#the oslo diaries

[rosechata]

oslo colors

[sevicia]

A lot of the time I think to myself like damnnn I must be either enlightened or really fucking dumb cuz I just don't see it when people say Radiohead songs are sooo sad!!! And then True Love Waits (Live in Oslo) comes up and I start drafting my suicide note

[belovedapollo]

from my trip in Oslo, 2018 ✈️ reblog ok, don't repost

[stuffedeggplants]

I am tentatively planning a summer trip to Sweden if everything works out. There are some national parks I want to visit and camp at for a few days, but I will be travelling completely alone and do not have extensive camping experience, so I’m unsure of whether I should actually visit certain parks just for general wilderness safety reasons. And initially I thought I would bring a camera, sketchbook, and some other things on the trip, but now I’m thinking that the logistics of dragging anything but a compact backpack across the mountains of Scandinavia would not be an optimal experience. 

Lots to plan. There’s also so much to do that I will have nowhere near enough time to see everything I want to see.

[sreehari28]

I'm sharing my life update and some of the fun things I've been doing lately! From eating out in Oslo to shopping at the local mall. Watch this short of weekly vlog 🌦️| run errands w/me + getting my life together.

[pmamtraveller]

EDVARD MUNCH - THE SCREAM, 1893

Originally named "The Scream of Nature," the painting shows a figure resembling a skeleton, standing on a bridge with hands covering his face, screaming. Two individuals observe from afar. The simplified shapes, color palette, and perspective are all characteristic of Munch's unique style.

Munch wrote in his diary his inspiration for this piece. It reads, “I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature.”

What Munch witnessed could possibly be attributed to the explosion of a volcano on the island of Krakatoa in May 1883, located in present-day Indonesia. The massive explosion had a global impact. Munch and his friends likely witnessed the amazing red sunsets due to gases being dispersed into the atmosphere. Similar effects were reported as far as the United States, quite far from its origination.

This work speaks to individuals and is interpreted as a representation of the universal anguish of modern humans. Today, it is considered an iconic symbol. It is acknowledged not only by art enthusiasts but also by the general public. In 1994, this particular edition of “The Scream” was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo, Norway. Luckily, it was found shortly thereafter.

[fellthemarvelous]

The Small Back Room - Maggie's Record Shop (unhinged meta no one asked for, part 1)

I'm going to cover these in two separate posts because there are a lot. This post is going to be dedicated to the artists with multiple covers in Maggie's shop.

*This is all bonus content from The Arrival (2x1).

What is the purpose of the record shop? It's called The Small Back Room, and it's connected to Aziraphale's bookshop. And a small back room seems like a place someone would store their records.

"If I owned a record shop, I'd be more concerned about people breaking in and leaving more records behind." - Nina

And someone left more records behind. Records of "Every Day".

Aziraphale hears Gabriel sing a human song that Aziraphale is unfamiliar with, so he goes to the record shop to ask Maggie, who actually has way too many copies of "Every Day" because of a pub in Edinburgh, the place with the cemetery that has the statue of Gabriel.

There is more to it though. The pub called the Resurrectionist that plays "Every Day" over and over on the jukebox (and somewhere in America John Mulaney is cackling like a madman) now has direct ties with Aziraphale's personal life because they ended up in Maggie's record shop.

The place where they met Elspeth and Wee Morag, Mr. Dalrymple, messed with dead bodies, and where Crowley saved one woman's soul from Hell.

We heard one passage from Aziraphale's diary, and it was about the time he and Crowley went to Edinburgh that started off with them looking at the statue of Gabriel.

We know Aziraphale has more than 600 volumes of personal written history (as of 1827).

Where is he going to store records of his life on Earth? A record shop that no one other than him visits, attached to the building he owns.

The walls lined with record covers that are telling stories. Clues as to where the story is going to take us? Could they be Aziraphale's diaries or other important records Aziraphale has kept for thousands of years?

