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I’d been feeling all kinds of uneasy ahead of the currently-ongoing Stress Test for Marathon (2026) , in that I had such a potently bad experience last couple go-arounds that I told myself I’d swear off it for good. Pushed to tears at one point during a previous network test, I hit what I think is a reasonable barrier of “I can’t do this again” and eventually felt comfortable with having that be…
Not a blog entry, sorry! Providing a non-SNS post for all the fonts I used in Mio's reference sheet. They are, in no specific order: Telegrama Render Constantia Bitmark EPF NeoSlashGoth Visitor (TT1 and TT2) VCR OSD Mono Helvetica (Various) Marsek Arachnology Neokurat Atlantic Future Nocturnal Subway Arame Mono Ancient Pigeon Binary Voltaire Frangela NEOKULTUR Amiri BroadStencil Miriam Libre Mark…
It’s probably a good sign that I can’t stop thinking about Marathon . Bungie, no matter how much its upper management seems intent on death spiraling the company , is unrivaled at creating games with that certain spark that eludes everyone else. You could try and pair it down to their strength in art design or their best-in-class gunplay but there’s a sort of sum-of-its-parts element to their work…
Instead of just making an unreadable thread on Bluesky (god, I miss Cohost) I figure I’d sum up some trance, techno, and other music stuff I’ve been catching up on. Buncha releases I missed cuz I’m bad at keeping track of things and/or plugged into other more specific niches for a bit. Nhato - Various I don’t think I’ve listened to a Nhato release that I disliked. Not even sure he’s had one I…
I watched enough new movies this year to make one of these! That’s really exciting to me! After watching 60-some movies last year, I told myself that I’d try to at least break 100 this year and I’ve “I might as well keep going”’d myself to 3x that and then some. Passive activity or not, it feels like I spent the year creating a new hobby for myself and it’s been a really creatively rewarding…
Had this one in the bank and just forgot to post it. Oops! Sending off what will be the last month of all-around good movies I’ll see because I’ve set myself up for some real dogshit during December. Here’s what I saw in November that stuck with me! Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis Challengingly paced at the start and, honestly, doesn’t go anywhere especially groundbreaking but it was a real spectacle to…
I write a blurb review for everything I log on Letterboxd but since most people aren’t sickos who check it every day like I do, I figure it’d be nice to do a once-a-month roundup and revisit my thoughts on the stuff I liked days-to-weeks later. I’ll omit my last couple VIFF films since I’ve already talked about em’ a lot elsewhere. Southland Tales (2007) I don’t use “fever dream” as a descriptor…
A couple of things all coalescing into the same general window of time has got me to think, not with any meaningful conclusion or anything, about what happens when communal spaces close for good. The Vancouver International Film Festival took place recently and it happened to overlap with the closure of social media site Cohost.org . Everyone got a little over a month of heads up to give time to…
This was originally written for Cohost.org I’ve not… really… spent a lot of energy thinking of a “my time on Cohost” retrospective post like some folks have done (which have all been a pleasure to read!) because I’m not sure I really can. I think it’s easy to pick apart the stuff that’s individually made Cohost such a wonderful place to exist on, and certainly added to the greater whole of the…
I wrote a small thing about Cohost that I’ll probably come back to later for, like, some kinda actual “goodbye to this site”-type post but for now I just want to think (out loud) a bit on something that came up in the aforementioned post. I brought up that my digital art journey began on deviantART, touching on how critical that place was for the skills I developed and the artist I’d become. 2006…