My unpopular opinion of the day is that I think modernist abstract art works MUCH BETTER as book covers than full rendered illustrated art. I have the impression rendered illustrations ends up reducing what it's book is about. It sets how you're expected to imagine the scenes you'll read inside it

My thing with Dan Simmons is that people throw the terms "genius" and "brilliant" way too easily on the internet. His Hyperion original cantos was good? Yes. Was it anything as remotely brilliant as, let's say, Gene Wolfe's *worst* works? No. Not at all.

I'm trying to organize my life through Notion and so far things are working out great. From projects management (pic 1)... ... to movie tracker (pic. 2)... ... to gift wishlist (pic. 3) among many other things. My only problem is that the day has only 24 hours and I need to stay healthy.

Recently I've restarted reading and buying super hero comics after many many years without doing so. To my surprise (...not really) my taste is considered trash to the mainstream readers of super hero comics. Every comic online people say is the worst I find to be among my favorites.

Keanu Keeves is an actor everybody seems to love and I can't stand him. To me he's the wrong person at the right place most of the time in his carreer.

I've had such a Lynchian nightmare last night: I was inside a pale building¹. In the center of it was a cillinder-shaped room with no doors. The strongest light was coming out of it and painting the inner walls white. Me and another person were interrogating a frantic guy. 1/5

These will be the movies I'll try to watch next week. All of them for the first time ever. I love to watch slow burn movies and I have no problem at all with my attention span while doing it. I'm slowly realizing the problem is I detest most movies made by streaming services.

I've just watched Sonatine (1993) for the first time ever. I loved it. This is violence done right, folks. You end the movie torn by the alternating cycles of death and life, understanding violence is a cage those characters have no chance of getting out. 1/2

much much cooler now (it was alread rad before, but u got the idea)

This is my first day testing Qobuz as a music streaming platform and I must say I'm positively impressed. It's a bit too early to say it, but I'm starting to feel it will be my new home. It pays 4x more to artists and it's CEO is not investing in war. I can't wait to leave Spotify forever.

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Styling exercise using a scene from Excalibur (1981).

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I love to keep track of stuff making lists writing about it to myself. I have a Notion page for the films I watch and it feels a lot like trophies hanging on a wall.

I've watched Michael Mann's The Keep (1983) during my lunch break today and wow, that is such a cool good-looking movie. Not gonna lie: seeing N*z*s dying horrible deaths while caught in the middle of a battle between supernatural forces is always very satisfying to me.

My next objetive in life as a game designer is to somehow create analog games that achieve what management sim games did on computer during the 90s: They made thinking and building 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 a fun task.

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Just released the Expanding Atlas, a printable notebook that lets you record the same map at varying granularities! Because it uses 6x6 grids, it also makes it incredibly easy to randomize regions and specific locations! Get it here: chaoclypse.itch.io/expanding-at...

Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1526/1530-1569), “The Triumph of Death” (c. 1562), oil on panel, 162 x 117 cm.

One of the things o hate the nost on this new AI based era is that unless I see the process behind the music creation... I think its non human. Specially when were talking music. An artist no one ever saw playing live? No thanks, "so say we all" .

Tonight I went to a very blessed Sunday service with my new Touché Amore t-shirt. I know the world is shaking in scarier ways these days but fear not, the Lamb has won. Have a great week, my friends. God bless we all.

I miss when male actors looked like real everyday people and not as male models.

Imagine "Home Alone" but instead of charismatic robbers you have nazi bastards and instead of funny Kevin you have a french surgeon who just had his wife and daugther brutally murdered by these pigs. A pretty good revenge/war movie. Revolting as hell, as all should be. Le vieux fusil (1975)

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

wednesday

I'll try registering a month-to-month board of the culture I consume this year.

I've just tested emulating PS2 on my Samsung tablet and an old Bluetooth controller... It worked so well.

The fourth card on my deck of collages.

I see a lot of people saying South American countries should respond to Trumps absurd ideas and boycott American companies somehow. Believe me, it's not as simple as that. We're heavily dependent on American companies (visa and Mastercard, to mention a couple) and on dollars from exportation. 1/?

As someone that still to this day watches full anime series and old movies in 720p I find the discourse of "I can't watch anything below 4k" or "I refuse to watch dvd media" so cheesy.

The three cards I've already made of my personal collage deck.

The first thing I'll do after I finish my Master in Visual Arts (August, 2027) is to establish a "One-shot TTRPG+Art" group in my city. One week we play a game session, the other we produce art inspired by the experience. Together.

Does... TikTok punishs your posts engagement when you edit videos outside of TikTok or is this an urban legend? Cause I'm inclined to believe it rn.

I'm working on a deck of cards made of collages on a new series on TikTok. So far the response had been pretty good and I think people like it.

"Illumination" is a triptych of contemporary collages rethinking medieval illustrated texts in modern contexts. Extraordinary men and women shining gold into the common life. Bringing silence and balance to a multitude of words. I'm so proud of these. #art #collage

Stay safe, American friends.

It's impressive how TikTok delivers what I post way better than Instagram. The results are undeniable. And this is sad cause what I really wanted was a platform where people that followed me could see still pics, not videos (much easier to produce etc)... What Instagram used to be eons ago.

Illumination number 2 #art #collage

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And here is the making of of "Illumination number 2" (my narration is in Portuguese, sorry)

Illumination number 1 #collage #art

I've made two new collages this morning: "a new Eden" and "golden path" ✂️🔥✂️ #art #collage

Why on earth pinball console games didn't used L+R buttons to emulate the feeling of reall pinball mechanic experience?

First collage of the year: "the valley" I'll try to explore more 3D and shadows as much as possible in my collages this semester.

Sometimes blank pages are an invitation to simply move forward and find the idea along the way.

𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 Analog collage, 2025 - #art #collage

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