#Retrospectives

[kirstydreaming]

Ariadna Majewska 2017-12-23

#Ariadna Majewska #feminine fashion #red dress #pantyhose #legs & heels #retrospectives #kirstydreaming

[mysticdragon3md3]

#warnings #representation #problematic #videogames #tomb raider #retrospectives

[ancestorsalive]

The Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1931.

Source: National Library.

#sydney harbour bridge #1931 #vintage photography #Australia #Sydney #retrospectives #ancestors alive! #what is remembered lives #memory & spirit of place #past times #my old Sydney

[innervoiceart]

Summer of 1967 at Piccadilly Circus 

#1967 #Piccadilly Circus #London #Retrospectives #1960's

[petriform]

my chiptune album "Veneer" turns 10 years old today

this was a big one for me! i'd started performing Petriform shows a little under a year earlier, and had figured out the direction i wanted to take my music at that time - the intersection of drum & bass and chiptune, which i'd taken to calling "hybrid chip" or "chip hybrid" or something similar - not that it mattered. what sealed the deal was that not only was it what i had the most fun producing and performing, it seemed like what the audiences i was playing to responded to the most (at the time, i'd been performing songs from "Relentless Eventful" and some early "chip hybrid" odds and ends from my first explorations of FamiTracker). so i was on the come-up, and had a clear vision toward something that seemed like it was going to come together really well.

and it did! "Veneer" is by most metrics (nebulously) my second-most successful album. by a very thin margin, it's the #1 most-downloaded item on my bandcamp. its release kicked off what would be my most active year of live performances, and took me to places i cherish to this day (my first 8bitsf and 8bitLA shows were both "Veneer" era).

so how do i feel about it now? you know that splatoon concept art, the "inkling development process?" with "Veneer" i feel like i was the second squid from the left. maaaaybe the one in the middle. i was throwing a lot of stuff at the wall, and what stuck was yet to be fully-refined. my vocoder, previously debuting on "Brown Plaid" less than two months earlier (yes, i released two full-length albums nearly back-to-back and very suddenly had Nothing™ cooking) made its chiptune debut here on the very first track ("Intercontinental Drift") and then... did not appear musically on the entire rest of the album. 👍 "Intercontinental Drift" has some fun polyrhythmic stuff at the end, which i hadn't done much of before, and that solo sounds close to something i'd bust out today, just with less interesting instruments and programming. on the rest of the album, there's pianos, amen breaks, supersaws, you name it. a (very) loose thematic concept and leitmotif bookends all but the first few tracks, trying to convey the imagery of the album art - the core of a planet surfaced with the faux wood veneer(!) of retro electronics.

so what from this album has endured? "Vanilla Extract" and "Coastal" lasted several more years than the rest of the album among my live setlists, and even those got phased out eventually (though "Vanilla Extract" remains my third-most performed song, despite not being in almost five years! i'm playing in seattle tomorrow; i should fix that...). "Coastal" in particular was such a signature song for me that it got a reprise, a new arrangement, and was the soft concept of "Dither Beach" six years later. all but two songs from the album ended up getting performed at some point, though by the end of 2015 they'd been phased out in favor of newer material (namely the stuff that would form my self-titled album and "Don't Worry, You're Great!"). on the one-year anniversary of the album's release, i played a six-song set with only one of those songs being from "Veneer." the "Veneer" era was 2014 - 2015, and that was it!

every album i've done since "Veneer" has been better than "Veneer", but it still has a particular charm, i think. it's the last release of mine that really committed to the whole "chip hybrid" thing; that went away around the same time most of the album did - late 2015. it's the first release that coincided with my growth as a live performer. it's "Veneer!"

listen to / download "Veneer" on bandcamp here

#chiptune #retrospectives

[innervoiceartblog]

Havana Nightlife, 1950’s

#Havana #nightlife #life #vintage photography #photography #imagika #1950’s #retrospectives

[cheezewhis]

When I see a 3hr+ video about a TV show that ended years ago in my recommendations:

#video essays #tv retrospectives #retrospectives #tv #also for movies #movies #cheezythoughts #not my pic

[mysticdragon3art]

I saw people posting Art Vs Artist recently, so here are my collages for my figure photography, fanart, and original illustrations, featuring some of my personal favorites.

My fanart and original drawing collages use recent favorites from or around 2022. But my figure photography collage are all photos from several years ago.

