coldneedles

name: squid

age: 21

location: midwestern united states

i post about: i'm into a lot of things but what i end up posting about are monthly periodical-types of the music i discover and listen to (free for anybody to access) and the general musings and feelings of an anxious college guy (behind an access lock). i might someday make a dedicated post about history or politics or literature but i rarely feel like i have any meaningful contribution to what could be said. that's a very broad characterization but check my about me on my profile for a slightly more detailed synopsis

my hobbies are: my whole life revolves around music, more or less :] i listen to music extensively (squid771 on last.fm and rateyourmusic), collect vinyl records, and go to college studying sound engineering (i'm a senior!). i have an off-again, on-again recording project that i'll someday release something under. i play guitar, i'm an untrained singer, and i play various keyboard instruments. i always try to watch movies but usually that means i'll just gather a bunch, watch 2 in one night, and then go 6 months without watching another. i'm trying to read more (5 books read this year; infinitely times more than the past couple of years), i'm big into history (currently researching the george mcgovern 1972 campaign, and concurrently the history of how the word socialism/communism got such a negative connotation in the U.S.), and i like to walk around at night, or in the rain, or both. i try to appreciate the little things. i want to write, and learn esperanto, but i've never found enough consistent motivation to try either

my fandoms are: i haven't really considered myself to be really big enough on anything to be part of a fandom, but some of my favorite bands/artists are fishmans, stereolab, broadcast, nick drake, elliott smith, the radio dept., the field mice (all of sarah records really), brian eno, yo la tengo, ichiko aoba, and many many others! i could talk about music for days and days. as far as like forms of media go i'm big into the trails series (games 1-5, trails and crossbell; cold steel ruined the franchise), deltarune (haven't played undertale but i generally know what happens by osmosis), off, team fortress 2, and disco elysium; and then cowboy bebop, samurai champloo, NGE, general 2000s adult swim-core type stuff for anime

i'm looking to meet people who: i put a post up here about 6 months ago when i first started this account and i did get a lot of responses but nearly all of the people that replied to me aren't active anymore. i'm looking for people to really connect with and are in this site for the long haul (or at least for a while). i'm not too picky about sharing interests but having mutual appreciation for something always helps. the main thing though is that i'm just trying to make more friends :]

my posting schedule tends to be: whenever i feel like there's enough going enough in my life to post about something. this is usually like 2 to 5 times a month. i do tend to get wordy in my posts for what that's worth

when I add people, my dealbreakers are: i'm a very vague socialist so i'm not particularly chill with MAGA types or people who are just unnecessarily rude but i think there's like only 2 people on this site with those beliefs anyways

before adding me, you should know: i don't really comment much but i read everything that's posted. i get in my own head about responding to/posting comments and not feeling like i have enough to say. but i'm always looking to talk to more people and come out of my shell
i'm very depressed and mildly autistic and can be in my head a lot of the time, so the posts behind my access lock can get mopey and despondent. i'm doing the best i can to grapple with my emotions and the world around me so a little bit of empathy goes a long way. we're all going through something

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How did writing go today? Did you hit any goals?

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https://amovablefeast.blogspot.com/2025/09/color-101.html

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color and it's perceived meaning.

have a good weekend

neki desu

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These questions were originally suggested by

polypolyglot.

1. Do you believe you can have more than one soulmate in life?

2. Are you with that soulmate now?

3. If not, how long did your relationship with your soulmate last?

4. Do you still think about your soulmate, if you are not together?

5. If you're not together, do you think your soulmate still thinks about you?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!

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Posted by Kelly Kilmer

https://kellykilmer.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-workshop-color-vibrations-saturday.html

(please note these pages are SAMPLES so you can see how I use color)

NEW Workshop:

Color Vibrations

Saturday 27 September 2025

11 AM to 1 PM PDT

SALE PRICE

(through 6 pm pdt Sunday 21 September 2025)

$50

(REGULAR PRICE $65)

(please note these pages are SAMPLES so you can see how I use color)

"Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.” - Paul Gauguin

It's no secret that I love color and pushing the boundaries of it.

Come play in the sandbox of color!

Frustrated with color? Eager to jumpstart your art? This workshop will get you picking up your paints and brushes again.

This isn't a color theory class. It's an EXPLORATION in COLOR.

Our focus in this workshop won't be to create finished work. Instead, you will spend time experimenting with color, creating sample pieces that vibrate and feel alive. While our focus will be layering with acrylics, you will be able to utilize these techniques across mediums. You will create pages that sing with color.

Prepare to get messy, have fun, and embrace the rainbow!

(please note these pages are SAMPLES so you can see how I use color)

Keep your materials simple:

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scrap paper/journal/substrate of choice
tools: brushes, painting knife/catalyst tool/credit card paper towels, water container (to clean your brushes)
paint (I'm using acrylic in a small handful of colors)

Upon registration, you'll receive an email with some ideas on how to prep for the workshop.

