#studio log

[ev-nhua]

January 2024 | Studio Log

Currently working on 🐝

CCA/OAC funded research project

Not a ton to share here; we're in the early stages of data collection and lots of reading! Grateful to both councils for being flexible with the timeline here while I balance these commitments with a full-time job 😵‍💫

Currently reading 🌱

Raving by McKenzie Wark

Reading this one as part of a mini-book club! It's such a treat and a brainstretcher to see rave culture framed as both reflective of and an escape from the post-capitalist terrors of the "real world".

Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

This one is hitting hard, especially in tandem with SFPC's Solidarity Infrastructures class! It's filling the Octavia void left by wrapping up the bulk of OBAI last year.

"There is no such thing as a blank canvas, an empty land or a new idea – but everywhere there is complex, ancient, fertile ground full of potential."

Decolonization is not a metaphor by Eve Tuck & K Wayne Yang

Reading this to keep up with the syllabus of CCT395 (and it was also a piece I didn't get to as part of Beyond GLAM Land Acknowledgments at OCAD last year). They are incredibly clear in their stance that the phrase of "decolonizing our ###" may work to decenter settler narratives, but it not synonymous with decolonization and the reparations that follow.

"When metaphor invades decolonization, it kills the very possibility of decolonization; it recenters whiteness, it resettles theory, it extends innocence to the settler, it entertains a settler future."

 A Rant About “Technology” by Ursula K. Le Guin

"I could learn. We all can learn. That’s the neat thing about technologies. They’re what we can learn to do."

Technology & Ethos by Imamu Amiri Baraka

"See everything fresh and “without form”–then make forms that will express us truthfully and totally and by this certainly free us eventually."

Decolonizing Design by Ahmed Ansari

Very interesting to have this against the Tuck & Yang essay! Ansari uses decolonizing as a metaphor, but the central point of decentralizing eurocentric perspectives, and the pitfalls of what happens when we try this on the surface only, still stands.

"whenever we construct knowledge around an unfamiliar Other, we make what is local and familiar to them familiar to us through a process of reduction by passing what is observed through our own concepts of the world, in what amounts to a “globalization” of knowledge."

Currently thinking about 🌊

Fractal relationships as a way to view community

Consistency of change & the strive and acceptance of temporary perfection

The scale of waves

The coastline paradox as a proxy for zooming in and out

Currently listening to 🕯

Coming Home Song by Sammy Rae & The Friends

Big Girls Don't Cry by Fergie

The Redwing by Feist

[retquits]

happy fields of mistria day 🥹

[bobby-ross]

Never gonna stop thinking about the tragedy that is qDan. The last thing he ever said to anyone was "I'll see you later". He never made it home. He wanted to help. He promised to be back. He made a waypoint of Maxo's house so he would know how to get back. He played hide and seek with his child and sang him to sleep. He did his best to protect his partner despite never once having a piece of armor or a weapon. "Let me save you" is one of the lines he said that I remember the most. "Let me save you", he said, to someone who was much stronger than him. "I'll see you later", he said, to someone he would never see again. "Tell me when he wakes up", he said, about his child, because he wanted to be there. He wanted to help. He wanted so badly to be there. Let me save you. I'll see you later.

He never made it across the second river.

[sage-basil]

tokkan miko

[wordsofthespirits]

‼️ tape unlocked: june & rody

[[ tape unlocked: June & Rody! ]]

loveit?

c.w: blood.

When WHISPERS aren't enough. Words can be SCREAMED.

> [You gained INFO]

Rody Lamoree:

Broken Rule: Left La Guelle De Saturne alive during Best Served Cold.

June:

Broken Rule: Survived the horrors.

Robin seems displeased at the leak of information.

❝ I need to start erasing those who try to leak shit out there... ❞

[plushymunchkin]

hi

hi she has been imported and rigged in roblox studio for uni vs cuddles

some specific aspects of the rig arent right; she cant climb, dancing is weird, shiftlock is weird, and the camera is funky, but i got the animations to work

here she is in action srry 4 poor video quality

[r0zzk1ll]

"this man, is weird.. CRAZY weird.." "he was always very bright.."

[rainbowangel110]

Guys I am so sorry for dropping off the face of the earth, it will happen again

[gossamerorigins]

This new headshot is kind of overwhelming tbh. I can’t even get it together to make alt text. I’m too busy having my soul stared into.

[clamsjams]

philza wants what pol has (a complete immunity to lore)

[spawksstuff]

Highwayman According to De's Characters

I was a highwayman

Along the coach roads I did ride With sword and pistol by my side

Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade

The bastards hung me in the spring of '25 But I am still alive

I was a sailor

I was born upon the tide With the sea I did abide

I sailed a schooner 'round the Horn to Mexico I went aloft to furl the mainsail in a blow

And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed But I am living still

I was a dam builder

Across the river deep and wide Where steel and water did collide

A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below

They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound But I am still around

I'll always be around, and around and around And around and around and around and around

I'll fly a starship

Across the Universe divide And when I reach the other side

I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can Perhaps I may become a highwayman again

Or I may simply be a single drop of rain But I will remain

And I'll come back again, and again And again and again and again and again And again

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

Saw muppet vision 3D 3 times today

[moonstruckhaze]

boyfriend shirt...

update: if you like this art, please go check out this fic that @chessala wrote for it ╥⁠﹏⁠╥

update cont: this is the first time someone's ever written something for art that I've made, and I'm still so happy and touched beyond words that she wrote this. she was even kind enough to share the initial draft with me and asked for feedback and even worked in little suggestions i had for expanding on different parts of the writing, which was so fun and collaborative and I haven't gotten to do something like that in ages. I'm so overwhelmed (in a good way) and it feels like getting to beam the full mental vision of the scenario i had in my brain while working on this piece into the mind of anyone who reads it; ;

i know these close up crops are a bit silly but well. i did my best lol... the full version is up on my alt twitter linked in my pinned post ♡

please also observe the little 🐰 logo.... it is silly & crucial....

[sage-basil]

the sage

[wordsofthespirits]

꒰🍷꒱ ── ⌞ 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨, 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠. ⌝

❌ [[ tape unlocked! ]]

🍸 ❝  Hm...  ❞

The soft clatter of dishes fills the empty air, tiny echoes curling around her like the quiet whispers of an invisible audience. Far from the sea. Far from her world. Far from everything that matters. She folds herself into the silence, lets it settle over her shoulders like a shawl, delicate and fragile as lace.

June perches on the edge of the stage, letting her sparkly dress fan out, shimmering under the dim light like a thousand stars caught in a net. Her legs dangle, toes just brushing the floor, the dress twirling in soft ripples around her small, round frame.

🍸❝Hello, Rody...❞ she sings, her voice like bells chiming in the dark, a sound that wraps around you and doesn’t let go.

Rody shuffles, his smile crooked as he scratches the back of his neck, a light flush painting his cheeks.

🍷 ❝Eheh, am I really your favorite, June?❞ His foot taps out a rhythm only he can hear.

🍸❝Of course~❞ Her smile blooms, wide and warm, a secret tucked just behind her eyes. She shifts, smoothing out her dress, fingers gentle as petals against the fabric. ❝You’re my trusted bodyguard. I put all my faith in you.❞

He laughs, a soft, shy sound, his cheeks even redder. ❝Well… guests might be coming in soon. Do I have permission to open Voix Forte now?❞

June’s smile glows, soft and sweet, spilling like honey, dripping down into the empty spaces.

🍸❝Oh, guests~! I’d be delighted to host them~!❞

[[ June is now open for questions and interactions! ]]

[fandomtrash-16]

some character design practice with studio folk