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What Happened To The EARLY 2000S COMIC BOOK ART STYLE??

I read so many of my dads comics and magazines as a youth. All had this really edgy flare on top of the Americana basis. I think nothing shows this clearer than comics that were seen as low brow and for children like the sonic and sonic-x series. I was a huge fan of sonic, because he was depicted as being cool in a comedically over-confident manner that inspires me to this day. On top of this there was a certain grit that - as mentioned - seeped its way into most comics of the time.

I can't find any good examples right now, but trust me.. its there

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Discarded Couches

They hold so much story behind them. Couches don't appear, they are placed. My family dropped one across the street in my home town to be picked up, and it decayed right there surrounded by nature. Me and my brother would occasionally jump on it. I recall the year when google maps updated and it was gone. Sad. But nobody knew that story, yet I'm sure many pondered it. Or maybe that's just me, perhaps I am the only one who looms for the story behind such mundane garbage.

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DOMO / CHARACTER HATS

Domo was so big in the early 2000's, I wasn't really on the internet much due to my age at the time, so I didn't get the hype but thought he was a cool character regardless. I can't possibly communicate how widespread the promotion of this dude truly was. He was ALL OVER. I recall many products having his likeness slapped on it. I loved that this was a trend for many licensable characters in general. Superman was a big one, I was always more of a marvel kids but I still had a Superman tee and a Superman hat as well as an action figure. It was dope. I think I'm going to get the Superman "S" tatted on me because I feel superhuman as well as because I am heavily inspired by Soulja Boy who used to rep the dance and logo constantly.

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I <3 CONSUMING MEDIA

Consuming media is one of the most unique joys of human history. It is a current development, spurred on by the information age. I think that the speed of the internet degraded the magic of it too quickly, and I aim to bring back the feeling that watching a video when the internet first became widely available gave me and so many others.

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genuinely genius

I NEED THIS!!!

A phone that doubles as a camcorder?? AMAZING!!

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BLOOD SWEAT ND TEARS

Thats what I put in all tracks XD

I think that musicians who genuinely care about how their music is perceived from an artistic perspective can always be identified. Even artists who don't necessarily view aspects of music in a traditional sense (such as - for example - disregarding lyrics or never switching flow) but still try to be original in other ways usually have a tangible quality to their music. The way that I describe it is their music feels stream-of-consciousness. Any artist who attempts to make music that is on a different level completely usually ends up with a final product that feels like you are directly or indirectly peering into their mind.

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DROWN TOWN DROPPED

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i <3 vintage tech

cheap and vintage technology are my favorite things. i cant explain my infatuation with them. i see unlimited potential in any artifact with a screen and buttons. the more nobody would want to use it the better. the more useless a peice of tech has become with the passage of time the better! to a certain degree of course. i want a typewriter but thats the only pre-90s thing on my dream tech list. ive always used mp3 players for music, only recently did i purchase spotify. when i was really little i had a cassette player with a michael jackson live recording mix, a sublime mixtape (just their hits, i think one of my dads friends left it at our house and no one claimed it) and a REM cassette. i mostly played sublime i was a huge fan. so when i got my first fm radio/mp3 player i was estatic. i was in 3rd grade so i was either 7 or 8. i put all my favorite trap, dubstep, tearout, and brostep tracks on it. (most of which i discovered from agar.io and slither.io videos) i also remember listening to audiobooks on a huge ass 4x1x1 ft boombox. my favorite was the pooh bear audiobooks that we got from the library. i would get up as early as i could to draw for hours, playing music and listening to books in silent peace.

dont even let me bring up gaming consols XD i looked at the same way, as my first consol was a gameboy color. loved it so much and played it for years and years. then we got a DS and i was opened to another whole new world. i cant illustrate it but everytime i had a peice of tech it was like an adventure, like going into a tunnel with gems and shiney geods everywhere. i was so impressed with how much stuff was possible with just buttons and a screen. looking at everything like that is the code to not mistreating technology and developing an unhealthy relationship with social media. i think. fun fact: i have so much to say about everything, writing here makes me think of even MORE i wanna say and this is why im becoming an author. IM A YAPPER!!!

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i need a new board

usually, im skate it till u break it. but this thing refuses. ive been skating it seince i got it last christmas and jees just look at those pressure cracks! they call up and down the board. i wasnt even able to board slide when i got this board and i learned how somehow without breaking it. im by no means great but i certainly attempted enough times to get where i am now that i just assumed the pressure cracks would become regular cracks.

this one is either and 8 or an 8.25, i do not remember. im going to take the trucks off and put it on a 7.75 my mom got me. i already feel like this thing is too dinky, sadly the board she got me just aint it. i want a 9, maybe even a 10. the more surface area the better for me personally, as its more forgiving for landing tricks and its easier to be precise when flicking tricks.

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The "Steezeflip"

This is my dream trick. Not a kickflip, I have that down, but the STEEZEflip! What defines a steezeflip? Its a regular kickflip with an insanely high pop and an equally high catch. This is achieved of course by having a very high ollie, but also having the foot control to make the scrape really long. This clip illustrates it perfectly as there is a long scrape from bolts to the edge of the board with the flip resulting from the flick off the side of the board. The rotation coming from the flick and not the drag itself allows the board to spin a lot faster than usual, which is how skaters are able to catch kickflips at what seems to be the peak of their aerial arc.

This is a (semi)recent video of me kickflipping. I actually haven't progressed very much since this even tho kickflips are a somewhat recent trick for me. The reason for this is my skateboard has such waterlogged grip-tape I literally rubbed my face on it full force on stream and nothing even happened. Felt like a towel I'm so serious. Having no grip did teach me to flick the board and not just scrape, which was good, but if I had actual grip-tape to scrape on maybe I could get them higher. I'm planning on buying a new board soon as the rainy season is coming to an end. [See next post where I talk about my board preference]

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dubstruction

theres a rapper i reignited beef with to incite him to diss me, and it worked perfectly. kinda crashed out a bit on his story, flexed sematary liking his post. im going for him for that one on the beat 🤣

what does that have to do with dubstep tho? well ill tell you! last night i made a super hard beat at first i was going for a majinblxxdy vibe but i gave up once i found some INSANE growl tones that i made the basis of the melody with. i threw on hella trap drums and geeked out on the bass and i think its the one... bro was telling me hes a goated producer and like - okay? get better beat selection then cuz i aint heard it XD im gonna bring that up too cuz ik bro just not on my level

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Tumblr is LIT

everybody on the broader internet wishes they lived in the myspace days when social media was hip and cool... a true shame! I don't think these people are ignorant as to what Tumblr is, they're just too satisfied with the mainstream that they don't ever get curious enough to wander elsewhere. I think tumblr could have pretty much the same community as myspace right now. Most teens nowadays have like 5-6 hours of screen time on their phone a day, but it's only between like 2 maybe 3 apps. The key to internet satisfaction in my eyes is to just consume lots and lots of different and new content. This makes you end up with talented favorite creators as well as less likely to be entertained by mindless drivel as you are more accustomed to media that suites your specific interests.

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My Planifesto

This is me^^^

I am 19. I live in northern california. I'm a freshman at my local community college, I live in the dorms. I am also currently employed at Target. I am highly driven towards pursuing all of my hobbies in a singular concerted artistic effort. The purpose of my art is expression, I attempt to express what I feel inside as well as what I think and feel about the outside world. I have intense beliefs regarding morality. Life, to me, is a incomprehensibly rare gift and opportunity to experience a world full of unlimited knowledge, mystery, and experiences. However, this message has been forgotten in the ways of the past as society slowly seeps deeper and deeper into a state of microplastic thought controlled fast food filled sedation. My goal is to communicate the value of the gift of life by reminding those that are lost that they are inconsequential and should fear their demise instead of living a life of active complacency with it. This is through the horror element, as I attempt to use the artificially induced fear to remind people that we are prey animals and therefor should be EXTREMELY thankful for everyday that we are not eaten by predators, as animals very close to use genetically do not have the same level of comfort. Seeing yourself as no different from the rabbit being chased down by the wolf personally reminds me of my immense privilege. Many of those who are depressed do not feel so because of resource insecurity, but rather internal struggle. I obviously want my art to be good, so giving myself another goal on top of that that is inspiring hope with my art will hopefully drive me only further in my cycle of self improvement. To close it all off I shall leave you with there: There is only one path on this earth us all, and that is the one too the grave. Dilly dally every waking moment.

