Art recs! (and something about podfics...)

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My god there are some talented people around. I adore looking at artworks. Here's some that I've seen recently that I love:

Dean, can you see something? by the incredible petite_madam. I love everything she does. This is adorable and yet... there's this little hint of menace. (make sure to enlarge it to read the text *g*) Wonderful.

The Winchester Brothers by becc_j. Wow! Look at those boys! How much do they suit a Western? Love the detail in this painting. Striking.

BB art for The Hollow Valley Seriously creepy, intense and evocative. Love it.


I'm listening to veronamay's priest!fic have you seen him whom my soul loves (finally! I've had it bookmarked forever) and I'm loving it. I worried at first because I wasn't sure how I would go listening to a New Zealand accent but the reader, nu_breed, reads so well I've been swept up in it. She has such a lovely comforting manner (you can almost see her smiling as she reads it) that the accent doesn't matter.

I have, unfortunately, not been able to listen to some podfics because of either a very strong accent (Sam and Dean with cockney type accents just hasn't been able to work for me) or a speech pattern that's, um... annoying. I absolutely hate to criticise podfic readers because what they do is wonderful and amazing. But I suppose not everybody's voice will suit every listener.

I've discovered that I love being read to. I wonder if this is because I was read to a lot as a child? There's something innately comforting about it.


We're seeing Inception tonight! \o/ (Everybody has raved about it so I'm a little worried I'm going in with very high expectations... and then will be disappointed. But I'm sure it will as awesome as everyone is claiming).

Hope you are all having a great weekend. :)

Comments

[podcath.livejournal.com]

See, I'd love to have more concrit possibilities for podfic. I know there isn't much to say about accents (oddly cockney doesn't bother me but some nonnative speakers I can't listen to), but I just deleted a podfic that had so much background noise the voice was nearly impossible to detect and another who had no intonation and pretty much runon sentences that made me pay more attention to when something started and ended than the content :) I don't like too much emphasis, reading is not a Shakespeare soliloquy, but that goes into personal again...but the stuff that's easily fixable or that readers might not even know? I wish there were better ways to discuss that! /runon musings :)

[ciaimpala.livejournal.com]

I'm a huge fan of old time radio podcasts, and listening to books on CDs. I was read to a lot as a child too, and listening to the stories really helps me fall asleep.

[bowtrunckle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the art rec's. I hadn't see those before! Gorgeous! :)

[petite-madame.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot for featuring me in your LJ ^^ :D