(please note these pages are SAMPLES so you can see how I use color)

Can't make the live workshop?

The main part of my workshops are always recorded. For those who are camera shy, during the main part of the workshop I am pinned and students are muted (but, encouraged to unmute and ask questions!)

Additionally, before and after the session, there is time for students to ask questions, share, and engage with each other and me, WHILE NOT BEING RECORDED.

You'll receive a special link and an extensive class handout within 2 days after the workshop ends.

You'll also have access to me should you have any questions AFTER the workshop ends.

(please note these pages are SAMPLES so you can see how I use color)

Enrollment for the live workshop is limited.

I like to keep the group small so everyone has time to ask questions and share.

Questions? Please email Kelly at EGorey99@sbcglobal.net

(please note these pages are SAMPLES so you can see how I use color)

How do I sign up?

SALE PRICE

(through 6 pm pdt Sunday 21 September 2025)

$50

(REGULAR PRICE $65)

"And in the end, the study of color is the study of ourselves." -Josef Albers

https://kellykilmer.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-workshop-color-vibrations-saturday.html

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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse

Another Jeeves novel. Spoilers ahead for the earlier ones.

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Good (insert your local time of day)! Hope all is doing well!

How has writing gone today?

Do you have a piece of fiction you've written 10+ years ago that you want to revisit? It doesn't necessarily need to be in the sense of wanting to rewrite it or write a sequel.

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Last night I finished Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, a sci-fi book about a motley crew of spacefarers who "drill" wormholes to enable rapid travel across space for the diverse galactic alliance known as the GC. At the start of the book, they are offered a bid on a particularly difficult, lucrative job, and can't resist taking the bait.

This should be (another) lesson to me in not going all-in on a creator because I've enjoyed one of their works. I loved Chambers' To Be Taught, if Fortunate, and I've heard plenty of internet praise for The Long Way, so when I saw it at the bookstore recently, I dropped $20 on it readily. If I hadn't, I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.

First - if you picked up this book looking for the femslash, it's barely there, and it's a lot more friends-with-benefits than romance. The other two romances in the book get a lot more attention. This isn't a complaint from me, but if what you really want is F/F romance, it's not really here.

This is a character-driven book with barely a plot, which wouldn't be a problem if the characters were interesting. As it is, they are functionally interchangeable: a crew of people who are all optimistic, friendly, emotionally open, painstakingly polite, and obsessively well-intentioned (except for the one guy who's a Jerk, who exists to be a jerk whenever the scene calls for someone who needs to be less-than-fanatically-polite or there's a chance for Chambers to squeeze in another instance of his being a jerk, even when he's technically right). There is no character growth to speak of; none of these characters changes at all between the start of the book and the end. There's no complexity to anyone.

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Posted by cparker

https://linesandcolors.com/2025/09/17/eye-candy-for-today-the-goldfish-bowl-edward-perugini/

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The Goldfish Bowl, oil on canvas, Edward Perugini

The Goldfish Bowl, Edward Perugini, oil on canvas. roughly 39 x 31 in. (100 x 79 cm).

Link is to the Bonham’s auction page from 2010. Click on the image on the Bonham’s page for a larger version.

Bonham’s at the time lists it as only “attributed to” Perugini, but all other references to it that I’ve found recently simply say Perugini, so either the attribution has been confirmed, or none of the other mentions are as concerned with correctness as the auction house.

Regardless, it is a striking painting, though damaged along the lower side of the woman’s face and at the botom of the canvas. Not so much, though, as to prevent us from enjoying the painting.

I love the compositoin, with the brighter areas of the woman’s face and the highlights on the sleeve just set off from center, and the bright highlight on the glass of the bowl providing a light counterbalance to the right.

The hair almost fades into the low chroma tapestry behind the model, the dark bands of fabric in her top, and the darkness of her skirt emphasize the bold highlights in the gold colored areas.

Look at how well controlled the muted effect on her shadowed arm seems completely natural in the generally low light of the scene. The orange-red of the goldfish isd balanced by her ruddy cheeks and modesltly red lips.

For more on Perugini, see my post from 2022.

https://linesandcolors.com/2025/09/17/eye-candy-for-today-the-goldfish-bowl-edward-perugini/

https://linesandcolors.com/?p=17254

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Posted by Nifty Notebook

https://www.notebookstories.com/2025/09/17/meeplus-slimpad-notebook-review/

https://www.notebookstories.com/?p=19068

I’ve had my eye on MeePlus for a while, after seeing lots of positive mentions of them on Instagram and Reddit. So when they contacted me to offer a sample of one of their MeePlus SlimPad notebooks for review, I jumped at the chance! MeePlus is a Hong Kong-based small business run by husband and … Continue reading →

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https://amovablefeast.blogspot.com/2025/09/another-episode-of-frugal-weaver.html

thrums from this project too godd to throw away. gorgeous japanese silk dyed with natural dyes.motainai nai. had kept them and finally have found a niche.

