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☆ ALICIA’S MONTHLY MEDIA MENTIONS: June `22
hello! as promised, I’m back with another monthly media mentions post! June has been a bit of a crazy month - I got another job (which I actually like - hooray!), my grandma is staying over and needs taking care of, my sister crashed the car LMFAO, and I’ve just been trying to help out around the house a bit more. unfortunately I didn’t create as much art as I wanted to - most of my time was consumed editing that damn art critique video (like literal weeks). but, this is the media that got me through a tough month! cheers to another summer ☀️
Shows:
Umbrella Academy (season 3)
this show is so gd entertaining. I think I finished this season in 2 days? it was great! super fun scenes and special moments between characters. Robert Sheehan and Ritu Arya are perfect for their roles - Ritu especially is so charismatic and I hope to see her in more projects!
Street Woman Fighter
I'm not sure why I didn’t watch the episodes as they came out last year, but I’m so mad I didn’t! these ladies slay and I'm so happy that dancers have been getting more recognition through this show. I want Monica to be my mom and Lip J to be my auntie. everyone in this show is so COOL I can’t even describe how awestruck I am with them all. Aiki - give me one chance PLEASE
Haikyu!!
I've tried to watch this show a few times - with my sister, by myself, but for some reason or another did not continue watching it. I restarted it again because my lovely friend loves it and recommended I watch it - so I did :) it’s super cute and also has me missing my volleyball days >:(
Stranger Things (season 4)
I'm sure this has been on a lot of people’s watchlist - I actually wasn’t planning on watching this season, but saw the clip from that one scene in ep 4 and I changed my mind. Either this or season 3 has been the best so far, but I can’t say just yet because I’m still waiting on the second part! Sadie sink supremacy.
Music: (my Spotify June 2022 playlist)
YOUNG-LUV.COM - STAYC
I didn’t like RUN2U the first time I heard it, which is why it took me some time to listen to the album. but the STAYC girls don’t disappoint. I love the guitar and the feeling of nostalgia I get when I listen to YOUNG LUV. 247 and SAME SAME have lovely vocals. RUN2U is also growing on me, but I will say I do like their other title tracks better in comparison.
Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) - Kate Bush
I had kept getting recommended this song in my YouTube home page and later realized it was because it was featured in the best scene of Stranger Things ever. Lyrics hit, music hits. I want to listen to this as I sit and cry during blue hour.
According To You - Orianthi
COMPLETELY forgot about this song until recently. perfect for screaming the lyrics to because I still remember them all.
Run BTS - BTS
kind of gives Disney channel diss track, but slaps nonetheless!! oh how I missed listening to new BTS music. Rapline killed it!
Glimpse of Us - Joji
why does this man make such sad music. I'm so interested in how he shifted his career and image. another track I’d like to cry to. also, this music video has such a frightening, chaotic energy, but the way it progresses towards the climax of the song is surprisingly moving. 10/10
Eat You Up - BoA
this song is so gd fun to listen to. I was too young to get into Y2K era artists, but this song in particular brings its revival full force.
Better - BoA
if you couldn’t tell, this is because of Street Woman Fighter. you better than this, you better than this!
Childish Adult - Gummy
lately I’ve been into jazzier songs in general, and added this onto my playlist after watching Rihey singing it on Knowing Bros! idk how to describe it...but I feel grown listening to this song, which is kind of ironic haha
Youtube:
Megan Thee Stallion - Hot Girl Summer ft. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign / Harimu Choreography
I am ENTRANCED with the way Harimu moves. she’s so fun and full of energy. she brings so much life to the choreography. I want to go clubbing with her.
TWICE "What is Love?" M/V
can you believe i’ve never watched the What is Love mv? it’s literally my favourite twice song, too... for some reason when I listen to this song (and other Twice songs) I cry...? but out of happiness...? anyways, I realized I never even watched the mv so I did. amazing. fantastic. life-changing. genuinely think this was the inspiration for thank you, next and that one opening scene in euphoria season 2. What is Love is phenomenal. jihyo’s bridge brings me to tears.
COUPLE DANCE BATTLE - Noze Leejung x Rihey Honey J | KNOWING BROTHER ep 308
as per my recent obsession with Street Woman Fighter, I’ve been watching some other content with the dancers! Rihey slays so hard in this video and I wish I was half as cool as her. If you’re going to watch any video from this list please watch this one. Also knowing Rihey won every single one of her no-respect battles in Street Woman Fighter??? GIMME THAT FOOTAGE DAMN
Nothing on Leejung? #Aiki #Choreography #shorts
ME AND WHO?????? my life changed after watching this video. the LOVE. if anyone is confused about what the female gaze is, THIS IS THE FEMALE GAZE. I would sell my soul to be either Aiki or Leejung in this situation.
Art:
One Hundred Live and Die - Bruce Nauman
I was looking back at photos from my trip to New York back in 2018 and found some from when I visited the MOMA. Got to see some of Bruce Nauman’s neon light art pieces. I wish I could go back - I think I would have appreciated the opportunity more.
Pixel Art
I learned how to make pixel art on photoshop - so stay tuned for some works haha. it’s actually quite easy and a less tiresome, calming art form.
Print:
The Art of Frugal Hedonism
you can actually enjoy life’s pleasures without blowing obscene amounts of money - who knew! this self-help book offers insight on money saving tips, but it isn’t filled with spreadsheets and budgets templates - instead, it offers in depth tips on how to spend less money, while changing your perspective on materialistic desires in a society imprisoned by capitalism and consumerism. highly recommend this book to anyone looking to better manage their finances.
Alright, that’s all for June’s media. Check out my Spotify playlist for June 2022, where you can find more songs I’ve been into lately. I really recommend watching the YouTube videos I’ve linked and reading The Art of Frugal Hedonism!
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- Alicia
#the art of frugal hedonism#hedonism#pixel art#bruce nauman#one hundred live and die#twice#street woman fighter#what is love#joji#gummy#BoA#umbrella academy#stranger things#music#shows#book recommendation#music recommendation#stayc
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READING LIST FOR 2024
• [🎀] - priority • [✔] - finished • [👁] - now reading • [💭] - next up •
💌 Human Kind (Rutger Bregman) [👁]
🍒 Utopia for Realists (Rutger Bregman) [🎀]
💌 Joyful (Ingrid Fettel Lee) [🎀💭]
🍒 A Paradise Built in Hell (Rebecca Solnit)
💌 Tribe (Sebastian Junger)
🍒 The Art Of Frugal Hedonism (Annie Raser-Rowland, Adam Grubb) [🎀]
💌 Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)
🍒 Weird (Olga Khazan) [🎀]
💌 The Art of Thinking Clearly (Rolf Dobelli) [🎀]
🍒 Civilized To Death (Christopher Ryan) [🎀]
💌 The Courage To Be Disliked (Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga) [🎀]
🍒 The Courage To Be Happy (Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga) [🎀]
💌 The Practice of Not Thinking (Ryonosuke Koike)
🍒 This Is How You Heal (Brianna Wiest) [🎀]
💌 Authetic Happiness (Martin. E. P. Seligman)
🍒 Flourish (Martin. E. P. Seligman)
💌 How To Stop Feeling Like Shit (Andrea Owen) [🎀]
🍒 How To Be a Good Creature (Montgomery Sy)
💌 The Hope Circuit (Martin. E. P. Seligman)
🍒 Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari)
💌 Healing Is The New High (Vex King) [🎀]
🍒 Wintering (Katherine May)
💌 The Strength In Our Scars (Bianca Sparacino) [🎀]
🍒 Ego Is The Enemy (Ryan Holiday)
💌 The Mountain Is You (Brianna Wiest) [🎀]
🍒 Getting Through What You Can't Get Over (Anita Agers-Brooks)
💌 Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess (Dr. Caroline Leaf)
🍒 How To Be Your Own Therapist (Owen O'Kane) [🎀]
💌 Living Consciously (Yvette Ratshikhopha)
🍒 Adult Children Of Emotionally Immature Parents (Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD.) [🎀]
💌 Girl On Fire (Cara Alwill Leyba)
🍒 It's Not Fair (Melanie Dale)
💌 The Highly Sensitive Person (Elaine N. Aron PH.D.) [🎀]
🍒 Tiny Traumas (Dr. Meg Arroll)
💌 Be Not Afraid Of Love (Mimi Zhu)
🍒 The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (Philippa Perry) [🎀]
💌 The Art Of Noticing (Rob Walker)
🍒 The Child In You (Stefanie Stahl) [🎀]
💌 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think (Brianna Wiest)
🍒 The Pivot Year (Brianma Wiest) [🎀]
💌 How To Hug A Porcupine (Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis) [🎀]
🍒 Why Simple Wins (Lisa Bodell)
💌 Don't Overthink It (Anne Bogel) [🎀]
🍒 Why Did Nobody Tell Me This Before (Dr. Julie Smith)
💌 Mother Hunger (Kelly McDaniel) [🎀]
🍒 The Art Of Self-Therapy (Nick Trenton) [🎀]
💌 A Witch's Guide To Crafting Your Practice (Lisa McSherry) [🎀]
🍒 A Gentle Reminder (Bianca Sparacino)
#bookblr#reading list#bookworm#2024#self-improvement#girl reading#bookblr 2024#reading list 2024#coquette#coquette girl#wonyoungism#pink academia#esther's booklist#trying to get back to reading#reading block#self improvement#self love#self care#self help
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The Art of Frugal Hedonism
I am currently reading The Art of Frugal Hedonism which is a simplistic way to understand the philosophy and a semi realistic way of approaching it. When I think of Hedonism I think of royalty, riches, and endless indulgence; borderline gluttony if you will. But this book shifts perspective on what Hedonism is and how you can partake in it in day to day life whilst living frugally. Not only is the book unique and interesting, it also has a large dose of comedic relief, making it particularly enjoyable to read. However, some of the tips in the book are quite eccentric and not practical. Especially to someone like me, who lives in a very large city with a rigorous schedule. There are some suggestions that make me roll my eyes, as they would be nearly impossible for myself to do, but they are still nice to think about. And majority of the book has viable tips which will in fact improve your livelihood. Although there are some changes that I am not ready to make, the book makes me THINK about changing them, which is an amazing start. Especially because of how most of the things in the book that are talked about are things that we as people don’t acknowledge at all on a daily basis. It is definitely worth the read. 8.5/10
#books#books and reading#booktok#booklr#bookshelf#booktwt#reading#book#bookworm#book review#bookstagram#book recommendations
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in a very interesting/good state of life lately.
my new job is amazing. the hours are awesome, the office is doable, it’s all amazing. wells is using his imagination to play make believe all the time. he is mixing worlds- mario, pikachu, scooby doo.
i read art of frugal hedonism and it’s been a life changer. every little thing i do has meaning now.
as for me- i’m off accurate! my skin looks amazing- i only have to use mascara and blush. i feel very pretty. and ive honed in my personal style. and thanks to a aforementioned book- im not going to be a slave to purchasing shit as much!
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Annie Raser-Rowland and Adam Grubb, The Art of Frugal Hedonism, 66-7, 138, and 124-6.
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I've just started reading this book.
In keeping true to the theme, I borrowed it from the library instead of buying a copy.
#The Art of Frugal Hedonism#frugality#frugal living#waste not want not#meaningful living#intentional living#money saving#anti capitalism#simple living#minimal waste#zero waste#self sufficiency#homesteading#consumerism
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Moon in the 5th culture
♥️ Moon in the fifth are basically like moon in Leo, but except this is where their moon manifests.
♥️ most I know love to gamble and have a thing for it. The feeling is just familiar, slightly addicting.
♥️ da casino or fun cities with big lights (las Vegas, Times Square, LA) is their second or third home.
♥️ Creative people. Confident in the unconvnetionality of their creations and are expressive emotionally, artistically, and physically. (Ex Pablo Picasso)
♥️ They have a distinct fashion sense. Since fashion is a form of art and self expression, they tend to have a very bizarre or luxurious tastes. (Ex, Lady Gaga)
♥️ did y’all know we’re extremely loud and impulsive as well lmaoo.
♥️ signs in the 5th with he moon in there can symbolize how you approach approach relationships, family life, and pleasures. There is a real emotional link when doing things relating to this house bc of the moon.
♥️ loves to indulge. Ik Ppl always talk about taurus and sag being indulgent, but moon in the fifth are very reckless in terms of money and domestic belongings.
♥️ worships high quality craftsmanship and quality in creativity.
♥️ big and generous heart, but can easily turn selfish and overly hedonistic especially in the sign Aries and the selfish signs.
♥️”oops i did it again”. Yeah well, it will take us a while to stop being so goddamn extra bro. I can’t help being so iconic. (Ex: Britney Spears)
♥️funny, and love jokes. Rom coms are the common preference of movies, sit coms too.
♥️competitive and fierce because of an inner innate desire to shine and stand out. (Moon representing the inner desires, emotions, and instincts to 5th house being ego, creativity, expression, and fame and comfort in fun things).
☄️moon in 5th house In fire sign: spontaneous, makes for an emotionally stubborn person, pizazz and bedazzles, inner child and inner world is bright, funky.
☄️More likely to enjoy sports and physical activity than other signs. Blunt and honest and dramatic bc fire sign + fire house= volcano.
☄️The love they have for spending the moneys and the thrill of it.
☄️Entrepreneurs at heart bc of the creativity plus enterprise.
☄️Will probably be into lots of one night stands and is a no strings kinda hoe. Sexually adventurous out of all the signs
☁️moon in 5th house in air sign accepting of all things, open minded, intellectually creative, childish and fun.
☁️ Most likely enjoys reading, socializing and has mentally stimulating hobbies such and games. (Possible: truth or dare, 21 questions, etc.)
☁️they’re also kind of fire sign-like when they manifest this house bc air traits enhance fire traits= wild fire . Also have the possibility to be into sports.
☁️Casual sex might be consistent with a fwb, or fuck buddy. No strings attached only with friend, but not likely a stranger.
🪨moon in the 5th in an earth sign: more cautious than other elements. They’re still very outgoing and dramatic, but slightly more passive because the contrasting elements.
🪨Might be creative in a practical ways and in the routine, like making up routines that not many other would do.
🪨Money making might be a good hobby and being productive. they will have better handling with their indulging and fun time bc wherever earth is in the chart is where you’re most frugal and most structured in manifesting.
🪨Sexual encounters are not that casual and will avoid having a lot of one night stands.
🌊moon in the 5th in a water sign: ah a sensitive placement: the water element to the fire makes for a classically constrasted combo.
🌊Is extremely creative though it could be expressed more inwardly than outward depending on the rest of the chart energy. Could enjoy hobbies like dance, music, cooking, poetry.
🌊Conservative with their hedonism like earth, but can be indulgent when moody or depressed.
🌊Emotional link to sexual encounters and visual sex. Is probably not the type to regularly hook up with no strings attached at all.
🌊probably most likely to do drugs and drink for fun. Drug jokes and high thoughts at 3am type fun. Escapism pros when ego is hurt or emotionally wounded.
#moon in the 5th house#leo moon#water signs#earth signs#air signs#fire signs#fire moon#fire house#astro observations#astro notes
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I asked you all for “books that had a lasting impact on the way you see the world” and as requested, this is the list I have compiled of your responses;
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
The Mindbody Prescription - John E. Sarno
The Divided Mind - John E. Sarno
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green
Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
When Women Were Birds - Mary Tempest Williams
The Art of Frugal Hedonism - Adam Grubb & Annie Raser Rowland
Tiny Beautiful Things - Cheryl Strayed
Suffice to say I shall be investigating these immediately! Please feel free to add to this list!
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Donald Duck: Christmas on Bear Mountain Review!
Happy Birthday Uncle Scrooge! Yes it was 73 years ago that everyone’s favorite stingy adventurous billionaire entered this world. And I only NARROWLY missed it as I only found out this was coming up when looking up various character birthdays during the writing of my review of “The Three Cablleros”. I now have a word document with all the various important duck characters birthdays so this doesn’t happen again, but i’m glad I did my homework as I can celebrate one of my faviorite character’s birthdays.
And Scrooge is one of my favorites. While I relate to donald’s everyman slacker spendthrift was a tad more, I still love this old bastard. He’s badass, quick witted, and earned every bit of his fortune square outside of one moment of weakness. But he has his flaws: He’s horribly cheap, quick to anger, and very dismissive and distrustful of people for good reasons and bad. He’s a complicated, interesting character and one that still works today in the reboot.. if with some slight tweaks to make him less of a greedy monster by modern standards. He’s one of my favorite comic book characters, and one of Disney’s finest, so it only felt right to honor him by going back to his roots with his very first appearance and a story that like him is 73 years old today. It’s also one I had never read until today’s review. So does this storied tale still hold up? How diffrent was Scrooge? and are there any actual bears in the story? Well come along with me as we take a trip up to Bear Mountain and find out.
This story, if you didn’t know, is by Disney Legend and Scrooge Creator Carl Barks, easily the most influential and well known duck artist.. felt like it was worth mentioning since without Carl none of this would be possible and as usual his art is gorgeous and unique to him. On with the show.
We open with Donald and the Boys depressed, as Christmas looks to be pretty drab. While the boys are sad they don’t have a winter Cabin like everyone else...
Donald is even more bummed he can’t afford dinner or presents as he mentions this to the boys, being flat broke. It’s also a nice character beat that Donald, despite his usual hedonism.. would be just fine, with his depression coming from the fact he can’t even give his boys a proper Christmas let alone presents. It’s a stark adult fear and something that really hits as I find the money to buy Christmas presents for all my friends and family during my current unemployment, though commissions, have been helping.
But yes i’m doing my first Christmas review before thanksgiving’s even come in. But given the serendipity of Scrooge’s birthday and the fact I wanted to read it at some point before covering the last chapter of life and times anyway, since said story takes place DURING this one. I’ll explain how in a moment. Plus frankly with me already having to do my christmas shopping while I have money, I still feel the spirit of the holiday, so I honestly figure why not.
But all that aside, the Nephews muse things might be better if their rich Uncle Scrooge would remember them, but probably not. We’ll meet scrooge, if you care to continue, after the cut.
We then cut to Scrooge’s mansion. Two things to note. The first is that he has a mansion here. Now for us Ducktales fans, it’s not unusual, he lives in one in both series. But being even MORE frugal in the comics meant after this he mostly lived in the money bin to save .. well money. So he dosen’t have the mansion after this and Don Rosa explained it, as he did really most aspects of scrooge’s life, in life and times, having him decide to sell the place after also deciding to reopen the bin. Just a neat fun fact. The other fun fact is that his angry pose and expersion here were later homage in “Last Crash of the Sunchaser!”, in one of Ducktales 2017′s easily most heart pulling moments: the ending of the episode showing Scrooge truly alone once again. It’s also a nice refrence to Life and Times as at this point scrooge was just as miserable and alone according to Rosa’s masterwork, with the boys and Donald coming into his life being the thing that revitalized him. So let’s get on that shall we?
Scrooge is wallowing in his misery, having never had any fun according to himself and thinking maybe giving a present could be fun.. and decides on his Nephew as the one to give it to. But in typical Scrooge fashion instead of just giving his Grandson a gift, he’s going to have to earn it. He sends a letter to the Boys and Donald offering up his cabin, fully stocked with goodies and presents. A bit pricey for who Scrooge would become, and a bit odd to see him not complain.. but it still sets up his character as someone who wants people to WORK for what they get, but can genuinely get behind someone who shows good character, in this case he’s hoping, but Doubting, Donald will end up showing himself to be brave. And it’s STILL more plausible he’d buy luxury items to prove a point to himself, than it was in that one Ducktales comic I reviewed where he spent presumably millions to teach a ten year old a lesson about getting everything you want. Which yes really happened.
Still not over that one, what the actual hell, let’s move on. Basically if Donald passes the test, he’ll get a real true present and if he doesn’t, well Scrooge will have fun anyway. It is easy to see the difference in character here: While parts that would later become bedrock, his code of honor and his wanting people to EARN things instead of just having them handed to them, as well as him sometimes being a huge dick about that are there, he comes off more as a golden age villain cackling in his lair than the awesome but flawed adventurer we’d all come to know and love. I mean while he’d be no less kind to the Boys and Donald about their poverty later, this time he’s especailly bad tempting them with a nice christmas they couldn’t afford and planning to scare the bejeezus out of them. But I do like seeeing where Scrooge came from, STARTING as a decrepit old bastard and transitioning into the adventurous old bastard we all know and love. I have come to realize I do have a soft spot for characters earlier appearances, seeing what changed, what was there all along, and what was tweaked. It can be a mixed bag: with Marvel for instance sometimes you get Spider-Man, who was starkly anti-social and on the verge of understandably lashing out at the world a LOT in the first few issues, and prone to issues you wouldn’t see in a superhero comic back then. Hulk started out much smarter, greyer and meaner, eventually leading to the Joe Fixit persona being created as a result of this decades later.
On the other hand some examples are less enjoyable like Sue and Reed Richards, who back at the start were a sexist “panicky female” stereotype and a sexist mentally distant jackass, while Hank Pym and Wasp were again, a sexist mentally distant jackass, and another stereotype this time thinking almost entirely about fashion and boys. All four would go on to be MUCH better characters with age, with the occasional slip up. I bring this up because Scrooge... is still a good character even here. While he’d become even BETTER, he’s not bad at all here, just a bit different is all.
Back at the plot Scrooge reveals his plan by scaring the shit out of his butler: To dress up as a bear, head up the mountain and scare his nephews to see if any of them have any bravery. While Donald whimpers over the thought of bears and we get an okay gag of him thinking a squireel was one, Scrooge is forced to turn around due to the weather and gives a villain monologue about never having given anyone nothing in his entire life. I swear to god he’s basically Mr. Burns in this one.
