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Rimworld Slime

    I have been playing too much Rimworld, and I am now much later into the game than I’ve ever been. I have a million colonists! The group is called Slime and their colony is Slimeville. It started with three girls, as it almost always does for me, named Lumi, Freckles, and Cannon.

    The first recruit was a man named Dragon, and he and Cannon are now about to have their third kid. I am obsessed with the random nicknames the game will give your people. Their children are Donk (who just became an adult!) and Girl David (originally David but I kept forgetting she is a girl so she’s Girl David now). Here is everyone:

    Cannon does everything in her marriage and in the colony. Except for construction and mining, which is run by Freckles, who is afraid of light and hates being outside, only leaving to mine more
compacted machinery. Luxemburg is my least favorite, but the new recruit, Shifty, might take her place. Luxemburg is ALWAYS fighting. ALWAYS. But Shifty, a guy I found in a cryosleep casket, is so addicted to drugs I do not have and spends most of his time resting in the hospital. 

    Cannon and Dragon are my only couple, since almost everyone is a girl besides Hairy, Squoin, Vinny, and Shifty (the last two being new recruits and also kinda hated). I wish they didn't need to have a Gay trait to be gay, I want to waste less space on individual bedrooms! 

    I've only lost two colonists (I am a chronic reloader, I'm sorry, this game invokes deep maternal instincts that rival those you get when you see the perfect plush for sale). One died bc he was like 70 and the other because she insisted on sad wandering with an untreated infection. I was so mad because she had some fantastic skills. But she wasn't emotionally stable enough. 

    The third corpse in the family lot is that of Artur, a senile arctic fox who was bonded to 17-year-old Lumi when we crashlanded, making her my anime girl protag. It's been about 5-year cycles in the game and he eventually developed fox dementia, which was really sad. This is how I knew we had to buy him in a sarcophagus. 

    Here's my non-bird (except turkeys) enclosure where I keep my ever-spawning donkeys and these goats and sheep that just wandered in. I had some cows too but I think I lost them. Or ate them. This is my second attempt at a farm in this colony, the first attempt went very very poorly. Lots of animals starving to death and colonists eating corpses bc they were so hungry. I don't know why I insist on keeping animals, esp ones that keep having babies but I just can't stop myself. 

    These are my ducks and geese. Oh and chickens, the only animal with auto slaughter on because they have so many fucking chicks. And my colonists are so hungry. I was super excited to see what the baby geese were like, a foolish mistake, I forgot all baby animals are just tiny versions of the adult ones, except chickens who are also yellow. All the unnamed animals are the babies.

    

    This is the main colony area, since I took this picture I completed a lot of research and have a bunch of weird gene stuff waiting to be made (major component drought rn) in that lower, emptyish room. I also have a greenhouse I need to get rid of because it is too many potatoes that just rot. I survived the last winter with like 500 meals to spare, I don't need it. What I do need are my agrohands (the mechanoids that help with farm work) to charge! For some reason, everyone keeps picking them up and putting them next to the chargers and then replacing them with one of the others in a never-ending loop and I can't make it stop without making the colonist stop hauling as a whole. 

    Here is a picture of the ever-cycling agrohand pile.

    Another aspect of this weird game that I adore is the descriptions of art pieces. Here's a simple, but evocative description that I discovered in my art-to-sell cache. 

    

    This is Deplorable, who is standing on Coucous, my husky, rn. Deplorable was tamed to fill in my farm but it turns out he's an indoor pet. And he fits in a pet bed, unlike my donkeys. Sure.

    Okay, I'm out of Rimworld screenshots, I guess I should go and play more and gather some.........

Bye!! 👾

Nail Art is the Future of the Contemporary Movement

    Things have been too busy for me to post anything here, and I have missed writing out how I’ve been doing and what I’ve been seeing. The most interesting thing was that I painted my nails and used my nail stickers, mainly the bug ones.

    I used my slime green nail polish because it's so fun, and so slime. So the theme is bugs and slime. I used tweezers to pick them up and place them, making me feel like those people who decorate photocards. The color scheme was blue and pink (just as an accent) since I only have sparkle top coat (it glows in the dark too…) I thought this contrasted with the slime well.

    Here’s my artist's interpretation. I made this during my earthquake class and I really truly hope someone enjoyed watching me do this on my trackpad bc I was really struggling. I think you can kinda tell what's on the nails.

    I’m really obsessed with documenting, perhaps because I am so obsessed with proving to myself that I actually do things. But it takes up all my storage, and I never really look at my photos. Instead, I want to try playing with documentation, playing with how realistically I render things, instead of always taking pictures on my phone. What can I say through all dimensions of this document?

    The medium is important for setting the tone. Shitty pixel art, for example, reads as simplistic, personal, and silly. And I wouldn't want you to get anything else out of this drawing. How you decorate or where you post the final piece also factors into this. I don't need to frame this, it's not that serious or something I am incredibly proud of. I do like it and want to share it with my target blog audience, my future self. I tend to make silly art and post it here, and serious experiments in my journal (sketches or self-portraits, ideas, etc.), a place where I can lock them up or cover them up if I need to.

    This is my analysis of my own work. It seems like I think very hard about all aspects of some shitty drawing I did in ten minutes during a class but really, this just feels right to you, as an artist. The subject dictates medium. Things that do not deserve a canvas, for example, end up in the sketchbook. It doesn’t take a lot of thought for the artist, but the point of art-viewing, for me, is to understand as much as I can. The thought process is in the hands of the viewer, as long as you’re looking to get something more out of a piece.

    I truly believe that often we are not taught to look at art actively, causing a disconnect between thinky artists and the Modern Art Hater. And that is fine, it is okay to just want to see beautiful things. I am not really interested in the complexities of composition in music for example. I just like the music that I like. Interestingly, modern music is a lot more popular than modern art, while classical art is considered the standard for depictions of beauty, and classical art is something most people, like me, don’t care to understand.

Did not think my nail doodle would get me here but I might be starving for art analysis and history after all these bland history and anthropology readings. 

Bye ✎

Uemura Tsugutoshi

     I've been looking at a lot of Japanese magazines lately, including ones for fashion subcultures and the like. I was looking at some Gothic and Lolita Bible scans the other day and saw this crazy image I had to trace down. It was a stretched cathedral, pulled to cover as much of the canvas as possible. I eventually recognized it as the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, but the artist and piece names were both in Japanese. 

サグラダ・ファミリア（聖家族教会 or Sagrada Família）by Uemura Tsugutoshi from the Miyazaki Digital Museum site  

    I translated them and found the artist, Uemure Tsugutoshi, but on the English internet, I could only find his more abstract works. They're weird and beautiful and complex, but not what I was looking for. The piece I had seen (and the piece above) reminded me of Paulo Uccello's weird perspective but even more absurd, playing with perspective mathematically instead of trying to just understand like Uccello. It really reminded me of all that great weird Renaissance stuff I hadn't seen since my beginning art history classes. 

サンタドレア教会（マントヴァ）サンタドレアキョウカイ（マントヴァ） depicting the Basilica of Sant'Andrea by Uemura Tsugutoshi from the Miyazaki Digital Museum site

    Often, when you need to research an underrated artist (or unpopular like when I had to do research on Conrad Kiessel), you first have to find any strands of existence, before you even attempt to find good English sources. I had so many tabs of artist profiles that told me nothing but the name that brought me there. Looking up the Kanji for his name brought me closer and closer until I found the Miyazaki Digital Museum. They had a number of his works and I was able to get a clearer image of the influences and thoughts behind the work. 

    I learned the pieces were done in tempura and from the 80s. The choice of tempura reflects the period the basilicas all come from, except the Sagrada Família of course, which was also done in watercolor and ink. Uemura paints in a style that is washed out like it's the brightest day of the year. Most Renaissance painting gives me this feeling as well, especially Michaelangelo's paintings. 

Michaelangelo's Last Judgement

    Sadly, none of them are the basilicas I saw for the short time I was in Florence, but still iconic images anyways. The Siena Cathedral piece is my favorite. I love the way it plays with you like any illusion, but on a more intricate level. That intricacy keeps your eye moving, trying to understand this structure and how it can stand all on the same ground. I also just love Renaissance architecture, before architecture became a baroque science where no one could be right. 

シエナの大聖堂 (Suenna Basilica) by Uemura Tsugutoshi from the Miyazaki Digital Museum site

    I don't have much more to say, but I have so much more I want to show. There is a painted Sagrada Família as well, and that one is especially bizarre because it is subtler than the other buildings. The cathedral is much more compact, without roof space for the perspective shift. Instead, the streets were made incompatible. I find the colors too muted though, there are no contrasting terracotta roofs like an Italian basilica.

    

もう一つの聖家族教会(2) by Uemura Tsugutoshi from the Miyazaki Digital Museum site

    That's it for my internet treasure hunt. It was very interesting, the Miyazaki collection is vast and will be a source I return to when looking for Japanese material culture. Hope you enjoyed it!

Bye!! 🍟🏰

So Pretty/ Very Rotten

     Taking a break from a book I am not so in love with, I have checked out So Pretty/ Very Rotten by Jane Mai and An Nguyen from my university library. And thank god, because the book is like 50 bucks on amazon. 

    I'm in a Japanese fashion sub-culture phase again. It really grabs the attention of both my anthropologist brain and my obsession with stuff. My favorite part of Lolita fashion is how it is so unapologetically for the love of Stuff. That is what this book is about, in a way. I found it while looking for any sort of interesting magazine content for a big mixed media project I'm working on (a last hurrah before I go back to poorly funded libraries and considering paying for jstor). 

    I'm only 98 pages in and a lot of the content are beautiful comics and art about self expression through lolita. Lolita is such an interesting culture to me, there was a short period where I considered really getting into it when I was much younger, but now the most important aspect is the unapologetic dressing for the self. Its all about beauty, but in the eyes of the wearer, not for men or conventionality. 

    I also love the essays explaining the background, the styles and the influences. Of course they must address the name 'Lolita' which has nothing to do with what the American mind thinks it does, at least not anymore. Its origin is a mystery. These are just the aspects that interest me, something I would love to read about more always.

    For me right now, I am using this book to help me think about conveying knwolege in different ways, moving away from big bodies of text and incorporating art and design. I'm sure I am going to finish this within the week with more to say, I mainly starting writing this right now because I am between class and work, and this was supposed to be short but I'm realizing there is so much I want to say. Stay tuned!

*＊✿❀ Bye!! ❀✿＊*

Animal Crossing Tierlists

     Got distracted and now I can present you with some Animal Crossing tierlists! The first is all art pieces ever to be (even if no longer) in an Animal Crossing game. My opinion is based on my own knowledge of art. 

    I was super surprised to see that the original game had Olympia and Composition with Yellow Blue and Red. I could talk about each one for paragraphs but I don't want to. Trust my word! Unless you do want to know about any piece, I would love to talk more.

    My next tierlist I had to make myself. This is my Animal Crossing fakes tierlist based on how fun the fake is. 

    

    There are a lot fewer fun ones than I remembered but the little Jomon alien one is my absolute fav, nothing can beat it. I currently have the glowing Rosetta stone outside my house in New Horizons. You can't see it but the Blue Boy forgery gave him Fuck Ass bangs, and Mona Lisa got Fuck Ass Eyebrows. I love this stuff.

    That's all for my tierlist making bc the site makes my laptop slow.

Bye.

Barbra Streisand

     I have finally finished all 48 hours of Barbra Streisand's My Name is Barbra audiobook, which was absolutely fantastic. It includes songs she mentions and her reactions and tone add depth I probably wouldn't have gotten from just the written word. She's a performer so that's what she's good at, even the best at. 

She is so insanely beautiful

    I love listening to audiobooks while I am at work at the library. Now that I have finished such a massive book, what the fuck do I do? For context, I only listen to celeb memoirs read by celebs that I can get for free. I am currently relistening to Down the Drain read by Julia Fox, and I will say I love the memes using clips from the audiobook because it makes me feel in the know! Anyways, just as good as the first time but it is maybe half as long as Streisand's, so I need to start looking stat! 

    I am technically physically reading a book called Poison, but it's just not pulling me in. I took out a very interesting book called So Pretty/very Rot by Jane Mai and An Nguyen today and I am so excited to read it, I've been flipping through it all day. The art is very cute!

    That's it for my book update, which is what I would call this post but just calling it "Barbra Streisand" (which is the temp name I had to remember the idea for this post) is kinda funny for me. I named it instead of titling it lol.

Bye! ↺

Books and Sleeves

     Today's photo post is a collection created in 7 minutes while waiting for my 7-minute rice meal from Aldi. 

    This first picture is a horribly lit picture of my fav jacket on my messy bed, pls ignore. I wanted to show off this jacket and everything I've added to it.

    This is the little patch that came with the jacket. Idk really know what this is for, I can tell it is war stuff, but I don't care too much to find out more. I just thought it was pretty cool when I was 14.

    The first thing I added (which I need to repair) is this little cat creature embroidery. It used to have a second foot and a nose but they've fallen off. I did this in highschool, maybe a bit after I had bought it in Oberlin, since I know I did the embroidery back in Brooklyn (not Brooklyn Ohio, right by Oberlin).

    The sleeves were really torn up so one day I decided to try darning them and I had a lot of fun doing that. I added beads in some places to add a bit more of a craft flair. I spent around an hour on each bit, it took more work than I thought it would.

    Here's the other sleeve, I have a bunch of star beads on this one, which I found on the street. I also did some non-darning repairs like the bit towards the bottom. Still added beads though!

    Here are the books I took out of the library today, to help me work on my art in general as well as help inspire a very graphic design-focused project I am working on. I am very excited to crack these open, I've looked at some of the interesting images but I'd also like to actually read a bit, esp on the graphic design history of women.

    Not so well-lit are the books from my own collection that I thought would go well with my library haul. I did not realize that the London Houses book had such great illustrations. They are kinda simplistic pen drawings, a style I like and think expresses architecture in a simplified but fun way.

