is endless nature. If we really learn anything from calatrava, it is to make the song of nature more violent.

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The key to getting hair contouring right is knowing your face shape. Darker tones create shadows and can be used to give the illusion of a narrower face while lighter tones because they reflect light, add length to your face.

Simply put , just like the makeup technique, hair contouring uses darker tones to add depth to certain areas in the hair you want to draw in and and lighter shades to enhance the areas you want to make brighter. Hair contouring is best coordinated with face shapes and hairstyle and when done right, can make a huge difference to a person's appearance.

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24 notes • Posted 2021-06-13 17:23:06 GMT

Apparently I promised someone a write up of my thoughts of 20 November. Unfortunately I can’t remember who and I’ve lost the ask because I’m an idiot. So... to whom it might concern... 😅

Okay, let’s start with the obvious - Tarjei looks really good in his stage clothes, and the way his shaved head highlights that bone structure? Hnnnnggghh!!

Now, with that out of the way…

“Can you see me? I can see you. I don’t have a name yet. But soon it will be etched into your minds.”

So. Did I love it? Yes. There is so much to love, the production is immaculate, the set design, the sound, the music, the acting, oh my god, the acting. But I still. do. not. like. the. play.

32 notes • Posted 2021-09-01 22:52:08 GMT

I know the traditional birthday gift is birthday smut, but since I can’t write smut to save my life, here’s some birthday fluff in celebration of @ghostcat3000

(Thanks to @modestytreehouse for checking that I haven’t insulted anyone too much [apart from Sean Connery, sorry not sorry] - and to point out that I need to put a bit of a spoiler warning for some of Ghostcat’s fics. Consider yourself warned...)

Anyway, Happy Birthday, D, from Grumpsak, EBN and me.

“Yeah, and then there’s one where you’re a robot.”

Isak pushed himself up on his elbow and gave Even an offended look.

“Excuse me, where I’m a what?”

“A robot. Or a pleasurebot, if you want to get technical about it.” Even hesitated before continuing, “Well, if you want to get really technical about it you’re not really a robot. Or, well, you kind of are? That is, you you have built a robot you. And I fall in love with… well, both of you, I guess?”

“What’s a pleasu… no, don’t tell me, I really don’t want to know,” Isak decided with a quick headshake. He flopped back onto Even’s chest - causing Even to let out a pained huff - and wriggled into a more comfortable position, nuzzling his nose into the opening of Even’s bathrobe before tilting his head reflectively as an idea hit him. “Although do you think I could borrow one of those robot things to do the Graham Norton interview next week? Sana booked us on the early morning flight again, because she’s a horrible, horrible person who enjoys my pain way too much.”

Even scrunched up his nose and moved the obstinate curl that was tickling his chin out of the way before dropping a kiss to the top of Isak’s head.

“Sana is the nicest person we know,” he tried to argue before meeting Isak’s scandalised look and wisely abandoning the subject. “Anyway, probably not. But you could always leave the bot here so I won’t get lonely while you’re gone?” This suggestion was met with an indignant huff and a retaliatory poke to his stomach, but Even decided it had still been worth it. “Anyway, in another of her stories you’re in a school play.”

Isak stared at Even with the expression of a person who knows he’s about to ask a question he really doesn’t want to know the answer to.

“Ooookay…?” he prodded cautiously.

“Yeah. Romeo and Juliet. Magnus made you audition with him.”

Isak groaned, because…

“Of course Mags will fuck up my life in every universe, even the fictional ones.”

“So you play Juliet-”

“With you as my Romeo, I take it?”

“Uh uh. Some guy called Bille is your Romeo. I am the director.”

“Of course you are.” Even didn’t even have to check to know that the words were accompanied by an elaborated eye roll. “Let me guess, it’s a modern take of a classic play, very hipster-y with Baz whatshisname vibes, all saturated colours and moody music.”

Even twisted his neck into an uncomfortable angle to be able to give Isak an affronted glare.

“There is more to me than Baz Luhrmann, I’ll have you know,” he pouted. Isak just gave him an unimpressed look in return and Even accepted the inevitable. “Fine, so there might have been some allusions to Baz, but you’re way off on the colours.

To Even’s disappointment, Isak didn’t seem to take the implied “so there” to heart if his sniggers were anything to go by.