And is anyone else concerned about "Come on Over to Our Third Floor Apartment" or is that just me? Heaven is the third floor when you look at the button arrangements on the lift. ⬆️⬆️ ⬇️⬇️

Oslo Revival 1. Come on Over to Our Third Floor Apartment (We're Having a Party / Just for You / Four in a Bed / Have This Drink / It Doesn't Taste Weird / We'll Take Care of You / We Love You / You're One of Us Now / Together Forever) 2. Disguises (Carol and Her Hat / The Bicycle / Memories of a Windchime / Lunch / Who Am I Today? / Make Me Cry / Peggy Asked for Her Jumper Back) 3. It's Raining in My Kitchen (You Cast a Spell on My Wife / Running into Danger / Transcending the Patriarchy / Plumbing / A Dozen Eggs, (Too Many) / Someone New in the Bedroom) 4. Better Together

Kubasulu 1. Great White Lies (Fishy Business / Fluent in Shark-asm / Vanish into Fin-air / Gettin' Chummy / You're Gill-ty / No-fin Left to Lose / I Chews You) 2. Sweating in the City

Rat Keith 1. Look at This Mountain (The Mountain I Climbed / Assorted Wailing Chants of Peril / I Ate Some Berries (Shouldn't Have Done That) / What Happens on the Mountain, Stays on the Mountain / I See It in My Dreams / Soiled Leaves and Soft Bark / Don't Touch the Mushrooms / Huddle for Warmth / My Map Blew Away / This is My Home Now / Finally Rescued) 2. A Dog in God's Hot Car 3. Chem Trails

Raga Koboj 1. Raga Koboj 2. Earth, Swallow Me Whole (Why Can I Just Stay in Bed? / Sighing Loudly / No One's Going to Lunch / I'm Hungry But I Don't Want to Eat Alone / I Wonder What's on the Menu Today / Probably Something Mediocre / I'm Tired / It's Friday / I Wish It Would End) 3. Just Sounds 2.0 (Falling Coin / Stubbed Toe / Oops! / Rice in a Bowl / Spoon Clang / Gagging / Crinkled Paper / Bad Alphabet / Winded)

Deaf Dust 1. Change the Lightbulb (Cartwheels in Mexico / The cinnamon candle / Hold Me / Let Go / Who wait's for us? / Awesome / The basement's pretty dark / Broken Bulb / Stairway to your Mum's house) 2. Snapshots from the Moon

Randa Ransom 1. Doin' it in the Dust (Hard on the Rocks / Ridin' the Horizon / Tall Drink of Water / Wear My Hat / Call My Name / Let Me Use a Saddle / Just Us in the Dust) 2. I'm Lost and I Don't Speak the Language (Lost in Tokyo / WHat's that shop selling? / Sex Dolls (Self-Assembly) / Where's the Bathroom? / This Toilet is Singing / More Sex Dolls / There's a Cafe for Cats / I Want to Go Home / What's Home in Japanese? / Take Me Anywhere Taxi Man) 3. The Answer May Surprise You

Georgina O'Georgia 1. Gorgeous in Georgia ("Oh, George You're Gorgeous" / "It's Georgia with a G!" / "Get your hands off my hair" / "Yes, that's my real name") 2. Spur of the Moment

CT Bazz 1. Locking Up & Looking Down 2. Dank Balaclava

I've never seen anyone talk about these though, but they seem important. Have I missed conversation surrounding these? I'm just really curious as to what other people might think.

As I said above, there is a part two, but that part will cover artists with only one cover.

[justforbooks]

Nicholas Shakespeare’s elegant biography of the James Bond author Ian Fleming takes its subtitle from a journalist’s observation, quoted halfway through, that its subject was “for a moment of time, a complete man” while working for British naval intelligence in the second world war. Yet you can’t help read it as a promise to give the reader what was left out of previous biographies such as John Pearson’s crisp, more portable authorised life from 1966. And is there a claim, too, for the alpha male credentials of the man called “Flemingway” by his friend Noël Coward? Journalist, stockbroker, thriller writer and – like his famous creation – a playboy and 70-a-day smoker, who died of a heart attack in 1964 at the age of 56 after a plagiarism row over the origins of Thunderball, the ninth Bond novel.

After a dutiful account of how Fleming’s Scottish financier grandfather became a millionaire – later cutting Fleming and his brothers out of his will – Shakespeare gets going with his subject’s troubled boyhood in the shadow of his father’s death in the first world war. Family friends in Switzerland take his education in hand after hasty exits from Eton (hanky-panky with a woman) and Sandhurst (gonorrhoea). His exams aren’t good enough for the Foreign Office; an engagement to a Swiss lover ends amid maternal threats to cut off his allowance. He falls on his feet at Reuters – it was that kind of life – further honing his knack for a scoop at the Sunday Times, a handy source of contacts for his war work.

Testimony woven from diaries, papers and interviews gives the book a flavour of oral history. Shakespeare goes to great lengths – not least tracking down a 94-year-old veteran, the last surviving member of a covert commando unit that Fleming organised – to dispel the idea that Fleming’s service, occluded by state-sanctioned secrecy, was just “in-trays, out-trays and ashtrays”. The book’s first half puts the future author at the heart of military and journalistic history – a search for German weapons of mass destruction; the race to get an inside scoop on the Cambridge spies – as well as the bedroom shenanigans of the English well-to-do. (Shakespeare, who encourages us at one point to smile at the mention of a “germanely” named Nazi admiral, Assmann, shows his assumptions of his audience when he writes confidently of “that small, turn-of-the-century intellectual clique, the Souls”.)

Fleming may be “the man behind James Bond”, in the subtitle of Andrew Lycett’s 1995 biography, but Shakespeare’s project, you sense, is partly to say there’s more to him. Eager to prove Fleming’s interest beyond the reasons that will draw most of his readers to the book, he is almost comically insistent on the degree to which his subject was ahead of the curve. Not only might he have sparked the idea of creating the CIA – in a memo written when the US-UK special relationship was being forged – but he also came up with the idea of putting a Christmas tree from Oslo in Trafalgar Square.

As for the dozen Bond novels that poured out of Fleming after 1953’s Casino Royale – written in a month in his winter bolthole in Jamaica a year earlier – they were, in Shakespeare’s telling, essentially the literary expression of a midlife crisis accelerated by the encroachments of fatherhood and a faithless union as the third husband of Ann Charteris. They had got together with an affair that caused a high-society scandal during her previous marriage to the Daily Mail heir Esmond Harmsworth; she later cheated on Fleming with the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, who told him that the “sex, violence, alcohol” formula of the Bond novels was “to one who leads such a circumscribed life as I do, irresistible”.

Fleming, injecting the American dirt of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer novels into the English thriller, launched 007 on what Shakespeare calls the “spam-munching gloom of Attlee’s Britain”, writing (Fleming told his publisher) in order to make “as much money... as possible” and to have “as much fun as I personally can”. Respectable sales rocketed when JFK took a shine to From Russia, with Love – and the movies were yet to come. While Fleming was self-deprecating – telling Raymond Chandler the Bond novels were “straight pillow fantasies of the bang-bang, kiss-kiss variety” – he was proud enough to greet the director of the first Bond movie, Dr No, by telling him: “So they’ve decided on you to fuck up my work.”

“Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt,” Bond thinks in Casino Royale; he sees luck “as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued”. Squint enough and Fleming took some care to cast his main character in ironic light. Early in that novel, the reader gets a fly-on-the-wall thrill of watching fieldwork in action, with the scene of theatrical care Bond takes to ensure his hotel room isn’t being searched; but soon enough his French sidekick turns up to let Bond know his upstairs neighbours have been listening in to his every move.

In Shakespeare’s biography, the novels are mostly a source of supporting quotation – he doesn’t get bogged down in questions of what it means to read Bond now, confining himself to a remark on how his “cavalier treatment of women... carried the sexual climate of the Blitz into the austerity of the cold war, and was less modern perhaps than it was later cracked up to be”. And perhaps there’s no need for his defenders to overstate the case for Fleming’s novelistic subtlety. Bond has always been shaped by a collective amnesia that allows us to make him what we wish him to be at any given moment; when he parachuted into the Olympic opening ceremony with the queen, it was as the best of British, not as a connoisseur of (Fleming’s words) “the sweet tang of rape”.

