Nathalie F
@loopyyylupe
Concept Artist & Illustrator. She/Her Embodiment of things Serial cover artist (and occasional colorist) for IDW Sonic comics prev: Ivy Road Games Portfolio: nathaliefourdraine(.)com 🔞🔞🔞
THIN CITIES NO. 3 - Brittle Beginnings, Cerulean Ends ('Ash Returned to Ash, Dust Returned to Dust, but the Water...')
Finished Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, it's a nice short read. The way it fears how words kill the abstract and the horror of infinite roads never traveled (the should've could've would'ves) through eulogies is great. Choosing negative space for the large fonts really stands out to me.
I like jumping into media blind so when checking out Insectopolis, I was surprised to take home a 1x1 ft graphic novel! The art is great and I appreciate the balance of care & fatalism. Some dialogue felt a bit hokey but the book's focus was science non-fiction so no huge deal. Here is a good panel:
Regarding The Matter Of Disposition, Decomposition And Deliquation #ULTRAKILL
The original prose does need to be seen to be believed, this page is about 3 sentences long
Tsai Ming-liang's The Wayward Cloud has such an interesting flavor. It's a surrealist-dry comedy-drama-erotica-musical, which you'd think "that's a lot of genres!" but the film purposefully uses it to club the viewer's head over and over. It's blended so well & the ending was a perfect bow on top.
This template popped up in a server so I thought it'd be fun to try. Here's a few games I think are neat and don't often see mentioned. (STRAFTAT and Devil Daggers are borderline cheating but I recommend them too much not to include)
danny: okay we need artist icons, nat you can't use the battler crying one me:
Happy/calm music usually has the opposite effect on me but I really am digging Miharu Koshi and Haruomi Hosono's Swing Slow. It's so airy smooth while the discordant noise, notes and variety of instruments add such a nice odd texture. It feels like trying to hold onto a fleeting dream.
(volume warning) the MOTHER 2 soundtrack is still so funny for doing this
The Magic Words That Always Protect! 'Unfortunately, Only Bad Things Can Happen'
Kyusaku Yumeno's Hell in a Bottle has a pretty cool structure! It's a short story that isn't too crazy in itself, but it's cut up into three bottles that can be rearranged to make different outcomes. Towoji Honojiro's 2013 edition art is gorgeous, though sometimes felt unfitting to the story.
Sátántangó watched! It was my first long-form movie and quite a marathon, but I really enjoyed it. Each scene felt like dropping a new ingredient into a tea cup, and when it's done I get to enjoy stirring and sipping it for a long time.
I finally watched Terminator 1 & 2 for the first time and surprise, they were awesome. The genre switch from horror to action was a cool way to get everything out of both movies without becoming redundant. But most importantly now I know the context to the fucking skeleton explosion gif.