That's all! Bye!💆

 

I am making big secret plans that I am yet to share with all of you because they have not been completely formed yet. But, before I publish them (I havent even started the project) I have some ideas that I want to test out coding-wise here. I am also trying out replacing some headngs with fun images because I must maximize my visuals! I must!

My first project is making a customized slideshow customized to how I want:

1 / 4

A friendly Banabird!

2 / 4

A charming Bananapus!

3 / 4

A Banabear that is clearly a koala, a marsupial..... But there's no english pun to be made.

4 / 4

Banangaroo?! I feel like they were destined for failure by idk.. the second attempt.

☜ ☞

That's all I got for a little test project, I love implementing things like this. It makes me feel so smart. But I can't figure out how to sign off how I want to... so maybe not that smart! Bye!!!

Drawings from my Physical Journal

     Besides this site, I have to go to other places to record my life. I have a planner, a cheap CVS one I keep in a Hobonichi case, and a tiny pocket journal. In that pocket one, I also keep drawings, thoughts, manifestos, stickers, and anything a girl might need to keep. Since that one is much more private than my masterpiece, Krilling and Jamming, I don’t get to show off what I like most about it, the things I would share otherwise. I used the iPhone Notes app to scan some of the drawings I have made this year (16 days). Nothing too crazy, I would never post these on my art account, but I want it in the record that I am drawing again.

Drawing and I have a long history and recently I have been neglecting what once was my entire way of being, my five-year, ten-year plans were drawing. I came to college and realized I liked other things, I liked art so much I could never do it as a job. So I switched my major and just stopped. And I couldn’t really start again unless I was drawing me. Very weird.

I am now slowly recovering, and here is my proof. Though I often do drawings of myself, the fact that I am doing this regularly enough means a lot to me. 

    These are from the front of my journal. They are my about me and calendar pages, in the opposite order. I am really inspired by the ugliness and creativity of medieval manuscripts. I also like to mess with the perceived naivete of a medieval artist. Unlike them, my goal is offputting-ness and the mystical qualities you can only get in such stylistic forms, in contrast to the medical goal of stylistics for recognition purposes, I suppose. Sillyness is my goal!

    These are some outfit drawings I like to make when I am thinking of an idea I want to do tmr. These are often a base before I come to them the next day and see how they work in the 3D sense. I often look much cuter when I can control all proportions.

    Here are some from-observation drawings. The plant is from the Heroy Geology building because I was waiting for a class that started 45 min after I thought. The owl is directly from the picture I posted before, and the sticker came from where we thought we might see those shrike. I took it off a stop sign. 

    Here is a bunch of tomatoes I drew just for fun. That's all.

Bye!! 🍅🍅🍅🍅

Got my First Piece of Fan Mail

 Got my first-ever email from a non-corporation this great evening.

My dear, sweet roommate has sent me a beautiful image. He has captioned it, artistically, "Why is he grabbin his shit like that"

So beautiful.

Bad Icicle News

 Let's get right to the point. The gigantic icicle in front of my window fell down while I was getting dressed today. I heard the THUNK! first. I am so sad. Please be patience with me during this hard time.

    I immedietly removed all the trinkets on my window sill and stuck my head out the window. Its so bad guys. Its so over. And my downstairs neighbor whos room is on the otherside of the wall as me has a beautiful one, longer than the window beautiful. I am so sad, it is so unfair...

    Here are some weird Cape Vincent Google Maps things I spot. I am OBSESSED with this mini lighthouse I need to go see it on my Valentines birding trip in the area. I want to see it more than the big one, and as you know I am a lighthouse superfan. 

    Here's another big icicle outside of our house, weirdly lit, kind of menacining. That's all I have to say about it. Would be a cool painting I think.

    Okay these are all from my phone. Here are the camera pics:

    Here's me working, seconds before I realize I had to be at real work in like twenty min. Luckily I was already at the library because I am real library head. 

    Here's one of the largest, if not the largest, art pieces on campus. My Bible history prof told us the reason its in the geology building is because its the only building that has walls tall enough to house it. Its really a beautiful painting, a cubist crucifix. Other features of this room is a constant glowing and rotating globe that I will show you guys some time soon.

    My place of work, Bird library. The great brutalist library. Also there's a real Syracuse winter happening for the first time since I was a freshman. I am not sure how I feel since I have been wishing for this forever but I am so cold. Though the light softness of snow keeps me from the dark sharpness that makes me sink into that seasonal depression. 

    Flat items on the fourth floor. I love the library, I am obsessed with it. I am going to milk the hell out of my free resources at Bird (since I am too scared of Barnes) so I can feel satisfied when I graduate and start having to pay off my loans. I might make a post about my plans when I am not watching vinesauce play simulation clicker which is making it impossible to focus. Obviously.

    The video btw.

See you guys in a few min when I make my next post!!

Bye. 🕮