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Then again I would also FULLY expect Scrooge to do this to Donald in the barks stories, just maybe not have it be lethal. MAYBE.
While Scrooge harumphs over his bad luck the boys and Donald enjoy a wonderful sleep. Despite Donald’s fear of bears, which the boys insist are hibernating, accurate, the boys force him to go out and get a Christmas tree by the age old tradition of whining until he does so. After going out back to find a tree to chop down Donald finds dead, ugly looking tree that’s weirdly heavy. To no one’s suprise, and to Donald’s natural luck, there’s a baby bear inside and as Donald gets a nice Christmas eve dinner ready for the boys, though after hearing some rustling he assumes a bear is present.. which it is. A baby bear. Awww. The little guy toddles around, and we get af ew pages of antics, with the boys chasing the bear, donald being a coward, and the bear getting into things and ending up on a rollerskate, which is referenced in life and times. However while the boys eventually find the baby.. it’s MOTHER, angry it’s cub is missing finds them and once Donald finds her, the four naturally hightale it out of there. The bears then eat all their food.. though the boys assume “there goes our presents”. Uh guys.. the presents aren’t gone you just don’t have them right this second. They aren’t showed destroying them or anything just leaning on them slightly. I mean the well stocked pantry and any candy in the presents are toast but there’s still a pretty sweet saxaphone there. Take a look.
See the most their doing is likely wrinkling some clothes, at worst flattening that skateboard.. or whatever that Mama Bear is sitting on. I mean I get in the larger sense they can’t get them because bears, but still. Once they pass out the boys send in Donald to get ripped apart by a bear.. er to tie up Mama Bear so they can get the house back, rightly pointing out that they’ll freeze to death anyways.. even though they you know have a car and could just leave. Then again knowing Donald’s luck i’td probably jsut lead to this.
The boys aren’t slacking though and are going after the cub while Donald passes out in fear next to the bear. Scrooge arrives, but is spooked by the cub and is proud to see his young nephews valiantly chase the bebe, and is impressed by Donald’s seeming bravery, decides, after fleeing in terror which is funny. Not in line with what he’d become but STILL really funny. But anyways he decides to throw them a proper christmas as a reward.
So the next day and, thanks to Don Rosa one part of life and times later, we end on Christmas Day as for the first time in decades, Scrooge basks in the warm glow of family, and is happy probably for the first time in years. He gifts Donald a bear skin, he faints, haw haw haw the end.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
This story holds up extrodinarly well. While some aspects like Scrooge being generous or cowardly don’t jibe with his later character, it’s forgivable since, again, first appearance, and it’s an entertaining story. Granted his plan hasn’t aged well, but it’s still a fun Christmas set story with some good gags and an entertaining villian. While not Scrooge or Donald or Barks finest hour, it’s still a good bit of hollday fun that gave us one of the best characters of all time. And for that, ill be forever greatful.
If you liked this review, you can comission one of your own via my ask box, direct message or discord (technicolormuk#6550), if your more comfortable not doing buisness on here.
UPCOMING REVIEWS TO KEEP AN EYE ON THIS SPACE FOR
Loud House Coverage: Band Together/ The Other One
Ducktales: The First Adventure!
Ride of the Three Cablleros: The Three Cablleros Ride Again!
Until then you can check my backlog on my various pages and remember, there’s always another rainbow.