the scarf is going along great will be finished this week.still reveling in how pleasant this weaving has been.

with the leftover warp i am attempting a japanese style drawstring pouch. plan on weaving a simple crepe and then dyeing the resulting fabric a 30x30 silk square.

the silk thrums will be braided and used as the drawstring.kind of a fun project. all after i heal from a

&%** tooth ache.i'm on antibiotics and waiting to see the dentist.

on another note thinking about weaving a crepe yardage to make a top if i survive the dental issues.

stash busting strategy, need around 5 mts for a top with sleeves counting that the loom is just 80cms wide.

neki desu

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Posted by cparker

https://linesandcolors.com/2025/09/17/dave-bruner-update/

https://linesandcolors.com/?p=17252

Dave Bruner, reduction prints and wood engravings

I first encountered the reduction prints and wood engravings of printmaker Dave Bruner back in 2006 at a long running art even there in Philadelphia. I was delighted to run into him again at this year’s event and get a chance to come up to date on his current work.

Reduction prints are multi colors block prints which the separate areas for each color are established by cutting away from the precious state, a painstaking process that requires foresight and planning.

In wood engraving, precise tools are used to incise lines in the block, often at a fine level of detail that calls for working under magnification lenses.

Both are intaglio methods of printing, in which the ink is applied to the incised lines below the surface of the block. With the block surface wiped clear, the ink impression is made on the paper by the application of pressure in a press. This is in contrast to the process of relief printing, in which the ink would be applied to the surface, and the incised areas would be blank.

In the images above, the color prints are reduction cuts and the black and white images wood engravings.

Like all hand printed artist prints, the number created from a given design is limited. You can contact Bruner through his website to inquire about availability and order directly from him.

https://linesandcolors.com/2025/09/17/dave-bruner-update/

https://linesandcolors.com/?p=17252

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Hello, hello, hello!

How did writing go today?

Do you have rituals related to writing? Do you like to make a cup of tea before writing? Reread the last couple hundred words of your WIP? Read a few pages of a book?

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Posted by cparker

https://linesandcolors.com/2025/09/15/eye-candy-for-today-vermeers-girl-with-the-red-hat/

https://linesandcolors.com/?p=17247

Vermeer's Girl with the Red Hat (details)

Girl with the Red Hat, Johannes Vermeer, oil on panel roughly 9 x 7 inches (23 x 18 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC.

Not as iconic as Girl with a Pearl Earring, so perhaps easier to see freshly, Vermeer’s Girl with the Red Hat is likewise a “tronie”, a painting of an interesting face, often in costume, as opposed to a formal portrait.

This is a very small painting, but striking nonetheless.

It’s common for painters to carry an important color through to other parts of a composition. Here, the dramatic red of the hat, part of which is in shadow, is balanced only by the red of the girl’s lips, also partly in shadow.

In fact, the majority of the face is in shadow, seemingly an odd shoice. The entire image is somewhat dark, except for the highlight on the lower left side of the face, streaks of light on the creases in the robe and the starkly white cravat.

For a painting that is intended to be a captivating face, there are a lot of interesting choices here.

The girl’s right hand is hidden behind the lion’s head finial of the chair, in much the way an artist’s drawing hand is often hidden in a self-portrait. The gaze directly at the viewer is characteristic of self portraits as well, leading me to the sometimes offered suggestion that some of Vermeer’s paintings may have been painted by one of his daughters. But forensic examination reveals the painting started with the head of a man in a wide brimmed hat, obviating that bit of fanciful speculation.

Shining out of the darkness of her hair, there is a highlight on the earring in her right ear, perhaps of pearl of silver, and I think the topmost white highlight at the upper right section of the cravat is the balancing earring.

There is an interesting light area to the left of her mouth (our left) that seems a bit odd to my eye, given the shadowed tones around it. Both that and the highlight on her left cheek are quite low in chroma.

Below that, the separation of the chin and cravat is quite dark and rough edged, looking almost like a charcoal line.

In many areas we see the soft edged brush marks that are often characteristic of Vermeer, and are perhaps due to the use of “Venice Turpentine”, which is not a solvent but technically a balsam, a resin that has not been distilled to produce a solvent like the more familiar gum spirits of turpentine.

The eyes, usually the focus of a portrait or other painted face, are in deep shadow, except… the small, perfectly circular highlight in her right eye is bright turquoise blue.

https://linesandcolors.com/2025/09/15/eye-candy-for-today-vermeers-girl-with-the-red-hat/

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Friday, September 19 - Blessings or Curses

color 101

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The Friday Five for 19 September 2025: Soulmates

Thursday, September 18 - Free for All

NEW Workshop: Color Vibrations Saturday 27 September 2025

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

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Wednesday, September 17 - (In) Trouble

Recent Reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Eye Candy for Today: The Goldfish Bowl, Edward Perugini

MeePlus SlimPad Notebook Review

another episode of the frugal weaver

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