#sinking islands

[drnojoke]

Minimal, Melancholic, Necessary: Inside Dr.Nojoke’s Inpi Mari

Minimal, Melancholic, Necessary: Inside Dr.Nojoke’s Inpi Mari

Inpi Mari review on Tanzgemeinschaft blog

[th3-0bjectivist]

     Soloists in music are rare, so rare in fact that albums by a soloist can take years to self-produce, and a one-person unilateral process can come with it’s own series of setbacks and limitations. A soloist is not a band, and therefore they possess all creative control, all the attention is on them, and they only really require a band when playing live. Every now and again, a single member of a band will have the expansive imagination, talent and ambition to simply try something by themselves and succeed. Enter Absofacto, otherwise known as Jonathan Visger from the band Mason Proper. It’s a series of short surrealist and experimental projects which didn’t have a full-length album release until 2011. The music is a mishmash of experimental art rock and electronic, and despite never being heard of by the vast majority of people out there, some of the tunes that have been released are quite good! This is Synthesocietal from the album Sinking Islands, their one and only market release that hasn't been in EP format. This act has a small but passionate fanbase and y’know, I don't really have that much else to say as far as history goes. The history of this act is limited and never really made it BIG, partially because solo projects are difficult to put together. All the work is on one person’s back and you’ve got no one but short-term collaborators to bounce ideas off of. Solo artists are often top-level talent because they’ve had to do everything on their own; create the compositions, write the lyrics AND play the music. While soloists like Justin Timberlake, Sting and Jack White are all immensely famous, Absofacto isn't. Smash play and enjoy some indie bedroom pop of the highest caliber, it’s rare, it’s cool and it’s something you ain’t ever heard before.

[kurushimi-hime-hoshi]

I was scrolling through r/Anthropology and saw a post about sinking islands (which sounds horrible) and immediately thought up an apocalypse/dystopian future type story concept where rising sea levels over time have decreased (and will continue to decrease) the amount of livable surface left on earth, pushing humans closer together. 

Here are my thoughts:

 -governments freak out as island countries disappear and have to be somehow absorbed into those further inland or on larger land masses

lots of displaced persons/refugees

power hungry landless rules

need for ways to adapt infrastructure for flooding and rising populations

issues of nationalism and control over the people

-how to solve the problem

move to space

move below the ocean

create artificial land

anyway, my point is this can go a lot of ways and I wanted to share it with the internets so if anyone likes it they can use it... >w<

[nikkidkat]

#climate change 4 real

[seasonallydefective]

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[seasonallydefective]

@absofacto put your old stuff back up in an accessible place!! I miss this album ... it has a lot of memories for me.

[jtfoz]

Kiribati. A Pacific Paradise.

Kiribati. A Pacific Paradise.

The gloom and doom from those who oft say, we should all use less, and much more we should pay.  For the gas that is rare, .04 of the air.  It feeds all the plants, with greening enhanced, and the sea that has rose to just cover my toes.  “Is a crisis, a crime, we pay penance and time”.  I call it unfair, and call out the big scare. For there are things that are real on this earth all around, so…

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