You, Me and the Balloons27/8/2023
Hiya~! 😁
I just about squeezed in a little update into August, trying to stay strong with my monthly update streak since re-launch 😆 I wanted to get more tutorials finished this month but I ended up procrastinating a lot playing games on Steam and just generally feeling lethargic 😅
I've been really into Spike Chunsoft games lately (developers of Danganronpa and Steins;Gate). I loved games like Heavy Rain and LA Noire with mystery solving and multiple endings. 🧐 I played the Zero Escape trilogy back-to-back which is also mystery-solving with an escape room twist and crazy sci-fi story plot. Then that lead me to play AI: Somnium Files which also had a mind-blowing plot and now I'm playing Steins;Gate. I have future plans to do video games reviews here so maybe one day I'll go into more detail about these games.
Site updates
1 new link exchange: Suzy @ Red Velvet
1 new affiliate: Svenja @ Kouyou Design
Now Partner with Salya @ Tainted Wingz and will be working with her on the website which I have done before years ago and miss it. I have added 8 wallpapers over there, check out the site and show some love.
+2 web templates: Nichijou and Happy New Year are actually old templates but just got around to fixing them in this update.
Now hosted on Netlify which helped me fix URL routing on the site (I will cover routing in a future update) and no longer have that watermark from my old free web host.
New content - PSD downloads with +9 PSD colourings
+2 tutorials: Netlify hosting, Icon Dandelion
+2 400 x 400 avatars (which is a sneak peek of a custom layout I am working on for Tainted Wingz, stay tuned!)
Story time
Since my last update I went to the largest art exibition I've ever been to: You, Me and the Balloons by Yayoi Kusuma at Factory International for Manchester International Festival.
Throughout the hall you can hear a song she performs on a screen. It sounds like a sweet bedtime rhyme but the lyrics are about her dealing with depression and thoughts of suicide then it feels haunting when you learn the real meaning.
It was written after she voluntarily moved into a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo. She continues to live in the hospital, working in a studio nearby.
Here are some photos I took and uploaded to my Instagram and I uploaded a YouTube short
