#art proggy

[dragon-ducky]

I get bored at work sometimes

Have a smol Leo head surrounded by bad puns

Also DANG whiteboard art is hard

[baylardian-1]

the new uniforms are a little tight >___>;;;;;;

[martianbugsbunny]

’Kay so Lobo and I are on the outs at the moment bc his eyes are really goshdarn hard to shape but here’s the proggy so far!

Next step is probably attaching the hand to the scythe blade, that to the robe, and then sticking the toe-claws on the other foot! (notice I am avoiding the face lol)

[aspiringhorrorauthor]

My toxic textile artist trait is thinking I can take up and be just as good at any craft I see made in a video online

[go-go-devil]

Analyzing the Mouthwashing Cast by Their Assumed Preferences in Prog Rock

Swansea: Your average senior prog rocker. It's not his absolute favorite genre, but he enjoys a good amount of the classic 70's bands (and occasional obscure curve balls like Crack the Sky and Klaatu) without much interest for where the genre went afterwards. As long as the instrumentation and singing don’t sound "too goddamn weird" for his tastes he'd be willing to give any classic-sounding prog band a shot. Would certainly get into a LONG conversation about his feelings on Dark Side of the Moon and Leftoverture if he's in a good enough mood... or when he gets drunk enough.

Daisuke: Out of the whole crew, he's actually the most well-versed in the genre; from the 70’s and beyond. A combo of him inheriting his parents' CD's and also utilizing online music forums to take him down all sorts of prog and jazz fusion rabbit holes to find good job hunting music that certainly won't distract him at all! Generally prefers listening to individual songs rather than full albums since sometimes he just doesn’t have the patience to listen to multiple long songs back-to-back, but he certainly has a good variety of proggy songs under his belt. Definitely the only one who's ever graced the Tulpar knowing who Kenso or Liquid Tension Experiment are.

Him and Swansea's shared love of Yes is one of the very few music overlaps the two share, and his gushing about how awesome they are are some of the only times he’s able to break the ice around his boss and have a genuinely good-natured conversation with him.

Anya: To immediately assume that she wouldn't know a single thing about progressive rock would be a highly reductive line of thinking. Sure if asked about her favorite prog album she’d probably just say Hounds of Love, but that alone would not be enough to fully analyze the depths of her very specific tastes in the genre. In her pursuit of picking albums solely for the sake of their “vibes” she has ended up gaining a love for artists like Art Bears, Neu!, FM, and National Health (the latter she thought would be great to listen to while studying for her nursing exams). She has songs from Robert Wyatt’s Rock Bottom abruptly stationed between electronic ambient and pop songs on her mixtapes, her favorite Peter Gabriel album is Up, and she would be surprised to learn that Sally Oldfield’s brother also made a few of his own albums.

Suffice to say, if she ever tried to seriously focus on expanding her prog horizons the results would be GLORIOUS!

Curly: Unfortunately, the captain is this ship is the saddest case when it comes to knowing any prog rock. It's honestly quite tragic. He truly thinks that any 8-9 minute track is "pretty long" for a song and would be baffled to learn that Genesis wasn't always just an 80's pop rock band. The only Pink Floyd album he has ever listened to in-full is A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and his favorite song on it is "Learning to Fly." While his willingness to learn more about the genre prevents him from being a total lost cause, the captain still has a LONG way to go before he can even reach noob status.

Jimmy: There are exactly two paths that he could take on this subject...

The first (and most merciful) would be that he's just as lacking in knowledge of the genre as Curly and only ever listens to the same five power metal bands he likes during his weight-lifting sessions.

The second path would be that he does have a fair enough knowledge of prog rock and is just about as insufferable as one would imagine. We’re talking the full-mile here: Flexing on how cool he is for all of the “deep” albums he listens to, telling the guys long, drawn-out about all the incredible trips he’s had while listening to them in his “man cave” back on Earth (while failing to mention how smoking weed actually makes him paranoid instead of relaxed), quoting Frank Zappa lyrics to Anya then immediately quipping about how she just "wouldn't get" them, relating very closely to Pink from The Wall without the smallest speck of self-reflection as to why that might be. All that kind of bullshit. Fucking PRAY he never discovers Zeuhl music.

[minstrel-in-the-gallery]

Hi! Thanks so much for following my blog lol always great to have a new follower

I know like next to nothing about Jethro Tull (I did see that one Polyphonic YouTube video on the cover art for their album Thick as a Brick tho) but I discovered your blog from the Rocklemania 2024 competition and that propaganda you made of the main Jethro Tull guy (can’t recall his name) who plays the flute in his ridiculous little outfit with the codpiece utterly captivated me so I knew I had to follow your blog

I’ve been getting more into prog rock lately (mom was always a big fan of Yes and ABWH, that kind of introduced me to the concept) mostly Pink Floyd and early Genesis, so learning more abt Jethro Tull from your blog will be interesting!

(Are you still doing the thing where you give people a Jethro Tull song based on their vibes?)

Hello! And good to meet you too :D

Im beyond honoured lol, it’s nice to know my terrible and frantic tull propaganda did some good for the Tull community 🙏🙏 (will never not be miffed king crimson won that). The flute playing woodland sprite is Ian Anderson, and he indeed is very captivating but that may or may not be and evil spell. Codpiece mandatory! He has so many little weird eras complete with terrible outfits, I love him so much (And yes, thick as a brick album cover is totally amazing hehe)

It’s awesome to hear that you’re getting into prog, cause it’s such a fun genre! If you’re into it, I recommend Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play as they are the most proggy from Tull 😌 and also, if you want to learn anything specific totally send in an ask :D

And I totally am!! Send in an ask and I shall give you a song if you wish😁😁😁 happy tull-ing!

[outinthewastes]

So happy to see string theory still updating <3 Been reading since 2016 and love coming back to see fresh pages, your art always amazes and inspires. Years ago, you posted a link to some music that was something Orville might jam out to. It was a german, synthwavey cosmic-sounding vinyl piece that was like 40 mins long, I think it had two guys siting in front of a blue wall and bunch of synthesizers? I've been losing it trying to find it. Any chance you recall the name?

I found the post you're referring to, I think, but unfortunately the video was gone and past me didn't write down what it was in the post and current me has NO IDEA :(

way to go past me. I have no idea, I'm so sorry. I looked through all my youtube playlists and yeah. It's gone.

Here's something else that's maybe cool too that Orville would love

dear future me: this is Jürgen Ecke – Sound-Synthese

also Argo - Šviesa, more of a proggy 80s disco but he'd still love it, he can be versatile.

He also loves punk music, there's a Feeling B poster in his little lair on the same page as a Kraftwerk poster haha

[anti-psycomics]

DAY 24: HELIOS

Personally I think this is my favorite one I've made so far and I have a LOT to talk about with it. First off, the musical reference

The prompt (and image for that matter) is a reference to track 9 (The crucifixion of Helios) off of the album Praise the sun god, a dark souls jazz album(?) I don't know if it's actually dark souls related. The album is great to put on in the background for some chill vibes while you're doin stuff. And I realize at this point I'm starting to sound like the guy who's only ever listened to prog rock but I get some proggy vibes off of this one along with the jazz and ambient type stuff.

Ok, second part is the actual art itself. I had this drawing idea in my head since before inktober because the title "The Crucifixion of Helios" just conjures such a vivid image in my head. And to help with constructing that vision, I used the inspiration of an art piece that's I've been thinking about for like. 2 years at this point

THIS IMAGE IS NOT MINE

Ok right off the bat I wanna say I'm sorry because I forgot what the artist's tumblr was, I don't know how to reverse image search and "fiend" doesn't really give me a lot to work off of. So Fiend, if you're out there I'm sorry for posting your cool ass art without tagging you because I lost your tumblr to the sands of time. Also thanks for making this image it's really inspired my art over the last year

This image fuckin' rules and has served as an inspiration to both day 24 and Solos, god of energy.

