Month: June 2023

THIS MONTH’S MEDIA: May 2023

Ashlee

What I watched, listened to, read, & played in May 2023!

I was very busy in May & didn’t really consume a lot of media! My headphones were broken for a lot of the month so I didn’t listen to as many podcasts while working, & my brain was pretty tired each night when I’d go to bed so I didn’t watch a lot of shows or films, & while I started watching several, I lacked the concentration to complete many this month. My mental health wasn’t the best this month, but I really enjoyed the “Cat’s Cafe” book & it helped cheer me up (I’m feeling better now, writing this in June btw!)

TV

  1. Arvid Falch: Ambisonics Spatial Audio with Reaper and IEM
  2. BaM Animation: Clean Line Art! Digital Inking Tips
  3. Blue Turtle: Painting a Makoto Shinkai Background
  4. Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: S1 E1

Total: 4 Episodes

BOOKS

  1. Cat’s Cafe by Maxx Tarpley

Total: 1 Books

MOVIES, SHORT FILMS, & DOCUMENTARIES

  1. The Request (‘Lovers in Crime’ Animated Short from Crash Tako Studios, 2023)
  2. A Knight’s Tale (2001)

Total: 2 Movies & Documentaries

PODCASTS

  1. The Bonneville Game: Pilot Episode
  2. Lore: Episodes 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169
  3. Noble Blood: The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 1; The Love of the Duchess of Devonshire, Part 2; Queen Elizabeth II’s Greatest Regret, Libuše & Her City Touching the Stars, The Bewitched Events at the Tour de Nesle, The Peasants vs. John of Gaunt (with Helen Carr); The Irish Crown Jewels, Separated; The Princess of Monte Carlo, The Execution of the Roman Virgin, Mansa Musa & the World Map; Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania, The Secret History of Emperor Justinian; The Count, the Moose, & Thomas Jefferson

Total: 21 Podcast Episodes

ALBUMS

  1. Oh, Inverted World by The Shins
  2. The Beetles by Louie Zong
  3. Little Miss Sunshine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by DeVotchKa & Mychael Danna*
  4. Lincoln by They Might Be Giants
  5. Tadpoles by The Bonzo Dog Band
  6. Highway 61 Revisted by Bob Dylan*
  7. Little Miss Sunshine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by DeVotchKa & Mychael Danna*
  8. Flood by They Might Be Giants*
  9. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker by Berliner Philharmoniker, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, & Simon Rattle
  10. Flamboyant by Dorian Electra*
  11. Every Moonbeam Every Feverdream by Bears in Trees*
  12. Little Miss Sunshine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by DeVotchKa & Mychael Danna*
  13. Cartoon Funk by Louie Zong*
  14. Pigeon! By Louie Zong*
  15. Let’s A-Go by Louie Zong*
  16. Every Moonbeam Every Feverdream by Bears in Trees*
  17. Pigeon, Too! By Louie Zong
  18. Tropical by Louie Zong
  19. Flamboyant by Dorian Electra*

Total: 19 Albums

GAMES

Total: 0 Games

BANDS I SAW IN CONCERT:

Total: 0 Bands

*Things marked with the asterisk mean it’s something I’ve read/watched/listened to before, everything else is new to me! 

THIS MONTH’S MEDIA: April 2023

Ashlee

What I watched, listened to, read, & played in April 2023!

This month, I watched a lot of videos about animation as that’s a new creative area I’m just starting to get into! I also watched some really famous movies I’ve never seen before like The Matrix & Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, many episodes of the podcast Noble Blood, & the Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack was clearly my top album of the month haha.

