Barney or Sable or sumthin

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Fair warning: half of my picks are from the 90s because that was my formative era. I like stuff I can sing to or play the guitar to, so there’s a lot of rock and pop…

Drop Dead Gorgeous [1997] – Republica Just a Girl [1995] – No Doubt A Thousand Years [2011] – Christina Perri Ready Now [2019] – Dodie Iris [1998] – Goo Goo Dolls November Rain [1992] – Guns N’ Roses Speechless [2009] – Lady Gaga - Creep [1992] – Radiohead You Could Make a Killing [1995] – Aimee Mann All Along the Watchtower [1968] – Jimi Hendrix Rumour Has It [2011] – Adele Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down [2010] – Alicia Keys

Now for the usual totally unnecessary commentary on my choices:

We’ve got four British artists on there (well, I did grow up here), but it’s mostly stuff from across the pond. That said, ‘Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down’ was never released in the US, but it was over here, and it was huge (hence it’s on my Spotify master playlist!).

There are songs from four soundtracks (Scream, Twilight, City of Angels and Cruel Intentions), proving that movies make my brain remember songs better.

Also, I’m currently rewatching Battlestar Galactica, so I had to include Hendrix 😎.

Hmm, who to tag... okay, 12 of my loveliest moots coming up:

@ak-vintage @bitchwitch1981 @burntheedges @cas-readsandwrites @fromthedeskoftheraven

@ishabull @joelalorian @magpiepills @mermaidgirl30 @saradika

@secretelephanttattoo @sixhours

Last kiss - taylor swift

Only the young - taylor swift

Snow on the beach - taylor swift ft. lana del rey

ThanK you aIMee - taylor swift

Lavender haze - taylor swift

I can see you (taylor's version) - taylor swift

Karma - taylor swift

Electric touch (taylor's version) - taylor swift

Safe & sound - taylor swift

All of the girls you loved before - taylor swift

Enchanted - taylor swift

Beautiful ghosts - taylor swift

You're not sorry - taylor swift

Everything has changed - taylor swift

Opalite - taylor swift

King of my heart - taylor swift

all good - woojin & ryul of lngshot

too many lines - asteria & kets4eki

ejeh - woojin of lngshot

take a pic - 6arelyhuman & asteria

hands up! - 6arelyhuman

evening glow - wave to earth

let me see ya move - lumi athena & cade clair

unchild - unchild

california dreamin - the mamas & the papas

kawasaki - one or eight & big sean

winter falls- stray kids

right hand girl- twice

i can't stop me- twice

this is for- twice

taste- stray kids

enemy- twice

not cute anymore- illit

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bite me- enhypen

yes or yes- twice

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maniac- stray kids

unique- p1harmony

saranga dariya- mangali

item- stray kids

choom- babymonster

Babydoll - Dominic Fike

Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars

Reckless - Madison Beer

Never Enough - Loren Allred

The Cure - Olivia Rodrigo

TNT - Cortis

Old Town Road - Lil Nas X

Amour - Donguti

Saiyaara - Tanishk Bagchi and sum others, forgot

Those Eyes - New West

and the numbers… i can’t really… yeah.

Infrunami - Steve Lacy

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Leave the door open - Bruno Mars

Imposter Syndrome - Sidney Gish

Keep ya head up - Tupac

Earrings - Malcolm Todd

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Dead! - My Chemical Romance

Rock in God’s shoe - Sushi Soucy

Alter ego - Doechii

Where you @ - Ayesha Erotica

I saw your face - Malcolm Todd

Na na na - My Chemical Romance

Gold digger - Kanye West

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Sweet Boy - Malcolm Todd

Space Funk - Jafunk

Undone - Weezer

Mac - Malcolm Todd

The Lightning Thief - Misc

Island in the sun - Weezer

Make u cum - Ayesha Erotica

Everybody talks - Neon Trees

Space girl - Frances

Sunflower - Rex Orange County

OH NO! - MARINA

Dandelions - Ruth B

Arcade - Duncan Laurence ; FLETCHER

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Paper Planes - MIA

Ode to my Cat - Katya Ross

Pretty Face - PUBLIC

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n - Nothing Matters by The Last Dinner Party