In my original pencil-on-paper drawing solos also had those spirals on the body but that was scrapped because I couldn't get it to look right lol. I'm probably gonna end up redesigning solos at some point and I think I'm gonna reuse a few elements for my helios image when I do

[mr-craig]

Time for my annual breakdown. Now with graphs!

In the next week or two, I plan to make a video with a full discussion / breakdown of my reading stats — but you can have a preview of the slides right now. How exciting for you!

I finished 54 books this year — down significantly from last year's record of 83. This is partly because I've stopped reading / listening to books at bedtime. Now that I've started making BookTube videos, I feel compelled to have Something To Say about everything I read. Not conducive to a relaxing bedtime book.

But numbers aren't everything. It doesn't reflect the quality of my reading, or my enjoyment. Overall it's actually felt like a very good year for me, reading-wise. My sudden aversion to sci-fi has been a bit discombobulating, but I have started cultivating a greater interest in literary classics in the second half of the year. I'm excited to see where that takes me next year.

And I'm looking forward to continuing my BookTube journey. It's been great to have another creative outlet while I'm on music hiatus, and I can see a lot of improvement from my first video to my latest. I don't know if anyone else even notices half of it, but I'm happy with my progress and that's the main thing.

As for my music listening, I don't have full stats for that. (Not this year, at any rate.) But it's been a very proggy year for me, and I can easily say that Cheer-Accident is my most-played artist. Other artists in heavy rotation include Henry Cow (also Art Bears, Fred Frith, etc), John Coltrane, Robert Wyatt, XTC, Cardiacs (and related acts), and an obscure little ensemble called The Beatles. Have you heard them? They're very good, you know...

[birdnoise]

Excuse me while I musicpost for a bit. I will preface this rant with a couple notes of interest.

1) I fucking LOVE metal. More than that, I love extreme music. Inaccessible music. Stuff that's hard to listen to, not because it's bad, but because it's abrasive on a sonic level.

2) This is just me yelling into the void, and most of this rant (review?? Idk) is pulled from a discussion I had with a friend. As such these are more or less just unfiltered thoughts that I texted him at 1am. They have been edited for grammar and readability.

3) I'm an opinionated asshole, and I care deeply about art. Specifically music. Very sorry in advance.

All that said, here is my first public music rant, about the recently released album titled "Absolute Elsewhere" by Blood Incantation. I have not been a fan of Blood Incantation, I did not like HHOTHR and I did not like Starspawn. I haven't bothered to listen to their other projects. Now, they just released a new album this year, and it's supposed to be really cool, they're shaking it up a bit. It comes highly reccomended from all my friends who know I don't like Blood Incant, and for good reason.

It's a collaboration with the electronic masterminds behind Tangerine Dream, who are a really cool proggy psyche kinda band from the 70's. Which is kind of a wild collaboration? Like what do you mean modern mid ass (opinion) tech death band collaborating with one of the progenitors of german new age/kosmiche?

That sounds like a cool idea, and it is. I'll bite.

But listening to the actual album just makes me feel like a huge fucking asshole, because the death metal part of this death metal album is just fucking boring. Like. How can it be boring?? You get the collab opportunity of your LIVES and you just write boring ass riffs?? AND THE WORST PART IS THAT THE SYNTH PASSAGES ARE GENUINELY INCREDIBLE.

When they pull it together and the synths layer over the clean guitars and they drop some sick ass death metal drumming underneath it? Marvelous. Beautiful. Ingenious. I feel like I'm levitating.

And then the riffs start. Bam. One way ticket to fucking snoozetown. It's just very boring. Nothing particularly notable, they're performed well and the production is great, but there's just nothing there on a musical level that is genuinely interesting. They're just the same old regurgitated death metal riffs that we've all been playing for the past 30 years. There's a reason I don't listen to Blood Incant, and it's because I expect more from the musicians I love. I try to live up to that expectation in my own works, and I don't listen to musicians who don't meet that (arbitrary) bar. So when a band tries really hard to create something cool - as Blood Incantation has on this album - but fails to meet the mark for a very critical part of their album, it is upsetting to me.

