#trace elements

[dustedmagazine]

Robert Poss — Drones, Songs, and Fairy Dust (Trace Elements)

Robert Poss is best known for his work with Band of Susans, a late 1980s-early 1990s guitar-centric no wave band that came up in the same general scene and time frame as Sonic Youth and Swans. Band of Susans went through a number of configurations, but it never had fewer than three guitarists at a time. Consider Poss the primer inter pares (or first among equals) in the band’s squalling wall of guitars.

Now a few decades and a handful of solo albums on, Poss is still fascinated by the possibilities of amplification and feedback, though perhaps in a more lyrical, less confrontational way than in his youth.

Poss has titled this album Drones, Songs, and Fairy Dust, and indeed, it includes all of the above. Though some tracks favor one element or the other, the lines are not always so sharply delineated. There are drones in the more structured songs, and often, the lilt of melody in even the abstract instrumentals. (I’ll leave discerning “fairy dust” to others.)

Listen, for instance, to the way “Skibbereen Drive” blasts out distorted guitar chords, then surrounds them in flickering wah tones, all the while maintaining a steady, anthemic march. Or how “Out of the Fairy Dust” floats a lucid melody over seething, shifting beds of timber, a folk song living in an ambient wash. “Skew Forest” is maybe the purest expression of feedback sculpture, but even this track follows a wandering narrative line. Poss is thinking hard about texture and atmosphere but not to the exclusion of a good hook.

In the same way, the song-like tracks coruscate with detuned blare, the wall of guitar distortion almost, but not quite, burying the vocals in “Secrets, Chapter and Verse.” “It’s Always Further Than It Seems” has the rough romanticism of post-punk turning into college rock—first run Burma and very early R.E.M. come to mind—but there’s a haze and roar even in this well-shaped song.

As an album, Songs, Drones and Fairy Dust runs a bit long, piling up the brief experiments and longer compositions as Poss tries out new things. You might not want to listen all the way through very often (or you might) but pick any point on this extensive collection and you’ll find some very compelling guitar sounds, bending subtly or overtly towards song.

Jennifer Kelly

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Inhalable particulates (IP), also expressed in units of μg/m³, are those particulates that are smaller in dimension than 10 μm. These have been divided into two size categories, coarse and fine. Coarse particles cover the range between 2.5 and 10 μm and tend to be derived from low physical processes. The size category of the aerosols is referred to as the PM10 (PM, particulate matter) fraction. Fine particles (PM2.5, for an example, see Fig. 6.2a and b) cover the range less than 2.5 μm and are generated by a variety of combustion processes along with condensation (chemical) reactions in the air. Both size categories of particles are particularly important because they can be the agents of many serious respiratory problems, and the smaller the particulate, the more serious a health risk it poses. Fine particles can be deeply inhaled, interfering with lung's cellular activity and the re-oxygenation of blood.

"Environmental Chemistry: A Global Perspective", 4e - Gary W. VanLoon & Stephen J. Duffy

[higgsbison]

CHAPTER 2 OF ""CHESS"" IS HERE

40% LESS CHESS, 10% MORE FISH

[wifeeaterbutch]

what so sober boys do at parties? take nudes in the bathroom of course

[lucidstarlet]

I saw this base and I had a vision.

Disclaimer, this isn't exactly my art. I traced the base that I posted above. I think that's allowed with bases so long as you credit? If not, just tell me and I'll take this down!

[ganondoodle]

wanted to redo kogas tattoos as a warm up and ended up spending the last remaining hours of this day agonizing over making it look coherent

so this is it i guess ;o;

[pennumbra]

[mimjandoodlesstuff]

(Click for better quality)

This project has been something I've wanted to do for a while but only now got around to actually making it.

The real painting's name is The Defense of the Sampo in English (by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1896). Yes, the Sampo is golden pizzas in this "AU", because obviously! And the pike jaw kantele is April's video camera.

[skunkes]

are you okay with people taking inspiration from your art style?

inspiration yes! I have some mutuals that have taken insp from little aspects of my style (and vice versa) i think "stealing" (AND OSMOSING) is how ive cobbled together my own art style. but the important part is the osmosing and integrating into your own style and not just directly stealing and emulating specifics to look exactly like mine its so scary 😭 my personhood....

i wldnt even mind doing studies or such (as long as credited) as long as u eventually Osmose....dis happened to me a few yrs ago, i took heavy inspo from a creator who approached me abt it and i had to of course apologize and then also explain that i wasnt coming for their personhood, but just exploring for a few drawings (which was true! + they appreciated dis clarification)

[presidentdisastraofgallifrey]

Romana is Not Ok

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The thiol groups act as ligands for ions of trace elements such as cadmium and arsenic (Figure 24.23).

"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.

[sp00ky-scary]

Ghoulia

drawing mh requests again because life got busy right after i asked for em

i may like g3 but ghoulia is not included in that :] g1 ghoulia is so much better

[mochaaaaaaaa]

Pinkie Pie!!!

I feel motivated and comfortable again to start posting here now, so I decided to post a redraw of a Pinkie Pie drawing that I completely forgot to post months ago!!!

Old version: 👇

[bismuthburnsblue]

finally finished tracing out the skirt embroidery!

there was a lot of adjusting i had to do to this to make it symmetrical and also just... make sense (seriously look at the original skirt for a few seconds and you'll start seeing all the places where its.... weird) but im super happy with my results! im planning on using this (or at least elements of it) on the rest of the costume to tie the thing together!

in the end, i couldnt get the lower flower to come out in a way i liked that also felt cohesive with the rest of the design, so i left it off, but i think its just as good without! you can see my first attempt at it in one of the templates below the cut though, if youre interested!

this was fun! idk if anyone other than me will find use in this, but it was worth it anyway,i learnt a lot about using the path tool in the process of making this & already have some future plans for the things i picked up on.

↓ versions with thicker lines and each element separated out into its own template ↓

thicker lines!

The border- this repeats perfectly, just match it center to center

The main flower

The upper flower

The Tulips! i included both directions here