It’s 2AM and I was supposed to be doing digital art, but there’s a thunderstorm and I’m worried about losing my progress if the power goes out (again)… Soo I’m sitting on the balcony watching it pass by instead. It’s just enough to cover me from the rain while I drink my Kirin milk tea. (ノ´ヮ`)ノ*: ・゚✧ procrastination!

I was hoping for some bigger bolts of lightning but sadly it’s just been a drizzle with some low rumbles of thunder with the drone of city ambulances in the distance. Hoping for a good*`...

I wanted to talk a little about the rock/metal band ghost. I’m fighting mosquito bites while at the gym trying to better myself and really need a distraction.

I was lucky enough to catch them in a small club when the band was starting out during the Infestissumam tour. A lot of metalheads appreciated what they were doing at that time. The band had deep influences in bands like black sabbath, blue oyster cult, blue cheer and iron butterfly. A few modern bands also have this similar song,...

Staying objective and letting go are such important tools for artists.

In a professional setting sometimes superiors or clients make changes or criticism to your art and in the beginning it can be pretty discouraging or heartbreaking when it’s done. (Especially if your artwork can objectively become worse)

It sounds strange but sometimes it’s good practise to just throw out or delete your art when you’re done with it. Especially with studies. Sometimes you just have to ignore it.

Understanding what...

Last night angine de poitrine played in my city and I completely missed out on them not realizing they were here, so I hope I can catch them again in the future.

On the flipside I’m lucky enough to catch evil dead:burn at an early showing tonight, so I’ll be leaving a review for that.

Spoilers ahead!

Evil dead: burn, first off, is a lot more intense, mean and aggressive than most of the others. The actor who played the father was really well casted. He was a really scary guy! He looked...

I have to remember not to post on cyberspace or think about life after 1AM, some nights can be really quiet/restless and it can create so much unnecessary anxiety and overthinking.

Today I went to the zoo in another city, so I took a few photos specifically to share on cyberspace. Seeing all the critters being active and enjoying the sun cheered me up. I was splashed by a cape penguin!

https://postimg.cc/gallery/yKmdrgp

Enjoy!

A big part of buying vinyl and CDs has always been the interesting cover art (and inserts!). It draws in new people who maybe wouldn’t care otherwise. It was the most exciting aspect of the resurgence of vinyl for me personally. The same goes for discovering and owning movies in their various formats (and all their merchandise)

disappointed in whoever at Sony decided to remove physical discs for PlayStation. They clearly don’t understand their audience on a fundamental level and I hope they fail this...

my favourite old master painter has always been Caravaggio. I think grounding the religious and mythic characters into something gritty and dark using the chiaroscuro method is something I’d really like to achieve someday… Maybe not his personal subject matter, but his mood, texture and lighting in particular. His people feel so real and grounded. I read he used beggars, prostitutes and peasants as reference to represent the characters which is really cool.

He lived a pretty wild and violent life and...

Felix the cat is such an underrated animated character.

I remember watching the movie from the 80’s religiously as a kid on VHS. The tape must’ve been so worn out.

It’s definitely a fever dream. It sort of feels like it had taken a lot of inspiration from the silent film cartoons he had come from, dropping him into a strange psychedelic world with goblins, weird creatures, big machines and medieval, much more melodramatic characters. As a character himself he’s a good mix of both mischievous and...

Had a dream a band wanted me to fill in for guitar and I had said yes even though I don’t really play guitar anymore, I was awful at playing it, don’t know the people in the band and their first show was that night.

I just remember sitting in the back of a bar feeling completely defeated staring at the written setlist haha

How do you guys feel about gatekeeping your hobbies vs encouraging new people to enjoy what you love?

I grew up with godzilla (and other Japanese toku in general), my first VHS were Godzilla vs Megalon and the original Godzilla vs Kong which I had seen in the mid 90’s as a boy.

Since then I’ve found his star on Hollywood’s walk of fame, gone to Toho studios and even saw some of the original (some now deteriorated) monster suits, the oxygen destroyer and miniatures during an anniversary event...

My dad is a senior and has some kind of undiagnosed spectrum disorder. Trying to navigate around that has been challenging since I lost my mother.

His fixations includes grizzly bears, right-wing politics, mathematics and fishing.

I try to take a few days out for him whenever I can every month, but I find myself mentally preparing when I have to see him, then ending up exhausted. He behaves really poorly around women (tied with his socially unaware behaviour this has been catastrophic) and says a lot...

Mina the Hollower!

I’ve been playing this one quite a bit and it really brings me back. It really reminds me of games like links awakening, Mario land 2, Pokemon G/S, ninja turtles on NES and some of its darker aesthetics and gameplay seem to be impacted from things like dark souls or castlevania. There’s some small influence I noticed from over the garden wall as well, which is cute.

I’m mostly enjoying the enemy design and a lot of the trinkets the character uses. There’s a ton of...

I had my head tattoo finished two days ago and I wanted to write more about my thoughts and experiences being a heavily tattooed person while it was in the healing stages.

I’ve also been neglecting cyberspace lately, so I wanted to put a lot more effort into this entry.

i live in a country where many people have tattoos. In my relatively small city there are probably 70+ tattoo shops. Most that do just have one, or a few small ones. I’ve been getting tattoos since I was about thirteen...

I’m not aware of any other media outside of the 4chan story, so I was essentially going in blind. I’ll probably play one of the games later when my hands aren’t so tied to painting other horror stuff.

I appreciated Robert Bobroczkyi’s performance/character and the visuals there were stunning. The creature effects were simplistic but very cool. I was pleasantly surprised on how tactfully scary the film was using its claustrophobic, uncanny environment. The way the story presented mental illness was also...