#project journal

[dahliaduvide]

"His name is lost to history, but perhaps he wouldn’t mind. His motivation was a speedy payday, not posterity. A ballad that stirred the passions could sell for a penny. Sometimes he sold his work directly to the printshops, but he often took to the streets himself. He borrowed tunes from familiar songs, and had a talent for singing his work that helped him draw a crowd and sell his broadsides."

"Our modern notion of a songwriter would have been nonsensical to him, of course. His trade was partly creative, but his task was also to record and remember the familiar songs already sung, and re-shape them for new events and local happenings. He was a kind of tabloid journalist in his time. Today, we might think of him as a historian of oral traditions, a cataloger of folkways. But that’s not quite right. He was no mere archivist, no passive documentarian. He shaped and reshaped these traditions. Writing was an astonishing technology, and the reach of the printing press gave it newfound power. Oral traditions were chaotic, unfixed, unwieldy—stories forever in revision, never complete. Versions would branch without end, and older branches would be lost with time. How did the lyrics go? Well, that would depend. You could say a song existed in superposition, until someone sang it in their particular way."

"Though he would have been dismissed as a scabrous hack at the time, the ballad writer has such a knack for poetic and efficient depictions of monstrous violence that it can start to feel like he is an artist, or a proto-artist, who is governed by a bloodthirsty aesthetic. But the truth is, he may not be a single man—he may be a composite, his single authorship an anachronism. Or he may be merely a transcriber. The song’s structure and rhythm are so clean that it suggests a writer’s hand, but it could be that the story and its language were born entirely in song, from the community. Later, scholars would bicker over what counts as folk tradition, but a song’s evolutions in oral tradition and popular writing surely would have crossed back and forth countless times. The past is so foreign and strange that we should be left humble when we write our histories. Whether he is one writer, or several writers, or the people as a whole, the shape of his thoughts—his entire manner of thinking—is unreachable."

Excerpts.

Thoughts.

Truly a beautifully written article, and you should totally take the time to read the entire thing. He interweaves perspectives from performers, listeners, and even what the creators of these broadside murder ballads might have been like. Artful writing, hard thoughts, and self-examination.

This article really put into words a vital part of my vision for this project, creating modern murder ballads to draw attention to cases, raise awareness and hopefully get some justice for the Knoxville girls of today.

#murder ballads #rose connelly #knoxville girl #oxford american #david ramsey #the wexford tragedy #the bloody miller #the berkshire tragedy #the butcher boy #the cruel miler #the lexington miller #the oxford girl #down in the willow garden #project journal #abandoned maid #unwanted pregnancy #tracing the roots #original post

[swan-song-production-blog]

Here I am, two days later regurgitating what I had word vomited out onto kitchen checks at work and hadn't had time to get posted here yet...

Life is funny, isn't it? The struggle on this project is mainly within myself. The sweet spot that spawned it: a well of emotions unpleasant and necessary to find my way. Climbing out of them was the inspiration for making this in the first place. As my life moves forward, it grows, with each day better than the last. I wouldn't say I am complacent or settled in contentment. A better observation would be slightly afloat in euphoric moments and I need to reel myself in and focus.

Now that I have been letting myself enjoy my life, I need to find the balance. Attending the Detroit International Festival of Animation on Saturday rekindled my fire (not that it had been extinguished, just dimmed) to get this back on track. Seeing the films that people had poured their hearts into displayed on a theatrical scale and triggering responses out of the audience! The laughs and reactions... That is the goal: Connect with the audience through the film.

I'm charting my way through the dark while blind at times, but each journey is unique to itself. I'll never be exactly here again, so I'll treasure each step for what it is. As far as preparing for next semester, I finally was in a position to order an external SSD portable drive, so hopefully it will help with productivity and workflow as far as Adobe program's project files are concerned. No more broken file paths when trying to work on different devices! It should arrive on Thursday. I never know how to do things the "correct" way, but I will find "my" way.

By now the drive is here, because it is now Thursday. Let's try to get everything moved onto it and test it out, since this is where this project is going to live for the next year.

#animation #wip #project journal #swansonganimation #animation student

[abyssalzones]

okay so a while back I mentioned I was really unhappy with the older designs I had for the pines twins, so I decided to completely re-do them. not sure why I didn't give them both glasses in the first place honestly. hey have you noticed how often I just draw characters standing in a white empty space

#gravity falls #mabel pines #dipper pines #lab creations #I removed dipper's horrible soul patch thing that I gave him in the 10 years later comic. that was an awful decision #I think dipper's been through 15 different incarnations of his journals because he got the bookbinding bug from ford #but he sticks to this design for paranormal stuff + gf related adventuring logs #the divet in dipper's ear isn't from anything exciting I think it was some sort of piercing incident [PROJECTING FROM EXPERIENCE]