“Hipster-y, Baz, Romeo and Juliet? Ooooh, she knows you. And with a more monochromatic colour scale, then? Does that mean she’s another of your black and white movie nerd mutuals?”

“Mutuals? Really? Look at you all down with the tumblr lingo,” Even teased and Isak raised his eyebrows in pretended offense. “And yes, she might reblog the occasional classic movie gif, what about it?”

Even received a quick kiss to his torso as a reward for his honesty.

“Of course she does. Oh my god, you’re such a nerd,” Isak mumbled with an affectionate pat to Even’s chest.

“Anyway, you liked Psycho, does that make you one of my ‘black and white movie nerd mutuals’ too?” Even asked, combing his fingers through Isak’s hair and enjoying the affronted grumble at the question.

“Of course I liked Psycho, the actor who plays that Bates guy is hot. Definitely wouldn’t kick him out of my bed despite all the mummy issues.”

“Anthony.”

“Huh?”

“The actor’s name, it’s Anthony. Perkins.”

“What the fuck? He played the creepy guy in Silence of the Lambs too?”

Even gave Isak a resigned look and another quick kiss to his temple.

“That was Anthony Hopkins, my hopeless little fountain of completely inaccurate pop culture trivia.”

“It was? I thought Anthony Hopkins was the guy who played Bond?”

Even just stared at him for a moment, too aghast to even contemplate a reply.

“Please for the love of god tell me you’re joking,” he finally managed.

“What? Anthony Hopkins, he’s the old, Scottish guy with fucked up views on women, right?”

Even closed his eyes and shook his head.

“That’s Sean Connery, you cultural black hole.”

“Is it really? I thought Sean Connery was-”

“No,” Even interrupted him, putting a hand over his mouth. “Whatever you’re going to say will make me lose all respect for humanity forever. Please don’t ever speak again. Ever.”

Isak giggled as he rolled over and freed himself from the impromptu muzzle, blinking innocently at Even’s unamused expression.

“Come on, of course I know who Sean Connery is. He’s the lesser Bond and the guy who got outacted by Nicolas Cage in The Rock. Great film, by the way. Michael Bay, baby. And it’s in colour.”

“Oh, god…” Even moaned, trying to push Isak off of him. “You come into my house, you disrespect the name of Connery-“

“Two words. Daniel. Craig,” Isak replied confidently as he octopussy-ed himself around Even in an effort to remain on top of him. Even couldn’t really blame Isak for his triumphant expression, because as arguments go? That one was a good one. Admitting defeat, he returned to the previous subject.

“Whatever. What I was saying before you started being annoying was that it’s Ghostcat’s birthday today and you should wish her a happy birthday.”

“Right. Your movie nerd friend.”

“Hey. She also reblog cats. You like cats.”

Isak made a sound that could possibly be described as agreement. Possibly...

“I want to know more about those pleasurebots, though,” he demanded instead. “Show me.”

Had Isak looked up from where he was using his index finger to draw patterns on the part of Even’s chest left bare by the bathrobe, he might have changed his mind - because Even’s grin? Practically diabolical.

“As you wish,” he agreed as he reached for his ipad, tapped on the Safari icon and opened his bookmarks. “As you wish…”

38 notes • Posted 2021-09-25 16:26:26 GMT

Just to introduce the new hellhog - meet Isak, the grumpiest grump to ever grump...

39 notes • Posted 2021-09-26 10:20:13 GMT

A couple of weeks ago, @tarjeismoeworknews told me about this small The Norwegian Laws of Friendship book that was published in late 2019 with Tarjei as one of one hundred contributors.

I tracked the book down (because... well, Tarjei... 😅) and got in contact with the person behind the whole project, a very nice guy called Ole Petter Ribe. I received my copy of the book today - and with Ole Petter’s permission I’m allowed to share with you Tarjei’s paragraph on friendship laws, which... *giggle* I really do adore that boy 💜

Translation:

