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🇹🇴 they
debut album 'Crown of My Spirit' out now
https://lonelyspeck.neocities.org/
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sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · May 21
idk if there's much audience for this on bsky but
my new song and video 'Wishing' is out now

video directed/animated by me
character designs by me & Solomon Enos
#b3d #fantasy #art #animation
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
things are possible
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
idk why this is so funny to me
December 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
for this week's "you can just do things" i'm entering my lexicographer era
December 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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alnewstead.bsky.social
7) @lonelyspeck.bsky.social - Breaking for the Mend

www.instagram.com/p/DR8BL0eE3Y...

#MusicalAdventCalendar🎶🎅🏼
Lonelyspeck - Breaking for the Mend (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Lonelyspeck
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
we need community more than ever which means we all have to be more emotionally mature
December 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
hello it's the last bandcamp friday of 2025 and this year i released my debut album 🌩️

written + produced + mixed + artwork by me 🫀

my musical influences while making it were Arca, Oklou, sleep paralysis, Linkin Park, SimCity 4, Perfume Genius, Halo 2

lonelyspeck.bandcamp.com/album/crown-...
album artwork by me render by me
December 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
been home for less than two days from a beautiful soul-affirming week and my anxiety immediately hectic again.. I need my Life to change please
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
the incessant emails i'm getting from spotify about "being a part of wrapped" make it sound like they're worried and desperate lmao
November 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
he would honestly be so good as a really bleak side character in a painful to watch sitcom
gomizone.bsky.social Gomi @gomizone.bsky.social · 26d
just saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
btw people in Naarm

the whole FAMILI collective is playing a show at northcote social club on the 27th of this month

please come!!! the shows we did in july were very special

tickets.melbournetickets.com.au/outlet/event...
FAMILI: Bloodfire Encore guest performance by Kira Puru DJs: Nicholas Currie + Tiaki 27 November at Northcote Social Club
November 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
recently finished WD2 (it's goated) and started on Cyberpunk 2077 and my first impressions are unfortunately that it's a pale imitation of the former... trying to do similar things gameplay-wise but so clunky and lifeless in comparison. WD2 is just inherently so fun and intuitive moment to moment
lonelyspeck.bsky.social sione @lonelyspeck.bsky.social · Sep 28
i've been playing Watch Dogs 2 for the first time and aside from being very fun it's wild how prescient it was 10 years ago. it's basically about the silicon valley big tech companies being a cartel that's deeply embedded in politics and creates high tech weapons for the police & military
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
having writing credits with one of the biggest rock bands in the world vs being unable to receive my royalties because nowhere in SA accepts foreign cheques </3 Adelaide artist moment
November 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
it's cool how the returning gigs i've gotten this year have paid like 20-40% less than when i did them 4-5 years ago but everything costs 20-40% more
November 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
i'm thinking of making a winamp/myspace style player for my website where you can listen to a low bitrate mp3 version of my album
November 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
my first directorial credit!

FAMILI: BLOODFIRE
directed by myself & Bella Waru

a journey through FAMILI's forthcoming EP, BLOODFIRE, "woven from Oceania's past, present & future". featuring music produced by myself, Lakatoi & Geryon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpFI...
FAMILI - BLOODFIRE
YouTube video by FAMILI
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
why do i still feel like my life is about to end when i have a performance coming up lol
October 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
thought i'd post my little blender doppler effect experiment because last year it went viral on twitter among a demographic who i imagine have moved here lol

each speaker is playing the same C tone, pitched only by movement relative to the camera #b3d
October 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
i got bumble bff because my social life is dire and it could only find 3 people within 160km of me between the ages of 25-80 ❤️
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
1. the time deity
2-3. my early sketches + inspos
4. redesign by Solomon Enos 🙏
October 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
i followed this linguist guy called languagejones on twitter and yt for years and he never had much of a following, then i unfollowed like last year because it became obvious he's a zionist. just checked and he has 200k subs now lol. okay
October 13, 2025 at 11:31 PM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
this 1845 tongan dictionary (compiled by an english missionary) has a word for when the whole neighbourhood is fist-fighting 😭 what did this guy see
Fuhu, v. To box; to fight with the fists. Fuhuloa, v. To box, applied to a whole family or neighbourhood.
October 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
posting for posterity this image i made a few years ago of how i see the apple when i imagine an apple
October 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Reposted by sione
meemalee.bsky.social
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
i've been playing Watch Dogs 2 for the first time and aside from being very fun it's wild how prescient it was 10 years ago. it's basically about the silicon valley big tech companies being a cartel that's deeply embedded in politics and creates high tech weapons for the police & military
September 28, 2025 at 5:27 AM
lonelyspeck.bsky.social
The visual world of Crown of My Spirit

'The Temple'

some references + notes
I wanted to share a bit about the visual world of Crown of My Spirit 🗿 My goal was to envision a high fantasy world grounded in Polynesian & Pacific concepts instead of the Eurocentric tropes typical of the genre. The stepped pyramid ‘temple’ that appears in the Wishing video is based on the ceremonial structures of ancient Polynesia such as Tongan langi and Tahitian marae. Its top is lined with stone sculptures that took inspiration from the megalithic art of Te Fenua Tane (the ‘Marquesas’) and Rapa Nui (‘Easter Island’), and at its head is a trilithon, referencing Tonga’s famous Haʻamonga ʻa Maui (its flared silhouette was also partially inspired by roofing styles from other regions of Austronesia such as Sumatra and Sulawesi). There’s a relief sculpture of a serpentine tail on its columns which was a bit of an homage to Hikuleʻo, the Tongan god/dess who ruled Pulotu. I’m interested in this not just as a way of exploring and learning about my own Tongan heritage, but also as a way of trying to reclaim these references from thoughtless exoticisation and appropriation. There’s a long history of Western designers lifting Pacific styles for their ‘tribal’ and ‘primitive’ qualities, which continues today through revivals of 90s trends like neotribal aesthetics and tiki bars. I want to challenge this by using Pacific references with care and intention, and experimenting with ways of reappropriating the contemporary aesthetics that came from appropriation.
September 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM