#rollerwave

[stanford-photography]

Dancing with Light By Jeff Stanford, 2024 Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

[vaporwave]

Are you into the Rollerwave aesthetic at all?

Absolutely. I only discovered this aesthetic had a name recently and while it doesn't entirely fit with this blog, i'm totally into it. It also reminds me i need to watch Rollerball again, it's been years.

For the uninitiated:

Rollerwave is an aesthetic which does for the 70s what Outrun does for the 80s and Vaporwave does for the 90s. The name is a reference to the 1975 James Caan film Rollerball, and like the film, the aesthetic often delves into 1970s retrofuturism, however, unlike standard Retro-Futurism or Atompunk, Rollerwave deals only with the 70s, and has a far less Jetson-y feel. Common themes include oil crises, growing tension in the Middle East, everyday 1970s life, LaserDisc, household appliances, early computing, RadioShack, the NBC Peacock logo, and post-countercultural disillusionment.

Source: https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Rollerwave

[rollerwavegallery]

Rollerwave Gallery Website

Hi everyone-

I’ve made a website with all the reviews I post here. Check it out!

https://rollerwavegallery.neocities.org/

[unorcadox]

What do you think about the Rollerwave aesthetic?

i'm answering this ask 9 months after it was sent bc i genuinely still can't figure out whether this is a real aesthetic or someone trying to get eyes on it via sending asks abt it, cuz i looked in its tag at the time and saw other blogs getting this ask and i was like ok nah. but now that it's so old, it's kinda funny right? like what a funny way to get attention

[hydralisk98]

Shoshone Hymns (0x10/?) - WIP mess

Preface

Gonna recap on the whole project before I go forth with new articles, as to distill the "nucleus" of my speculative paracosm soon.

To include: Sensory details, "unique pitch selling points", unique cultural practices & traditions, linguistical differences, historical divergences, personalities & relationship dynamics, speculative evolution sapient species, history, lore, major events, myths, legends, technologies, magicks;

So, what really is this "16^12"?

It is a speculative campaign setting and desired reality "shifting framework" to immerse oneself onto as a long-term destination. Essentially a comfy yet nuanced realm with a vastly long diverging history & soft warm natural optimistic dark feel.

Keywords

Soft

Warm

Natural

Dark yet bright

Harmony

Innovation

Optimism

Curiosity

Empowerment

Wholesome

Mysticism

Spirituality

Empathy

AGI Integration

Android rights

Deliberate positivity

Communal

Solarpunk / Lunarpunk

Rollerwave

Groovy

Retro

Old-School

Bronze Age

Y2K (early 2000s)

Tooncore

Laborwave

Neu-Vectorheart

Cassette Futurism

Art Deco

Bauhaus

Art Nouveau

Funk

Cyberware

Biomods

Transformations

Morphological freedoms

Gratis, Libre, Open Source Software... aka GLOSS

Automaton liberties

Knowledge

Progress

Systemic Change

Euphoria

Mundane Slice-of-Life joys

Far far away future as promised to us

Syndicalism

Georgism

Ecology

Embracing life and getting out of mere Escapism & Nihilism

Nuclear Armageddon Threats

Political Intrigues

Bookstore

Prosperity

Chronokinesis

True Polymorph

Synthetic-tier Androids

Educational Prowesses

Photographic Memory

Retrocognition

Polyglot

Intertextuality

History Doctorate

Cycle of Life

Entropy

Coming of Age

Constructing your own meaning even in Darkness

Escalation of Power

Vigilante

Self-Control

Worldly Understanding

Enlightened Despotism

Open Source-y Treescape Iterative Evolution

Copyleft

Index card catalogs

Better Handling of Hispanic Flu

Progressives

Unionist (Democrats+Republicans) Party failing

Public Domain

GNU Hurd earlier (later 80s)

OpenXanadu Protocol

Justice

Queer Acceptance & Integration

Samoan Tech Reverse-Engineering Market

Polish Computing Sovereignty remains and flourishes thanks to ICL & Jacek Karpinski

Failure of centralized social media networks in favor of indie decentralized "federations"