B. About general relationships, about me and my gang and about love

§48

Tarjei Sandvik Moe

Oslo. Year 2093. The friend group and messenger chat McGregorBoyzz (named after the UFC fighter who in 2042 came out as gay, not the actor from the really old movie Moulin Rouge), originally consisting of six high school friends born in the year 1999, is today down to three surviving boys. An early, recalled version of the self-driving car took Marek’s life in 2033, a robot partner with too much jealousy source code killed Duc in 2065, and early today Ulf died during an attempt at the popular extreme sports trend of the 2090s, kamibaze jumping. It is in itself sad to have lost half the gang, but moreover, it reduces the chance by half of getting an answer in the chat when you ask if someone wants to have a glass of Mars wine. There is, however, another problem that now stresses the rest of the group. After Duc and Marek's passing, Ulf was really McGregorBoyzz's last natural leader. The leaders Marek, Duc and Ulf did die first. Leaders often die first. The strength of leaders is to take responsibility and make quick, impulsive decisions for themselves and others, such as ordering cheap tickets to Ibiza by Matoma. But this instinctive, reckless way of living is also the main reason why leaders often end up dying early. And now there are only the submissive, undependable successors left. Kai, Makthar and Theo. At the age of 94, Kai has never dared to take control of the music at a pre-party. On Saturday morning, Makthar doesn’t buy alcohol himself, instead he messages the McGregor-boyzz at 14:56 and asks one of them to get two bottles at the Mars wine monopoly within four minutes, claiming that he himself is caught in the shower. And Theo… yeah… Theo. Fuck Theo. Everyone knows that a group without initiative is a dying group of friends. What should they do now, when none of the remaining three are fit to steer the electric ship? Can one of the boys step up their game, take over as the king of the gang, and thus save its existence? McGregorboyzz (in messenger format) Kai: Damn. King Ulf is dead. Makthar: Yes, damn. Theo: Too bad about Ulf. Don’t think I'm so keen on Kamibazehopping anymore now. Makthar: Shut up, Theo. Theo: I can take over, if no one else wants to? Kai: Like hell you will. Theo: Right, so one of you’re going to? … Makthar: Do elections? Like, voting on who will be in charge? Kai: Elections. That's the most fair way. Whoever is elected just has to take that responsibility, like a monarch. Theo: Elections are not that damn stupid. Worked damn well with Sven Nordin as King of Norway.

Election result: Makthar: 2 Kai: 1 Theo: -1

45 notes • Posted 2021-03-23 21:52:11 GMT

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feveranime · 7 years ago

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Techniques and Styles: 3D animation of Zootopia

Advanced 3d animation characters are substantially quicker to make and they are very famous in the film making industry. Utilizing a PC programming 3d energized pictures are utilized to make numerous short movies, full length films and even television advertisements and a vocation in computerized 3d animation is exceptionally fulfilling. Contrasting with 2D animation and the customary approach, 3d animation models are profoundly reasonable.

The animation techniques of 3D animation has a lot of similarities with stop-motion animation, as they both deal with animating and posing models, and still conforms to the frame-by-frame approach of 2D animation, but it is a lot more controllable since it’s in a digital work-space.

Instead of drawn or constructed with clay, characters in 3D animation are digitally modeled in the program, and then fitted with a ‘skeleton’ that allows animators to move the models.

Animation is done by posing the models on certain key frames, after which the computer will calculate and perform an interpolation between those frames to create movement.

When the modeling and/or animation is complete, the computer will render each frame individually, which can be very time-consuming, depending on the quality of the images and the quantity of polygons in the scene.

a 3D animator will spend most of their time looking at curves that represent the movement of different body parts over time.

Another big difference with 3D animation is that unlike traditional animation, the character’s body parts are always present and should be taken to consideration.

There are different techniques of 3D animations :

3D animation- Pixar's Up, Toy Story

Stereoscopic 3D - Coraline, Avatar

CGI cut out - South Park

Motion Capture (an aid tool for 3D animators)- Final Fantasy, Avatar, Gollum in Lord of the Rings.

Morphing (If you're old enough to remember the changing faces in Michael Jackson's Clip Black or White? that's Morphing.)

A 3D production starts with the conceptualization of ideas and creation of storyboards that translate these ideas in to visual form. Once the technical requirements have been defined, the next step is to begin the storyboarding. Storyboards consist of hand drawn version of the video and give out as blue print for the action and dialogue.

Animatic simplified mock-ups are created to get a better idea of the motion and timing of complex animation sequences and VFX-heavy scenes within the VFX studio. These help the animator in planning the sequence and move forward with integration of visual effects into the final shot.

