David Wise: Aquatic Ambience

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Stupidity Hole

One listen.

With this I put fragments down without trying to expand upon them. I feel like what I wrote feels like things going past quickly, but it’s not quite that. Anyway.

David Wise’s “Aquatic Ambience” is from Donkey Kong Country‘s soundtrack, DK Jamz: The Original Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack. It is also featured on Super Donkey Kong Original Sound Version as “WATER MUSIC”.

I hope you enjoy.

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Sounds move slow, moving, moving along, drifting under pressure, peaceful, urging in a way. Urging peacefully. Floating in and out of range, pulsing. Muffled and clear.

A change, though the melody remains the same. More beeps, more pulses, more moments held within a small frame of time.

Percussion is light, gentle. It’s just enough to push things forward. More sound along with it, adding layers of melody. Questions, wondering, answers. Majesty of a grand space unable to be appreciated. Fragments of the slowness of underwater, and how quick it is.

Seemingly the sounds become more urging, more pressing and pushing along. A weight to them, a rushed beauty. A peace in darkness until they all fade and the song ends.

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MS Paint self-portrait, 2025

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Stupidity Hole

I started on this last year. I wanted to adapt this photo as I thought it’d look good in paint. I didn’t get too far. Maybe I felt like I wasn’t sure as to where to go with it or something.

Decided to finish it off today, make it more of a flatter monochrome image and I think the result works, though it definitely could be better.

I hope you enjoy.

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Caterpie

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Stupidity Hole

Another day, another pokémon from Pokémon. Or is that Pokémon from Pokémon? Dunno.

Anyway, the initial sketch took under ten minutes. Was a few hours of work after that. Was a little too free with my lines.

I hope you enjoy.

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A Glimpse of What Else Could Be

Posted on June 26, 2025 by Stupidity Hole

I think the title covers this well enough.

I hope you enjoy.

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Zuntata: Future Perfect From 7

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Stupidity Hole

One listen. Probably the last song used in G-Darius that I’ll cover for a while… unless I remember another track that I want to cover. Which I’ve just realised that there’s at least one and that will likely be tomorrow.

Anyway, this took a bit of time to click. I was getting through what was happening, but once I noticed the space, I feel this started improving. If not, at least changing.

Zuntata’s “Future Perfect From 7” is from G-Darius‘ soundtrack, G-Darius Original Arcade Score.

I hope you enjoy.

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Gently intense percussive sound whilst a voice floats on above. Something more bassy between, and it pushes something hard, heavy, maybe menacing. More sound comes in, strikes in cut moments and rises, and the mood seems to lift with it.

The sound goes to the base again, and rises higher but does not seem to have at all. Then keys come in and descend, and maintain the intensity, but carry some gentleness. They are responded to by brief strings, lower again, and then those strikes are lower and more recognisable, or at least seem to be akin to voices.

It’s conclusive and it returns to the start and never lets up. Everything flows through, and it’s all with some sort of space that doesn’t seem to be there at all. There’s relief but there’s tension and stress, and maybe some sort of satisfaction. Maybe something bittersweet in there as the sounds fade out and the song ends.

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Mazda MPV 2004

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Stupidity Hole

A little over four years ago I shared a photo of a chair I saw at this location whilst I was driving around in The Blue Mountains. It made for what I felt was an interesting contrast. Or maybe it was harmonious. Anyway, it was similar weather to this photo, which features my car, which might soon be retired due to current mechanic being unable to figure out how to fix the issues it has that have been fixed before (by another mechanic).

This car has been incredibly useful and comfortable, and it’s going to be sad when it’s gone.

On my last trip from Bathurst I stopped off at this location to take this photo. There was a certain feel I was trying to capture; one of an older photo taken whilst on the road, I guess. It didn’t work out, but the photo works in monochrome.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week. This one is hosted by Dawn of The Day After, and she has chosen “Modes of Transportation” as her theme.

This challenge is open to all, and I recommend joining in. If want to, check out more information about it here, and include the tag “monochrome-madness” when you share your photo. If you’d prefer not to join in, then at the least check out Leanne’s photography, and what other people submit.