2000s pandemic instead of 2020s

Religious and spiritual researchers harmonize

Data Privacy

Governance Transparency

Black Pyramids HyperMall

Conversation Pits

Mainframe Rooms

Parliament / Senate

Judicial Courtroom

Public Place

Natural Park Preserves

Arcade

Discoteques

Tramway / Subway / Monorailways

Offices

Assembly Floors

French Toasts, Pancakes, Pork

Cafe

Public Library Archives

VLSI College tech classes

University art classes

Autistic meta-patterns

Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade

Helluva Boss

Wolfenstein The New Order

Wakfu

Jet Set Radio

No Baby-Boomers Managerial Class Overthrow

Video rental stores

Robotic soldiers likewise to Wolfenstein The New Order's

Extended Zodiac Calendar-based generators

Divinely-order beings walking among the living and the dead

Key historically-significant nine USPs

Lisp persisting as a major language family in the tech industry leading to women building several AGI "summers" iterating on top of each other harmoniously... (leading to the android servants of my constructed world, which is one among the many major features derived from such a "liberal" alternate historical pathway)

Why-s for Production

Showcasing pseudo-historical data in a GLOSS manner, stimulating imagination creativity & motivation among Zillenials, intrigue people into research deep dives on history, mostly for personal enjoyment & enhancing my multimedia skillset;

Whys for Target Audience (mid 90s - earlier 2000s youth aka Zillenials)

Motivation, empowerment & plain comfort through curiosity. Also because it shows & explains how to do plenty of creative adulthood things better.

Ideadump 2

4525, Maskoch, "Ava, Klara, Shoshona", Seventies RetroFuturism Residence, Habitable Minivan, Cloven Hoof Shoes, Black Matte Lipstick, Spiral Black Balls, Fem ISO Symbol, #RedInstead Aspie Culture, Conlangs, Ocean of Clades, Second Person Perspective Meta, Pattern Recognition, Poetic Lisp life scriptures, RISC-V+OpenPOWER, KDE Plasma + Liquid, LOT tape storage archivals, hypervisor, Asahi Linux on M3 iMacs, responsive hypertext realm, HTML5+CSS3-only text addventure, rio/acme/p9-2000 userland, yesterweb sites, desktop paracosm simulations through filesystem documents, RTTY / printing radio terminals, VideoTex/Telex Minitel-esque services, "Valenz, Kira, Sina", SVG toon vector virtual web pages, imagination microcosms, miniature dollhouses, animation rigged puppets, VTuber tokens & TTRPG scenes, InfoAddict, Toymaker, Witch, Thinktank, PDP-8/e – DECmate III+, "JusticeKeggan", byzantine soviet-level intrigues, "SAOpatra", "FierceFawlanx", "TheodEnchanter"… ;

[fandomgeeknerd]

the midwest states aesthetic moodboard as created by me

Wisconsin- I put in hyperpop, candycore and that Wisconsin was what boosted modern music or something along those lines, the Swiss bc of the hat and bc Wisconsin is the Swiss cheese capitol and the state flower in the middle

South Dakota- South Dakota is done! sd is home to 175 species of butterflies and sd has the country's largest music festival and i used a bit of glowwave, crowcore and more green academia

North Dakota- nd grows more sunflowers than anywhere else, it also produces more honey and there's a world record for the most snow angels made, and you guessed it it's in nd

ohio- the nfl was invented in Ohio, Ohio is known as the Duct Tape Capital of the World, and Cleveland, Ohio was the first city to be lighted electrically in the world and I used webcore and glowwave

Minnesota- 3 million cows live in MN; Besides Alaska, Minnesota has more wolves than any other state, and Minnesota has over 3 times more white-tailed deer and the aesthetics I used are lunarpunk and Midwest Gothic

Michigan- Michigan has an estimated 65,000 inland lakes and ponds, Due to the long shoreline, Michigan needed many lighthouses to guide passing ships, so Michigan has the highest number of lighthouses in the country, The state is also home to Kellogg's and the aesthetics i used are forestpunk and frogcore

Illinois- The first Aquarium opened in Chicago, Softball began in Chicago, about ¾ of the area of Illinois consists of farms and the aesthetics i used are dreamcore and cottagecore