The novels, in a way, are irrelevant to 007, but the course of history would surely have run otherwise had Fleming not had the foresight to change his protagonist’s name from the original “James Secretan” – Fleming’s typescript revision perhaps his most significant literary act.

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[the-game-of-illusions]

Ultimate Ornithologist: Sasha Taisinki. She wears white sweatpants, a loosely worn white shirt (not revealing, just not formally worn), white shoes and always has a leather glove at the hip. She also wears a white cape, with a plethora of colourful feathers covering it. She has short blue hair and green eyes. She’s out as aroace and talks with a Russian accent. She’s the most honest of the bunch.

Ultimate Knight : Sanaka Ooi. She wears a light silver plastron over a black hoodie, a black skating skirt and running shoes. She constantly has a spear in her back. She has short white hair and blue eyes. She’s trans and will let you know about it. She’s also asexual and panromantic and is looking for her “monarch”. Always announces herself by name when entering a room. Sasha’s comment : She acts before she thinks. That isn’t always a good thing.

Ultimate Archer : Straits Oka. He wears a simple black shirt, black pants and black running shoes. He has arrows hidden in his clothes and a short bow that never leaves his hip. He has long black hair and brown eyes. He’s pan (although he doesn’t know it yet) and has a rivalry with Dairs. He’s got the sharpest eyes of them all. Sasha’s comment : That’s a man that could use to watch his back.

Ultimate Chemist : Victoria Allas. She wears a white T-shirt, a lab coat, a white skirt, white shoes and thigh highs. She also wears cat ears. She has very short grey hair and brown eyes. She’s aromantic and pansexual, she’ll never mention that if you don’t ask her though. She’s the craziest of the bunch. Sasha’s comment : She could stand to be a little more trustful.

Ultimate Librarian : Astol Arith. She wears a pink hoodie, purple sweatpants and blue socks, no shoes. She has a locked diary in her hoodie’s pocket. She has never cut her black hair and purple eyes. She’s a closeted lesbian. She read all the books in the library. Sasha’s comment : Easily scared girl, very cute.

Ultimate Lucky Student : Akiro Tasc. He wears a multicoloured T-shirt under a rainbow jacket, fuchsia pants and white shoes. He has medium length orange hair (dyed) and red eyes. He’s openly pansexual and does not take criticism over his appearance. The most overbearing but undersharing guy you’ll ever meet. Sasha’s comment : His clothes are a war crime, but otherwise a cool guy.

Ultimate Sniper : Dairs Ato. They wear a black hoodie with the hood always up, black cargo pants and black running shoes. They usually have their gun in their back, but not right now. They have long black hair (dyed) and grey eyes. They’re pansexual, though you need to ask the question directly to know and likes Straits, though he’ll never admit it. The quietest of them all. Sasha’s comment : I honestly think he just doesn’t want to get attached, you know?

Ultimate Treasure Hunter : Taiga. He wears a black tank top, black cargo pants and black trekking shoes. He always has a puzzle in his hands. He has short pink hair and pink eyes. He’s aroace and quiet. Not really a free sharer of information. Sasha’s comment : I don’t really know him that well.

Ultimate Influencer : Taika Oslo. She changes her style everyday, so it’s impossible to describe her on that. She has long blond hair (styles it differently everyday) and blue eyes. She’s straight and a tad bit homophobic. The most overbearing and oversharing gal you’ll ever meet. Sasha’s comment : I know her too well.

Ultimate Surgeon : Charles Kayo. He wears very formal clothes, constantly. He has short black hair and black eyes. He’s aroace and will let you know, very formally of course. He’s extremely scary when you first meet him, but he’s pretty chill. Sasha’s comment : He doesn’t make a sound when he walks. It is extremely scary.

Ultimate Racecar Driver : Kori Hato. He wears a constantly closed red jacket, red pants and red shoes. He has medium length black hair and red eyes. He’s straight and an ally and very vocal about who should have rights (everyone). He’s the one who cracks the most jokes. Sasha’s comment : He’s the only one who made me laugh.

Ultimate Prosecutor : Mairo Von Aesg (voice : look up Yorokobe shounen). He wears standard attorney clothes, at all times. He has short white hair and black eyes. He’s straight. He’s the one who’s always an ass about the rules. Sasha’s comment : He could use a hot bath, but he probably takes cold showers.

Ultimate Motivator : Masla Junes. She wears a white tank top, a blue jacket, black sweatpants and green running shoes. She has green hair and blue eyes. She’s pansexual and proud of it. She’s always telling others they can’t give up. Sasha’s comment : Too loud, scares off the birds.

Ultimate Jumper : August Junes. She wears a white tank top, a green jacket, black sweatpants and blue running shoes. She has green hair and blue eyes. She’s aroace and proud of it. She’s much quieter than her twin, but she’s still very loud. Sasha’s comment : She should stop jumping over other people.

Ultimate Swordsman : Saki Koro. He wears a gray kimono, a blue jacket, blue pants and black running shoes. He has long blue hair tied up in a ponytail and blue eyes. His sword is always at his hip. He’s straight and gallant. He likes challenging other people to duels, respecting their answers. Sasha’s comment : He’s nice, if he could just stay away from the swallows, that’d be nicer.

Ultimate Doll Maker : Stet Pups. She wears a white Victorian dress. She has long white hair and white eyes. She’s the only one who hides nothing about herself from others, along with Sasha. Sasha’s comment : She showed me a doll of herself. It was the scariest experience ever.

My (@dumb-but-happy) very first full fancast. Interaction isn’t limited to in-universe and dead characters can still be interacted with.

@angelicassassinations @pennyroyald

[rosechata]

oslo pink

[therealvinelle]

You reincarnate as Lord Voldemort in 1997! What chaos ensues? (Assume you have all his powers)

Oh but anon, what use are his powers if I don't know how to use them? I don't know any spells, nor how magic works, nothing. It's like giving someone the computer belonging to the world's greatest programmer and saying "Go on, hack the Pentagon! You'll blow me away, I'm sure!"

In other words, I sit down in a corner and cry until Bellatrix kills me for daring to impersonate her master.

Assuming I somehow know how to wield Voldemort's power

I imagine my priority here is to make myself a better body than what Voldemort is currently stuck in, if only so I'll be able to look into reflexive surfaces without screaming in terror.

I... have no choice but to ask the horcruxes about this, so I ask Bella to bring me my goblet.

The goblet... turns out to be Vinelle too.

After all, I have become Voldemort, this means all pieces of Voldemort's soul are now Vinelle's soul.

Oh god, my soul has been fractured into itsy bitsy pieces and Dumbledore and Harry already destroyed two of them (the Ring and the Diary). FUCK.

My priority now is to save the surviving horcruxes that we know about, which leaves us with the Locket, the Diadem (I never put much stuck into the idea that Nagini was a horcrux), and Harry himself. Of the two, the Locket is in the most danger, as Harry already has it and may have already destroyed it.

According to the internet, Harry received the sword on December 26th of 1997 so I'm almost certainly good, but Voldemort is generally cursed with the world's worst luck so who knows.

I call Snape to my side and if he hasn't already given Harry the sword I replace it with a replica that, assuming magic would allow me to do this (which I think it would), is a portkey set to trigger when a specific person touches it.

That person, of course, being Harry. Should I be unable to get the portkey to recognize a specific person in this way, I will set it to trigger when touched underwater, as I know Harry's the first and only person to be touching the sword while it's in a lake.

I obliviate Snape, who in time sends Harry the sword, sending Harry to me. I now have Harry and the Locket both, and can retrieve the Diadem in my own time. Snape can do whatever, Dumbledore kept him enough in the dark that the only dangerous knowledge he has is that Harry's a horcrux: I can obliviate that from him, and leave him to continue his miserable life.

Should Snape already have given Harry the sword, however, I have a good cry (assuming the homunculus is capable of crying, otherwise I'm staring forlornly out a window) and then wait forlornly for the Snatchers to catch the trio.

