Playlist

Pixel Art: Genuine Human, Gyhyom, Cryoclaire, waneella, Pixel Jeff

Ready Player One is one of my favorite fiction novels and this song by Gunship is a dream collaboration. Gamenite is a riff of the Gunship original music video (watch on YouTube) that I made inspired by a Friday night pastime of playing video games with friends late into the night.

Pixel Art: SeerLight, waneella, lennart butz

This song is from Makoto Shinkai’s film, Garden of Words. His films have always left a lasting impression on me but this song especially so. I paired it with visuals and notations of the memorable places me and my wife visited during our multi-month long trips to Japan we took during our honeymoon.

Pixel Art: Jubilee, Khaled, Tofu, waneella, Pixel Jeff, Kirokaze

This song is reminiscent of my time living in Vietnam and speaks of a city strife with pollution and noise. So much so that we dream of the days we can leave the city for the idyllic countryside. This conflict exists in many places between life in the hectic, crowded city set against the slow, simple life in country.

Pixel Art: 1041uuu (豊井), Camille Unknown

This is an absolutely moving song from the soundtrack of an unforgettable experience playing Spiritfarer. In this game, you operate a vessel to care for and bring those near the end of their lives to the eternal gates. Similarly, I attempted to capture these emotions regarding life and preparing for the end.

Pixel Art: Tofu, Faxdoc, Pixel Boy Jake, Kye Cheng, noaqh, low resolution boy, forrestmari

This is IU x Studio Ghibli with undertones revolving around the theme of climate change. This is my favorite IU song and I wanted to make something silly and upbeat for a change but then I had the idea of creating ironic visuals of a changing world with rising sea levels.