An introductory post after almost a year of the blog's existence? Why not?
'Ello, I'm Nora, and, as you can see, I'm posting here some kind of stuff that I like, so this is my unserious & chaotic save-space. My interests are always stable, I rarely change them, so this farce has its own order. Sometimes I make some video edits and memes, post some here and some not
This blog is open to everyone, but:
β Violence, hate speech and aggression are not welcome
β Content under 18+ is prohibited
β I ask you not to separate conflicts and disputes
I'm often swearing here (not so rude, but still warning)
I'm not very active person on social media, so I often disappear, but it's fine
My handmade things you can find by tag Β«my stuffΒ» (hope I tagged all of this now)
This blog is my backup, the main blog is here
On an official blog, I'm creating more formal publications, the tone of the posts is more serious and formal, so I'm open to a pleasant dialogue mostly here, ask all formal questions to the main blog
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"
Background and method under the cut!
Ok so I was listening to the #77 Q&A and Luke mentioned Remain in Light as one of his favourite albums. Now, I really like RYM, Talking Heads is one of my favourite bands of all time. A plan was hatched!
For reference, that's what the original album cover looks like.
I first found an attempt to restore the album cover without the red blotches. Then I took screenshots of sfth, matching the expressions on the cover as well as I could. To limit the search, and to get some stressful ambiance in the images, I sourced them all from Hot from the hip (and Hot from the Luke), specifically when trying Da Bomb (And the heat goes on, and the heat goes on!).
My reasoning for who's who:
Tom - David, person I can best imagine trying out the dance moves, strange lyrics and vocal delivery of David Byrne, pls get him in the big suit!!!
Aj - Jerry, joined the group a bit later and just seems like a super chill guy.
Sam - Chris, takes charge by introducing most shows/drummer setting the pace? Most tenuous of the links haha.
Luke - Tina, bass player and sole blond person.
I lowered the opacity of the images, then scaled, moved and cropped them to line up with the restored cover. I was surprised to see how incredibly similar Tom and David looked! I had some trouble with Luke, since the lighting was different here. I tried to correct for it but I know nothing about colour grading. Next up, cropping out backgrounds to replace them with the original blue, then manipulate the faces to get the right colour and contrasts.
After that, adding the red. I mostly used a block-shaped brush and eraser with changing parameters, a bit tedious but turned out ok. Lastly, the text. Original has the As turned upside down, so I also wanted to flip a letter that appears twice -> Ts get turned around here. For the lower text, I was having trouble figuring out what to put for Remain in light, like what is the equivalent of an album in this case? Decided on Fully Improvised, like in the title of their shortform videos at the moment.
Isn't it weird? Looks too obscure to me <- most people seeing this lol. But nothing is too niche on tumblr dot com!
not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as βmy liegeβ would come strangely naturally
listening to a bootlegged radio broadcast from the pros and cons tour, and roger played if, immediately followed by wish you were here... is he insane??? does he want me to die???
I uhm befall tragic circumstances, befriend a creature about which we know very little, get my heart broken by the inevitable goodbye and then we meet again and I go live with them- fuck i brought phm into this ah well @lightsabersandbluecookies will you be my pardner for this journey?
I couldn't miss an opportunity to make epic geological phenotypes for eridians:D them rocks will look fly as hell on my watch!
Nerding out under the cut:)
For those interested, the igneous phenotype is inspired by granitic pegmatites, with hexagonal beryl crystals growing from it (of the aquamarine variety)
The sedimentary fella is a BIF, or a banded iron formation - a type of chemical sedimentary rock recording the years following the Great Oxygenation Event, with alternating bands of red jasper and magnetite/iron oxides:)
And the metamorphic eridian is inspired by an amphibolite, containing garnet gem porphyroblasts:)