I retrieve the Diadem, and get Harry if I can. If I am unable to get Harry I'll still have the Diadem, otherwise... yes.

If I am able to get Harry to my side I give him the Draught of Living Death until I am able to procure a basilisk, at which point I have him petrified. He is transformed into something small and easy to hide, and I spend the next few years trying to devise of a way to extract a horcrux from a living being.

I also try to find a way to get Tom Riddle's body back, as I don't fancy being inside a homunculus.

As for the wizarding world...

It's gone a bit far for me to be able to overturn Voldemort's revolution, and even if I did we wouldn't be returning to a world that's particularly improved. I think I put Lucius Malfoy in charge so he can have a nervous breakdown and go abroad, ostensibly to increase my dark power but really I'm just homesick for Norway. Oh the terrible city planning decisions in Oslo of the past 26 years that I can prevent from ever taking place.

[captainrayzizuniverse]

Yes! Thank youuuu @goldcrumble for this I truly need it now. I’m sitting in Kelowna waiting for the worst year of my life to be over in the most unremarkable way (binging on paw patrol with my nephew) and what better way to do it than this? Beware, long ass essay incoming. 

When did you become a Louie? (This is about to get loooong)

I love talking about this because it’s such an interesting journey for me compared to other artists I love. I used to watch British reality tv with my grandma every year and that of course includes x-factor and strictly come dancing (and the GBBO, sewing bee, BGT etc..it was unhealthy) which usually start around the same time. We started with x-factor when leona lewis won until the last season with Louis as judge. So yes of course I watched the one with 1D and I was rooting for them during the show (and Louis was my LEAST fav only because I’d watch the xtra factor and the video diaries and he was SO loud and obnoxious and basiclly everything I find annoying in a person. Sorry it was what it was. Anyway after that season I never paid them any attention but we continued watching x-factor year after year. I've mentioned this before but when Louis was announced as the judge in 2018 I remember telling my grandma that it’s probably to draw in the 1D fans because the show was so bad at that point. Obviously I said it with eyes rolled and thinking ‘they really think they’re gonna save this shit with a kid from a boyband?’. Little did I know this guy will ruin me. Anyway as a non fan and someone who really didn’t know anything about the guy I absolutely loved him as a judge..so like a couple of weeks in I read his entire wikipedia and was 100% drinking the ‘reconnected and in love with his long term gf and has a kid with a one night stand from LA’ koolaid. And I listened to his singles at the time, loved them, added them to one of my Anghami playlist and it was chill for a while.

I have never been in a music fandom before..I’ve been in the football fandom (esp livejournal) for ages and also several movies/tv shows and books. I think most of the music I listen to are either from bands who are dead or there just isn’t a fandom big enough to exist…or I haven’t found it. Dunno..just never got into one. SO on a flight from oslo in 2019 I was reading a fic from another fandom and in the author’s note there was something about being inspired by a Larry fic and I vaguely remembered who the Larry ship is about. So when I clicked it and saw that it was THE Louis T, I went into my second rabbit hole and saw all these news singles he has out and an album that was about to come out and a show in Toronto and wow so much excitement all at once. Booked the tickets for the show which were later cancelled due to covid and then never got to see the ltwt live (rip hearing defenceless live). After that I didn’t follow up with him, I didn’t even know lthq was a thing ffs. When people say that they need to promote things on his personal IG, it’s for people like ME! Anyhoo! I still never searched him up on Tumblr until one day by chance I saw a clip from a livestream on instagram of one of his earlier shows in Texas. I didn’t even know concert livestreams were a thing tbh. So I kept on monitoring to find the source until I got to finally watch an entire show (I think it was the 4th American one, a few before the chicken nugget incident) and then somehow that led me to Tumblr and slowly I started following very very few blogs. So when did I become a Louie really? Was it 2018 when I was like ok the dude is cool I like the couple of songs he has out? Or 2019 when I booked my first concert ticket? Or in 2022 when I found the fandom on Tumblr? Also I got into 1D when I read that wiki page and it said something about him having the most writing credits. It intrigued me and was like ‘fine! I’ll give them a go I guess!’

your favourite song? (one off walls and one off fitf)

We Made It. All this time (if you ask tomorrow it might jump between Saturdays or holding onto heartache or she is beauty)

your favourite music video?

