diff --git a/src/blog/three_albums_september_2023.md b/src/blog/three_albums_september_2023.md index 4672e12..af3b9b8 100644 --- a/src/blog/three_albums_september_2023.md +++ b/src/blog/three_albums_september_2023.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ i'm honestly amazed that this album sat in my library for this long, enjoyed but ### rum sodomy & the lash - the pogues -i take back everything i said about fontaines cd last week, because _this_ is the irish music i really want to listen to. it definitely sits more in the folk music corner of the genre wheel, but it has the same "waving a fist at authority" feel as punk music, but perhaps a smidge more hedonistic. part of the beauty of this album is its pure catchiness; the sick bed of cuchulainn throws you directly in the deep end with the high energy and toe tap-pability, in a way that the rest of the album actually generally avoids; there are some more somber tracks like a rainy night in soho, and some purely instrumentals like planxty noel hill, but the rest seem to sit comfortably in the middle, like the blissful back end of a night out partying with friends +i take back everything i said about fontaines cd last week, because _this_ is the irish music i really want to listen to. it definitely sits more in the folk music corner of the genre wheel, but it has the same "waving a fist at authority" feel as punk music, but perhaps a smidge more hedonistic. part of the beauty of this album is its pure catchiness; the sick bed of cuchulainn throws you directly in the deep end with the high energy and toe tap-pability, in a way that the rest of the album actually generally avoids; there are some more somber tracks like a rainy night in soho, and some purely instrumentals like planxty noel hill, but the rest seem to sit comfortably in the middle, evoking the blissful back end of a night out partying with friends this album also managed to shoot me off on a research tangent on the striking similarities between irish folk tunes and the iconic pirate sea shanty. the answer wasn't as cut and dry as i was hoping, and my personal perspective is probably swayed by public media's depiction of the classic sea shanty, but it was a cute little historical rabbithole nevertheless diff --git a/src/infinite_nightmare.md b/src/infinite_nightmare.md index 94ec1ea..e740f4f 100644 --- a/src/infinite_nightmare.md +++ b/src/infinite_nightmare.md @@ -11,7 +11,14 @@ welcome to the infinite nightmare list aka a big dumpster for me to put art rela --- -**highlandkall but this post in particular** +**hachi** +[link](https://www.artstation.com/artwork/WK9wvy) +![](https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/034/624/299/large/hachi-li-1-02.jpg?1612797350) +im not super keen on hachi's general artstyle, it's a bit too disney for my liking, but these are some super cool examples of stylisation, simplification and gestural exaggeration + +--- + +**highlandkall** [link](https://www.tumblr.com/highlandkall/727644196588142592/naomi-in-a-spotted-dress-i-thought-was-cute) ![](https://64.media.tumblr.com/5eb8879ff340aba386e4648e7285c5be/eeba3b0e1ac353b3-df/s2048x3072/d5ea963d9cb0ceab3a143e69f7fecc4ca497c892.pnj) im shitting myself everything about this pic like the subtle shading, the round forms and colouring, the shading, the background, the super subtle edge separation good fucking god