#ducktales#scrooge mcduck#christmas on bear mountain#carl barks#donald duck#huey duck#louie duck#dewey duck#christmas#comics#reviews
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Book Review: The Art of Frugal Hedonism
Book Review: The Art of Frugal Hedonism
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This book gave me even more reasons to turn into Brit Marling like in that eco-terrorist movie. Was OK, if not a little basic and eager to gloss over darker subjects. Perhaps a good intro. It's all about making an impact where you are at right now. #ClimateCrisisTherapy #Permaculture #Freeganism #Freegans #Forager #TrashDigger…
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Asking the librarian I recognize for help finding a few books is fun bc shes remeber my choices and she commented "I've never seen someone with your reading..." "flavor?" I supplied "yes" well, a book about venomous animals, a book called the art of frugal hedonism and a sci fi book called space opera along with the latest dr stone and my hero academia manga,
Lady, this well funded library is my paradise
#she has short curly hair and is in her 50s#glasses and a sweet smile#s/o to librarinas who recognize patrons
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current song: “Rain and You” by Lee Mujin, “Falling” by Harry Styles, “Antukin” by Rico Blanco and basically my personal lovelorn playlist just for the feels
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“Frugal Freedom” read my latest blog at weavethefuturemagical.com. Two excellent books I’ve read recently, “Meet the Frugalwoods” (borrowed eBook from library) and “The Art of Frugal Hedonism” (a friend lent me), have shared the increased pleasures of living a simplified, values-driven life. The joy of harvesting and sharing your own produce, of camping with friends, the relationship-building potential of cutting each other’s hair and going on picnics. The silver lining of lockdown has not simply been the Scrilla saved but also the increased focus on values, the return to simplicity, self-sufficiency and sourdough starters. Is a wine-cooler (or kombucha) in the driveway talking to your neighbours secondary to getting on-the-beers at the pub or is it actually superior? Likewise, nature walks and live streamed yoga classes vs. going to the gym. Ditto homemade cinnamon scrolls vs. Baker’s Delight? (at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBRWXcrHtQ2/?igshid=1c8trap2jtb7e
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Frugality and Arte Povera
Painting has always presented a problem to me. Use of paint
Don’t get me wrong, I love painting and the relationship between the an acrylic brushstroke and its respective canvas can spawn a subtle beauty of form, texture and colour, I find the actual removal of paints from their nice metal tubes to be all too distressing. I hate the idea of having one crumpled tube of white or black amongst a collection of other barely used paints. Not because I am a clean freak (take a look at my desk if you think that) but because I am all too painfully aware of how expensive paints are now. I’ve been lucky in that I have gotten most of my paints for free, but I know eventually those paints will run out and I’ll have to buy more, and then those paints will run out and I’ll have to but more, and then those paints will run out and I’ll have to but more, etc.
On top of this I’ve recently been told as part of a paint workshop that I will have to access the next grade of paint quality, an exciting upgrade for some but to me it seems more of a burden than anything. Because once again, I am faced with the eternal problem of things costing money. It’s a problem that as a student I am more than aware than ever. I have to plan strategically if I want to buy paints: What colours are essential? What quality grade is necessary? How much should I actually purchase? I feel that in the future it will become a much larger problem than I hope it should be. The only way I can realistically combat is to not splurge on student or artist level acrylics, and stick to my low tier paints. But then of course I will miss on the subtle mixes of colour and smoothness of the higher grades. But maybe there’s a way around that.
I’m always interested in experimentation, especially with paint, mainly in the different ways I can make it smoothly or ruggedly move across the paper, but there’s clearly something I’m missing. Instead of simply using the paint alone I need to really push the physicality of the paint to its limits. I’ve had an idea for a while of mixing multiple different fluids into acrylics and recording their effects, to see if any of them have interesting visuals to them, and now seems to be the best time to look into the idea.
According to the Oxford Dictionary frugality is “The quality of being economical with money or food; thriftiness.” a sought after and somewhat necessary trait for some, but the definition itself isn’t as beefy as I wish it were, I need to know why it is a favourable. Behavioural science suggest frugality is the tendency to acquire goods and services in a restrained manner, and resourceful use of already owned goods and services to achieve a long-term goal. In simple terms, one must buy in small and measured amounts at the longest possible intervals in order to save money. Sounds simply but in experience can take quite a lot of planning and subsequent willpower. Common strategies of the frugal lifestyle include the reduction of waste, eliminating common costly habits, efficiency, avoiding economic traps, defying expensive social norms, avoiding advertising, embracing low-cost options, using barter when possible, staying informed about local markets, and stopping instant gratification by self-restraint.
The original concept of frugality as a subject was to be distrustful of ‘expert’ knowledge from commercial markets and corporate culture to instead focus on the preferred economic, material, and spiritual ideals of a small community or the individual. Many communities see frugality as an aspect of spirituality, helping a person become enlightened to the true measures of life as well as eliminating the aspects of a destructive lifestyle based on hedonism. Quakers and Puritans have adopted this lifestyle for such reasons, so they can save money and allocate it for more charitable efforts.
Frugality can not only help save money for the future but also assist a positive health by eliminating destructive and cost-heavy habits such as smoking, drinking, and drug use. Paired with ultimate goal of saving as such money as possible and the lifestyle being seen as a separated ideal from the conventional materialism of many people’s lives, it has been seen as either being an extremely beneficial method of cost-cutting in its simplest examples, and a more disdained practice in its more extreme lengths. People see planning economically and using coupons as clever, others see it as cheap, most see skip diving to be too far. But personally I’m all for any example of it. Mainly the more spontaneous aspects of it, rather than the fully planned spreadsheets of the cost:volume ratios, monthly charters and coupon-cutting. And Lord knows I’m not above picking things of the street, just look back at my sculpture project for evidence of that. But maybe it is time to change, think more on the numbers side of things.