o - Obsessed by Olivia Rodrigo

t - The Best by Conan Gray

t - The King by Conan Gray

h - Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish

e - Everything I Wanted by NewDad

r - Rooboosh by NewDad

e - Eleven Eleven by Conan Gray

a - Animal Enough by Maya Hawke

l - Luna Moth by Maya Hawke

m - My Own Summer (Shove It) by Deftones

e - Entertainer by NewDad

g - good 4 u by Olivia Rodrigo

a - Alley Rose by Conan Gray

n - Nauseous by Conan Gray

b - Big Dog by The Last Dinner Party

l - LUNCH by Billie Eilish

o - Oxytocin by Billie Eilish

o - OUCH by Nxdia

m - Mermaid Bar by Maya Hawke

f - Fuck Me Up by Nxdia

i - If You Should Try To Kiss Her by Dressy Bessy

e - Exit Music (For a Film) by Radiohead

l - LOSER!! by Mckenna Grace

d - Door by Conan Gray

f - fame is a gun by addison rae

l - love you to death by type o negative

i - i'll believe in anything by wolf parade

i - it ain't me babe by joan baez

c - casual by chappell roan

k - kyoto by phoebe bridgers

e - ella megalast burls forever by cocteau twins

r - rose parade by elliott smith

g - genesis by grimes

a - anyone else but you by the moldy peaches

t - TV by alex g

e - everlong by foo fighters

s - "slut!" by taylor swift

casual - chappel roan

lie to girls - sabrina carpenter

egg - djo

runner -djo

actor - conan gray

drop dead - olivia rodrigo

ivy - taylor swift

never ending song - conan gray

7 seven - taylor swift

You gotta die sometime - falsettos

One way or another - Blondie

Using you - Mars Argo

Rebel Girl - Bikini Kill

She's my Collar - Gorrilz

Lover girl - laufey

Emo Boy - Ayesha Erotica

Earrings - Malcom Todd

Punkrocker - Teddybears

Duvet - Boa

End of Beginning - DJO

Me and Michael - MGMT

O star - Paramore

Not - Big theif

the Os where hard but it's okay, fun fact every one of these songs is on the same playlist

r - ready for it? by taylor swift

e - everythings romantic by charli xcx

d - dont stop me now by queen

w - waka waka by shakira

i - idle town by conan gray

n - not strong enough by boygenius

e - espresso by sabrina carpenter

s - sweet tooth by maya hawke

u - ur so pretty by the wasia project

p - phoebe by audrey hobert

a - all american bitch by olivia rodrigo

n - northern attitude by noah kahan

o - once by pearl jam

v - violet by hole

e - end of beginning by djo

r - red wine supernova by chappell roan

f - forever (noah kahan) a - angela (the lumineers) v - vienna (billy joel)

i - i know the end (phoebe bridgers) d - donna (the lumineers) i - iris (the goo goo dolls) o - ophelia (the lumineers) t - there it goes (maisie peters)

l - landslide (fleetwood mac) e - everywhere, everything (noah kahan) s - sofia (clairo) b - bloom (the paper kites) i - i will wait (mumford and sons) a - anything (adrianne lenker) n - not strong enough (boygenius)

l - love (Lambrini Girls)

u - uptown girl (Billy joel)

j - Jackie and wilson (Hozier)

e - EZPZ (man/woman/chainsaw)

l - LUNCH (Billie eilish)

l - Lump (Presidents Of The United States Of America)

y - your favorite toy (foo fighters)

f - follow excitement (rizzle kicks)

i - I am a poseur (x-ray spex)

s - sabotage (beastie boys)

h - heart skips a beat (olly murs)

2 - 22 (Taylor swift)

1 - 19-2000 (gorillaz)

New radio - bikini kill

Gone b4 yr home - le tigre

Expensive - Ayesha erotica

Liar - bikini kill

Lobotomize me - the rat utopia experiment

Identity - x-Ray Spex

Stop stop - the Julie ruin

Statements of vindication - bikini kill

Let’s run - le Tigre

Eau D’bedroom dancing - le Tigre

Everglade - L7

Phanta - le Tigre

You’ll end up looking like the scary bitches - scary bitches

Lashes- babes in toyland

One party too many - tribe 8

This is not a test - bikini kill

Zombie girl - adrianne lenker

Oh my lover - PJ harvey

Fast and frightening - L7

Terrorist- heavens to betsey

Eraser- nine inch nails

Equation - hans zimmer, camille

Tell me it’s okay (demo) - paramore

Hush - TOOL

Blonde Dynamite by Caravan Palace

Alarm Call by The Correspondents

Ghost of Chicago by Noah Floersch

Envy by Sparkbird

Lightweight by Butter Bath

Sleepwalk by Forrest Day

A Crow's Trial by Vain Lily

Butch 4 Butch by Rio Romeo

Leaving London by Fin Argus

Evergreen by Richy Mitch and The Coal Miners

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

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