Again, the death metal on this death metal album is boring. Couldn't they come up with better riffs? I refuse to believe this is all they've got, they're good musicians. More than that, they're good artists, and if this album had held up to its own standard, it would actually be incredible. Maybe album of the year for me.

The album would genuinely be a masterpiece if they got rid of like a solid 75% of the death metal from their death metal album. Which makes me sad. I love death metal, but they dropped the ball here. How did they let this happen? The record SHINES during clean sections. It's like it wants to be two separate projects. One transcendental electronic ambient piece, the other being possibly the most boring technical death metal I've heard in years.

But in spite of all this, I genuinely reccomend sitting down and giving it a listen, because oh man do the clean passages just fucking SING man. Notable exceptions to the mid riffs are at the end of the second song and around 4 minutes in the last song, those are cool. I enjoy those, but none of the riffs are cooler than anything on any Cannibal Corpse (closest comparison I could come up with at 1am) album. Who do in fact have cool riffs, it's just that after 30 years, their bit is growing stale.

So yeah I highly recommend listening to Absolute Elsewhere by Blood Incantation exactly ONE (1) time. Very sorry if I trashed on your album of the year but I just really didn't enjoy the death metal bits of this death metal album, and I felt like sharing my thoughts. For what it's worth, I really wanted to love this album. I've already said that the clean sections are amazing but it's worth saying again, because they really are very good.

[moriche]

What's your fav animal group? What's your fav animal? (Does not need to be in the same group as Q1. Could be mythical too!)

Any hobbies outside of writing/art?

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Aaaah these are such lovely questions <3 Thank you so much for asking - I've ended up writing a HUGE wall of text in response! My favourite animal group is definitely birds. My dad used to keep birds when I was young, so I grew up with 'em, and currently my family owns a pet budgie! We used to have two, but one (the blue) sadly passed away recently.

As to favourite animals in particular: I love parrots and corvids (clever birds, those!); vultures; many sea birds. Oystercatchers are so cool and make such a unique sound! Favorite mythical ones include, of course, the Roc - but my favourite mythical animal is the mušḫuššu. It's a hybrid dragon-like animal from Mesopotamian mythology that I first encountered in 2008, when I visited the Pergamon museum in Berlin. It's depicted on some of the panels on the Ishtar Gate, for example! I bought a figurine of it back then and I've always been very much fascinated by the creature since.

(image from wikipedia) As for other hobbies! I fear a lot of it is various forms of art 😂There's a lot of broader artsy stuff I dabble in like painting or photography - I've been blessed/cursed by a need to create that never really shuts up. I like to read, but I never seem to get around to reading as much as I want to. I read both fiction and non-fiction. For fiction it's generally fantasy or historical novels, for non-fiction it's also a lot of history but I also enjoy a good, well-sourced longread or piece of journalism. (And ever since Miniche became old enough to truly enjoy books, I find myself reading a ton of Miffy 🤣) Gaming's another favourite. I've adopted TES and Morrowind as my main fandoms, but I've been big into World of Warcraft in the past and have picked it up during the last year again. I also really love sandbox games, and if they're overcomplicated or janky, in some cases that's all the better. I put lots of hours in Rimworld, and my one beloved game that really scratches the right itch for me is Kenshi. The masochist in me enjoys classic roguelikes too - I'm proud of actually finishing a legit run in Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM). Recently I've been playing Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - it's freeware, it's janky, it's hard, it's ridiculously in-depth, I've been save-scumming aplenty, and it's tons of fun. When it comes to sports, I enjoy swimming and walking/wandering as a way to stay moving and fit.

Oh, and music! I could talk for hours about music. I'm kind of a metalhead, but I also listen to a broad amount of genres as long as it vibes right with me. Lots of moody, dark stuff, music that's proggy/post/ambient/triphop/gothrock, a dash of jazz, a dollop of classical, a pinch of minimalism, a huge topping of soundtrack. My current fave niche genre is (instrumental) jazz metal - been listening a fair bit to Five the Hierophant, Animals as Leaders and Exivious lately!

[dragon-ducky]

Risetober Day 4: Amulet

Had to jump on the “I Might Be Invisible But I Still Look Good” train

Fic is by @dandylovesturtles and is seriously amazing, go check it out!

Hands are the bane of my existence

[baylardian-1]

i love philippa and amelia so muuuuchcghhhgg ;___; <3

they're sisters who fight a lot through the years and can come across as polar opposites in most areas, but they know each other better than anyone else and would do anything for one another.

things of note i guess is like, i imagine amelia as being the braver of the two, always the one to take initiative in dire situations while they're young and aboard voyager, and even into their teens; where philippa, especially when she's younger, relies on her sister's decisiveness. i think philippa's more prone to hesitate on making a decision where amelia acts more impulsively, but it comes across as bravery to pip. in actuality philippa's probably just contemplative and reflective, but it feels like being frozen by fear when she's younger. ummmm and a silly little thing from when theyre older is that amelia drinks coffee despite loathing its taste, and philippa LOVES coffee like her mother but drinks tea whenever she's around kathryn and amelia out of spite lol (she comes out of the closet as an avid coffee drinker eventually but she hates the association of her mother's taste in beverages for a while).

[docilepillow]

MARCH 2024 MEDIA DIARY 2

I ran out of embed space on the first post i had slotted in for this!!! So i'm making two posts!!!!!!! They belong together!!!! Okay!!!!!!! PIZZA TOWER < this game is soggy goop >

Even though I cleared a good portion of this game nigh a year ago now, i still feel compelled to put it on my media diary now, as i've only just got around to finishing the game properly! I believe the point i dropped off the game before was at Pig City, which, i think , is kinda understandable given how big that level is, but, was probably a real bummer for the whole of my friend group who were super into the game when it was new and i probably missed out on talking about it alot with them... POOP!!!! just because this game is popular enough to actually warrant talking about it with my friends later, instead of saying stuff like how i enjoyed the silly cartoony art stlye and the games general charm, im just going to post a level tier list i made the second i beat the game at like near midnight kinda hazy-minded without thinking on it too hard without thinking too deeply in a way thatll be completely inflamitory bc im mostly satisfied with the experience i had and dont really feel the urge to P rank anything --

The stats are saying my total hours round up to 6 hours 50 and pepinno is pointing at me Aughh

My , , Errr, " CRITISISM " of this game is that the funny pizza man is a little, erm, STICKY? Kinda gross. a little weird. Partially my fault. I'm sowwy. I'm not very good at this game but i absolutely respect everyone's opinion on it . Go watch my friend @shoppncart's speedrun, by the way, it's cool :

Speedy! THE MARIO MOVIE < the bario boooby geheheheheheheh >

this is probably a tired opinion but since i was subjected to this movie for the fifth time in a voice call my take is thaat this is probably more enjoyablel then the safeass illumination film. like. yea. that films probably objectively better but. id rather watch something thats an actual adaptation. like this movie. where basically nothing mario happens outside names . Aw. i honestly think this movie has intrigue to it genuinely maybe im saying this bc its one of the movies ive actually watched repeatedly before, like roger rabbit, but i think the history behind this movie and the old anamocity turned-endearment are what make it worth watching. that and its a little goopy You Guys Wanna See Some MM2 Proggys? not a new piece of media technically but ive been playing a fuckton of MM2 recently still as of the end of the month and its absolutely dominating my time as of late, and i kinda wanna show off a small amount of the progress ive made on it, as much as the world map, at least --

It's a media diary. it exists to document MY gaming life. Deal. anyway in regards to it i'm almost finished with the world 4 castle, which is crazy, because before i hadn't even finished world 2, but now i got all of this creative energy in me... If i finish this soon enough, i'd be able to upload it on NSO, so keep your tumpler eyes peeled, mutrals :J I personally like it because theres a theme of aescending on the world map. The space theme in this looks the best, i think.. THE ALCHEMY OF US - HOW HUMANS AND MATTER TRANSFORMED ONE ANOTHER < what the fuck ????? a book ??????? >

yea thats right im reading books this ones actually pretty good apparently a 2020 bestseller though im not in the habit of reading those often so i'll just have to take their word for it on that aspect. i think lifes all about trying new things so around halfway through the month i picked up this cool book i found at my library and got a library card. After reading through it all, i think anecdotally that this book is a very neat read. theres a few sentences that're a little offputting to my young mind but overall the book is filled with alot of cool insight i reccomend checking out if youre the boooky type of person! i think its very good and im glad i picked it out :) i donnu how many of these will be going onto my media diary in the future or anything , but maybe i will if i end up reading more! I'll have to make it up to a friendd for waiting till now to put up something i read here first before that thing she likes. oops.

Volp. OUTSIDE of the traditional media format again, also, are things i largely started on this month but don't think i'll be making all too much more progress in, or if i'm unsure i'll finish what i was doing all in one month- CASTLEVANIA THE ADVENTURE- REBIRTH

POINT OF DROP OFF - STAGE 4 END BOSS REASON BEING - UMMM SORRY I GOT DISTRACTED AND DIED TOO MUCH

castlevania rebirth is a really really cool game. its really cool and im not typing this as fresh as everything else because it was something i picked up for one big sitting earlier in the month. i probably couldve finished it at any point during the week, but simply was too distracted and wanted to do other stuff. It's very cool though, i love the vector sprite art, and there ARE silly stock sound effects everywhere, which is always a big positive for me . I mostly just like how snug the wii classic controller is , and this is a cool game to play it with considering its one of the only non virtual console or old game collection style games available for wii in this exact style ( Not counting the good handful of games that choose to use the wiimote on its side instead. )

over all ill probably sit down and finish this someday soon i just gotta like find time for it whenever next my wii u is plugged in ( it fights for an hdmi slot with my switch and ps4 all the time...! ), and ill probably end up trying to play punch out wii at the same time, given one doesnt dominate my attention over the other. From my understanding they're both short, though, so it shouldnt be too big a deal or obstacle no matter how long i put this off. RANDOM TERRARIA PLAYTHROUGH terraria playthru 1million

ii just really want to see the new terraria update Waaaah... i stopped having fun because i self imposed myself to not use setbonus armor sets at the part of the game where that stops being acceptable anymore so im stopping i think i did get to make another terraria pet though that makes me happy POINT OF DROP OFF - the mechanical bosses

also the most recent thing is

i got too tense and needed to excuse myself after like an hour 30 i cant take too much tension in movies i was really uncomfortable and had to leave to take a breather bc the main character gets put in a really really shitty situation and it was getting hard to watch for my autistic ass

thats enough i think thanks for coming see you next month lol

[reckonslepoisson]

Plastic Death, Glass Beach (2024)

Got to admire this sort of move, which will appease fans of the vibe and ethos of Glass Beach’s first album but not those who were specifically in it for the genre or scene. Instead of sounding like an art school Jeff Rosenstock, Glass Beach attempt hyperactive, colourful, shiny, slightly proggy alt-rock, often veering off towards sounds and styles previously ruled by the likes of The Dismemberment Plan and Radiohead.

Pick: ‘coelacanth’

[burlveneer-music]

Mad Ship - Time Shift - proggy fusion & improv from Poland, RIYL RareNoise, Rune Grammofon

MAD SHIP explores the forefront of modern jazz, asking the question: What's the next step? Kuba Wójcik's group plays music that is free-spirited, concrete in form, and filled with original ideas. The musicians —Tomasz Licak, Grzegorz Tarwid, and Krzysztof Szmańda—collaborate to create fresh, unique soundscapes, delving into unexplored musical spaces. The results are delightful and surprising. Kuba Wójcik - guitar, electronics Tomasz Licak - tenor and soprano saxophone, Grzegorz Tarwid - grand piano, synthesizers Krzysztof Szmańda - drums, percussions All music by Kuba Wójcik except: „Carnival Diet” & „Stream” by Grzegorz Tarwid No.1,4,6,8,11,12 - improvisations - concept by Kuba Wójcik Cover Art by Ada Zielińska Produced by Kuba Wójcik