TV

  1. Alan Becker Tutorials: 12 Principles of Animation: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Animating Walk Cycles
  2. Alex Grigg // Animation for Anyone: 4 New Ways to Practice Animation!, The Three Biggest Ideas in Animation, Animation Basics in 14 Minutes (6 Big Ideas for Beginners), How to Space Out Animation – The Simple Way & the Science-y Way, Freestyle Animation vs Planned Animation
  3. Brian David Gilbert Unraveled: Solving the Zelda Timeline in 15 Minutes
  4. Clint’s Reptiles: Gooty Sapphire Ornamental Tarantula
  5. Cowboy Bebop: S1 E3, E4
  6. Draw a Box: Lesson 0: Getting Started
  7. The Dragon Prince: S1 E1, E2
  8. Drawing & Painting – The Virtual Instructor: The Drawing Exercise That Changed My Life
  9. Flavorful Origins: Flaxseed
  10. Good Omens: S1. Ep. 4
  11. Molang: S1 Ep. 28, 29
  12. Peaky Blinders: S1 E4
  13. Perception Kayaks: How to Kayak – What Beginners Need to Know
  14. SciShow: Where Are a Whale’s Nipples?, How Smart Are Crows Actually?, We Can Give Vaccines to Honey Bees!, 10 Adorable Animals That Do Terrifying Things, How Traditional Ice Fishing Led to the French Fries in Your Freezer, It’s Basically Impossible to Overcook Mushrooms
  15. She-Ra: The Princesses of Power: S1 E1
  16. Toniko Pantoja: How to Storyboard Smarter

Total: 40 Episodes

BOOKS

Total: 0 Books

MOVIES, SHORT FILMS, & DOCUMENTARIES

  1. Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil
  2. The Matrix
  3. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
  4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Total: 4 Movies & Documentaries

PODCASTS

  1. Aaron Menke’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Stable Genius, Hot Wheels, Ship of Fools
  2. American Shadows: Durable, In the Flesh, Unsung, Containment, Dead Ends
  3. Frog of the Week: Golden Poison Dart Frog, Plantaronian Bullsnoad, Red-Eyed Tree Frog, Venezuelan Pebble Toad, Turtle Frog
  4. Lore: Episodes 162
  5. The Magnus Archives: Ep. 62, 63, 64, 65
  6. Noble Blood: The Rice Box, The ‘Six’ Wives: An Interview with Lucy Moss & Toby Marlow of ‘Six’, The Ghost Princes & Richard III, The Princess That England Lost, Empress Sisi’s Beating Heart, The Romantics of Villa Diodati, Ra Ra Rasputin, Medieval History with Dan Jones, The Life of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, The Death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; & Jeanne de Clisson, Pirate Terror of France
  7. Project Botany: What are plant nurtients: Macro nutrients*, Who was Norman Borlaug*, What are micro nutrients*
  8. Stuff You Missed in History Class by How Stuff Works: Why is there an underground city beneath Beijing?, How the Symbols of the U.S. Political Parties Work, Did Marie Antoinette really tell French peasants to eat cake?, The History of Presidential Debates
  9. Unobscured: S2: EP 1, 2

Total: 38 Podcast Episodes

ALBUMS

  1. Little Miss Sunshine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by DeVotchKa & Mychael Danna*
  2. Rove & Go by Derina Harvey Band
  3. Little Miss Sunshine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by DeVotchKa & Mychael Danna*
  4. Cartoon Funk by Louie Zong*
  5. Little Miss Sunshine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by DeVotchKa & Mychael Danna*
  6. I Love Huckabees Soundtrack by Jon Brion*
  7. Let’s-A Go! By Louie Zong
  8. Mineral Hall by Louie Zong
  9. Let’s-A Go! By Louie Zong*
  10. Little Miss Sunshine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by DeVotchKa & Mychael Danna*
  11. Every Moonbeam Every Fever Dream by Bears in Trees*
  12. Little Miss Sunshine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by DeVotchKa & Mychael Danna*
  13. Sheer Heart Attack by Queen*
  14. Little Miss Sunshine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by DeVotchKa & Mychael Danna*
  15. Songs with Videos Without Videos by Brian David Gilbert*
  16. Little Miss Sunshine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by DeVotchKa & Mychael Danna*
  17. PACIFIC by Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, & Tatsuro Yamashita*
  18. AAAH!BBA by Brian David Gilbert*
  19. Songs with Videos Without Videos by Brian David Gilbert*
  20. Vegetable Soul by Louie Zong*
  21. Little Miss Sunshine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by DeVotchKa & Mychael Danna*

Total: 21 Albums

GAMES

  1. Netflix’s Solitaire*

Total: 1 Games

BANDS I SAW IN CONCERT:

Total: 0 Bands

*Things marked with the asterisk mean it’s something I’ve read/watched/listened to before, everything else is new to me!