March 30, 2025
New Blog Layout!
The blog layout has been changed. Please refer to the link below.
https://tarotnight.neocities.org/blog
See you there!
March 16, 2025
Let the title write itself
This week has been another weird turn LMAO. I'm back to Photoshop babyyy.
So, I jokingly asked my friend if I could make a logo for them. I mean we are friend in Fesnuk and we were working in the same company back then. Then after some conversation, I decided to take the challenge for real. I have not make any grunge logo myself, though I've seen many photoshop tutorial on how to make grunge effects in Photoshop. But holy, it is a long and fun process. My workflow for logo is basically typography and styling roughly. Which all of these are a totally new for me to make a logo in a grunge manner. (I'm almost crazy, but I'm fine) I will break it down fully when it's finished LMAO. Many iterations, but that is how design process works. My aim is not the pay at this point, I just want to see how it will come out. I am highly excited, indeed.
For website, there hasn't been any progress except I made some prototype of how the mainpage would be. It will be done, when it's done. On a tangent, I read some post about how neocities and the similar platform encourages people to create the indie web, but there are many websites that looks almost the same in terms of layout - it lacks the creativity it should have. I can understand that people want fast layout so they would just take any of the available. But man, they said that people just copy stuff in it without changing the background image and stuff. Ah, the pursue for instant result huh.
To be fair tho, I am fine if people want to copy my layout, heck just look even at the source code man, it's free. Maybe I will be hurt if someone just copy paste the whole thing, but at least reference it or something tho. I should make a resources page tho, cause I will take many references in it, including the Win7 layout (they make it so well, and they share it for free). You can check the Win7 layout documentation here.
Lucky Star!!! Oh yeah that's the analog stuff right there
Ah also, I have a 'lil brief melancholy inside me tho. It's about the lil' nonsense ramblings about fashion aesthetics in general.
So fashion of each era usually depicts the generational behaviour, sometimes I feel like maybe those Y2K looks so fun to us, we just want to go back. Maybe it's just better that time.
But, jirai kei which is a recently famous subculture of 2020s also depicts the problem of society. Born in the wrong life situation, family issue, and economic situation. They cope with depression in cute fashion, to hide the depressive behaviour within.
I suddenly think maybe gyaru culture in the 2000s was also born with the similar situation. The lost decade in Japan, economic recession. That situation just pushed people to be creative with fashion to cope with the problems back then. Maybe people were covering themselves with flashy shirts and pants to forget the problems for a while, and to have fun. Almost similar to what is happening right now. Or maybe they just wanna have fun with Eurobeat and stuff, lmao shits maybe too deeply interpreted 😂
And yeah, I believe some of us want to go back because the problem we're facing right now and we need to cope in some way. We can find some beauty in humanity in that I guess.
Anyways, here's a MV from Perfume called "Chocolate Disco" that woke my goofy philosophical rambling. The lightworks are insane, brother for a MV at 2008. Be sure to watch it at 360p.
I will finish the logo this week, can't wait.
March 8, 2025
Holy, I love HTML
This month has been a weird turn for me. The one app I used most often changed from Photoshop to Visual Studio Code in a week. For the disclaimer, I have not coded a single HTML or CSS code before in my entire life. So it's definitely a difficulty jump. Tho, W3Schools has been a total help for my web development journey. It's a baby step day by day, I learned how to add things into the website, including centering a div (you know it).
The whole website is still in the development process. I have constantly been coding after work these past few days. Generating assets for the website, opening Photoshop just to make simple ones like start button, or a logo. Please wait until the 1.0 version is finished. The website still looks like this, so please bear with me LMAO. The pixelized Lumina's house from Harvest Moon DS background stays in this page until morale improves.
To be fair tho, after this website is finished, I kinda want to make more altars, man. There is just something different with documenting stuff on the website. Blogging feels fun when you're not limited by character count. (Thank you fesnuk for still keeping this feature) Oh, also you can see the testing page I've made here. It's not final yet since I am still generating image assets, tho I already can feel what palette and aesthetics I'm going for. I guess y'all can already tell, tho.
Oh also, Fresh 'n Fits will have a quick announcement! Fresh 'n Fits is a passion project my Splat friends and I were making, and it's peak. I like to read magazines, and it's crazy that Splatoon fashion magazine is a neat idea. So there you go. I'll make a documentation for this project sometime later since this is one of my most memorable moments. So I would not forget it and can read it years later.
Overall, life feels better since I can work something for the while. It's probably to late to start things at late 20s, but you know it's better late than never.
Finally, if you feel like your <div> never center, this video might help you.
Note: Video above is a certified programming joke and you don't need to understand it at all.
25 February, 2025
First Blog Post in 2025!!
I think this is the first time I made a post on Neocities. I want to create this website as a diary to my skill development and just for shits and giggles. For now, I kinda aim to make myself better in graphic design and web development. In fact, I already made some progress in my graphic design journey, made some zine and stuff you know. I'll make a shop reference here somewhere LMAO.
I think the biggest motive behind this website is I just want to express myself again in a free way to express myself. I get that social media is here anyway but I feel that it's very exhausting to watch stuff, especially when the nation situation is pretty stinky right now. So, it's very refreshing to have my own space of creation. Social media lately has been pretty boring, the news and the drama just making stuff a bit stressful lately. I don't like my mind being fed by algorithm. It's weird eh, how social media used to be fun, but now it's mostly bad experience especially on this digital age with useless automation, especially X Twitter.
So anyways, today I made a study about graphic design about Y2K. Pretty crazy eh, I think like it's so fun to experiment stuff when I'm free. I've been driven crazy for a few days by this damn video. It hits me kinda deep.
Then I think I gotta do something man, my mind just itches and I just want to make one of these. I think I've experienced 2000 technology and media in a little amount before. I think I'm not a Walkman Andy, but Nintendo DS and Windows XP was the absolute banger during my childhood. My father collected some cassetes, CDs, and DVDs tho, but I'm pretty much missed out a lot. The phones were so diverse back then, every product has its gimmicks, and it was a good era for technology advancement. The phones was made for customer experience, and still has some personality and innovation.
And as I grew up, paying taxes and bills, I want to recreate these feelings. Chromecore, and stuff. Okay, so here's the thing I made just recently with Photoshop. I made it with Chromecore in mind. Tried to add some Y2K feel by adding noise to the base photo since digital photos back then has lots of noise.
Photo by Sherman Trotz from Pexels
It was also a chance to tried the shit out of all the filter in Photoshop LMAO. Damn I can understand why many people still prefer Photoshop to Canva. The filter gallery is a total banger feature, especially if you want to make a graphic art. I think I'm just going to experiment for now, I don't want to be burdened by personal projects to hurry over the art markets. Like, I have a lot of stuff in my mind, and I really want to make it into a creative project. But I think my creative skill right now won't cut out for it, so I just want to take it chill and study things on my own. Also I still have some layout jobs to finish LMAO.
Damn, it feels refreshing to write things here, maybe it's because I'm just new to HTML right now, but I love making things with an extra steps like this. I'll update more when I'm up for it or everytime I finish some design study. It's a fun exploration tho! See y'all next time!
P.S. I am so sorry to use a facebook layout for the website, it's a placeholder and I want to recreate the same feeling as I use Facebook on the internet cafe 17 years ago.