Indiana- first i had to sneak in the music man movie in this moodboard, the Jackson 5 Long before Hollywood and the music industry got a hold of them were in the small town of Gary, IN with their stepping and soulful voices, Hammond, Gary, and South Bend, and Vincennes Indiana all had ufo sightings but it was called an "airship" bc this was before ppl came up with ufo and the rare color i used aureolin and i used beige

Nebraska- NE is Nature’s hot spot, Kool Aid was Invented in Nebraska, i used vibrant academia and indie kid

Kansas- I forget that the wizard of oz takes place in Kansas, and don't be fooled Kansas's state flower is the wild sunflower, and two nicknames for the state is the sunflower state and the wheat state and the aesthetics i used are rainbowcore and rollerwave

Missouri- Missouri is known as the Cave State, Missouri has the largest beer producing plant in the country and St. Louis is called the Gateway to the West and the aesthetics i used are plant mom and naturecore

Iowa- Twenty-five Percent of Iowa is Generated by Wind Power, Iowa is the Largest Corn Producer in America, the red delicious red apple originated in Peru, Iowa and the aesthetics I used are mushroomcore and Midwest Emo

[deepdreamnights]

Eat Bread, Coppers!

An experiment in ballistics, and in combining prompts.

The images above in this post were made using an autogenerated prompt and/or have not been modified/iterated extensively. As such, they do not meet the minimum expression threshold, and are in the public domain.

Prompt: a white sandwich with ham, cheese, and tomatoes, in the style of 32k uhd, single object :: a plastic gun with a wooden grip and buttons., in the style of moebius, hyper-realistic sculptures, masamune shirow, josef capek, made of liquid metal, rollerwave, burned/charred

[the-inevitable-minor-fires]

@fruitcage I dug into that rollerwave post a little.

is it an accurate representation of the atmosphere I was born into? am I idealizing it and yet it summons nostalgia anyway?

[outrundis]

Do you like Rollerwave?

I don't know what that is

[eightiesfan]

As a big fan of the 80s, what do you think about the 1970s aesthetic, Rollerwave? How do you interpret it?

I love 70s culture as much as 80s ! I was just a bit too young to fully enjoy it… but I do remember clothes, furnitures, colors and aesthetic. Everything was possible

[oldguydoesstuff]

Are you familiar with the Rollerwave aesthetic?

It's new to me but it definitely seems up my alley. Spent a lot of time in the 70s as a kid living in that world..

[boubookiart]

Immerse in the beauty of our "Rollerwave Reverie" digital wall art. Retro vibes meet minimalist design, enhancing any space. Instant download, no wait.

[trascapades]

🎨🛼#ArtIsAWeapon #WomensHistoryMonth #NewExhibit Tonight (March 16th) it’s lady’s first at the opening for @the60collective 's new Women’s Empowerment Exhibition at The Rollerwave House BK @rollerwavenyc. Reposted from @the60collective This exhibition will be a tribute and celebration of all women past and present, including our 20 featured female artists. To all of our featured female artists and all the women holding it down despite the world of inequities still facing women @the60collective sees you, feels you and salutes you! Date: March 16th Time: 6:30-8:30pm Place: Rollerwave House BK Address: 625 Atlantic Avenue Come celebrate with us, support female empowerment, have a 🍸and take home some amazing artwork. Curators: @craig_anthony_miller @artface7 Creative Director: @craig_anthony_miller Executive Producer: @josie_nycrealestate Special thanks to our right hand woman @labellecentraf for all your work to bring this together. You are the epitome of female empowerment... Please DM for the link to register for [tonight's] opening. We would like to thank @rollerwavenyc @buds2rosescafe buds2rosescafe @atlanticterminal for the opportunity to highlight female artists during Women’s History Month and express our gratitude for their partnership and support. #WomenArtists #WomensEmpowerment #60Collective #ExhibitOpening #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp3Oyk1P3e5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rollerwavegallery]

The Point (1971)

Harry Nilsson’s 1971 animated TV special “The Point” is an unassuming thing- a cartoon which upon closer inspection is one of the most indicative examples of the Rollerwave aesthetic possible. 

It resembles a segment from an early episode of Sesame Street or Schoolhouse Rock, which makes sense when you consider that it was animated by Fred Wolf, creator of the famous Tootsie Pop commercial with the owl. His sensibilities in bringing Nilsson’s album to life are fitting in that they convey a surreal, extremely colorful world with no fixed rules. 

