Well well well.. Would you look at the time.
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Turns out, there are multiple tea days! The one I knew was the International Tea Day on the 21st of May. Today—the 21st of April—marks the National (British) Tea Day. Founded literally by 'Big tea' aka The Tea Group, to celebrate the drinking of tea (2).
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| Tea served in a tea room at the Shantytown Heritage Park in New Zealand. |
And before you go, Check out this site that I stumbled upon, it's a site all about holidays!
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I recently became aware of a term that describes an aesthetic that I like; Utopian Scholastic.
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| Blendo Atom - Cover for a 1991 issue of Verbum Magazine by Jack Davis scanned from Collage with Photoshop (1998) |
According to the Consumer Aesthetic Research Institute (CARI):
"Utopian Scholastic Namesake: Refers to this style's use in encyclopedias and teaching materials, and the idealized, high-resolution photography of its subjects."
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| Image for NEC, by Steve Bronstein of RGA / PRINT scanned from New Media Showcase 3 (1993) |
To me this style represent a hopeful look to the future, with the purpose of education and enticing children to learn and teach them the wonders of the world of non-fiction in media, by making it visually appealing and inspiring.
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| Globe Corner Bookstore, Boston, MA (1990s) designed by Bergmeyer Associates scanned from Lifestyle Stores by Martin Pegler (1997) |
Short video with images in the Utopian Scholastic aesthetic, accompanied by the theme of 1995's Eyewitness:
The podcast enlightening me of the term—the Silent Generation podcast—is a pretty chill and informative podcast, by well spoken and educated hosts. I highly recommend giving them a listen;
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Going through the Steam Spring sale's recommendations and this software popped up. What drew me in, was the absolutely Cute mascot art!
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| Kiki with a Parasol - Tyson Tan, 2020 |
Her name is Kiki, she's a cyber squirrel conceived by the artist Tyson Tan. This whole post was made just to share this single picture. It's very Cute, I love it!
The Krita page on Steam showed this picture as a showcase, and I couldn't help but fall in love with it.
The artist has many original characters with a similar artstyle; manly drawn to be used as mascots for many free and open source software, like Kiki here:
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| Kiki and the Waterlilies - Tyson Tan, 2020 |
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Famous military marching songs and tracks, done in Japanese.
I want to share this collection of military marching songs, covered in a whiplashing Japanese rock/pop style. Safe to say, they're Admiral approved.
Language barrier is the biggest obstacle in looking up and searching about this stuff sadly. From my limited googling and cursory research, I found that, the SNS is a musical project performed by Sakura Nakamura in addition to her performing regular voice acting for Anime roles.
This playlist is missing one of my favorite songs; The British Grenadiers.
And one more I found on YouTube; Our Rommel.
Also, I'm partial to this cover in particular; Rule, Britannia!.
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