After the approval of story board, next task starts Modeling that is building the props, environment and characters. Modeling a process where thing start getting shape and molded in to complete 3D mesh. Creating 3D objects means taking a simple object called as primitive and extend or grow it into a shape that can be refined and detailed. It can be anything from a single point, a two-dimensional line, a curve, to three dimensional objects.

In modeling phase, assets for the animation are drawn or modeled in two or three dimensions. On the bases of the resolution of the final image as well as how close the camera gets to a model in the final animation level of detail will be required for a given model are determined.

Texturing means the art of providing clothes to the 3D models. During the 3D model creation 2D images are overlaid on it to add colors, designs, and textures. This is called mapping and often total o model’s color comes from this. These are created using software programs like Photoshop etc , even real photographs are used for the textures, they are simply captured and then altered to make seamless repeatable patterns. Specific properties like shininess, transparency, translucency, reflectivity, texture, and of course, color are added.

Texturing artists are responsible for writing shades and panting textures as per the scene requirements, whether they are creating from scratch or editing the existing image. Texture are painted according to the concept art and design texture are created in the form of maps which are further assigned to the model.

We need to put structure in to the 3D character before moving further. This stage is called ‘rigging and skinning’ and is the original system that drives the movement of a character to bring it to life. In rigging bones are added to the character or movements are defined of mechanical object and it is the central to the animation process. Depending upon the subject matter, every rig is unique and so is the corresponding set of controls. Skinning is the process where 3D model are attached to the rigged skeleton so that the 3D model can be manipulated by the controls of the rig.

Animation is the process of getting 3D object move. Here the animator manipulates the objects on a frame-by-frame basis. And other method are also used like placing objects on spines and setting them to follow the path of the curve, or importing motion capture data and applying it to a character rig. We can also use 3D applications built-in physics engines, such as when your scene requires that objects fall.

Animation is the most crucial and time consuming part of the production process. Crucially of animation depends on the type like for character animation, it is timing, fluidity of motion, and expressiveness that are most crucial. And for forensic or product animations, the goal is precision of motion or technical accuracy. Using animation software they compose the movements and facial expressions in each scene. The motion in each scene is composed by defining key frames or poses. This is done using computer controls and the character’s avars to define key poses. The computer then creates the “in-between” frames, which the animator adjusts as necessary.

Lighting is important for creating realism and appealing to an image. Use of improperly light can wash out the scene, can make object appearance different and destroy all the hard work. But skillfully applied lighting can make a scene convincing, or if realism is the aim, create, a scene that is virtually indistinguishable from real life. Lighting allows us to control the appearance of shadows and highlights, and cameras can be added to capture a specific point of view. Visual effects can be added as required, including glows, fire effects, fog, and lens flares.

In 3D camera works as an amazing tool here there is no physical limitation as like in real world. You can create scenes where the camera can take you, like you can journey inside the blood vessels of a human body, it can be used in creating impossible perspectives. You need not to have a lens, focusing controls, film, aperture, etc. All of these functions are controlled via software. In 3D, you can create one or more cameras, position them exactly as desired in 3D space and use settings to mimic focal length, depth of field, etc.

In addition, software cameras have no size or weight restrictions. You can move a camera to any location and even inside the tiniest objects. You can also animate cameras so that several operations take place at once, such as a zooming into a scene while changing the depth of field. Once you create a camera in 3D, you can pick a view and assign the view in that view to the camera, meaning that you will see the scene from the perspective of the camera.

Rendering is a process of translating all of the information in the files that make up the shot, (sets, colors, character movement), into a single frame of film. It is one of the most important and last step in 3D production pipeline (but not last step in overall 3d Production). Rendering takes all of our work thus far and calculates the individual pixels for each frame, based on models, materials, lighting, and effects. Different rendering algorithms can create different results, ranging from photorealistic results to even a cartoon illustrated look. It is necessary to take care of many aspects to create a good final render of a scene, including attention to camera placement, lighting choices which may affect mood and shadows, reflections and transparency, and the handling of special effects, like fluids or glasses.

In rendering we have to take care of individual pixels for each frame, based on models, materials, lighting, and effects. Different rendering algorithms are required to create different results, ranging from photorealistic results to even a cartoon illustrated look. Rendering process is quite CPU intensive process and takes time. Consider a 60 second DVD animation where each frame takes 15 seconds to render: A 60 second animation for DVD (at 30 frames per second) requires 1,800 frames, which will take over 7 hours to render.