The story is rare in that it will appeal to both children and adults, far more than any segment from Schoolhouse Rock or Sesame Street. This is mainly due to the film’s theme of deliberate absurdity- that is, it is not designed to educate as much as it is to make the viewer think. These are two very different approaches. The Point is philosophical rather than methodical, it does not hammer any one particular idea into the audience’s head, and at times it is intentionally confusing, which is something you would not expect from a cartoon of this period. 

The work most readily comparable to The Point is, of course, Norton Juster’s 1961 masterpiece The Phantom Tollbooth, in that, like The Point, its settings and characters are entirely allegorical. This method of storytelling seems especially popular around the 1960s and 1970s, rejecting the straightforward methods of the 1950s. The Phantom Tollbooth also contains vivid illustrations, particularly similar in their cross-hatching, messy ink style. Fans of Jules Feiffer will, I think, appreciate the style of Fred Wolf to an equal extent. 

Some parts of this film draw attention to just how much we’ve changed as a society since the 1970s, and how much we’ve altered what is considered “acceptable” for children. During one abstract musical number, for instance, a dead whale is depicted, slowly rotting away, frame by frame. A modern viewer would see morbid imagery like this as only fitting in a Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared-type parody. In the 1970s, however, this was seen as not only acceptable to show children, but important, in that it adequately conveys the grim yet natural reality of death, and the cyclical system of nutrients in the ocean’s ecosystem. Other examples of children’s media being deliberately censored with the misconception that it would be deemed offensive include the infamous lost Sesame Street segment, “Cracks,” which was obfuscated during the 1980s cocaine epidemic despite having nothing to do with cocaine. 

The Point, as I mentioned, is a philosophical fable with the key theme of societal acceptance and dehumanization. On the other hand, its title serves as wordplay, in that it asks what it means for something to have a point. By the end, the viewer is left asking themselves whether the cartoon had any sort of point. This element is aided by dialogue which is obtuse by design, and a meandering plot which attempts to defy the well-documented “Hero’s Journey” structure in favor of an episodic series.

The frame surrounding the tale is equally abstract, featuring a father who reads a bedtime story to his son, all the while sarcastically commenting about how “kids these days just want to watch TV” and his son views the story, presumably as the film itself, on the TV next to his bed. The father was voiced by four people across The Point’s broadcast history, two of which were Dustin Hoffman and Ringo Starr, and watching each version provides a somewhat different experience, given the varying inflections of the narrators.

This may very well be the ultimate animated Rollerwave film, ideal for anyone wanting to know more about the visually artistic side of the aesthetic, departed from live-action. It is inspiring for anyone looking to enter the realm of 2D animation, with its detailed landscapes and vibrant color. One can only long for this period, when animating a full album and bringing an hour-long narrative to life using nothing but pens, paper, and watercolor paint was considered routine. The result is well worth your while.  

[hydralisk98]

Φlaumen Cooperative (Lisp-y style guide ref, part 1...)

Reads as Pflaumen, loosely inspired onto the eponymous information technology firm within Machinegames' Wolfenstein franchise (reference page card below...) & plenty of historically-informed inspirations like DEC, Symbolics, Konrad Zuse KG, KDE E.V, etc.

Context

Essentially, I build my way towards a small creative business to call my very own (with major technological & culturally-driven aspects), which is also related to personal worldbuilding projects & manifestation goals of mine.