#artvsartist #art vs artist #art vs artist 2022 #figure photography #fanart #original drawings #retrospectives #personal favorites #pegoryu #persona 5 #dategumi #dimiclaude #akiryu #KhalidMitya #dragons #oc #OCs #nendoroid #nendography

[idreamtofmanderleyagain]

Feeling fucking INTENSE Resident Evil nostalgia. I'm 19 again with a crush on Wesker. Im back watching old trashy RE youtube parodies by homophobic teen boys in the early 2000s. This is fucking AWFUL.

#god help me I'm probably going to write some meta #retrospectives #longings for what could have beens #scathing critiques #resident evil #angst over the loss of more Lance Reddick's Wesker

[redhatmeg]

I think that retrospectives (either written or in videos) work better when the thing you’re doing a retrospective on isn’t an on-going series.

Like, when you’re doing a retrospective of finished series, you have a clear idea of how much of installments/episodes you need to cover and can look at it as a whole. Not to mention that - especially after some time has passed after the ending - people are more interested in going back and looking at how certain things were at the beginning and how it evolved (ups and downs included).

That’s why I hope that The Sims 4 is gearing towards the end soon, so Szalona Szynszyla will have easier task in doing her Sims retrospective; and that’s why I wish MCU would end at some point in the near future so I would have an easier taks with my Meg ogląda MCU.

#redhatmeg muses #retrospectives #the sims 4 #mcu #Marvel Cinematic Universe

[omercifulheaves]

A Dark Journey Through Shadow Tower - Series Retrospective by Majuular

#vidjer games #from software #shadow tower #action rpgs #dungeon crawlers #majuular #retrospectives #Youtube

[md3artjournal]

Just going back in time for a little bit.

#artsummary #retrospectives #nostalgia #progression #artsummaries #art summary

[mysticdragon3md3]

The Best Entertainment of 2023 (Movies, TV, and Video Games) by Council of Geeks

#lists #retrospectives #council of geeks #pinkfluidnf #personal preferences #Youtube #fanboying fangirling

[innervoiceart]

6 November 1978, English singer-songwriter and actor David Bowie pictured at the Sebel Townhouse in Sydney.

[Photo by Martin Brannan » Fairfax Archives]

#David Bowie #Bowie #1978 #Sydney #Sebel Townhouse #Martin Brannan #Fairfax Archives #photographer #retro music loves #retrospectives

[lungthief]

listen. i know it's not 2014 anymore and i know it's just a throwaway line and that the russo brothers didnt intend for marvel action blockbuster captain america the winter soldier to become the tragic gay love story that never was but man. having steve say "it's kind of hard to find someone with shared life experience" in a conversation about romantic relationships right before the bucky reveal is so cruel. it's not just about steve and bucky obviously having the shared experience of being "out of time," it's the fact that they've both been stripped of their humanity in opposite directions. steve is a legend, he is an american hero and a national icon before he is a human being the same way that bucky is a weapon and a killing machine before he is a human being. steve knows that anyone who falls in love with him in the 21st century fell in love with captain america first, and that's just not him. but then the one person who knew him first and knew him best and loved him (not captain america, that little guy from brooklyn) so much he died for it is alive, impossibly. and it's a miracle because he's back and it's horrific because he's back under the worst possible circumstances. but to steve, the winter soldier is worth tearing the world apart for because he's always been bucky first. they find each other and suddenly they're human again. and maybe, despite it all, being "out of time" becomes a blessing, because in this century they'd finally be allowed to love each other the way they've always wanted to. like real people do.

like. no. the captain america trilogy isn't about two queer men traumatized and alienated by war and modern life rediscovering and reclaiming their humanity through their love for each other. but. i mean. it couldve been

#like you get why all the fics about those two are insane right. the narrative is just so goddamn compelling #and thats not even getting into the whole thing abt the serum curing steve of every ailment except his love for bucky #which makes him realize it was never an ailment to begin with (despite the commonly held beliefs about homosexuality in the 1940s) #and bucky being *electroshocked* again and again into forgetting steve #like howd you make your gay ass movie that gay and not realize it. its kinda impressive #sorry for the ridiculous stucky retrospective its 4am and i rewatched the winter soldier recently #its not that deep. its not its not its not . but if it was anything other than what it is it could have been. and thats the worst part #shut up riley #marvel #stucky

[innervoiceartblog]

Autochrome of two young women in traditional costume, ca.1905.

#retrospectives #autochrome #through the lens #vintage photography #women #traditional costume #ca. 1905