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2022 Wrap up (4 Top 5)

Hello and happy holidays! Over the last few weeks I have been pouring over lists of the top albums, songs and movies of 2022, thrilled to see what the world (or at least high budget magazines) are saying about these past twelve months. This year has felt a little more ‘normal’ (not really sure what that word means anymore, or if it even should exist) than the past two and as a result we have received a lot of exciting art.

If I love anything, its making lists. I love keeping track of what media I have consumed, things I need to buy, people I have been romantic with (zodiac signs included), and ranking my various ‘best of’s’.  Below you will find 4 lists of my Top 5 of 2022; TV shows, movies, albums and songs. Each selection is deserving of its own several page deep-dive, but I limited myself to a one-sentence review of each as I know attention spans are quite fleeting these days (my own included). Please enjoy and share your own thoughts!

TV Shows:

HOT D, Season 1

Game of Thrones with a bigger budget, advanced technology and more feminism.

2. Rings of Power, Season 1

Like HOT D, Lord of the Rings but with more than just white men, and a $1M/minute budget (yes, you read that right).

3. Our Flag Means Death, Season 1

Taika Waititi’s new project about gay pirates—do I need to say anything more?

4. Derry Girls, Season 3

Martin Scorsese likes this show, so if my endorsement isn’t enough for you his should be.

5. The Summer I Turned Pretty, Season 1

I feel like most of my life is trying to get back to being a teenage girl and this show really did that for me.

Movies:

Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino

A coming of age cannibal love story that makes you scream, jump, plug your ears, cover your eyes, laugh and cry—what more could you want?

2. Aftersun, Charlotte Wells

Beautiful imagery, incapacitatingly sad plot (my favorite juxtaposition).   

3. X, Ti West

A love letter to horror film, chock full of references that made me feel like all my years spent on horror amounted to something.

4. Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, Halina Rejin

I love blood, I love girls, I love a whodunit, I love jokes—this is my dream film, also Pete Davidson is in it.

5. Tar, Todd Field

This movie is making fun of high-brow art which is funny because this movie is loved by people who love high-brow art.

Albums:

Preacher’s Daughter, Ethel Cain

A 75-minute concept album tackling love, abuse, lots of God, sex and being cannibalized with memorizing vocals, quite the feat for a debut LP.

2. Being Funny in a Foreign Language, The 1975

From dick jokes and a pop song about incel mass shootings to devastating breakup anthems, this album makes you experience most emotions.

3. Renaissance, Beyoncé

This album proves that Beyoncé can literally do anything well; a disco-club-banger-no-skips album invocative of the 70s but that absolutely hits in 2022? No problem. (sorry, this is technically two sentences)

4. Motomami, ROSALIA

Being A Bad Bitch in a Foreign Language: I have no idea what she’s saying but the emotion she conveys through her voice and the flawlessly produced beats transcend language.

5. Caprisongs, FKA Twigs

Another club-banger of an album which deals with being both hot and sad at the same time, relatable.

Songs:

Part of the Band, The 1975

There is so much to say about this song but the ‘Vaccinista, tote bag chic baristas’ line changed my life and I haven’t been the same since.

2. Killer, FKA Twigs

She called this ‘a song for baddies with a tear in their eyes’ and I cannot say anything better.

3. Anti-Hero, Taylor Swift

Famous for being vulnerable, Taylor reaches a new level of honesty with this song, expressing the very unrelatable difficulties that come along with being Taylor Swift in an extremely relatable way.

4. Hard Times, Ethel Cain

A song about a horrific topic, sung in the most ethereal way with stunning guitar accompaniment— once again, we love juxtaposition on this blog.   

5. Weird Goodbyes, The National Ft. Bon Iver

The saddest lyrics you will ever hear, overlayed with a sick 808 beat.

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My 2022 year in review

so now that another year has come to pass, I feel I should make another full year review. I know this was a pretty bad year in the world as a whole, but for me personally, it was kind of meh. It was not that great, but it was not terrible either, it was filled with a lot of ups and down. I learned a lot of new things and skills, like how to storyboard and make an attempt at my first storyboard. I launched my own patreon this year. I know that might not be a big deal to some people, but for years I thought patreon would be waste of time for me because I was not that confident in my work to make people pay for it. At first my patreon did really well, but things didn’t really go as planned and interest in my patreon kind of died later in the year. No really sure I want to continue with it or not. Also I kind of started writing my story I hope to be published as a book someday, an actual original story and not just fanfiction. My summer was really boring again because I didn’t go on a summer vacation again this year, me and my parents couldn’t afford one.

My holiday season was just okay, I didn’t get to do everything I wanted to do, but I did more then I did last year. I was actually able to enjoy the autumn colors this year by going to a park, but didn’t really do anything for halloween. I got to see some old friends who I had not seen in a year in december and I had a pretty good christmas. Even though I some good moments over the holidays, there were also some bad moments too where my depression set in and I just felt empty and lonely. Another bad thing for me this year that my dog’s health as steadily gotten worse over the year. He had a bad skin infection and a tumor found underneath in back legs earlier in the year, the skin infection was treatable and has gone away. But the tumor, it’s not cancerous, but still he has to deal with it for the rest of his life. My dog as arthritis in his back legs that has made it very hard to him to walk. it was especially bad over christmas he could barely stand up at all and I thought I was going to lose him, but he is doing a bit better now with the meds we have given him. So overall, all I just stay about this past year is that I survived it and I guess that is all that really counts.

The things I want to do in the new year I don’t want to call resolutions or goals, but just plans for things that may or may not happen. I want to focus more on my writing and write more of my original story. In terms of artwork, draw more furry and werewolf art to find more of an audience, this past year my artwork was kind of all over the place and I didn’t get to create as much art as a usually do. Continuing to learn more about storyboarding, I feel like I have just dipped my toes in learning it over the past year. So I want to fully dive into it so hopefully I can get a better job with it. Also learn to give myself more breaks, this year often it just felt like constant going and going which eventually left me a little burnt out. I must learn that is okay to not be totally productive all the time. And that is pretty much it for my plans. Here is hoping next year will be a much better year for me.  

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Mais um final de ano chegou e não poderia deixar de fazer aquela tradicional retro experta, reouvi alguns dos discos que mais gostei ou que mais chamaram atenção, montei uma listinha e uma playlist. A playlist está no Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3YERKg0x37nhDfS2p3RBTY?si=1iFqdyADT9O7vsrlpi0_Rg ) com uma música de cada álbum, e no link a listinha dos álbuns: https://link.medium.com/5I0GzzbH1vb #bestalbumsof2022 #aoty2022 #covers #2022review #music #nonstop #musiquenonstop #bestof2022 (em Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmj6K_rJaZ1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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2022 Review Part 1 – Photographer Norfolk

I know I've been incredibly quiet here for a couple of months but it's been slightly manic.  I'm not complaining but I miss checking in and letting you all know what I've been up to.  It's that time of year for my Review.  As I started to get together the images, it suddenly hit me I was going to have to split this year's review.  There have been so many wonderful studio sessions and weddings, it was impossible to squeeze them all into one slideshow.  So without further ado, here is Part 1 of the 2022 Review.  It made me realise just how busy I have been and I'm eternally grateful to all my clients past and present for your support.  As a small business, it's true we do a little dance everytime we get a customer and it makes a world of difference to us, so I thank you again for your support this year.  Keep an eye out for Part 2 later this month xxx   Read the full article