[art-h]

#project journal #creatures of the deep

[bookishluna]

Sock Week 2022 Journal

Sock Week 2022 Journal

Hello and welcome! Glad to see you here on my little part of the internet. Today I wrote up my experience for my first sock week! Sock week is an 8 day knitting challenge to crochet or knit an adult sock using fingering weight yarn. I have decided to knit a sock, but I plan on trying to finish the entire pair instead of just one. My Supplies and Prep Sock Week Knitting Kit with Supplies I am…

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#2022 #bookish luna #journal #knitting #project journal #sock #sock knitting #sock week #sockweek #sockweek2022

[why-the-heck-not]

24.08.23, thursday

I’ve been treating my journal like a podcast where I just keep rambling while doing things that give me anxiety. Getting the anxieties out right away and feels like I have some emotional support there even tho it’s just me & my journal. Sure it takes a bit longer bc u’re basically doing 2 things, but at least something’s getting done u know?

#got that idea from my fave podcast where he was doing that podcast while packing etc bc he didn’t want to back so helped to have #another side project there so u’re not just doing the thing u don’t want to do #and like I don’t and will never have a podcast bc ew can not talk for thr life of me so journaling is it for me #bookblr #studyblr #booklr #aesthetic #study #books #reading #read #book #studyspo #dark academia #chaotic academia #august 2023 #2023

[lunar-witches]

Types of Dream Work

Dream Journaling: Keeping a dream journal is the foundation of dream work in witchcraft. It involves writing down your dreams as soon as you wake up, even if you can only remember a few details. This practice helps you remember your dreams more vividly, identify patterns or recurring themes, and develop a deeper understanding of your subconscious mind.

Lucid Dreaming: Lucid dreaming is the ability to become aware that you are dreaming and to control the dream. It can be used for manifestation, healing, and exploring your inner world. To practice lucid dreaming, you can use reality checks, set intentions before you go to sleep, and practice visualization techniques.

Astral Projection: Astral projection is the practice of leaving your physical body and traveling to different realms or dimensions. It can be used for spiritual exploration, connecting with spirit guides, or receiving messages from the universe. To practice astral projection, you can use meditation, visualization, among other journeying techniques. It's important to practice caution and preparation, and work with an experienced practitioner or teacher if possible.

Dream Incubation: Dream incubation is the practice of setting an intention before you go to sleep to dream about a specific topic or question. It can be used for divination, problem-solving, or spiritual exploration. To practice dream incubation, you can use visualization, affirmations, or ritual to set your intention.

Dream Interpretation: Dream interpretation is the process of analyzing the symbols and messages in your dreams to gain insight into your subconscious mind. It can be used for spiritual growth, self-awareness, and problem-solving. To practice dream interpretation, you can use books, online resources, or work with a dream interpreter or witch.

Dream Protection: Dream protection is the practice of protecting yourself from negative energies or entities that may enter your dreams. It can be used for spiritual protection, emotional healing, or to prevent nightmares. To practice dream protection, you can use visualization, affirmations, or protection spells or talismans.

My Ko-Fi

#witchy #witches of tumblr #witchblr #witchcraft #beginner witches #beginner witch #baby witches #baby witch #dream magick #dream work #dream witch #dream witchcraft #astral projection #lucid dreaming #dream journal #dream interpretation #witch #witches #witchcraft references #my grimoire #book of shadows #BoS

[hkthatgffan]

A Interview with Alex Hirsch Update!!

Editing for An Interview with Alex Hirsch is nearly done! @fordtato and I still have a bit more work to do due to various external obligations we've had to take care of first (I mean, I'm in my last semester so I think you can guess how busy right now is for me, lol). Our hope is to announce a release date very soon. We obviously don't wanna rush things and announce one just yet in case we gotta push it back. So, once we know we're ready to release this, we will make sure you all know.

And the interview is not the only thing coming! I have a behind the scenes video planned after the interview I wanna release, a special video discussing something huge I was able to accomplish with Alex Hirsch that concludes a piece of old GF fandom history and a little goofy thing he told us that fits better in a separate video, lol.

All this will be coming soon! I know the channel has been kinda dry lately but all will come in good time. The GF fandom is in for some really cool new trivia and lore to enjoy until the Book of Bill arrives. Plus, I cannot wait to show off this little thing Alex sent me. I think you all will love it. I sure did :P

So stay safe, stay weird, stay tuned and very soon, you'll all know when me and Hana Hyperfixates will announce the release, of An Interview with Alex Hirsch!!

