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  • A box shaped guitar with a stylized painting of a figure on it.
    3-string box guitar
  • Thumbnail of YouTube video for "Transcript of Acoustic Guitar Improv in Drop D Tuning" by Daniel Holabaugh.
    Acoustic Guitar Improv in Drop D Tuning
  • A black-and-white pencil sketch comic in four panels, featuring the "Jughead" character from Archie comics ordering a giant sundae. The ice cream seller asks if that won't spoil his supper, and Jughead replies "I just had my supper!", referring to the sundae.
    Archies & Gang-Jughead
  • A black and white pencil sketch comic in four panels with the "Reggie" character from Archie comics. Reggie brags that compared to Moose, his brain is a master computer; Moose punches him into some lockers with a "POW!" and Archie explains that since Reggie said his mind was a computer, Moose just punched in a program.
    Archies & Gang-Reggie
  • An individual with a beard, multi-colored eyeshadow, ombre-blonde hair covering part of their face, and pearl earrings, holding a pensive gaze toward something beyond the frame of the image. French text that reads "Ceci n'est pas du Genre."
    Ceci n’est pas du Genre
  • Screenshot of YouTube media player showing the profile of a young woman against a white background.
    Choir Inspire
  • Photograph of a carved wooden desk. The wood is pale, with cutouts in curved capital letters spelling CLRWTR.
    CLRWTR Adjustable Music Production Desk
  • Screenshot of the opening of CLRWTR The Hand youtube video
    CLRWTR the Lyricist
  • Screenshot of a YouTube media player showing a closeup of hands playing the guitar.
    Coming Distractions
  • Screenshot of Couple Steps Below video, showing two people standing apart at the bottom of a dark staircase. The image is abstract and entirely in shades of blue and gray.
    Couple Steps Below
  • Screenshot of Kisner Cynn's Soundcloud player, including a picture of a woman lying on her back on the ground.
    Crestfallen
  • Screenshot of SoundCloud media player.
    Defying Gravity
  • Swirling golden calligraphy layered over red and magenta calligraphy. The designs / letters overlap and blur, with golden threadlike arc intersecting them, forming a tower.
    Devi
  • Screenshot of Deannah Blemur's video for Don't Give Up, showing white words against a swirling blue text.
    Don’t Give Up
  • Dahlman performs with a modified trombone.
    Eric Dahlman, Masters of Sonic Liberation Series, Show #2
  • Screenshot of YouTube media player showing a still image of a knight in armor kneeling on one knee with a sword in his hand against a black background.
    Exit the Fool
  • Screenshot of SoundCloud media player.
    Fairytale
  • Vintage mint green bakelite radio digital drawing.
    GE Bakelite Radio
  • Thumbnail of video with the YouTube red and white play button in the center and front. In the back, a still of an extreme closeup of a human eye with a brilliant golden iris.
    Golden Eyes
  • A small, blue, hand-dyed leather bound book with small silver dots in the shape of constellations.
    Guy’s Elements of Astronomy
  • https://vimeo.com/887413490?share=copy
    Hidden in the Void
  • Thumbnail of video with the YouTube red and white play button in the center and front and a still showing from above a stone-walled fortress on a green island.
    Highland Castles
  • Screenshot of SoundCloud page for the song "Il Cielo In Una Stanza" performed by Melissa Lucius.
    Il Cielo In Una Stanza
  • Screenshot of the video for Left Blank: six persons in white buttondowns before six manual typewriters in a sound studio.
    Left Blank
  • Screenshot of a media player showing a woman playing the guitar and singing in front of a microphone on a stand on a stage. Part of the a drum set and a drummer appear in the foreground.
    Linnea’s Brain
  • Portrait of woman on a brown background of religious paintings. The overhead text reads, "You are my new religion".
    Ma Donna
  • Screenshot of SoundCloud page for the song "Mean to Me" performed by Melissa Lucius.
    Mean To Me
  • Tall wooden initial letter colorfully decorated using mosaic technique. Beads and small tiles of different colors make up little stars and flowers and glittery patches. Mini birds and curving shapes from silver are also present. The name "MEG" is formed subtly with silver characters at one point.
    Mosaic Initial wall decor
  • Screenshot of Cynn's Soundcloud player, featuring a picture of a woman lying on her back.
    Only Now (In This Robot World)
  • Still from a Youtube video of Evan Katsarelis performing piano.
    Piano Recital of European Music
  • A print paying homage to classic nintendo, it has frogger (a little yellow and green frog) crossing the road as cars and trucks zoom by, one of the battletoads from the album art holding a mushroom. Directly below the controller are mario and luigi and the bottom right corner is the dog from duck hunt with a duck soaring over his head
    Player 3
  • A stitched word collage under the headline "Rules for Life." Phrases include "keep your promises," "trust," "no regrets," and "believe that anything is possible."
    Rules for Life
  • Screenshot from a video composed of short scenes and clips from the tv series Samurai Champloo, set to C2C’s Down the Road.
    Samurai Champloo AMV: C2C – Down The Road
  • Cover art for the Galvanics’ Seesaw EP, which feaures an image of young child on a playground underneath a layer of swirling colors
    Seesaw
  • Screenshot of the video for Star Niki, showing a forested valley under a sky of blue and pink galaxies.
    Star Niki
  • Rectangular fields of color, from the bottom, black, gray, red, yellow.
    TOAD
  • On a blue background: "When the storm whipped through off went the snakes, on Hurricane Andrew, from the Miami New Times." Storm and Snakes are set off in all caps from the rest of the text.
    When the Storm
  • Screenshot of a YouTube media player showing a somber looking young man standing against a wall in blue lighting.
    Yes I’m Changing
  • Comic style drawing with 11 cells. Read as 4 separate pages left down. Figure looks at stuff. Turn back? You don’t turn back. Figure in blank space. Dandelion. You turn back. Narrative reads: You draw closer still to the barrier. Your steps slowing as you reach the last five feet of available ground before the wall. You want to turn back. Turn back. Turn back. Turn back. You somehow ignore the urge to turn back and close the last little bit of distance between you and the wall. You’re close enough to kiss it, if you wanted too.. (what a strange notion. You don’t want to kiss the wall.) It sounds like nothing. Not silence, but nothing. It smells sour…Your teeth ache this close to the barrier. And you know that to reach out and touch it would be a grave mistake. You don’t want the story to end yet. You don’t want to end. You turn back.
    You Turn Back
  • Screenshot of YouTube media player showing the small silhouette of a person standing in the dark against a white wall surrounded by a black background.
    Yours Alone
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