The renders are brought into compositing programs to edit, touch-up and add on special effects. Composting consist of everything from special effects to where things blow up, evaporate, morph etc. it also includes creation of environment according to the requirement as (anything from buildings to complete worlds), to blue/green screen replacement (shooting in-front of a blue or green screen and then replacing the background with digitally created footage or footage shot elsewhere). Creating computer generated footage from the live footage is also considered as compositing.

Music and foely provides animation an additional extra depth and boost in audio enjoyment. To set the mood for the animation music composer creates music soundtracks and accompaniment music. A foley artist work is to create sound effects, using different kinds of shoes and lots of props – car fenders, plates, glasses, chairs, etc. Foley artist create or replace original sound completely or augment existing sounds to create a richer track.

The editing is the final stages where all the things are confirmed before delivered to the client. Here the composited renders, music and foley are compiled and edited to ensure that everything is in synchronization. Editorial checks for the completion and addition of the musical score and the other sound effects. Special effects are added and record the digital frame to film or to a form appropriate for digital production.

Here a list of softwares 3D animation is done on:

Autodesk Maya

Autodesk 3DS Maya

Cinema 4D

Blender

This is how the above theory is explained in real life. The process of the 3D animation of Zootopia:

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Computer animation evolves at an alarming rate. One year, a movie like Frozen or Big Hero 6 looks like the peak of what’s possible. Then, only a year later, the next thing goes way beyond that. In this case, the next thing is Zootopia, and in this movie a single giraffe has more individual hairs on it—nine million—than every single character in either Frozen, Big Hero 6, or Wreck-It Ralph.

Keep in mind that the filmmakers had to manipulate each individual hair on its own—and there would have been a lot of hair even if they hadn’t gone to such lengths. The film is, after all, about animals who walk, talk and dress like humans. Animals mean fur, and that’s something Disney Animation hadn’t done for a lead character since 2008’s Bolt. And even that was just a single character. So to make an entire movie full of furry animals, they had to create a whole new language in the computer to make it possible.

After doing tons of research on real animals both in nature, and in museums, the team came to realized that almost every single type of fur is different. They have different sizes, textures, densities and colors—and with each of those kinds, light passes through them in a different way.

Zootopia has 64 different species of animals, that break down into about 800,000 different character models. To get the right level of realism, hair has to be treated as multiple pieces, and not one cohesive thing.

The following is how Disney used the Fur technology:

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Zootopia animators on the process of animating ‘Zootopia’:

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themusicenthusiast · 7 years ago

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Thursday, April 12th, 2018 – William Clark Green Kicks Off Lava Cantina’s Red Dirt Thursday Concert Series with a Monumental Performance

Photos by Jordan Buford Photography It was a Thursday night of firsts, including my first visit to Lava Cantina in The Colony. Open for about a year now, it’s one of the latest restaurant/music venue concepts to open in the suburbs of the Dallas area, and it has been attracting a ton of talent to the sizable stage of the outdoor patio area that the place boasts. From high profile names to various up and comers, Lava Cantina has hosted a variety of talent spanning just about every genre imaginable. Upon arriving, it was easy to see why it has become such a hotspot for live performances. Aside from the fact that it’s more convenient to get to for people living in the suburbs, beating having to make that drive to Dallas. The patio is spacious and thanks to the structure it seemed totally secluded from the major highway that it’s adjacent to. It felt like its own little world; and while it can accommodate a significant number of patrons, there was something about the layout of it all that, in terms of the concert experience, allowed it to still feel intimate and personal. More along the lines of what one would expect from a club show. It was just a neat vibe back there; and another first lined up for this night was the start of Lava Cantina’s brand-new concert series, Red Dirt Thursday. Every Thursday night will see a different regional favorite of either the Red Dirt or Texas country variety taking the stage, and they had tapped Texas’ own William Clark Green to kick off the event. It was also Green’s first time to perform in The Colony, and judging by the way things went, it surely won’t be the last.