#gravity falls #alex hirsch #stanford pines #bill cipher #mabel pines #dipper pines #grunkle stan #journal 3 #the book of bill #gravity falls fandom #dipper #dipper and mabel #mabel #Interview #announcement #That GF FAN #ThatGFFAN #Hana Hyperfixates #YouTube #Gravity Falls is real and it will never die #Update #project update #Coming Soon #Hirsch #Stay Weird

[greenbetula]

dear wise one, is this ok? is it ok to be weak sometimes?

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all i did was dream, and that’s what you found GUILTY?

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more milgram spreads!!

this time it's 0809 🌟🎴

tried to lean more on layering for these and also incorporated more of their symbolism!

[ i'm doing the solo spreads two-by-two and it was supposed to be 0910 originally, but kotoko's 2nd mv got delayed :(

oh well i'll just partner her up with fuuta in that case... ]

#also the lighting hates me #why can't you cooperate with me? :((( #milgram #milgram project #amane momose #mikoto kayano #john milgram #scrapbook #anime journal #collage #fanart #my stuff #green's gallery

[dahliaduvide]

This is not an attempt at confessing my life's traumas, as much as examining the cultural themes relating to my experiences.

Reexamining music about violence from the perspective of a survivor.

It is also an attempt at expressing uniquely feminine pain and anguish that has long been ignored by genres that examine male pain, such as metal, industrial, and most all of the *cores that emerged from them, but including blues, country music, and English language folk music. Experiences unique to humans having children, but also those of violation, lack of physical dominance, disenfranchisement, erasure, demonization, stolen agency, navigating narrow social constraints, etc. These experiences are not unique to women universally, but in our culture here in the USA they are had most often by women and other oppressed groups.

I've been fascinated with murder ballads since I was a kid listening to 60s folk revival and country western music with my parents. Fascinated in a kind of thrilled and afraid way.

How many times did I hear the words of Delia's Gone before I realized it held a passive threat?

I wanted to know what kind of power these songs had. I did what I do best, I dug into as many old sources as I could find to understand where these songs came from. I learned about broadside ballads and Child ballads and the Roud folk song index. So there is history, just not mine.

I learned that Delia was a real murder victim.

There was also an Ellen Smith and an Omie Wise. There are two different Frankie and Johnnys. The unnamed shes, hers, hims, and theirs. And of course the victims and killers who lost their names to lyrical meter and are now known only as Molly, Polly, Jenny, Maggie, Margaret, Willy, William, Tom, or Johnny.

Because that's the thing about these songs, a lot of them started as news- a kind of news based entertainment that would of course be hard for any modern person to understand. People who heard them wrote their own versions with different words, different melodies, different rhythms.

My life is a lot, with no break in the storm in sight, but digging through these fragments of pain help me keep things in perspective. I'm lucky enough to have access to meds and a therapist that I really get along well with, but I don't feel comfortable with the kind of raw expression I'm working towards with this project.

Right now I am focused on what I see as the beginning phase: Warming up and refining my musical ideas by performing traditional songs, covering modern songs in a "traditional" style, and rewriting traditional songs to examine them with a better understanding of history.

Some big inspirations for this stage of the project:

It's been almost a decade since I've been in a band, and I've never worked solo before, so it's slow going to say the least. But I am also enjoying working on this musical project more than any I have done in the past. No matter how many times I move on to work on something else I always come back to this music.

I'll be using this space to gather research materials, workshop song ideas, fuck around posting aesthetic stuff, ramble pointlessly, and share drafts of my songs.

If you are interested in following this project's development, follow my tumblr and whatever social media accounts you prefer.

It may be awhile, but you'll hear from me. 💜

#hurray for the riff raff #rhiannon giddens #amythyst kiah #leyla mccalla #allison russell #project journal

[katabay]

L'APPEL DU VIDE

okay so. jack! jack. what a collection of guys. the overlap between jack and the beanstalk and jack the giant killer, though. that sure is something! sometimes king arthur is there, which always takes me by surprise.

this. specifically. is an idea I've been kicking around. jack and the beanstalk is not a story I've ever enjoyed, as a kid it was probably my least favorite to read. as an adult, I was INTENSELY fascinated by reading j.g. ballard's the drowned giant. I think about it frequently, and somewhere during a re read of it, I ended up revisiting jack.

combining different versions of jack into one character is not a new concept, but it IS a fun one! the version I've been assembling together plays less with the fun elements of a jack story (and adjacent folklore stories), and focuses more on the potential for tragic elements with the addition of the usual grim and jagged narrative edges that I personally enjoy.

jack with the backstory of the devil and the three golden hairs, only jack doesn't find love, he's TIRED, all he wants to do is go home, but there isn't a home to go back to. what is the point of being born lucky if this is what it gets you? jack the giant killer, only he doesn't want to kill giants, jack who saw a body of a giant when he was a small child and cannot bring himself to do as a king commands. jack, who climbs up the beanstalk and stops halfway to look down. etc.

to go back to the drowned giant real quick, both to set the tone about jack seeing the body of a giant as a youth, and also because I've been haunted and obsessed with this excerpt of it ever since I read it:

J. G. Ballard, The Drowned Giant

anyway! this was originally like, a two illustration concept to get out of my system. however. I'm halfway through outlining a narrative. so. maybe it will also be several illustrations and also comic.

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

#original tag #generic medieval tag #WAHOO. alright. #i dont have any additional commentary in the tags. reading the drowned giant years ago Did Something To Me #and it connected with whatever it was that made me dislike the jack and the beanstalk narrative (i know what it is. its just not really #all that relevant to this post. also im tired. its time for bed) #through the power of Why Not. i will now. turn it into a story???? #i think. its definitely been taking up a lot of space in my mind lately #the only thing stopping me from turning it into my Side Project to do when i need a break from doing Bad Governance edits #is that. ive run out of notebooks???? to start a new story in. and i am Old and i only outline stuff by hand #eventually i'll get to daiso and pick up some new ones and work on this for real. until then. im going to continue to write about it #in my personal journal where i dump all my thoughts and ideas into

[09lover]

you should have expected this from me. meowwww..

#milgram #milgram fanart #milgram project #mikoto kayano #gb/gs mikoto!!!! FINALLY ABOUT TIME I DO THIS #es’ art journal

[mintaikcorpse]

Me reading a fic where the person had an identidy realization that they were in he aroace spectrum and now they were figuring themselves out(I finally found something that understood me and a romance I could relate to after all these years)

#love loses! you're on the aroace spectrum and you dont fucking know what you are but you're definitely on the spectrum #but it's so hard to explain bcuz how do youve never had a real crush on someone but also have had platonic feelings for someone #and dont want to do the romance thing but also still want to have a queer platonic relationship and do romance things? #YOU DONT #IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE TO ME BUT I JUST KNOW #ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I CANT JUST GET CRUSHES ON PEOPLE IT TAKES YEARS I'VE ONLY HAD 1 CRUSH THROUGHOUT MY LIFE #AND I JUST WANTWD TO BE FRIENDS WITH HIM #I thought that was just me but the author was projecting and explained perfectly what i was going through #and ik i say “I cried” a lot when talking about something but i did actually cry #had to put my phone down bcuz it felt so nice to be understood #idk just venting and rambling lol #aroace #ace spectrum #gotta keep a journal on this bcuz i want to explain to people but it's so hard for even me to grasp #and i feel like they won't believe me anyways bcuz ive tried to himt st it but i just get weird looks #its annoying but it is what it is #aromantic #asexual #lgbt #queer #talking #rambling

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Cherries Poll !

Cerise / Cici (Cici's journal / Les Carnets de Cerise) - her original name is French for Cherry

Mio Naganohara (Nichijou) - "mio" could mean cherry. Nohara means field.

Chieri "Cherry" Asuka (The Cherry Project)

Cherry Cookie (Cookie Run)

Kirsch Vermillion (Black Clover) - kirsh is German for cherry

The two with the most votes will join the main bracket

#botanic tournament #tournament polls #cherries poll #les carnets de cerise #cici's journal #cicis journal #mio naganohara #nichijou #cherry asuka #chieri asuka #the cherry project #cherry cookie #cookie run #cookie run fandom #kirsch vermillion #black clover #black clover manga #black clover anime

[power-handmaiden]

Day 36: Slammed Up The Butt By My Hot Coffee Boss

If I had a whole lot more money than I do (and of course, the blessing of the author) I would pay to have this story animated. I just love how this story describes the physical presence of the living coffee. His introduction really sells the reader on how imposing it would actually be to be confronted by a sentient man-sized mug of piping hot liquid.

The Tingleverse connection in this one gave me a lot to think about, because it refers to the events of "Shared by the Chocolate Milk Cowboys" but not in a straightforward way. The way the ending of "Shared by the Chocolate Milk Cowboys" is written lead me to believe that the protagonist was pressing the button rapidly without stopping at each layer of the timeline to live a gayer life. Has he actually been living out those progressively gayer lives and reincarnating into new timelines via the button? After assimilating into the coffee at the end of this one, did he eventually make it back to the button so he could continue his journey to the center of the Tingleverse? Or is this not the same man, but simply someone who went through a similar event involving some chocolate milk cowboys and the button, but ended his cycle of reincarnation here, having finally found the beverage he wants to be with forever? The protagonists of these stories do have different names, and this one is somehow still denying that he's gay even while he's chosen to go to a deeper layer of the Tingleverse 40 times, so maybe it's just a different guy and all my questions are for nothing... but it's still fun to think about.

#2024 tingles my butt #chuck tingle #At this point this project is half review/journaling as intended and half me going completely Pepe Silvia