Cicadence Chords

Blennies in tide-pools / “Gimpo”

(潮だまりのギンポたち　Blennies in tide-pools : uonofu 魚の譜から)

Combusken if it were awesome.

Here have oc

This sounds fascinating

jfc someone posted this last fucking week and so all week I've had it stuck in my head and of course I have to just

Q Lazzarus sounds like she was an amazing act. I wish she'd have been able to share more of her weird music with us because I need more weird, creepy, sad, and insanely danceable tracks in my life

had the opportunity to create another book cover! check out the kickstarter for AMERICAN FUJO ➡️ here

IT"S FINALLY DONE!!!!!!!!!!! Check out my animation of the title song from Nerdy Prudes Must Die, a horror musical from @teamstarkid You can watch the FULL stage show on their youtube channel!

https://youtu.be/PG3RDdyD_GQ?si=Rhxg6asT0MMoTTXd This clip features Jon Matteson as Richie, Will Branner as Max! The story and script is by Nick and Matt Lang, with music and lyrics by Jeff Blim!

Get access to my brushes, art tips, process videos, and files here https://www.patreon.com/ramonn90

Sometimes, I Wonder if I Accidentally Bumped Off JD Salinger

This story is true and goes back to 2008 when John Hamilton at Penguin commissioned me to design the book jackets for JD Salinger's entire back catalogue.

Mr. Salinger was alive then, in his early 90s and, by all accounts, a belligerent and grumpy recluse. The chain of command was unusual and went like this. Salinger directed all his feedback via his New York lawyer, who then communicated with his London lawyer, who then communicated with Penguin, who then communicated with me, in my tiny home studio in North London. This process was somewhat intimidating, and went back and forth for weeks. It must have cost him a fucking fortune.

John told me Salinger was a very sensitive and emotional man and had always hated the first book jacket design for 'The Catcher in the Rye', a book which to this day still sells over a million copies a year. He had instructed Penguin to redesign the jackets using lettering only. "No pictures!" Salinger had stated. That's when John thought of me.

I designed three options, and Salinger chose the third — bespoke Inline Roman Capital letterforms with minimal and carefully considered flourishing to add a touch of refined elegance and unify the set. Salinger was shown the designs and signed them off himself, making only one change to the ‘Catcher’ jacket. He wanted the junction on the 'Y' in 'Rye' raised, which he felt made it more legible.

A day later, Salinger died. John said signing off the jackets was probably Salinger's last creative decision.

To this day I sometimes lie in bed at night wondering if the surprise of my stark, graphic and (back then) avant-garde new covers for his life's work tipped the poor fella over the edge. Fuck me, I hope I didn’t accidentally bump off JD Salinger. I just want to get this off my tits after all these years. Rest in Peace, Mr Salinger. What an intense privilege to be involved in a project of such literary magnitude.

Note: A few years later, just as I was coming to terms with this, I designed a cover for Seamus Heaney, and he died immediately afterwards. I no longer take on book commissions.

DAILY COMICS

you can read the other 920 over here!

Valentino Rossi by Gigi Soldano // COTA 2019

“Babel” by Cildo Meireles (2001)

Tags courtesy of @a-kind-of-merry-war that really explain this artwork!

this doesn’t do it justice!!! look at this beast! i went to see it a year ago and its a phenomenal experience, 10/10!!

it lights up and everything, all the different parts are making noises - like there’s classical music AND rock music layering over each other, old talk shows and just radio static! god i love babel so much!

and what’s even better is that the higher up you go, the more modern the machines get - like it’s old radios at the bottom and iphones/ipods at the top and they ALL still make noise like can you IMAGINE

anyway yeah if you get a chance to see it definitely go see it!

A lot of people were asking for the pitbull version of this post, so here you go

The Mire,

Poster colour on paper

seagull girl and bird boy should meet and become a bird family

that’s just impressive

I’m in love

My cat emerged from behind my TV like a blood lusted demon at these sounds what in the fuck

a former criminal working off her sentence in service of an order of knights.  the sword on her back is a cursed artifact that makes her fundamentally invincible, storing the damage she takes.  if she draws it to fight, it will briefly give her unimaginable power before unleashing all the stored damage at once, probably killing her! :)

further points of interest, re: various tags and comments:

cosmic friends earrings by AbovearthAU