Texas country music fans turned out in droves, a strong gathering of people showing up early for the opening act, Ross Cooper, though they really began to file in after his set was finished; concertgoers wasting no time in staking out a good spot in front of the stage for Green and his band. The later it got the less room there was to move around as everyone packed in fairly tightly, eagerly awaiting Green and company to hit the stage. Some fanfare then erupted when the lights finally dimmed at 8:32, everyone knowing that could only mean one thing. The four instrumentalists of the band stepped out from the shadows, Green, acoustic guitar in hand, bringing up the rear and earning the loudest response, the quintet then getting to work, setting things in motion with their take on Pat Green’s “Wrapped”. Found on the recently released tribute record to that icon of Texas country music, their version of that classic honors the original while also offering a little more of a kick to it, making it an excellent fit for an opening song, and indeed, it was fun and spirited as they knocked it out. Green found time to slip in a “How are you doing?!” amidst the lyrics, quickly addressing the spectators as they got their 80-minute long onslaught underway; he and lead guitarist Josh Serrato jamming in the final moments, each of them grinning ear to ear as they slipped into their comfort zone: being on a stage with attentive eyes focused on everything they were doing.

They certainly did their part to make sure they were deserving of everyone’s attention, vim and vigor already abounding from them. And it would only increase from there. “Thanks for being here…” Green commented as he greeted everyone, stating that he wanted everyone to have a good time and enjoy “not being at work”. They tore through the meaty set list that they had planned, sizzling riffs or some striking beats courtesy of Logan Bowers bridging one song into the next, the fact that they seldom relented building a sense of urgency. Green’s most recent studio album, 2015’s Ringling Road, received the bulk of the attention this night, a couple tracks from it coming right after, including the song that pulls back the curtain on the life of a full-time musician, “Next Big Thing”. Avid fans and supporters, the audience demonstrated their adoration of Green and his music during that twangy country tune that is spliced with a hefty dose of blistering and gritty rock ‘n’ roll. As the first chorus approached the end, the singer stepped away from the microphone, pointing at the crowd as he continued mouthing along, the patrons picking up the slack, collectively shouting, “…Everybody’s saying I’m the next big thing.”

That was just the first of many sing along moments during the night, Green and his band striving to make everyone feel like they were a crucial component to what was going on, and that led to a terrific rapport. Promising a new album was in the works and they were working on getting it out to everyone “as soon as possible”, they treated everyone to a couple cuts that will be found on it, one of which was “Hebert Island”. An up-tempo track, it oozed a fun and carefree vibe, something that was perpetuated by the lyrics as it focused on just enjoying life. The awesome backing vocals made it stand out all the more, Serrato and fellow guitarist Steven Marcus as well as bassist Steven Buehler all chiming in, further cultivating that fun vibe.

Plenty of fan favorites followed -- much to everyone’s delight -- “Dead or in Jail” being a definite highlight of the night. Most everyone could be seen or even heard singing along with the roaring number that pushed the musicians’ dynamics to new heights; Serrato and Marcus both being able to cut loose and wail on their axes. “This place is bad ass!” Green remarked a bit later, appearing truly taken by the setup that Lava Cantina had going on. Bantering with the crowd some more he extended another thank you to them for coming out, especially since they surely had work the following day. “I don’t envy you,” he quipped, chuckling as he said it. “Rose Queen” was another electrifying track, and it provided a thorough look at the musical prowess that the five of them possessed, particularly as the let loose during the jam outro. Green was still all smiles as he strummed his acoustic, all of them converging at the front of the stage and savoring the moment as they packed it with as much gusto as they could possibly muster.

The back half of the performance was filled with hits of Green’s and ones that are near and dear to him. “She Likes the Beatles” was one of the former, another where the spectators were encouraged to let their voices be heard; while the singer sent out “Old Fashioned” to his grandfather, prefacing it by briefly reflecting on the state of the world. “Still Think About You” was another special one to Green, who shared the anecdote of how it came together. He also confessed that he hasn’t been too good with technology over the past five years or so, mentioning he had recently just checked out Spotify and browsed around on it. He noted that that song was one of their most played on there, pleasantly surprised by that fact. Largely acoustic, it may have been the lull of the show in a way, though there wasn’t a song any more emotional than it either, the lyrics cutting to the bone as the pain and heartbreak over a breakup manifested itself in Green’s voice. It was stunning and absolutely magnificent.

