stumik acid

"I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you're thinking of vampires."

[deliriatremens]

[brandedfool]

This Iron Lung review is taking me out

[stumikacid]

HELLO??? THIS IS MY FRIEND??? THIS IS MY RIGBY???

[pizza-thecat]

Pizza knows how to look like a real masterpiece

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Siouxsie (Siouxsie & The Banshees)

Edenhal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1986-04-23)

[stumikacid]

the subject may and should consume the photo. the framing can and should entirely fit them. equality is not photographic. equality is an illusion. the photographic attention, the framing, should fit the subject, and not an ideal of equally including each member of a band.

our digital cameras allow us to capture unlimited photos. we can afford a few exclusives for the important subjects' important moments.

[stumikacid]

A few of the illustrations I have of this reflection.

Pictured: Morose, a Post-Punk band from SLC at Black Lung Society in Ogden, UT (January 23, 2026).

[stumikacid]

i will stop farming this post but, here's a few additional notes from this shoot:

I learnt how exactly to handle social media compression: by not handling it at all. The sharpening I attempted to include on instagram destroyed a lot of the photo, as it turns out. It would have been preferable to just keep it soft. That is the reality of sharpening, which I have slowly been phasing out of my photos because of its artifacts.

Reducing saturation allows for greater saturation: These photos have -25 saturation. Why is this? Because reducing saturation gives greater headroom to everything in the photo. It reduces the "radical" nature of digital colors into a more malleable, stable state; which then allows you to mold light and color, rather than just color, to create intensity by altering the tone curve and exposure. (Saturation is analogous to contrast purely on chroma—too much contrast leads to clipping. Reducing chroma-contrast allows recovery of these clipping sections. Modulating regular contrast will then affect chroma-contrast, or saturation; allowing for the restoration of the lost contrast in a more controllable manner.)

Shadows can gain an extra amount of dynamic range and synthesize contrast if the lighting of the image is monochromatic (in this case, red). By adding the complement of red to the shadows, ensuring the histogram does not clip when modulating saturation, this complement reduces value while slightly shifting hue. Two ideas: (a) The value reduction is purely perceptual—the detail is not clipped out but preserved; and (b) the hue shift returns the lighting to neutral, rather than reducing the sensibility of the diffuse shadows as painting shadows with the complement would. A few more details are then revealed with neutralized shadow lighting, despite the increased contrast.

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Siouxsie (Siouxsie & The Banshees)

Edenhal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1986-04-23)

[stumikacid]

the subject may and should consume the photo. the framing can and should entirely fit them. equality is not photographic. equality is an illusion. the photographic attention, the framing, should fit the subject, and not an ideal of equally including each member of a band.

our digital cameras allow us to capture unlimited photos. we can afford a few exclusives for the important subjects' important moments.

[stumikacid]

A few of the illustrations I have of this reflection.

Pictured: Morose, a Post-Punk band from SLC at Black Lung Society in Ogden, UT (January 23, 2026).

[the-hottest-band-tournament]

Round One of the Hottest 80s Musician Tournament

Robert Smith vs. Rowland S. Howard

Robert Smith

Rowland S. Howard

Voting ended onJun 18, 2025

Robert Smith

April 21, 1959-

Known as: Lead vocalist and guitarist of the Cure, Lead guitarist for Siouxsie and the Banshees and vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards for The Glove

Music released in the 80s:

With The Cure

Seventeen Seconds (1980)

Faith (1981)

Pornography (1982)

The Top (1984)

The Head on the Door (1985)

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)

Disintegration (1989)

With The Glove

Blue Sunshine (1983)

With The Siouxsie and the Banshees

Nocturne (1983)

Hyæna (1984)

Propaganda:

Rowland S. Howard

October 24, 1959 – December 30, 2009

Known as: Guitarist for The Birthday Party, Crime & the City Solution and Solo

Music released during the 80s:

With The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party (1980)

Prayers on Fire (1981)

Junkyard (1982)

With Crime & the City Solution

Room of Lights (1986)

Shine (1988)

The Bride Ship (1989)

As a solo artist

I Knew Buffalo Bill (1987)

Kiss You Kidnapped Charabanc (1987)

Honeymoon in Red (1988)

Propaganda:

Visual propaganda for Robert Smith:

Visual propaganda for Rowland S. Howard:

[stumikacid]

oh my GOD ROBERT

[questcequecestqueca]

Siouxsie Sioux

[stumikacid]

often, as it turns out, we like to overcomplicate our portraits. i speak in the third person as if i am not talking solely about myself. i like to overcomplicate my portraits. a simple smile and simple framing is more than enough. the subject, if it is worth capturing, ought to speak for itself.

what happens, far too often, is that i capture that which is not worthy of an entire photograph. the subject—the subject is what rules the photographer. and a boring subject, it does not deserve a photo.

[ninosferatu]

stamps!!

[deathrockgothnostagia]

Deathrock/Goth/Fashion Magazines from around the world.

[stumikacid]

holllyyy fucking shit this is design this isgkadsjghkadsfghjasdkhjd

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Siouxsie (Siouxsie & The Banshees)

Edenhal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1986-04-23)

[stumikacid]

the subject may and should consume the photo. the framing can and should entirely fit them. equality is not photographic. equality is an illusion. the photographic attention, the framing, should fit the subject, and not an ideal of equally including each member of a band.

our digital cameras allow us to capture unlimited photos. we can afford a few exclusives for the important subjects' important moments.

[valseorcstra]

Siouxsie Sioux performing in London, Royal Albert Hall. with Robert Smith (1983) 🎸

[stumikacid]

energy can be literally photonic. the flares are necessary: they are explosive; they are what can transfigure the static, quiet reality of a photograph into a bombastic expression of the busted dynamics of punk. the flares are what give photonic energy to a photo.

perhaps they can be added where they do not originally exist; only where they are, however, appropriate.

[undergroundrockpress-deactivate]

Siouxsie And The Banshees by Derek Ridgers.

[stumikacid]

capture the emotion of the art: capture the motions of the art: capture the action of art itself.

[whenthecuriousgirl]

Siouxsie Sioux at the 100 Club, ca. 1977 ph: Derek Ridgers

[stumikacid]

symbolic connection between the performer and locale

[neonelven]

Wooded Landscape in Snow by Ludvig Munthe

[enablesomething]

The Blue Time That Stood Still

[itsmk7]

“Liked your post” just say you want me

[ikissthegirlsthatspeakmarcuse]