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**not my image** But I sure want it to be! I love collecting, I just don't like sitting around enjoying media. But I think that's because I'm rarely invested enough, and usually consuming media alone. Watching anything with friends is a good time, unless due to circumstances you must remain utterly silent. And anytime I find something that REALLY draws my attention I can watch it and even though I won't feel particularly invested at first, at about halfway through I'm locked in and nothing can tare me away. This is how it is for me for videogames, movies, and albums. An album less so because even if I'm bored I can entertain myself by stimulating another of my senses while still paying attention to the music, but still if I'm not invested I lose interest even if the art is "good."

I hope in the future I have tons of people to watch movies with. I should collect more now. I have fight club and shaun of the dead which are up there in my top 10 at least.

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CRT Tv's

I gotta get my hands on one. I have a rom hacked game stick with thousands of games on it and it would be the perfect combo. I don't really mind the hum it makes, plus I could always just turn it completely off when not using it. The only issue is the sheer size of the fucking thing, but ill stickerbomb it and use it as an insense holder or something. My dad's got a kickass white one in the garage but since my mom HATES the bzz he never brings it inside. And when hes in the garage hes got a monitor the size of a door connected his pc out there. I don't think he'd let me have it tho. Guess I gotta scower the sides of roads. As a kid I found so many lonely sidewalk CRTs and I always wanted them, but my mom forebid me on the basis we always had way more technology than we even needed. Now I guess I'm too busy to aimlessly roam the streets at odd hours very often. I suppose I shall wait until one shows itself, its only a matter of time with these beautiful boxes of trash.

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The "Illusion Flip" **2008**

The magical illusion flip. I just discovered the existence of this trick! I'm extremely exited to learn it. Online discourse both back in the day and in current times seem to have a lack of concrete understanding of this trick. The name alone communicates this. Despite this confusion and awe at the trick, its just a really tweaked pressure flip with a frontside 180 sex change.

The reason for the mysterious aura around the illusion flip is the fundamental misunderstanding of the pressure flip. People when describing the pressure flip always remark that its like a frontside shuv-it mixed with half a kickflip. While this in reality is correct, this makes many skaters focus on the "spin" of the pressure flip which makes the trick less vertical and more low to the ground.

Whenever I do a pressure flip people always instantly assume it to be a hardflip, due in part to me being goofy but also because hardflips are the inverse of a perfect pressure flip. The difference in how they are done is that on a hardflip the front foot creates the spinning rotation and the back foot gives it the vertical direction, while the pressure flip relies on the back foot for both. This is why people don't see the illusion flip as a sex changed pressure flip and see it as an entirely new trick, to many trying this, even those who have pressure flips down, it very well may be...

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BLVCK KRVY - PRVDV BX [PRD. HXRSEHEVD]

The music video is pretty good, captures the vibe of the song very well, despite somewhat stagnant camerawork. The beat Horsehead made for this is insane, highly reminiscent of Clams Casino. Kray has his usual slurred out yet driving vocal style. The way he extends certain syllables that he rhymes has a melodic quality that I believe is achieved due to the vocal layering of Kray's voice.

He is so good at replicating his personal apex vocal tone that the two (or possibly more) vocal layers are almost indistinguishable. It is my belief Kray is able to do this in part because of the softer volume the he chooses to operate at. This is an interesting collab as well because some say that Gothboyclique (the group Horsehead is part of / heavily associated with) stole the aesthetic and even name of Goth Money Records. (Black Kray's music group) I don't believe either group sees this as the situation, and possibly might not even be aware of the alleged "coincidence." (If you know, now you know: Peep and Tracy almost definitely got the idea from Kray as the names. logos, and time periods match too closely.

I also wanted to draw attention to the director, editor, and most likely videographer of this music video: BlizzedOut. Blizzed has produced for Black Kray in the past on tracks such as "Birdwalk" and "Pink Motorola Flips" with Feebzz. This video in particular was directed by BilzzedOut, which I find interesting because the video captures a lot of imagery and editing effects that give a very vibrant feeling, emulating that of the instrumental. Feebzz's discography is almost primarily produced by BlizzedOut, and I could honestly talk about her forever due to the mystery surrounding her, but I find it significant that this producer/editor seemingly bridged the gap between the two.