#modern media console

[stradivariusscalpel]

Tampa Transitional Basement An illustration of a sizable transitional walk-out basement with a dark wood floor and a brown floor, gray walls, and no fireplace

[chinesekleptocracy]

Dallas Family Room Loft-Style Example of a large trendy loft-style medium tone wood floor family room design with gray walls, no fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

[ucitavanje]

Dallas Family Room Loft-Style

[telekitnetic-art]

about your last post: I totally understand where you’re coming from. I’m a Coast Salish artist and have published some art for my tribe but I’m terrified of posting it online for these reasons. I’ve considered a side blog but I’m not sure if it’s worth it :(

I wish I could give some sort of reassurance or advice or hypothetical way of handling it that i'm trying out that might help, but the truth is that I'm just as torn as you are on the subject of sharing traditional art and culture to a broad audience who might or might not respect and appreciate my culture ;o; I don't *want* to have to not share my artwork, but the way the internet is sometimes, it feels like it's better to only share my art amongst close friends/family members because there are so many non-native ppl out there who will do and say hurtful things because they cannot comprehend boundaries and respect for a protected culture that the government and churches and general public wanted to pick apart like carrion while hoping that the people that belonged to it would vanish and meld into society quietly.

[crumbleclub]

modern day evan would be an ipad kid. in this essay i will

[iihih]

Geology Studio Makes Beautiful Wood Furniture for Vinyl Lovers

In Los Angeles a husband and wife run design studio named Geology makes locally crafted wood furniture that includes nicely designed credenzas and wall units to store and display your collection of vinyl. Founded in 2011 by husband and wife team, Adam and Vanessa Friedman, their well-crafted wood pieces inspired by Midcentury Modern Design are available in walnut or white oak. Geology Studio Wood…

[elyxir]

Family Room - Contemporary Family Room

[radiantrookie]

Clip: GodzillaMendoza

[prokopetz]

My retro video game pet peeves:

No, sprite flicker on consoles like the NES didn't look like that. The NES ran at 60fps (and how it managed this on contemporary televisions which technically didn't support progressive scan is a fascinating piece of technical bugfuckery, if you have an afternoon to kill to read up on it), but YouTube downsamples all videos that are below a certain resolution to 30fps, which makes sprites that are flickering at 60fps look weird. The way that sprites sometimes seem to disappear entirely for long periods in NES gameplay footage on YouTube is also usually an artefact of this process – YouTube just happened to exclusively pick frames where the sprite in question is not visible when converting from 60fps to 30fps.

No, not all old-school pixel art was explicitly designed with "CRT fuzz" in mind. While this was often the case for games originally released for non-portable consoles, portable consoles have always had LCD screens (yes, even the original Game Boy!), so CRT fuzz simply wasn't a thing for them. Conversely, while desktop PCs of the era did use CRT monitors, from the mid 1980s onward, PC monitors typically used a variant CRT technology that had a much higher scan rate than contemporary CRT televisions in order to improve legibility of small text; such monitors had pixel sharpness comparable to that of modern LCD monitors, so CRT fuzz wasn't a thing for most PC games, either.

No, the textures on N64 and PS1 games weren't that bad. While these consoles were technically capable of resolutions up to 480p, this was very demanding for them, and rarely used outside of menus and cutscenes; actual gameplay output for games on these consoles typically ranged from 192p to 240p. The textures were of an appropriate size for the gameplay resolution. The whole "razor-sharp polygons with drab, muddy textures" look that pops up in a lot of retro media inspired by games of this era isn't imitating how such games look on their native hardware – it's imitating how they look when played on desktop PC emulators that have to stretch the textures all to hell in order to render them.

Like, I'm not saying these aren't valid aesthetic choices for modern retro games – particularly those that are trying to capture the experience of playing pirated console games on a janky PC emulator – but it's the spurious assertions of greater authenticity that often go with them that get my goat. If you want to slap a CRT filter on a Game Boy Advance title because you like the look of it, be my guest, but insisting that this is "how it was meant to be played" is simply false.

[nicothenick]

Exterior - Wood Inspiration for a mid-sized 1950s gray one-story wood exterior home remodel with a white roof

[venomvices]

Exterior - Wood

Inspiration for a mid-sized 1950s gray one-story wood exterior home remodel with a white roof

[yuriandtea]

Loft-Style in Phoenix

Example of a mid-sized southwest loft-style porcelain tile and gray floor family room design with white walls, a tv stand and no fireplace

[kennedyraymond]

Family Room in Chicago Example of a large trendy enclosed brown floor and dark wood floor game room design with white walls and a wall-mounted tv

[katsuricata]

Chicago Family Room Home Bar Image of a medium-sized, modern family room with a bar, green walls, a brown floor, and no fireplace or television.

[chelseafcazul]

Modern Family Room in Atlanta

Ideas for a large, contemporary, open-concept family room remodel with gray walls, a brick fireplace, a standard fireplace, and a tv stand.

[sebastianchris]

Living Room Loft-Style Living room - mid-sized contemporary loft-style light wood floor and beige floor living room idea with a music area, gray walls, no fireplace and a media wall