AUGUST 24

OUTPUT

The break from working for Cypher was very short lived haha. Sometimes you gotta close a door to open a window. I’m back at the drawing board and pumping out designs. Here’s some I did this month:

I also recently got my hands on most of the tap art decals that I’ve designed for Cypher, and it was nice reflecting on the amount of work I’ve put into it over the last 18 months

I’ve been having lots of fun just sinking time into a singular subject with a very basic process that can be started and finished in one sitting. I read a book and watched a video on this idea a few years ago and it really clicked with me, and my god have I been pumping out these skulls.

INPUT

I rewatched the entire SCREAM movie franchise. The first movie is such an iconic idea and execution, it’s a great slasher while still being fun, campy and full of satire. If they edged closer to parodying horror tropes rather than satirising them we get the Scary Movie franchise. In my opinion Scream 3 is the only real stinker in the series. Here’s my ranking of the entire franchise:

  1. Scream (1996)

  2. Scream 4 (2011)

  3. Scream 2 (1997)

  4. Scream 5 (2022)

  5. Scream 6 (2023)

  6. Scream 3 (2000)

I really enjoyed Late Night with the Devil, horror set in the 70’s hits different. It had elements of found footage, possession, and a decent amount of comedy.

Alien Romulus did not disappoint. The director Fede Alvarez blew me away with the super gory Evil Dead (2013), it holds the record for the most fake blood with over 260,000L. Unfortunately it was pretty clear in Alien Romulus that the studio really wanted to include lots of callbacks to the other Alien movies, some that hadn’t even occurred yet in the timeline which was stupid. But overall the practical effects and creative ways to problem solve with the xenomorphs and face huggers was a very fun watch.

New albums by both Chatpile and Amyl and The Sniffers are on the horizon, they’ve both been trickling out singles that I’ve had on high rotation:

Books I finished or started this month: