Dracula’s Son and His Leopard Print Bed (Photoshop)

Dracula’s Son and His Leopard Print Bed (Photoshop)

Had some fun experimenting with some filtering on Photoshop...

 I've been feeling more inspired over the past few days to explore more artsy Photoshop tasks, such as incorporating aspects of my paintings into my photography. I've considered editing painting portraits, piecing them into photographs. 

Although I'm a bit shy about the more creative/experimental photography I do, I'm looking forward to reaching new prospects and getting comfortable sharing them 🎮𖦹👾

Accented With Photoshop 2025 

An Amiable Update from the Vampire Next Door

An Amiable Update from the Vampire Next Door

 A few things in the works, I’m reading a beautiful book of poetry written by the infamous Leonard Cohen — I plan to write an in depth review of my thoughts about it. Besides that, I’ll continue to write poetry and possibly even another album review :) 

There is a reason why all things are as they are. I want you to believe…. to believe in things you cannot - Count Dracula

Played From a Hackneyed Stereo and a Busted DVD Player

“Played From a Hackneyed Stereo and a Busted DVD Player”

If being alone is a crime, I’m serving as a prisoner. Alone, nobody else can tell me what I see while I look out the window. How many times have I been reborn? Who was that talking before? I can hear his voice in the walls, but I don’t share his same memories…

Is this freedom? 

When The World Comes In

 

(Accented with Photoshop 2025)

Social-media is in the rear view mirror

The Cure: The Show Of a Lost World -- Review

 The Cure: The Show Of a Lost World

Film Review 

Watched on an 18 x 8 meter screen

Setlist available HERE !!

(trailer)

The Show Of a Lost World is a concert film captured by Nick Wickham featuring 31 songs, recut, remastered, and remixed in 4K, all performed live by The Cure at London's Troy (November 1st, 2024). Alongside playing their new record, 'Songs Of a Lost World', they brought back to life a setlist that has remained in record stores and home stereos for generations. 

Seeing a concert so beautifully captured on film is an unknown experience for me, as someone who has never-gone-out-of-his-way to see a concert film (prior to this one). After three hours of watching Robert Smith dancing, smiling and singing on stage, as well as his very cartoonishly goth bandmates and extremely ostentatious rhythm guitarist, I can enthusiastically say: I loved this film. My attention was never failing to be fully consumed by the performance and cinematography happening on the screen, with beautiful colours and dynamics constantly painted across the stage, happily accompanied by gorgeous vocals and instrumentation provided by the band. 

The camerawork was indescribably engaging, with flawless framing and enthusiastic compatibility with the lightshow that was taking place on stage. Wickham definitely knows his way around a camera, with each change-in-direction playing into exactly what the audience wants to see next. The cinematography of The Show Of a Lost World brings the band's performance to life, highlighting their emotional and expressive nature, whilst further providing a beautiful visual element to their music. 

Further on the musical side of things, of course, The Cure does an excellent job of giving their music the respect and performance value it deserves. Robert Smith sounds, seemingly, exactly the same as he did in the '80s! Such an enchantingly recognisable voice. My highlight is definitely "Pictures Of You", which they performed earlier on into their set. I have a certain personal attachment to this song -- there were definitely a few tears shed thanks to the band's timeless regard and reverence they give to their own works of art. 

Overall, concert films are certainly underrated and underreviewed. I recommend The Show Of a Lost World to anyone wanting to explore this genre of film :)

Thank you for reading!

Home (Full Collection)

“Home”

Flowing streams hidden below a bridge can flow and whisper grains of truth, radioed from a higher ground, remaining unseen, yet continually felt. Rich gold rays apropos to the setting sun, reflecting the auburn off of a deep black that typically frames my face — sharply contrasting the switch of tawny-to-verdant metamorphic light conferred inmost the iris. Oranges and yellows shuffle and grace the sky, dancing with one-another, until the sunshine kisses me goodnight: welcoming me home. 

"Concert"

"Evergreen In Motion"

"Sad Day"

"Shadow"