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DAILY : RAMMSTEIN
I could write a lot about Germany’s premier musical export, and maybe some time I will, but for now I’m just playing around with this neat barbed wire / crown of thorns graphic they used for the cover of their digital-only rarities album. They use the stencil-style logo on just about all their promo material and merchandise, which is a shame because the chunkier solid style is clearly superior in my humble opinion, so here’s my effort to chunk it up. I may have chunked it up a little too far in a few places.
All the versions of this track on Youtube seem to have the opening fashion show vignette chopped off from the album version, so you’ll have to stream it the old-fashioned way for the full experience. What’s the deal with people who go fiddling around with someone else’s hard work and then posting it online like anyone wants to see their goofy twist on the material? Could never be me 😏 –A∙
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OBSESSIONAL BEHAVIOR
I’ll be the first to admit that there are engines that drive what I do that are very akin to the things that drive any kind of obsessional behavior. So that obsessiveness is a tool that I use. How does anybody get themselves to do anything besides sit around and smoke cigarettes and drink beer all day? Any way that you can trick yourself into doing anything is valid.
— Mark Pauline, MONDO 2000: The User’s Guide to the New Edge
231117
Sun & moon, buddies forever. This one came out almost exactly like I pictured it with no surprises, which is an unusual but welcome W.
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A HIDDEN DREAM
A friend of mine passed away. We hadn’t seen each other in a long time and I’ve been thinking about why.
Here’s a song by Conor Oberst that I listen to a lot.
It’s about Frank Lloyd Wright, and dreams, and how a dream kept secret in your heart is perfect forever. No one can burn it or break it or tear it down. No one will laugh at you or make you cry or make you feel foolish for hoping.
Never try & never fail. Never love & never lose.
A hidden dream can be embarrassing
and the only thing that’s sacred ‘til the end.
230919
DRAW THE ANSEL.TV LOGO IN 10+ STEPS
Stuck in geometry class? Learn to draw the timeless, iconic “A Star” insignia at any scale — on your computer with ease, or on paper in real life with slightly less ease and a few hand tools. Get your compass & straight-edge and let’s roll.
- Start with a pentagon.
- Connect the pentagon’s points to make a star.
- Connect the star’s outer points & inner corners.
- Add 5 points where step 3 overlaps with step 2. Connect these points to make a smaller star, continuing the lines to the larger star’s edges.
- Add 10 points where step 4 meets step 2. Connect them in 5 pairs.
- Draw a circle connecting the rightmost pair around their midpoint.
- Draw 5 circles around the midpoints of step 5’s pairs with radii extending to the star’s nearest outer point.
- Add 10 points where step 7 meets step 1. Connect them in 5 pairs.
- All the lines are in place to complete the logo. Trace the glyph (A), dot (B), and flower ©.
- Color it in and you’re done.
Still with me? It’s not over yet. Read more words and experience the + in 10+ on the full page over at ansel.tv.
–A∙