I purchased some paints from my local Wilko, twelve 200ml tubes of acrylic in the colours Viridian, White, Rose, Black, Cerulean Blue, Cadmium Red, Ultramarine Blue, Crimson Red, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Lemon Yellow, and Sap Green at a cost of £24 total. Pretty expensive all things considered, especially for such low quality acrylics, but that low quality, especially the slickness of the surface and unsubtle block colours have a certain necessity to them. The cheapness of the quality relates back into why I brought them, because I’m cheap. The second part of the painting process, the supports, were easily acquired, I simply picked up a collection of MDF offcuts from the workshop downstairs. Normally I would have used paper but I didn’t want to get those ugly dented effects or go through the process of stretching onto a board, as that would have costed more money and taken time until I could actually paint. I did a few small tests at the beginning of the painting into different painting techniques, as it has been a while since I’ve painted for prolonged periods, I tested with impressionist and reductive methods but I settled on using small tabs of cardboard to layer and blend blocks of pure colour atop one another, finding the way the colours relate and the built texture to be quite nice.
During a group tutorial it was suggested instead of using free MDF from the workshop I instead return to the found object motif of my previous sculpture project as well as research some artists who use found objects in their work. I took to this idea and collected some pieces of disused wood from my surrounding area, many of which were dampened and rotting, making them quite delicate, a feature I didn’t find out until I started painting, which was quite annoying. Some of the wood scraps have been pre-painted and varnished, making them smooth to the touch much like the MDF I previously used while others were raw and rough, making for an interesting textural relationship between the support and the paint. Unlike the MDF, these wooden supports aren’t thin enough to fit into my sketchbook, meaning I’ll have to scan them into my sketchbook, eliminating the texture, which is unfortunate.
My tutor gave me a list of interesting artists to look at and study for the found object motif I’ve been running with, but I felt like a link between most of them was too much of a stretch. I did however particularly enjoy the work of the Arte Povera (which literally translates to ‘Poor Art’) movement which was suggested to me. A late 60’s-early 70’s Italian art movement and originally a response to the established government, industries and culture of Italy, mainly with a focus on simplicity, much like the Minimalist Art movement before it, except on a grander scale, with a three dimensional focus, emphasis on more fluid forms, and a utilization of found or recycled objects including soil, rags and twigs in an effort to disrupt the commercial aspects of modern Italian art. The movement was paired with a series of supposed concepts and trends such as:
A return to simple objects and messages
The body and behaviour are art
The everyday becomes meaningful
Traces of nature and industry appear
Dynamism and energy are embodied in the work
Nature can be documented in its physical and chemical transformation
Explore the notion of space and language
Complex and symbolic signs lose meaning
Ground Zero, no culture, no art system, Art = Life
The focus on the found is mainly why I focused on the movement, but I’ve also come to enjoy the fluid forms of many of the sculptures, specifically the use of Anti-Form, a style of sculpture born in the United States which embraced organic processes and a level of chance, in a sense treating the object in a certain way and then leaving it to possess its own inherent qualities rather than the artist imposing restrictions on it. An example I found of this is Lynda Beglis’ Quartered Meteor, a sculpture in which layers of lead and steel are melted on top of each other, forming an appearance of cooled lava. I find the fluidity and methodology of the sculpture to be quite fascinating and relatable to my project, as with the paints and fluids I am mixing, the results are mostly unknown and produce often unperticable effects inherent to the materials I use, much like the ideas of Anti-Form but on a textural basis instead.
Sources used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frugality
http://www.the-frugality.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arte_Povera
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/arte-povera
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/anti-form
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/benglis-quartered-meteor-t13353
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"Very few people actually do much of the stuff that the media implies people do, and those who do work hard to keep up. But lifestyle journalism makes it easy to feel that there is a world of people out there effortlessly dressing, holidaying, exercising, eating and thinking in certain appropriate ways, and it is in human nature to not want to be terribly out of line with what everyone else is up to. Steer clear of this homogenising influence is your authors' suggestion. Spend your Sunday morning breakfasts perusing odd facts about breeding piranhas in captivity instead."
The Art of Frugal Hedonism, by Annie Raser-Rowland and Adam Grubb.
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