I hope you enjoy.

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Blastoise

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Stupidity Hole

This one took a while, and I’m not sure why. It took a while to get around to starting, and it took a while to finish. The total time actually working on it was short, but getting around to working on it… yeah.

Been in a bit of a slump recently, which, given recent events makes sense. But I’ve also been really tired, and everything is taking a long time to do. That might be lifting, though I’m not holding my breath. Taking it one day at a time, seeing what happens.

Anyway, I tried to do some scenery again. Like with wartortle, I tried to do a rock platform at sea again and I feel it worked here, though I think heavy weather would’ve been more appropriate, somehow. Maybe.

I had ideas of what to do, scenery-wise that exceed my artistic ability, so maybe one day I’ll come back to this. Not sure.

I hope you enjoy.

 

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Zuntata: Duplication

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Stupidity Hole

One listen.

Thought more of the mood and king of brushed over it. Started getting more into it but the song came to its end.

Zuntata’s “Duplication” is from G-Darius‘ soundtrack, G-Darius Original Arcade Score.

I hope you enjoy.

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Strings and draw out, seemingly relieved, seemingly drained of energy. They draw long, hover and float, and they carry that relief, but there seems to be a lack of energy. There is success, but perhaps the tomorrow desired will not be reached.

And within them all, within the finality is still a sense of despair, of mourning what was lost, and uncertainty. There is a mix and it is not the sound of a confident success. There is, perhaps, questioning in it all. There is wondering through a heaviness, and it lingers on the final sound at the song’s end.

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Zuntata: H.G. Virus

Posted on June 24, 2025 by Stupidity Hole

One listen. I have no idea what I wrote. I mean, I know what I wrote, but I also don’t know, you know? Anyway, I think what I wrote works with the song. Not too much, but just enough.

Zuntata’s “H.G. Virus” is from G-Darius‘ soundtrack, G-Darius Original Arcade Score.

I hope you enjoy.

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Quick sounds between and through percussion hitting hard, but it all seems percussive in a futuristic rush of sorts. Melodic and hopeful, before pulling back. Something rises. Space. Then there’s a bit of sudden intensity before keys rush on down.

The keys remain and it’s back to something more melodic before a sudden run of strikes, then back to melody again. Sounds pulling back, then more sudden intensity.

And a return to the start, and the sounds operate in brief flashes, it seems. They are urgent and driving, and they push hard to the next moment, push hard, try to find it where they can. One part comes and goes as another comes and goes and it all seems like its in rapid succession. The melodic moments don’t feel relaxed, but they do seem to look for a calm, somewhere among it all. Somewhere in all the sound the calm seems to be there, but everything keeps on pushing and pressing and urging.

Eventually the sounds reach one last rush of keys. Then everything stops and the song ends.

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Zuntata: Dada

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Stupidity Hole

One listen.

Writing this one felt like a block, or more accurately, a fatigue lifting. Or maybe I pushed past it. I don’t know. I don’t think the writing is good. I think I got stuck. However, I still captured a sense of what goes on in the song.

Zuntata’s “Dada” is from G-Darius‘ soundtrack, G-Darius Original Arcade Score.

I hope you enjoy.

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Ethereal, almost spectral sounds along with an echoing breathing. These sounds are moving through silence, and voices seem to come out and haunt, along with strings. The sounds intensify, then pull back.

A hard strike of percussion here and there, keeping things steady as the sounds drift and elegantly move. Voice warps, eventually disappears. More percussion, echoing, then those voices pick up, haunting the space.

Sounds come together, start forming the whole picture. They move with an otherworldly feel. A stillness, drifting, floating there, coming from somewhere else, unfamiliar, yet specifically from experience. Specifically human, grounded and here and present.

A return to the start, carrying all that came before as a memory. Turning to the minimal, reinforcing  by maintaining familiarity. An understanding of the pattern as the sounds repeat memory, even if recent.

Sound forms structure and structure maintains sound. Everything carries on, intensifying, receding and softening. Everything drifts, floats with purpose, moves smoothly and roughly at the same time. Carries peace and carries danger, carries the moods until the final sound stops and the song ends.

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