Some reference pictures

Keywords dump

Groovy soft natural retro grunge warm natural filmic comfort, tramway at dusk from mesas to the ocean far away, distant future LISP DIY copyleft cartoons, symbolic CAS LISP Gruvbox poetic devkit, soft-rounded bold geometric shape language, fontmap vector prefab modules, slice-of-life cozy rollerwave cartoons, communal retrofuturistic optimism, Bauhaus, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, "Gruvbox Light Medium + OldBook Light Academia" mashup, seventies toon cel, copyleft GLOSS data transparency movement, soviet-bloc indie shareware culture, Nintendo 64 console with 64DD expansion cartridge, SEGA Dreamcast, DEC Alpha, Sanyo 3DO TRY, Nuon, Ouya, Commodore PETSCII CBM-II, Commodore Amiga 3000+4000, bronze-age historical time period, Chronokinesis, True Polymorph, lunarpunk mysticism, Teslafunk, Solarpunk, Cyberfunk, syndicalism, georgism, ecology, harmonious innovation, progressives, seventies rollerwave futurism, filmic, OGG container format, OGV, OPUS, Vorbis, OpenEXR, Animated SVG, CSS3 animations, PK3/ZIP file archives, USD format, harsh raster XY plotters & printers, selectric typewriters, comforting Shoshone music / songs / hymns; "Soyuzmultfilm", "Helluva Boss", "The Powerpuff Girls Z", "The Powerpuff Girls", "Jet Set Radio", "Newgrounds", "Jin-Roh The Wolf Brigade", "Android Arts", "Nicky Case", "Jucika", Nintendo 64 with N64DD module, SEGA Dreamcast, Sanyo 3DO, Nuon, Ouya, DEC Alpha, Commodore 64, DECmate II, DECmate III, Intersil 6100 & 6120 lineups, PETSCII, OpenXanadu web, IBM Z/16 Linux One mainframe, OpenPOWER, Libre GLOSS data-transparent Apple Silicon M3 system, RTTY protocols, Minitel / Videotex services, hard-copy terminals, Typex, Telex Teleprinters (read-only & Read/Write), block data terminals, explorable explainers, federated ActivityPub RSS feeds, SPARC Voyager, Xerox Daybreak, R2E Micral Portal, libre bio-modding & cyberware, Pflaumen, Utalics, Lambda Star, Lambda Nova, Wyatt, Sass, MathML, XML+XSL, OpenREXX, PDP-8/e, PDP-12, PDP-15, ALGOL68, LISP 1.5, Steel Bank Common Lisp, Trial Engine, GNU Hurd, Linux, Macroware, SoundTracker, Multi-Agent Simulations, Mixtapes, Android Clades/Classes (Robots, Droids, Synthetics), Open Virtual Worlds, "Rogue Servitors"; "Liberty" caucus within "Union Party", Al-Gore (2000), Trump + Michelle Oprah (2004), Theodore Roosevelt (1912), Charles Hugues (1916), Progressives party since ~1910-1915, Pedro II of Brazil + Haile Selassie equivalent figure during the later 19th century, political split around 2024-2025, female programmers still in charge, gender inclusivity, major 3D, animation & game engine-y frameworks abundant in Common LISP (Trial Engine + AutoLISP as copyleft GLOSS / open source licensed software); Rust red dark grunge wood, translucid glass, matte plastics, fuzzy wool, forest flora, ocean water, arcade cabinets, hyper mall shops & stores, conversation pits, wax cylinder records, 45rpm autoplay mini-vinyl records, datasettes, cassettes, analog Laserdiscs, DECtape, MiniDiscs, programmable androids, retro unit record equipment, mainframes, LTO tape cartridges, amber earmuffs, black spirals-pattern balls, black matte libstick, cloven hoof shoes;

Links

Implicitly includes this blog's archives, especially what deemed relevant under the "maskoch", "maskutchew" & "16^12" hashtags;

Additional detailwork

GRUB 2 Bootloader custom theme, custom global theme with window decorations / Plasma styles / application styles combo, splash-screen / lock screens / login screens, vector-based wallpapers + icons & animated? cursors, 3x4 (soft, medium, hard; dark Gruvbox-alike, light Gruvbox-esque, warm olive green & warm rust orange-red variations), ;

DETAILS

OS: TuxedoOS (will diversify drastically soon, seriously)

DE: KDE/Plasma & KDE/Liquid

WM: KWin

Terminal: Konsole

Shell: Fish shell, with Bash as fallback

Fonts: Cascadia Code & Cascadia Mono

PlasmaStyle: Daisy (+ Old Plastics?), Breeze

Cursor: Simp1e-Gruvbox-Light

ColorScheme: WarmColorsLight

Icons: Gruvbox Plus Dark

Web Browsers: Librewolf, Firefox...

Dotfiles: Not yet anywhere near ready at this time.

More to come relatively soon...