Miss you! The hair, the song.

your favourite gig?

Toronto one because I was anticipating it for sooooo long and it fully lived up to it. Esp after spending the entire 2022 watching livestreams and being jealous af. The new york one was good too but my home show will always be my fav

your favourite louis hair?

X-factor hair. 

your favourite louis interview?

Oof man this is hard! They all kinda get mixed together so either a Zach lang one (probably the first one because it sticks in my memory more since I saw it right when it came out) or one of the buzzfeed ones like the snack wars or the one he did with the yellow background (man I’m lazy as shit, I can literally YouTube this).

suit louis or tanktop louis?

Suit Louis. Literally anything but tank top louis. I know I’m the only one in this boat but I just don’t dig tank tops. I think it’s also the fact that he almost always wears hideous shoes with them that kinda kill the look. If I had to be specific, I’d say tracksuit Louis. 

favourite louis tattoo?

I’d also go with the x&o’s 

favourite louis bodypart? (c'mon we all have one!)

I immediately thought his eye crinkles but realized that’s not a body part. Maybe hands or the veiny neck??I love a neck with passionate veins (what even am I saying??)

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I think my small Louis loving mutuals have either already done this or have been tagged, so it ends with ME!

And with that I shall wish everyone a genocide free 2024! A free Palestine! And an end to this fucking massacre!

Back to watching Marshall and Skye on PP. 

[inkenstabell]

My alltime fav albums

I was curious about which ones I listened to the most while drawing so I went to look through my music library. These albums have carried me through so many hours of work lol. I don’t have to be in a specific mood to enjoy them, they’re just instant energy fuel to me and I’ve listened to them so often that I can’t even be sure which order they should be in.

Vauxdvihl - To Dimension Logic

The Gentle Storm - The Diary

Arcturus - Shipwrecked in Oslo (live)

Devin Townsend Project - Z2

Haken - The Mountain

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

Anthriel - The Pathway

Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up

Honorable mentions: Procol Harum, Dire Straits, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

[doasyoudesireandlive]

Aldri hørt om dette @bucky-barnes-diaries 🤷‍♀���

This is news to me... And me and Hanna (@bucky-barnes-diaries) are from different places in Norway.. So i dont think its that common.... Maybe in Oslo?

me today honestly

[musicarenagh]

Introducing Sūn Byrd: An Exciting Addition to Norway's Soul Music Landscape A vibrant new band is making waves in Oslo's music scene - meet Sūn Byrd, a soulful six-piece group that's eager to launch their first album in April 2024. These potential superstars are reinventing what we know to be classic soul. They are achieving this by combining the old with the new. What gives Sūn Byrd a head start is that the band members have supported major Norwegian artists like Fieh and Bård Berg Electric Band. Their sound is an irresistible mixture of soulful vocals, vibrant instrumentation, a catchy horn section and an overall feeling of happiness. I followed the band to learn more about their story, where their inspiration come from and where they plan to go next. From looking back when they first developed an interest in music to exchanging how their sound develops still, they created a picture of a genuine band that is dedicated to ensuring that the soul stays burning. With Sūn Byrd ready for their album to hit the markets, Norwegian music fans should not lag behind. This is a group that goes for experimentation while giving homage to the soul legends that paved the way. Pencil down your diary for April 2023 - #Sūn Byrd is all set to hit the musical scene in Norway. Listen to Hey Love below https://open.spotify.com/track/2BSot2IvkO343zXOdOjrPp?si=ce061ad3151d48db Follow Sūn Byrd on Facebook Spotify Soundcloud Youtube Instagram What is your stage name - Sūn Byrd Is there a story behind your stage name? - On our way back from recording the upcoming debut album, we drove from Italy to Norway. We knew we needed a name, but struggled to find it. We spent the entire trip coming up with suggestions to each other, when Sūn Byrd popped up. The name is a homage to one of our heroes, Donald Byrd and his band The Blackbyrds. Where do you find inspiration? - We find inspiration in the 70s soul scene, with the greats like Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie +++. We also get inspired by going to concerts and discovering new music. A lot a good stuff out there. What was the role of music in the early years of your life? - Music has always been important in our lives. Through childhood is has played different roles for the band members, but in the end that's where we felt at home. Are you from a musical or artistic family? - There's a lot musicality and artistic people in our families, so that has opened up a space for us to learn and grow. Who inspired you to be a part of the music industry? - Donny Hathaway. The recording of "For All We Know". It took me by surprise, and I had to take a couple of steps back. WHAT a song. How did you learn to sing/write/to play? - Mostly by trying and failing I guess. We all studied music, but the writing happend together outside of school. [caption id="attachment_54789" align="alignnone" width="2000"] Mostly by trying and failing I guess[/caption] What was the first concert that you ever went to and who did you see perform? - Ah, I don't quite remember the first concert, but one imporant memory was watching Trondheim Jazz Orchestra playing Savages in Oslo. Amazing show! How could you describe your music? - Passionate and energetic. We love to play togheter, and love to bring people in to our world. Describe your creative process. - Listen to music/go outside/read -> try to express myself by writing our just improvisation with a piano -> try to make it in to something that feels like a song -> bring it to the band. What is your main inspiration? - Hehe, hard to say beacuse it changes often. The ones that stick around are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. Right now I'm super into Nick Drake. What musician do you admire most and why? - Bosco Mann. The stuff he and the other guys at Daptone bring out are crazy good. Did your style evolve since the beginning of your career? - I feel like it's evolving all the time. This is like a long journey where we try to discover more and more about the soul genre, as well as we bring ourselves into the music.

I both think and hope that we continue to evolve for as long as we play music. Who do you see as your main competitor? - We don't look at other artist like competitors, but as friends and collleagues. Check out Beharie. He is the man!! What are your interests outside of music? - We all have different interests, some love football, others rock climbing. If it wasn't a music career, what would you be doing? - That's a hard question. I think I would be a teacher maybe, but it's hard to see myself doing anything other than music. Maybe I'll end up as a teacher someday. What is the biggest problem you have encountered in the journey of music? - That it's hard! But that's the fun. Everyone wants to write an amazing song that makes an impact on peoples lives. If you could change one thing in the music industry, what would it be? - Haha, I don't know. Mandatory gospel brakes! https://open.spotify.com/artist/32PUtLgz3SzD5Ihjdxoa6r?si=YXLZzQirReiXIyvQdcV5xg Why did you choose this as the title of this project? - The song 'Hey Love' was called 'Hey Love' beacause we sing it like 20 times throughout the song! What are your plans for the coming months? - We are releasing our debut album 12th of April, with a couple of shows coming up. We're also going in studio to work on our next album. Going to be a couple of great months. Do you have any artistic collaboration plans - Maybe. It could be really fun!! What message would you like to give to your fans? - We really appreciate all the feedback and love. Hope you enjoy 'Hey Love'. We're really excited to show you the whole album!!

[valenjoya]

My next assignment will be the film poster, that's why, im trying to find inspiration on different works. However, these film poster ideas are part of my inspiration for a documentary about Bogota, the capital of Colombia, and they play a key role in my visual diary. Each poster shares a common thread – the use of a single image that encapsulates the core concept of the film, which will focus on exploring the vibrant city of Bogota. As I prepare to travel to Bogota for the documentary, my goal is to capture a powerful shot that distills the essence of the city into one impactful image.

When it comes to hierarchy theory, I've experimented with different types of typography. Some posters play with a contrast in color to emphasize certain elements. This diverse use of typography serves as my foundation, providing a starting point for the design journey. By strategically incorporating hierarchy and color, I aim to create visually compelling film posters that not only communicate the documentary's message but also reflect the richness and diversity of Bogota. Each poster is a piece of my creative puzzle, contributing to the larger visual story of my documentary project.

Fire at sea (Gianfranco,2016), The Oslo Diaries Movie Poster - Chargefield, (Nomadland. 2020), Crip Camp, How to make a movie poster (studioBinder)