The night ultimately came to a close with a trip to “Ringling Road”. A co-write between Green and Ross Cooper, he welcomed Cooper back out to the stage to help out on one of the most unique songs that has been written; a twisted circus/sideshow vibe with a touch of country permeating “Ringling Road”, the riveting number bringing the performance to a thrilling finish.

But no one budged. No one was ready for the show to be over, chants of “One more song!” slowly growing as the patrons began to demand an encore. Green and company were happy to oblige, getting all hands on deck for a rendition of “Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound” by Hank Williams Jr. That included Cooper, the two vocalists each being charged with handling a verse. That lone encore summarized the entire show. They executed it splendidly, though it was all about having fun and enjoying oneself. The musicians exemplified that, just relishing sharing a stage together and performing their music for people and getting said people to let loose and live in the moment that was playing out before them. That had been their goal all night long, and they succeed at it.

That was truly the most spectacular thing about, chiefly, Green, but also Serrato, Bowers, Marcus and Buehler: the way they finessed the audience. Going back to that rapport, it was something special and genuine, Green constantly expressing his gratitude to everyone for supporting him in any capacity, let alone being in attendance for this Thursday night show. At one point he outright acknowledged that if it weren’t for people choosing to listen to him he wouldn’t have a job, seemingly a silent promise that he would never take it for granted nor betray that sacred relationship. Not every artist is capable of establishing that kind of connection, and it’s something that needs to be appreciated. Honestly, that was the most compelling aspect of their performance, even more so than the natural talent and searing passion they all demonstrated every second of their time on stage. That was a crucial factor as well, though, allowing the performance to be absolutely enthralling.

As performers they were in immaculate shape, possessing the quality of showmanship that could only be derived from a rigorous touring schedule that allows one to hone -- and I dare say perfect -- their craft. Green and his band mates let the music do the talking. It didn’t need to be any other way. They gave it the necessary flare so that it would connect and resonate on as deep a level as possible with the fans, but other than that, the music spoke for itself. All of it was well-crafted songs that either told stories or were deep and personal, capturing a moment in time. (And often all of that together.) What more could anyone want from music?

Wielding a versatile voice that fit all types of Texas country, Red Dirt and even Americana music, William Clark Green is a definite force to be reckoned with. Being twangy when necessary or even utilizing a Southern drawl, he can pull off being pristine and forceful just as easily. It’s an impressive range that he commands, not only making him distinct but allowing each song to have a subtle difference while still unmistakably being his. The show he and his band gave The Colony this night was one for the books. Incredible in every respect, they left the audience in awe, even those who knew what to expect; and what a way to begin this new Red Dirt Thursday concert series. The other acts to come – and Lava Cantina has some great ones lined up – will have their work cut out for them, even if they’re unaware of the bar that was set this night.

A Texas country music legend in the making, if you want to see a concert that is nothing but a good time from start to finish, you’ll be hard pressed to find one any better than what William Clark Green has to offer. William Clark Green’s next North Texas gig will be on May 26th at Billy Bob’s Texas, with a show at The Backyard Bar Stage and Grill in Waco also planned for June 1st. Other upcoming shows include a performance at Cotton Fest in Lubbock, TX on April 21st; White Oak Music Hall in Houston, TX on April 27th; and John T. Floore Country Store in Helotes, TX on June 9th. Aside from the plethora of Texas dates currently on the books, he’ll also be hitting Columbia, MO, Chicago, IL, and Nashville, TN in May. A complete list of William Clark Green’s upcoming shows can be found HERE; and head over to iTUNES or GOOGLE PLAY to check out his live album, Live at Gruene Hall, or any of his studio releases. Set List: 1) “Wrapped” (Pat Green Cover) 2) “Sympathy” 3) “Next Big Thing” 4) “Hebert Island” 5) “It's About Time” 6) “Dead or in Jail” 7) “Hanging Around” (with a snippet of “I Won't Back Down” by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers) 8) “Creek Don’t Rise” 9) “Rose Queen” 10) “Hit You Where it Hurts” 11) “She Likes the Beatles” (preceded by The Beatles’ “With A Little Help From My Friends” and The Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up”) 12) “Sticks and Stones” 13) “Old Fashioned” 14) “Still Think About You” 15) “Wishing Well” 16) “Ringling Road” Encore 17) “Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound” (Hank Williams Jr. cover)

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